The Herald of Wales. — 1890-08-23 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

HEALTHY CONDITION OF THE TINPLATE TRADE.  Decrease of Stock at Swansea.  There has been considerable socitement in the , . Liverpool tinplate market over the enormous demand that was auddeoly sprung on the market by the numeruna purehmers. The principal feature of the buying last week, strange to say, was that such a large proportion of the orders were for Bessemer steel cokes in the ordinary e rts and sites. Some idea may be formed of the rapid advances there has been when we say that there are none now obtainable exoept at from 14s 33 to 14. 63 Welsh seaports, and the latter is fully ls admite on last week'. prices. The demand for Siemens steel cokes, though not ao large se that of Besmear, yet has been pretty extensive and also a brisk one. There is also a very good demand for terueplates, but not many charcoal tinplate. are 'asked for. The pity of it is that so malty big, lines could not be put through this week, in ! consequenoe of the makers refusing the business ' and their preferring still to wait to Ise if there will not he a further improvement very soon. Those who do quote prices now are very firm at 1411 3.1 to 14. 641 for Boesemera, and 14. 8d to 145 9d and 15m for Siemens steel cokes; ' coke and Meet wasters, 12. 9,1 and 13e to 13. 3d; ohnrcoal tinplates 15s and 15e 6d to 16e,also 16. 441 to 17s 8d and 113 e ; best chutes* 18e 65 to 19% and 23s to 21s to 2244 IC; terneplates. 27s to 28a and 29. to 30. and 33.; waste,., 26; and 25s 61 to 26s and 26.6,1 and 27a. There is also a great improvement in the demand for and prices of all sorts of mannfac• tared iron, especially for hoop*, rode, abets, angles, &0., and pig iron is firmer again, htitelnot advanced another .tilling this week, being now 49. 3fil to 43. 7d prompt and 4.38 7d to Is. 10Id forward. The shipruer.te la_it week were 11,410 tons, se compared with 7,434 tons daring the correepondiag weak of last year. Middlesborough is 46. 5d prompt and 49, 7id forward. Hematite, 56a 53 to 54e fid prompt i and 569 7d forward. Copper, £lB eis to £5B 10s. I I.la steady, at £93 12s 6d to £4 2.. English lead, £l3; Bpanish load, £l2 17. ad to £l3. ISpeller, £23 is 641 to £23 108.  The lan' plate trade Lae scarcely ever been on so large a scale ss the week just ended. The impeirta and import+ have been 20,000 tons over lam previous week, and 27,000 inns over tbe I team' week of lad year. The Liniments of coal' and patent fuel total nearly 60,003 tons. Thal shipments of tinplates have Leo been abnormally , !heavy, and LIM b-ana of trade priories. to be I very busy again thit seek. Stuolo here show I deoline on the we.dt of 14,039 mixes. The impels amounts to 13,713 Una and exports to 08,963 tone— total trade 72,871 tons, tempered I with 52,438 tvr.s in the previous week and 46,872 ham in the overexpanding weak of last year. The ahipsimnte of coal were 38,343 tons, patent fuel 9,486 tons. and tinplataw endgames: goods 11,120 tons. 'Me Lipmente of tinplate. amount to 82,278 bonen, and receipt& from work. to 88,219 boxes, Stocks in the dock warthouesa land vacs this day stand at 169,439 boxes, emu' pared with 173,498 bone. this day week and 149,687 boxes at the corresponding date of last year.  Walter flargan wee committed for trial at the North London Police Court on Tneeday for the murder of the two moo Lambert and Wheeler.  ' Mr. Hsnryr. Terringtun, who came from London a few years ago, and who is wellknown in photographic establishments by the upper theatrical circles, has committed suicide In New York by jumping off Washington Bridge into the Harlon Rivet. . _