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Evening Star, Issue 19801, 27 February 1928, Page 1

COMMERCIAL

COTTON, RUBBER, ETC.

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.

LONDON, February 25

■ Cotton : Liverpool quotation—American middling upland, March delivery, 9.95 d per lb. Rubber: Line hard Para, 12jd; plantation first latex crepe, ltd; smoked ribbed sheet, ltd per lb. Jute: Indian native first marks, Fcb-niary-Marcb shipment, £2O 10s per ton.

New Zealand hemp, February-April shipment, £O9. Copra, bagged South Sea. FcbruaryMarch .shipment, £26 10s per ton. Linseed oil, £2B per ton, equal to 2s 3d a gallon. Turpentine, 41s tkl cwt, otiual to 3a a gallon. Sheep: There was no New Zealand or Australian offering. Argentine medium, fid. Lambs: Canterbury heavy, KM; Australian—Victorian firsts Bgd, seconds 7Jd, all thirds 7d; Argentine firsts—light Bfd, medium SJd, seconds 7id. Frozen beef: Australian hinds, heavy, ficl; Argentine hinds, fild; chilled Argentine—fores 3NL hinds 5Jd. Other meats were unchanged. Hides are dull, and there is nothing doing in Australians, but there is a prospect of an early improvement in the demand. CHICAGO WHEAT QUOTATIONS. NEW YORK, February 25. Chicago wheat quotations; March, 132|- cents per bushel; May, 1331; July, .13lj, LONDON WHEAT MARKET. LONDON, February 26. (Received February 27, at 1.30 a.m.) Parcels arc inactive at about late rates to 3d lower for La Platas. Liverpool futures: March, ]os Ofd per cental; May, 10s 2Jd; July, 10s 3J-d. LONDON MARKETS. Messrs Dalgcty and Co., Ltd., advise having received the following cablegram from their head office, London, dated 23rd inst.:— Market for Now Zealand lamb weaker; demand moderate. Market for Now Zealand mutton firm, owing to light stocks; demand steady. Market for New Zealand beef nominal; demand moderate. Market for Australian lamb and mutton unchanged; demand limited. Now Zealand prime Canterbury lamb, 28/361bs, URd; prime North Island lamb, 28/3Glhs, Old; prime Canterbury lamb, 36/421bs, 10fd; prime North Island lamb, 36/42lbs, Did; Canterbury lamb, second quality, 9fd; North Island lamb, second quality, 8,3 ; prime Canterbury lamb, 42/501b, lOd; prime North Island mutton —48/561b 7d, 56/641b 6’d; 64/721b 5*3; G.A.Q. Australian lamb, 28/361b, 9d. third Australian lamb. Old; Australian ewes, s|d. New Zealand priino ox beef—hinds SJd, fores 4/d. Argentine chilled hinds GJd, fores Lid. English porkers, 80/1001 bs, 10d. New Zealand porkers, SO/lOOlb, 7d; 100/10211), 6Jd. New Zealand baconens, 120/170II), SJd. The market for butter is better, but cheese market is still quiet. Danish butter, 190 s. New Zealand finest butter, 161 s to 1665. Australian finest unsalted and salted, 150 sto 160 s. Australian G.A.Q., IfiOs to 1525. Australian cheese, white and colored, 91s to 03s. Now Zealand cheese, white and colored, 94s to 951. Canadian cheese —white 100 s to 1041, colored 98s to 1025.”