LONDON MARKETS.
The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company report from London dated 22rd April 1897. Frozen meal — While the incidence of the Easter holidays as usual has somewhat curtailed | business, the market for all descriptions • of meat continues firm. Fine quality cheep have met a good demand and . though values are not quotably higher, : the tendency is in seller*' favor. Secon^ I dary descriptions ar<j also rather firmer. Lambs continue to meet a ready sale at firm rates. Australian sheep are steady, light weight carcases being most enquired for. The relatively high prices now being asked for beef have somewhat curtailed sales. To-day's quotations at Smitbfield are:— Prime salected New Zealand) mutton, 2s 2d to 2* 6d per 81bs ; ayerage, ' 2s to 2s 2d ; Prime New Zealand lamb, 3s 4d to 3s 6d.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 283, 5 June 1897, Page 2
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