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(By Cable.—Press Association. Copyright.) , (Received 9.10 a.m.) ' LONDON, January 4. Copper: Spot, £53 7/6; three months, £53 15/; supplies, 22,082 tons; delivered during the nast month, 22,249 tons; stock, 16,540 tons; advised afloat from Australia, 1925 tons. Silver, 1/10 5-16 per oz. Kauri gum stock, 735 tons. Hemp: Steady. Fair Wellington, October and December shipments, £31. ?f Sheep: Canterbury, all classed, sid; North Island, sd. Lambs, Dunedin and Southland, 5Jd. River Plate sheep,, heavy and light, 4 7-16 d; all other quotations unchanged. Beef, New Zealand, nominal. River Plate fores, 3 U-16d; hinds, 4 3-16 d. The above are the Frozen Meat Trade Association's Smithfield market quotations for the undermentioned classes of frozen meats, based on actual sales of not less than 100 carceses of mutton or lamb, or 25 carcases of beef of fair average quality. These quotations are not for selected lines, but for parcels fairly representative of .the bulk, of the shipments now in the market:' New Zealand sheep, crossbred wethers and ..maiden ewes, Canterbury, light, 48 to 561bs; Canterbury, medium, 56 to 64Ibs; Canterbury, heavy, 64 to 721bs; Dunedin and Southland, 56 to 641bs; North Island, 55 to 651bs. N.Z. lambs: Canterbury, light, 28 to 361bs; Canterbury, heavy, 36 to 421bs; Dunedin and Southland, 2S to 421bs; North island, 28 to 421bs. New Zealand beef: Ox fores, ISO to 2201b5; ox hinds,. 180 to "J2olbs.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4, 5 January 1903, Page 4
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