COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 1, 1 July 1912, Page 6

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

LONDON MARKETS. By Telegraph. -Press Association.— Copyright. (Received July 1, 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, 30th Jane. Wheat. — An Australian cargo sold at 40s 6d. Hemp. — Market quiet. June-August shipment, £22. * Jute. — Market firm and prices unahanged. Copra. — A steady market. South Sea, in bags, £24 ss. Cotton.— June-July, 6.39£ d per lb. Rubber.— 4s B£d per lb. Hides. — Owing to the strike, offerings are insignificant, and. prices are firm. FROZEN MEAT QUOTATIONS. LONDpN, 29th Juno. The Incorporated Society of Meat Importers' Smithfield market quotations for the undermentioned classes of frozen meat are based on actual sales of not less than one hundred carcasses of mutton or lamb, or twenty-five quarters of beef of fair average quality. The quotations are not feeleoted lines, but for parcels fairly representative of the bulk of the shipments now on the market. Tho prices which follow are on an average- a farthing per lb more than the value ex ship, this difference representing an average cost in expenses, handling, conveyance, and _ soiling tho moat : — Mutton.— Canterbury, light, 4|d; Canterbury, medium, 4£d; Canterbury, heavy, 3Jd; Southland, 3|d; North Island, beet, s|d ; North .Mand, ordinary, 3 9-16 d; Austrab'an, light, 3^d ; Australian, heavy, 3£d ; River I^late, light, unchanged; River Plate, heavy, 34d; New Zealand ewes 3§d; Australian ewes, 3j|d; River Plate ewee, 3|d. Lamb. — Canterbury, light, '6|d; Canterbury, medium, 6Ad; Canterbury, heavy, s|d; Southland, 6jd; North Inland, ordinary, 6d; North Island, selected, 6£d; Australian, _ best, s|d ; Australian, fail*, s^d ; Australian, inferior, unchanged; River Plate, first, sfd ; River Plate, second, sd. Beef. — New Zealand, ox fores, 3£d ; New Zealand, ox hinds, 4£d; Australian, ox f ores, 3§d ; Australian, ox hinds, 4d ; River Plate, ox fores, 3£d; River Plate, ox hinds, 4gd; River Plate, chilled fores, 3gd; River Plate, ohilled hinde, 4ld.