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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 85, 21 March 1902, Page 2

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DAIRY PRODUCE REPORT. The New Zealand Lean and Mercantile Agency Company report under date London, 12th February, as follows : Butter.—We are now experiencing a much better demand for ill classes of butter, and prices show a considerable advance since our last report. Choicest qualities, especially of colonial, are getting into soaull compass, and for these full pricos art) now being given. With the arrival of tbe s.s.' Rome on the 23rd inst. the Australian shipments will have practically ceased for this season, There is therefore a greater disposition on the part of buyers to carry a little extra stock of really choice colonial butter. Danish and other Continental butters are meeting a good inquiry at higher prices. Dutch butters show the quickest advance of all, and this is attributed to the large requirements of Belgium aud France. Secondary butters are scarce, and great difficulty is now experienced in obtaining anything suitable for the Is per lb retail price! Russian and Siberian butters are coming forward in small quantities, and the quality is, on the whole, very fair. The Copenhagen official quotation which showed an advance of two kroners last week is cabled this week four kroners up. The weather is very ssvera and | wintry, and we have again been visited by a heavy fall of snotv. This week's prices:—Choicest; Danish, 115s to 116s; choicest Batch, 113s to 114s; choicest colonial, 110s to 112s; Russian and Siberian, 102s to 106s.

Cheese.—A good demand is at present experienced, a«d for choice parcels of Home Cheddars, higher prices are ueing paid. D'.mlopti ard vorv scarce aud in. their abseece the demand has gone on to white New Zealand, andj Canadian cheeae.

The .New Zaalands are arriving in good order and condition, arid are of fine quality and texture. Stocks of Canadians in all hands aie now comparatively light, and there is every likelihood of prices being maintained for soma time to come. This week's prices.—Finest Home cheddars 62s to 635, medium Home cheddars 54s to 56e, finest Home Dunlops 62s to 63s finest New Zealand 52s to 535, finest Canadian 50,$ to 525.

Canned Mea<*,-—Owing to the cold weatber. at pietaut txperienced the demand is not 80 brisk, but values for mutton and beef are practically unchanged, and the stocks continue : lnodeiattly light.