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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81878, 1 November 1906, Page 3

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LONDON PRODUCE MARKET. Messrs E. Griffiths and Co arc in receipt of tue loiiowmg market repoit irum ttic.r London puncipals, Messrs Mills and bparrow, dateu 14111 September, 1900: — Buucr. —Weather lias been coulcr, anu thcit is a bmci feeling all round. All choicest qualities remain scarce, and wo cannot see anything in the •filiation to cause us to alter cur op.nion ihat all butter-, particularly tnc tinest, will be wanted, and that we snail see a high range of values. Danish : i- 11m, and in many instances an extra sli.iling has been obtained lor a veiy choice dairy.

Russian and S.beiian; Tnete has not oceu enough choicest to go jound, and althougli tlie general quotation i» 103/ to 10O; for best, yet 10S/ has been in quite a few cases paid, but quality nau to be Ai. Kronen; f'uees have advanced 4;, and there is every piobabilny of a turther advance. Owing to me continued dry ueadier in France the outlook tor the winter supply is tenons, and unless conditions aliei very materially sli.pmmls will steadily but considerably decrease. Irish: Steady at the quotations, in some distr,cts supplies are reported to be falling off. Ausual.an. There is a good demand tor fancy brands, and J2o< has bien paid lor unsaltcd Victorian, quality bc.ug particularly fine. The best parcels of both New South Wales and Queen-land are selling at uii rates.

American: Very slow. The demand is sull runninn, as it has been for some little time on finest. it needs a snap of cold weather to make the American pails appreciated Cheese. —There is a steady trade all the time and prices remain about the same as last rcponed.

quotations.—Butter: Danish: 122/, 124., occasionally 125/. French: 108,-120/. Irish: Creamery, 122-1 lb, factory, ioo,-io6/-iob';-no/. Russian: Finest, 102.-104,-100,, good to fine, 96. inferior go/Victorian and New South \\ ales: Finest salted, 114/-11G/, unsaHed 114/-11G/-120/, fine sailed, 104, -icify-ioli;-112/.

Queensland: Finest salted, 104,-JO6/-10S;, finest unsalted iio.'-ii4/, salted, iio/-ii2,-u4/. Canadian: Finest salted, 114.-11G,-112;. unsahed, 114/-116/. Amer.can; Fhien, yS 100,-102/, line <j2/-g,U;, second, SS.-go/. Cheese.—Canadian: New colored, (iid-02;, new whit<-' 00,0,0 i/.

DALGETV & COS CABLE.

Messrs Dalgety and C». have received the following cable from their London house, dated the 20th in=t. : Frozen Meat.—Fair demand for lamb. Demand for mutton continues. Le=s demand for beef, but pHceaie verv firm. We qu.ite: N.Z.. pume crossbred lamb, Canterbury, heavy, 4Jd, light 5c!,; North Island, heavy, 4id, light 4id; mutton. Cancel bury heavy j.td, light 4jd ;. North Island", heavy, y t d, l.ght ±d; prime ox beef, fores 2jd, hinds 3jd and Co., Lmttcd have received the following' cable from London, dated the 25111 October:—At the annual meeting of shareholder-, to be held on the Sth pi«x.mn. it will be proposed thai a dividend be declared of 3.' per share, being at the. rate of 0 per cent per annum, and making with interim dividend already declared and pa.d, 0 per cent for the 17. months ending 31st June last, and that a bonus of 1 per cent be pa : d; also that the sum of £35.000 be added to the reserve fund, which will then stand at £2OO-000. It will further 'O2 propo-ed ill at an annum of £SOOO be -in aside a- the nucleus of a provident fund. This will ab-nrb a total" of /JiiiMiiKi and l'-avc a balance of year, as ag;*;isi £s(l.;m 12, last yeai.