COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL.

Evening Post, Volume LIX, Issue 12, 15 January 1900, Page 4

COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL.

[press association.] (Reooived January 15, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, 14th January. FROZEN MEAT. Tho .following are the official uqotations of the Frozen Meat Trade Association for mutton and lamb in lots of 100 carcases of fair avorago quality: — Mutton — Wow Zealand eros-bred wethers and maiden ewes, Canterbury, unchanged, at 3 l-16d per lb; Dunedin and Southland, unchanged, at 2 13-16 d; North Island, l-16d lower, at 2|d. River Plate crossbred or merino wethers, heavy unchanged at 2 11-lod; light, $d lower at 2 9-16 d. Lamb — Prime Canterbury, unchanged at 4£d per lb; fair average (including Dunedin, Southland, Wellington, and secondary Canterbury), id lower, at 3Jd. SKINS AND LEATHER. Hides are flat, and no sales have been effected ; basils are unchanged, and Australian leather has sold at an advance of one farthing. DAIRY PRODUCE MARKET. The Department of Agriculture has reoeived the following cable message from the Agent-General as to the state of the dairy produce market: — Bu'ter, 98s; market unfavourable ; buyers are very shy. There is a good demand for cheese. Shipments ex as. Kumara, 58s. MosBrs. Haigh and Morrah report as under: — Wo held our weekly horse sale | on Saturday, a good number of horses ! being entered, nearly all of which were sold readily. Medium draughts realised £18 to £26 10s ; useful harness horses, £10 5s to £16 10s; aged horses and hacks, from £5. Several useful harness horses were held over for private sale. Messrs. Abraham and Williams report as to Thursday' b sale at Palmerston : — We had a full yarding of both sheep and catlie, and a large attendance. Bidding was lively throughout the sale. Everything was sold under the hammer with the exception of a pen or two of young steers. One line of 2400 wethers realised 10s 9d to lls ; and another line of Romney 2 and 4-tooth ewes made 10s to 10s Id. Lambs were keenly competed for and sold readily. We quote : Fat bullocks, £6 Is : forward bullocks, £5 17s ; 3 and 3^-year steers, £4 16s to £4 17s ; 3-year steers, £4 to £4 3s; 2i-year Bteers, £3 10s to £3 14s; 18-month steers, £2 16s 6d ; 18- ! month empty heifers, £2 10s ; weaners, 1 £2 ; fat cows, £3 7s 6d to £3 19s ; cows and calves, £3 10s to £4 ; store cows, £2 to £2 6s ; forward wethers, 10s 8d to 11a; 2 and 4-tooth maiden owes, 10s; to 10d Id ; 4-tooth maidon ewes, 10s 7d ; fat ewes, 8s sd ; 2-tooth ewes, 9s ; shorn lambs, rT s lid to 8s ; small lambs, 6s Id ; woolly lambs, 8s 8d; full-mouth ewes, 7s 6d ; fat and forward ewes, lls Id ; woolly 2-tooths, 13s Id ; pure-bred weanor pigs, £1 Is; porkers, 15s.