COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 135, 5 December 1904, Page 4

COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL

LONDON MARKETS. [PRSS3 ASSOCIATION.] (Received Decomber 5, 7.25 a.m.) LONDON, 4th December. Tho copper supplies total 27,838 tons ; deliveries, 25,284 ; stocks, 16,044 : advised, 2300. Tin— On the spot, £134; three months, £133 2s 6d. Lead, £12 17s 6d. Tin plates, 1.0. Coko, 12s 6d; I.C. Charcoal, 13s 6d. Angle Steel, 5 5-16 d Copra, afloat, 17i ; prompt delivery, 17±! Tho New Zealand hemp market is is steady. An October-December shipment sold at £32. Linseed, 18d. Rabbits are firm. Large Victorian and New South Wales, 14s 6d to 15s 6d per crate; Now Zealand, 15s to 18s per crate. Wheat— An Australian cargo a,nd 10,000 quarters, December and January shipment, sold at 33s 3d ; 13,000 quarters, February shipment, 33s l£d. Following are the Frozen Meat Trade Associations Smithfield Market quotations for the undermentioned classes of frozen meats, based on actual sales of not less than 100 carcases mutton or lamb, or 25 carcases beef of fair avorage quality (These quotations are not for solected linos, but parcels fairly representative of bulk shipments now on the market) — I'rozen mutton— Canterbury, light, 48-561b 4Jd ; medium, 56-641b, 4gd ; heavy, 64-721b 4id; North Island, 55-651b, 4^d to 4Jd!" lambs, New Zealand sorts, unohtnjjed. New Zealand beef, ox fores. 180-2?01b 2id ; ox hinds, 180-2201b, 2gd River Plate sheep, heavy, 3gd ; litfht, 3 15-16rl Beef, fore-quarters, 2|d ; hind-quarters, 2ld.