PRODUCE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 8, 21 February 1901, Page 13

PRODUCE.

(For week ending February 20.)

London, February IC—The wheat markets are quiet, the Continental steady, and there is little inquiry for cargoes. Victorian January-March shipments are quoted at 293 9d ; and sailer parcels, 295. Butter is a shade weaker, with a steady trade in colonial at 106s, and occasionally 108s. Danish is flat, 11.Is. Cheese : New Zealand is dull at 50s to r>2. Napier, February 17. —Nelson Bros, have received the following cable from the Colonial Consignment and Distributing Company :—: — • A fall of Jd in North Island mutton, aud the market shows an inclination to downward tendency. To-day's quotations : Best Canterbury, 4jd ; best Napier and North Island. I!.' London, February 17. —Frozen Meat. — Mutton- Cro«?bred wethers, maiden ewes —Canterbury, 4'd; Dmiehn an<l SouMi'.n.ii. 4id ; North Island, 4,|d. Lamb isuncnangMl. Uivci Pi ,tv Matron Crossbred or merino wethers —heavy, 4d ; light, nm hanyeil. Saw Zealand beef (1801 bto 2201 b, fair average quality) . Fores .i',d. Hemp is steady. Wellington January and March shipment,