PRODUCE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 11, 13 March 1902, Page 13

PRODUCE.

London, March 7. — The English wheat market is lifeless, the Continental firm, and the American weak, owing to the huge stock in the United States and Canada. Cargoes are dull, but nominally unchanged. The American visible wheat supply is estimated at 84,315,000 bushels.

Butter, steady, but unchanged Australian is practically finished New Zealand is firm.

London, March 9. — Frozen meat. Canterbury and Dunedin mutton advanced l-16d. New Zealand beef, fair average quality : Ox fores advanced £d, ox hinds declined £d ; the rest unchanged. — (These prices are the official quotations furnished by the Frozen Meat Association. The basis of the quotations is sales of lines of not less than 100 carcases of mutton or lamb, or 25 quarters of beef , all quotations for mutton are for fair average quality.)

Wellington, March 10.— The Agents General wires to the Agricultural Department as follows, under date March 8 : — ' Frozen meat : The mutton market firm, and has had a better tone this week ; very few prime carcases mutton been marketed lately ; the average price to-day for Canterbury is 3^d ; Dunedin, Southland, and W.M.E. Company, 3jd ; other North Island, 3^d. There is a better demand for lamb. fThe shipments of River Plate lamb are increasing. The average price to-day is : Canterbury brand, SUI ; other than Canterbury, s|d. The beef market is qjuiet. New Zealand hinds, 4fd ; fores, 3^d. Butter is dull at 110s. The cheese market is very firm at 51s. Hemp is dull at £38.