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Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 135, 7 June 1904, Page 3

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AGENT-GENERAL'S CABLE. (.By Telegraph.- On Correspondent.) WELLINGTON. Monday. The Department of Industries and Commerce has received the following cablegram from the A gent-General, dated Lond—i, June 4: — The n;utton market is dull, 'but holders an it.rru. Average price to-day for Can terbury brands: Light weights. 4gd per lb: heavy weights. 4i<l. Average price for: brands of North Island mutton, 4d; River Plate mutton, 3£. There is a good de-: maud for all lamb, and the prospects this season are considered very good. Average 1 price to-day for New Zealand lamb: Coaterbury brands, sjd: for brands other than Canterbury, :>'d; River Plate lamb. sd. The beef market is weaker. Supplies of River Plate beef are increasing, and the shipments of American chilled beef afc large. The average price to-day for bind quarters of New- Zealaud beef is 3?. d; for?;s 2W. The butter market is dull, and all transactions art on a very limited scale. Heavy suppiles of butter are coming to baud from the Continent and Ireland. Average price for choicest New Zealaud butter to-day is 85/ per cwt: Australian, 82/: Argentine, ; S<s/; Danish. 94/; Irish, ST/; Siberian, SO/. LONDON CABLE. LONDON, .Tune 5. Copper. £56 5-16. Lead. £11 13/ li. Silver, 2/1 5-16. Hemp, depressed, good fair Wellington in stock £30. Kauri gum in stock. 1000 tons. Linseed oil, £18. Wheat: An Australian cargo sold at 2y/7±. At the periodical sale of hides there was small supply and demand, and prices had a downward tendency. But little business was transacted in dry-salted, and none in wet-salted. The leather market is lifeless. Sydney | j basils: Firsts. 133 d: seconds. lOfd. Sheep, Canterbury light. 4|d; other unchanged. Lambs: Canterbury light, 5 H-lGd: heavy. 5Jd; Dunedin and Southland, 0-id; North Island, Oid. Beef* Fores nn- ! changed; hinds, "jAd. River sheep, unchanged. Beef: Pores unchanged; hinds, 3Jd. ' The Frozen Meat Trade Association at Srnithfield market quotations for the abovementioned classes of frozen meats are based on actual sales of not less than 100 carcases of mutton or lamb, or **5 of beef of fair average quality. These quotations are not for selected lines, but for parcels fairly representative of the bulk of the shipment now on tlio market. New Zealand sheep, crossbred wethers and maiden ewes: Canterbury light. 45 to 56 lbs; Canterbury medium. "Mi to 64 lbs: Canterbury heavy, 64 to 72 lbs; Dunedin and Southland, 56 to 64 lbs; North Island. 55 to 65 lbs; New Zealand lambs: Canterbury light, 28 to 36 lbs; Canterbury heavy, 36 to 43 lbs; Dunedin and Southland, 28 to 42 lbs; North Island, 28 to 42 lbs. New Zealand beef: Ox fores, ISO to 220 lbs; ox hinds, ISO to 220 lbs. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, are in receipt of the following cablegram from their Loudon house:— "Wheat: We quote New Zealand long-berried spot ex granary 29/6 per 4961b5; short-berried, 18/9. Oats: We quote New Z«Al«nd Sparrowbills ex granary 20/.". per "_4lbs; Danish, 15/6 ex granary per 3201b». Tallow: We quote present spot value* for the following descriptions of tallow: - Fine mutton, 25/3; good beef, 23/6: mixed. 21/9." ' "here's dozens of remedies mother has tried. If we hadn't been strong. I expect wed have died. For weeks we've been moping and swallowing trash. And when there's a lot It walks into the cash. I agrerir-with my Dad, who says "WOODS is a brick » For showing the world how to cure a cold quick; I No need to be laid up for weetts, when you may * Take PEPPERMINT CUBE, and be well in a day.