LONDON MARKETS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9058, 6 April 1908, Page 7

LONDON MARKETS.

Messrs Dalgety and Company, Ltd., Wellington, have i-erehed the following cable message from their London House, under date cf the 2nd instant:—Wool soles:—Sales closed more animated. Prices are lower as follows —Super merino wools, lOd per cent, lower than closing rates of last series. Since our last telegram -scoured merino wools, inferior and faulty qualities, 15 per cent, to 20 per cent, lower. All other descriptions •of merino wool\ls per cent, lower than closing rates of last scries. .Medium and coarse crossbred wools 20 to 25 per cent, lower than closing rates of last series, while fine crossbred wools are 10 per cent, lower. Out of the net quantity available for sale, some 77,000 bales have been sold for home consumption, 44,000 bales for the Continent, 4,000 bales for America, leaving 78,000 bales to be carried forward to the next series, •of which 59,000 were unoffered. Frozen meat:—The market for frozen mutton and lamb is firm without ■change in prices. Frozen beef market is somewhat firmer, supplies having been rather short. Butter:— Market weak. The Copenhagen official quotation is 2 kroner lower (about 2s 3d) per cwt. The total imports of butter into the United King- . giam for week ending 28th ultimo, to 88,000 cwt., as compared with 83,000 cwt for the corresponding; week of 1907; showing an increase of 5,000 cwt. ' Finest, 110s. 1 .