PRODUCE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 32, 7 August 1902, Page 13

PRODUCE.

London, August I —Wheat The fine weather has caused v decline in tho American wheat market, and lias •weakened the European, market Mark Lane is \ery quiet. Caigoes are dull. A Victorian and South Australian March shipment sold at 29s 3d

London, August 3 —Frozen Meat — Mutton : Crossbred wethers, maiden ewes, Canterbury, unchanged , Dunedin and Southland, 3 13-lGd ; North Island, 3fd The health! authorities condemned some New Zealand mutton at Smithfield ns inferior and unfit for food Lamb • Prime Canterbury, 4gd ; fair a\eraga (including Dunedin, Southland, Wellington, and secondary Canterbury), 4 7-1 6 d. River Plate mutton' unchanged New Zealand beef, 1801 bto 2201 b, fan a\erage quality, nominal ; ox fores, 3i£d , ox hinds,, 5Jd. These prices are the othciaL quotations furnished by the Frozen Moat Trade Association. The basis of quotations is sales of not lessi than 100 carcases of mutton or lamb, or 25 quarters beef All quotations for mutton are for fail average quality. The quotations for New Zealand lamb do not include sales of small lambs on heavies of inferior quality Wellington, August 4 —The following cable has been recened from tho A'gent-Genenal, dated London, August 2 — ' There has been no alteration in the mutton market sinctj last week There is a good demand for all lamb Sales ..re hea.\y and considerable reductions m stocks are reported The a Manage price to-day for -New Zealand lamb is — Canterbury brand, 4Jd . other thai) Canterbury, 4^d , small lambs are very scarce The beef market is steady New Zoaland hinds, fr^d. fores. 3^d The hemp market is firm ' Ciood fair Wellington " gjradci. on the spot to-day, £32 10s per ton , AugustOctober shipments, £31