COMMERCIAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1706, 25 March 1913, Page 8

COMMERCIAL ITEMS.

LIVERPOOL MARKET. • ■ Messrs. G. and 15. ' Jlunro forward the following - Liverpool'market report, dated February 13:— . -Frozen Beef. Kivcr Plate—Trade for i'orequartcrs good, but hinds disappointing. Best fores making 3Ad., ; per lb.'. .hinds slightly weaker at 3 3-Bd. to. ,3Jd. per lb. Australian—The demand for Australian crops is rather better than last week, and there aro not a groat quantity on hand. Prices are • firmer, at 3d., to 3Jd. per lb. Australian hinds are still a bad sale, and sellers are now forced •to -take - practically the prico of crows to Tealfeo any quantity. Prices to-day:. (IAQ, ox,. ISO to . 2CCIb.,. 3Jd.; light oxi -,-3d.- to 3Jd.: and cow, 3d., and only a very, limited business doing. Ono hears of sales of GAQ sides for FebruaryMarch shipment at- 3 5-16 d„ • but wo are unable, to obtain reliable confirmation in this respect.' ' "New . • Zealand.—Nothing offering on the spot or for shipment. . Frozen. Mutton. ' Bivcr Plate.—Supplies moderate and t-lio demahd" good, but the market is slightly, easier owing to a temporary over-supply of". Australian sheep, principally ewes, at present on this market. To-day's prices for wethers range from 4,' - to 4 3-Bd. per lb., according to weights. Australian.—The demand "off the hooks" throughout this district, is good, and good wethers find a ready sale at from 33d. to 32d. per lb. Ewes are a bad (rale, everywhere, on the market and ex store, Liverpool. A parcel of ewes offering at 3}d. per lb., ex store, is reported to have changed'. hands at 3Jd. per lb., and sales have bwn made, ex ship in dock, at this price. lu-our opinion tho. depression in the Australian ewe market is only temporary, and it will right itself when a f-jw weak holders have reduced their stocks. : Now. Zealand— Nothing doing on the snot. Parcels of North Island wethers are offering. pei- g.s. Nairnshire, at 4Jd. per lb., but little or no business is doing. ; •„ . Frozen Lambs. Australian.—The market is well' supplied..with" all, classes of lambs, and a fair trade doing. Prices, sd. ■to s}d. per lb., according.'to -weiKlits and. quality. New Zealand.—No new season's lambs yet on l this market,

; Chilled Beef. •' Silver -.Plate.—Trade rather better than week, and prices firmer.. To-day's values: Fores, 3 3-Bd. to 33d. per lb.; and hinds, <1 3-Bd. t0,45d. AU prices quoted herein, unlcES otherwiso mentioned, are ex store, Liverpool, the c.i.f. equivalent being Jd. per lb. less. WHEAT FLOUR AFLOAT. By Telegraph—l'res3 Association—Copyright London, Jfarch 23., ! Shipments of 'wheat and flour afloat for Enropo on March-22, compared with a year ago, were ; March 22, March 23, 1913. . ■ 1912. ; * Quarters. Quarters. United Kingdom 3,655,000 3,985,000 Continent 3,1C0,C00 1,715,CC0 - 6,755,000 5,700,000 > iThe wheat shipped from tho Atlantic and Pacific Coasts of North America during tho past \voelc and for tho corresponding week of la3t year is estimated by "Bradsfrcct's" to be:— Atlantic Coast 193,000 78,CC0 Pacific Coast 15,000 . 30,000 2CS.COO, 108,000 ,Tiio total shipments to Europe from all' exporting countries during- , tho week amounted to 1,375,CC0 nuarters, including 143,000 from Australasia, as against 1,175,000 quarters, including 155,0C0 from Australasia for the corresponding period of last year. ; • ■ . - ;. WHEAT MARKET. 1 .London, MaTch 23. The wheat market is firm: 375. 9d. is being asked for Australian Fcbruarj--Marck shipment;" " 1 Thoro are juet about twice as many persons engaged ill agricultural pursuits in Australia'as in the •pastoral industry. < 'fho Associated Chambers of .Commerce ■'of tho United Kingdom are endoavouring to porsuado tho British Government to establish' a .Ministry of Commerce. Tho iriomorial states: "One 'reason for asking for ■ this enlargement, of .powers to the committc'o is that 'somo questions of comlnorcial importaiico never como officially before tho Board of Trade owing to t.lio .subjects being attached to other Government Departments, where tliey are considered from an entirely different point of Tleir than that of commerce."