COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 103, 29 October 1900, Page 4

COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

LONDON, 26th Ootober. At the wo6l sales prices are unchanged. (Received Ootober 29, 9.4 a.m.) FROZEN MEAT. LONDON, 28th Ootober. The following are the offioial quotations of the Frozen Meat Trade Association for mutton and lamb in lota of 100 oarcases of fair, average quality : — Mutton— New Zealand crossbred wethers and maiden ewes— Canterbury, unchanged, at4£d per lb; Dunedin and Southland, unchanged, at 4d ; North Island, unchanged, at 3|d. River Plate crossbred or merino wethersLight, &d higher, at 3Jd. Lamb is unobanged. New Zealand beef— rFair average quality, 1801b to 2201b, ox-fores, unchanged, at 3tfd i per lb ; ox-hinds, id lower, at 4£d. . OTHER COLONIAL PRODUCE. Rabbits— Colonial rabbits flat at 9d to 9£d. Wheat. — A December shipment has been I sold at 30s 9d per quarter c-.i.f. Wool— At the sales 193 474 bales have been catalogued to date, and 176,371 sold. The Tproa clip sold at Od and the R.S.T.T. dip at 6sd Sheepskins — At the sales there was fair competition. Short wool led Bold at par to a slight advance, long-woolled at 5 per cent. decline. Silver— Bar silver is quoted at 2s ssd per ounce.