PRODUCE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 37, 10 September 1903, Page 13

PRODUCE.

Napier, September 3.— The Colonial Consignment and Distributing Company (Limited), London, cabled to-day 4 To-day frozen meat market quotations are : Mutton— Canterbury, 4|d per ft ; Napier, Wellington, and North Island, 4d. Lamb— First quality, 4^d ; second do 4ld Beef— Hindquarters, 4d ;* fores, 2£d.' ' Wellington, September 7.— The Agent-General cables from London, 6th inst. :— ' There is dull sale for all qualities of mutton, the average prices being : Canterbury, 4|d to 4Jd ; Dunedin and Southland, W.M.E Co's 4|d ; other North Island, 4d ; ewes, 3fd ; River Plate! 3|id. Prices for lamb are depressed; supplies- of homegrown are heavy, and are lowering /the prices for New Zealand lamb. The average prices are : Canterbury 4£d to 5d ; other than Canterbury, 4|d to 4sd ; legs! 4fd. River Plate is nominally 4sd. Beef is dull at the quotations cabled last week. Butter is firm, and prospects for next season are improving. The average price for choicest New Zealand is 97s per cwt ; Danish, 105s , Canadian, 94s ; Siberian, 89s ; Argentine, 935. Cheese is rising, Canadian being quoted at 525. Hemp is steady.