Trade and Finance.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7716, 19 January 1905, Page 3

Trade and Finance.

London Commercial Cables. LONDON, Jan. 17. Copper—Spot £6B 12s 6d, three months £6B 17s 6d. Tin—Spot and three months £l|3o. Lead, £l3 2s 6d. The wool sales opened strong at from par to five per cent, advance. The total whoat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,545,000, afld for the Continent 905,000 Atlantic shipments being 40,000, Pacific 17,000 quarters. Shares—Bank of Australasia £4 9s, others unchanged. (Received Jan. 18). 9.4 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. IS. At the wool »alles two leading firms offered 6058 bales of a representative selection. There was a large attendance of .buyers, from aJ.I parts, and strong competition. Merinos and crossbreds realised five per cent, above the plosing prices at tho November sales. Americans are operating in Merinos. AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE REPORT. SYDNEY, Jan. 18. Wheat—Chick 2s 10d to 2s lid, shipping 3s 4d to 3s 4Jd, milling 3S SJS. Flour, £8 10s to £8 15s. Oats.—Tasmanian white feed 2s 4d to 2s 7d, Algerian Is lOd to Is lid. Barley—Cape 2s 3d to 2s sd\ ma,ize to 2» lid. Peas, 4s 7d.. Bran, 9s Bd. Pollard, Is 3d. Potatoes—Locate £6 to £j9 7s Gd. Onions, £l3. Butter., B§d to 9d. Bacon, 6d to Bd. MELBOURNE, Jan. 18. Wheat, 3s 3d to 4Jd. Flour, £8 to £8 ss. Oats—Algerian seeding Is 8d to Is 9d, feeding Is 4d to Is 7d. Maize, 2s oti to 2s 6d Bran, lOd. PoH a rd, Is. Potatoes, £4 to £6 10s. Onions, £ll to £l3. ADELAIDE, Jan. 18. Wheat, 3s 3Jd to 3s 4d. ' Flour, 8s- 4d to 8s 10d. Oats, lis 4d to Is 6d, white Is lOd to 2a. Bran, 9Jd. Pollard, ls. : SYDNEY WOOL SALESi. SYDNEY, Jan. 18. The wool s a ki3 were resumed yesterday. Over 4000 bales were sold,, making a, record. Competition was very strong and animated. Scoured sold at higher rates, and crossbred and lamb also showed an improvement. Groasy sold up to 13{d, and scoured 22Jd.