COMMERCIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 155, 1 July 1907, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

LONDON CABLE.

BUTTER AND EGGS.

Tie following are the quotations for butter and eggs for the week ending July 6 1907: Factory butter lid per Ib. separator ■butter 6d per lb, farmers' butter (best) 6d per lb, eggs 1/3 per dozen.

(Received 7.20 a.m.) LONDON, .Tun.T 30. Copper, on spot, £08; at three months £91 15/. Tin. on spot. £102 10/; at throe months, £182 10/. Lead, £21. Silver 277.

The copra market is quiet, but unchanged.

Linseed oil is quoted at £2S 10/. The New Zealand hemp market is quiet but firm.

Wheat.—Three Australian cargoes sold at 35/6, 35/3. and 34/3 respectively.

The rabbit market is quiet. Large Melbournes and Sydneys are nominally quoted at 11/.

The Frozen Meat Trade Association's iSmithnel-d market quotations for the undermentioned classes of frozen meats are based on actual sales of not less than 100 carcases of mutton or lamb, or 25 carcases of beef of fair average quality. N.Z land sheep, crossbred wethers and maiden ewes—Canterbury light, 48/561b, 4gd- Canterbury medium, SG/6ilb, 4Jd; Canterbury heavy. 64/72!b, 3id. Southland is not <jnoted. North Island., best, 3 13-I6d Lamb—Canterbury light, 28/361b, ojdCanterbury medium, ojd; Canterbury heavy, 36/421b, 5 3-16 d. Southland and North Island are not quoted. New Zealand beef: Ox fores, 180/2201b, 3 l-16d- os hinds. 180/2201b, unchanged. RTver Plate sheep, 2 15-16 d; light, 31d. Beef—forequarters, 3d; hindquarters, unchanged.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile •Agency Co., Ltd., have received the following cable from their London honse - "We quote present spot values for the following descriptions of tallow: Fine mutton, 36/9----good beet, 34/9; mixed, 34/ per cwt Market firm." ' ■