COMMERCIAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 290, 14 September 1915, Page 5

COMMERCIAL.

jri'.GH COMMISSIONER’S REPORT

LONDON, Sept 12. Tiio High'Commissioner’s market -e----po-*-. is a? follows; . (Note; Quotations, unless ot.iery.sq specified, are average marked prices on spot.) Meat: Market rather quiet, .there being less demand for all descriptions of frozen meat during the 1 Mutton; Canterbury 7 3-Bd. There ? s a small supply of North Island, but it is not quoted. Fives are m fair demand at 5 7-Bd. Lamb: There is poorer demand for , lambs owing to the large supplj o Scotch. Canterbury ewes 8 l-8d tor heavy weights, fores 7 3-8 d; secon class oualfe, 8d; other than Canter- ' bury 8 lT6d for best quality light weight. , , ■ Beef: New Zealand, there is onl> inferior of sale. Hinds 6id; Jore. 6d; chilled hinds 8 l-8d; fores 6 5-8 d Butter; . Market is very firm and, prospects are favourable for _Ne Zealand creamery and , every / prospect of th e high prices rullng e . ing maintained .till the end of the y er(r at least. Danish, per cwt, 174/ to 176/; Siberia 134/ to 138/; Jns creamery 157/ to 160/ and 162/ Cheese: The market is firm and at Canadian; Finest w r bite the advance, Canadian and coloured, per, cwt, 7/ ’ fine 74/ to 76/; English Cheddar 94/, New Zealand 75/ to 76/ and 77/; United States, fihest, 70/ to 74/, go i fine grades, 64/ to 68/. Hemp; The market is quiet steady. Present quotations are. New . Zealland, October to December d«1 meat, good fair grade, per ton,, £o , higjh-paints fair, £32,; high-pottnt £3l. Buyers probably 5/ less, spot com--1 mands about 5/ to 10/ p« little is offering, The stock of New Zealand on 31st August was 576. Manilla: Shippers are not anxious to <.ell and the market is quiet but fbm. : New graded fair, September to Novemjber, £3B 10/ per ton; spot ■ ■ ! nominal output from Manilla nr -h 1 week was 20,000 bales. ;• ■ . Wheat; The market Is quiev, he tenderer- being downward Crops -over the world promise well and .he EW clean crop is estimated to pe abmtt 30,000,000 quarters more than, last yean There is slfehtly be..er I speculative demand hut the consump- . tivo demand is P oor - Nem crop Cana ' i diinr September to October shipmon , 45/ Per qr; October to November, 4476. i American, -September to October ’ 4^ 7 * I Oats; The market is steady bu j without animation. Argentine on spot, i 26/ per-qr, on passage 24/6. Wool: The market is firm and rather more active.

LONDON MARKETS,

Dalgetjy and Company, Limited beg to advise having received the following cables from their London Office; Tallow (under date Bth inist); At the tallow- auctions prices were unchanged to 6d advance. Quotations; Prime beef 37/, good mixed 34/9 to 35/ ' Woa i (under date 10th inst); _ Tse opening mites are fully maintained. Russia is buying freely, flood scoured Merino lambs are unchanged hut tt'ossdcarer than cAcwfcuf. rates of .Tidyjlaile. lambs are unchanged but crossVw. A are 5 par cent. loww. We ouots average 64’a costlsg 2/11 to 3/.