COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 119, 23 May 1910, Page 6

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL.

LONDON MARKETS. Bj Telegraph.— Presi Association.— Copyright./ LONDON, 20th May. Copra. — Market quiet. Southsea, in bags, £25 10s to £25 12s 6d. Copra. — The market is quiet. South Sea, in bags, £25 10s to £25 12s 6d. Hemp. — The market is dull, and' prioes are unchanged. Rabbits. — The market is lifeless; beat make from 12s 6d to 13s, ex etore. FROZEN MEAT. LONDON, 20th May. The Frozen Meat Trade Association's Smithfield market quotations for the undermentioned classes of frozen meat are based on actual salps of not less than one hundred carcases of mutton or lamb or tvrenty-five quarters of beef of fair average quality. The quotations are not for selected lines, but for parcels fairly representative of the bulk of tho shipments now on tho market. The prices which follow are on an pverage a farthing per 'lb more than the value ex ship, this difference representing an average cost in expenses, handling, conveyance, and selling the meat: — New Zealand Sheep. — Canterbury light 33d, medium 3id, heavy 3 7-16 d; North Island, 3 7-16 d; best brands, 3 9-16 d. Now Zealand Lambs.— Canterbury, unchanged ; Southland, sid ; North Island, sd ; selected, s£d. New Zealand Beef.— Fores, 31d; hindF, Hd. Australian Sheep. — Heavy, 3 3-16 d; light, 3id. Australian Lambs. — Price* unchanged. Australian Beef. — Fores, 3Jd ; hinds, 4^l. River Plate Sheep. — Prices unchanged. River Plate Beef. — Fores, 3gd ; hinds, lid.