LOOAL IRON TRADE REPORT
... The new yeai haa ao far opened promisingly for the trade in most iroa oentres ; there is now* more activity than bas been tbe ease at the corresponding period for several years past, aad tbe improved tone appears likely to be maintaiaed. The local pig-iron trade shows increased briskness, and prices of Derbyahire foundry piga are quoted —No. 1, 41s. ; No. S, 395. to 405. ; No. 3, 37a. to 385.; ...