COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL.

Evening Post, Volume LXII, Issue 79, 30 September 1901, Page 4

COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL.

[PRESB ASSOCIATION.] (Reoeived September 30, 9.JJ a.m.) LONDON, 29th September. FBOZEN MEAT. Tho following arc the official quotations of the Frozen Meat Trade Association for mutton and lamb in lots of 100 oaroases of fair average quality : — Mutton. — Now Zonlaiul orossbrod wethers and niaidon ewea, Canterbury, unohaiigod, at SJd per lb ; Dunedtu and Soutliliind, nnohan^ed, at <}jd por lb ; North Island, unchanged, at 3£d pur lb. Kivor Plate crossbred or tnorino wothors, heavy and light, unchanged, nt 3Ad porlb, Latnb— Prime Canterbury, Jd lowor, vA 4Jd per lb j fair average (iuoluding Dnnedin, Southland, Wellington, »nd secondary Cauterbury), id lower, at 4|d per lb. New Zealand beef, tali* average quality, 1801b to 2201b, ox fores, £d lowor, at 2|d per lb ; ox hinds, uuoha'nced, at Sfd por lb. COLONIAL AND OTHER PRODUCK. N»<w Zealand Hemp — Fair Wellington, Ootober-Dooomber shipment, 7s 0a por ton, o.i.f. Leatlier— At the sales prioen were firmer. Best sides sold at 14\d ; New Zealand bftsils, Is. Wool — At the salos, good niorinos aro firm. Faulty descriptions tyro slightly easier. Tho following clips have boon sold :— "H.B.T M "aU*d; " Milton." 6Jd } " Kawarau," 7id; " Kooriae," 94d j *'Pftka,"lß Ojd. Up to date, 143,617 balea have boon oatalogued and 189,705 sold. METALS. Copper — Thoro is much excitement in tho market, ami olovon thousand totm changed hands last week. Spot is quoted at J203, an advanoe of 25s per ton j aud three months', i! 63 5s por ton, an advaneo of 22b 8d per ton. Load, Is 3d lowor, iifc -812 1b 8d per ton.