COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 48, 27 February 1911, Page 6

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

FROZEN MEAT. 8y Telegraph.— Press Association— Copyright. (Received February 27, 8.10 a.m.) LONDON, 26th Fobruary. The Frozen Moat Trade Association's Smithfield market quotations for the undermentioned classes of frozen meat aro based on actual sales of not less than one hundred carcases of mutton or lamb or twenty-five. quarters of beef of fair average quality. Tho quotations aro not for selected lines, but for parcels fairly representative of the bulk of tho shipments now on the market. Tho prices which follow are on an average a farthing per lb more than the values ex ship, this difference representing an average cost in expenses, handling, conveyance, and selling the meat:— New Zeala-r-d Sheep.— Canterbury and Southland, prices unchanged; North Island, Sid; best brands, 4d. Now Zeakmd Lambs. — Canterbury light, sfd; medium, sgd; Southland, net quoted; North Island, 4£d; best brands, sd. New Zealand Beef. — Prices unchanged. Australian Sheep.— Light, 3d; heavy, 2 15-16 d. Australian Lambs. — Best brands, 4£d; fair quality, 3gd; inferior quality, 3|d. Australian Beef. — Prices unchanged. River Plate Sheep. — Light, 3gd; heavy, 3jjd. River Plate Lambs.— 4 l-16d. River Plato Beef. — Fores, 2|d ; hinds, unchanged. LONDON MARKETS. LONDON, 25th February. Yesterday's closing quotations were as follow : — Copper.— On spot, £54 15s per ton; threo months', £55 8s 9d; electrolytic, £57 ss. Tin. — On ' spot, £193 per ton ; three months', £188. Lead. — Soft, foreign, £13 5s per ton. Wheat. — A cargo of Australian old wheat sold at 333 6d per quarter and 5500 tons, Sonth Australian, February shipment, at 333 9d. Hemp is steady and unchanged. Copra. — The market ia flat; South Sea, in bags, £25 2s 6d per ton. Cotton. — The Liverpool quotation for middling Upland American cotton is 7.33 d per lb. Rubber.— Fine, hard Para rubber is quoted at 6s lid per lb. Bar silver i 3 quoted at 24 7-16 d per ounce. Antimony.— £9. Quicksilver.— £lo. Tin Plates.— l4s lid and 15s lid. Angle Steel.— £6. (Received February 2, 8.40 a.m.) LONDON, 26th February. Cheese — Market dull. New Zealand white, 56s to 57s per cwt ; coloured, 58s to 59*. The hides sales were quiet. Basils — The market is steady. First Wellingtons, 19|d.