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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 11 December 1907, Page 3

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LONDON MARKETS. Loudon, Monday. Copper—On the spot £b'l ss, three months £62 Se, Tin—On the spot £l3l 10s, three mouths £135 10s. Lead, £ls os. Antimony, £8 to £ll. Copra—The market is quiet, l'rices arc unchanged. Kauri—Stock, OKI cases. New Zealand hemp—Thu market is quiet. January to March shipment £26 os. Linseed oil, £24 15s. Eucalyptus oil, Is to Is 2d. Wheat and flour—The quantity afloat for the L'nited Kingdom is 1,1100,000

quarters; for the Continent, 1,270,000 quarters; Atlantic shipments, 399,000 quarters; Pacific shipments, 51,000 quarters . Rabbits—The London market is quiet, but the demand is brisk in the

provinces. Frozen meat—The Frozen Heat Trade Association's Sinithfield market quotations for the undermentioned classes of frozen meat, based on actual sales of not less than 100 carcase* of mutton or lamb or 25 carcases of beef of fair average quality are appended. (These quotations are not for selected lines, but for parcels fairly representative of the bulk of the shipments now on the market) : Mutton: Canterbury unchanged, Xorth Island, 55-Gslb, best 3 3-lGd, others unchanged. Lamb: Canterbury unchanged; Southland, 28-121b, o'/id; Xorth Island, 28-421b, 5 l-Bd. New Zealand beef: Unchanged. River Plato sheep: Unchanged. Beef: Forequartcrs 211-10 d, hindquarters unchanged. Shares—Waihi, buyers £8 2s Od, sellers £8 ss; (irand Junction, buyers 27s (id, sellers 30s.

London, December 8. At the wool sales yesterday only in•ior erossbreds were offered. Prices r merinos arc unchanged. The sales

included the fleece portion of the Pareora clip, which realised ll'/ 2 d. To date 70.201 i bales have been offered, anil 31,132 bales sold.

ritlCE OF CEREALS. London, December 8. ''The Times," in an article on cereals, predicts that wheat, barley, and oats will l>e dearer in IIIOS than tlurv were in 1900.

DAIRY PRODUCE REPORT. E. Griffiths and Co.. dairy produce exporters, .New Plymouth, are in receipt of the following market report from their London principals, Messrs. Mills and Sparrow, dated October 25, 1907: Butter—Weather is very mild for the time of the year. There have been occasional heavy rains and a fair amount of sunshine in some districts.

Cheese—The high prices somewhat checked the demand. We think this i* onlv temporarv. As we mentioned l\*\ week. Canadian cheese is pretty strongly held, and a hard fiVjlit will lie made liefore there is much giving way in price. New Zealand—Bujvrs are enquiring, and we liope protty lilieral shipments will lie made early in the season.