COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 68, 10 March 1908, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

XUOII COMMISSIONERS HEPOKT. Per Fres* Association. t . Wellington. Monday. The Department of Industrie- and Commerce has received the lolloping cablegram trow the Commissioner at J»ndou. dated March 7: Frozen meat—Thi' mutton market Is firm. Tln-re is better inquiry this week, for forward deliveries owing tu tlie expectation ol' small shipments from New Zealand. Canterbury mutton 4%d. North Inland 3 : ;-id. River Plate The laiuh market is very firm. Canterbury bran I* 5%d. other than Canterbury j;4d.

liutter—The market is iirui at the declined rate-, and tlie excitement Ins

suicided. The position is ijuite satisfae-. tory. Tlktc is good demand for choic - est New Zealand at 122*. Australian I'jo-. Argentine l-'K and JJaui-h 1-tK JhT cut.

Uhmw | *»r. with le— demand. Whit*- thee-e | Gls. colored 02- jn*r <-wt. I Heiu]» —The market i- very deputed on amount or advice from Manila. All ; fibre- are olioting at much lower pric's. i tair grade on C 2.3. fair grade i t:!4 ]k.m ton. For March to May shipment C 24 1"- and an' ijUotnl re*-p»*< lively for o (J (,d fair and fair grade. Cork-foot 'l'i'd—' l!*** inark-'t i- <|uicl at 74- per cwt. Kiver I'Jatc trade- Hnpmenls lioi-i Kiver Plate lor I'ehruary arc: —To L«m. don. mutton Sti;2W». and lamb 1171: liver|H»ol, *S:.!2N ami 17.0.}!*: Hull. 710 l and HHH): Newcastle. 13.53* and 1:W7: Cardiff. IVHJ4 and l'Uli; Southampton, WHH); Ireland. IM and ,

Wool -Current quotation- for "Bradford top- aiv: Thirty-sixc* low crossbred- lid per lb: lortir* low crosabreds 11 V-d: forty-four- mediiun cro-s-bred* 1« id per lb: liftic- huff bred* 1* ">",-1: fifty-si\e« (jnartor-bivds 1- s :, H d; >i\Up* merino- -- 'C*d. 'I lie market •- dull and declining. e-perially for coarse tops of all grade?. Hop- -The market is dull and likely to continue -vt. Th#" market is beeum- 1 ing inoM- dcprc-sed oil account of the lieen-ing regulation. The best tions art 1 : Knu!i-h hopt American per ,-ivt. ' j