PRODUCE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 13, 28 March 1901, Page 13

PRODUCE.

Napier, March 21. — Messrs. Nelson Bros, have received the following oable from the C.C. and D. Company, London : — ' Fall in price Canterbury mutton. To-day's quotations : Beat Canterbury, 4f d. Napier and North Island, 4d. Lamb : First quality 6d, second ditto sJd.' London, March 22. — The wheat market is quiet, but firm. The English has improved islightly. Cargoes are steadily held. Victorian February shipment, 29a 6d ; April do, 29s 9d ; New South Wales (loading), 295. Butter is slow and weak. Colonial, 100s to 102s. Danish is firm, but unchanged. Cheese is dull. New Zealand, 495. London, March 24.— Wheat : 16,000 quarters of New South Wales March and April shipment sold at 28a 7sd. Frozen mutton : Crossbred wethers, maiden ewes — Canterbury, unchanged ; Dunedin and Southland, 4£d ; North Island, 3 r>-f>d. Lamb, unchanged ; River Plate, unchanged. New Zealand beef (1801 bto 2201 b, fair average quality) : Ox fores, 3 l-16d ; hinds, unchanged. Wellington, March 25. — The Department of Agriculture has received the following from the Agent-General, dated London, 23rd : — ' Butter, 100s ; market dull. Heavy supplies of butter are in hand. Cheese, 43s ; market lifeless.'