OVERSEAS MARKETS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 32, 8 February 1939, Page 8

OVERSEAS MARKETS.

WORLD WHEAT PRICES. LONDON, February «. Wheat cargoes are , dull, with a lower tendency. Parcels are quiet. Futures.—London, March, 23/5% per quarter; May, 23/6)4. Liverpool old contract, Marcn, 4/8* per cental; May, 4/8%; new contract, March, 4, i%, May, ifihk; July, 4/6%. Chicago, May, 08% tent« per bushel; July, 68-*; September, TALLOW, HEMP AND FRUIT. The Department of Agriculture ha* received the following cablegram from the High Commissioner for New Zealand dated February 3, 1889:— Tallow.—Market steady. Present epot quotations are: —Mutton: Fine, 24/6 to 25/; good, 21/ to 21/6; fair, 16/6 to 17/. Beef: Fine, 20/6 to 26/; good, 18/; fair, 16/ to 16/6. Mixed: Good, 18/; fair, 16/ to 16/6; gut, 14/ to 15/6. .Mutton: Dark to dull, 15/ to 16/6. Beef: Dark to dull, 14/ to 15/6. Hemp.—Manila: Market inactive; values K grade February-April shipment, £18 3/. Sisal: Market quiet, slightly easier. Closing quotations February-April shipment, £16 17/6; sellers, April-June, £17. New Zealand: Market nominal and unchanged. Apples.—Fair demand principally for large cQokillff varieties and coloured desaert. Washington Newtowne, 10/, 11/; British Columbia, 11/6. Pears. —Lees demand, prices easier. Californian Winter Neli», 8/, 11/6; Oregon Cornice pear*, 13/, 15/.