MELBOURNE MARKETS.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14889, 31 January 1914, Page 13

MELBOURNE MARKETS.

MELBOURNE, January 30: 'i.Wheat, 3s6id to 3s 7d; flour, £8 10s; oats, Is /_d to is 9_d; barley, 3s 3d to 3_;od; Cape 2s 2d to 2s 2Jd; maize, 4s; "pollard; £4 16s; potatoes, £3 to £3 ss; ..onions, £6 108. ._' :^-. The; New Zealand: Loan and Mercan-X-tHe Agency Company, - Ltd., have re- t •■'• ceived a cablegram' from London giving > the uhdernoted- market information:— Tallow-: Fine mutton 355, good beef S4s '•;•: 4d, mixed 33s 3d.;_f__*ket firm. "Wheat: Australian cargo sold at 35s 9d c.i.f. •Very little demand" owing, to increased ; supphes.". Outlook encouraging. . _J)_lgety and Co.. Ltd., have received ; the following cablegram ironi their London office, dated January ' , 29th:— •*liii_tt_d ._ demand for New Zealand ..frdß_n..__teat. Druring the absence of ■ ••;■. tho market has been cap"•■••■^_''but :^;hv,'AiistT.aliahl frozen mutton *uj3_;lamb stocks, are 'very..small, and we -.'•*. «xp«ct a continuation of high prices for ■■"'. sotne* time. -Quotations: —Prime New ox "beef," forOs 4d, hinds 4|d; .nrime.^North Island, crossbred lamb, , 6_d,. lfgfo 6id; 1 prime Korth .- Island crossbred mutton, heavy 4}d, .lighted. _ Australian * good average quality crossbred lamS, heavy sd, light ;o|d;.£Australian prime crossbred mufctoir,'heavy 4d; light 4£d. Nevv Zealand are extreme, and a decline prices of New Zealand lamb and mutton not having yet settled to a definitie: level. River.Plate beef of good -_nu?tUty'i_ offering' at low prioes."