COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL BREADSTUFFS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 75, 30 March 1914, Page 6

COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL BREADSTUFFS.

(By Telegraph.— rri>v» Av-oelatioM.— Copyright.) LONDON. 29! h March. Thn wheat market is quiet and steady. Buvcsv of Australian in imv position offer about ju-i ; sellers want 36s 3d. The wheat arid flour afloat for the United Kingdom total« 4,005,000 quarter's; for the Continent. 2,240,000; Atlantic fchipuipuir, 224.000; Pacific, nil. The total shipment"! to Europe duing the week amounted to 1.180.000 u.uartt»i.«, including 204,000 from Austnuusia. LONDON MARKETS. Thu copm market has a bettor tohe, and moro business is. doing. South Sea, in bast*, V-J2? 5« to £26 s<:. — Markot quiet. April-June, £26 Cotton.— -March-April, 6.67^d per lb. Rubber. -—Para 3s, Plantation 2s 6id, smoked 2s 6£d. 'Tin Plates, 13* and 14s. Galvanised iron, 140s less three pet centum off list. Iron Bars, 150s less 2£ and 1 per centum, Angle Steel, 107s 6d less 2g per centum. Train Rails, 100s. Compnt 5s Bel. les3^2^ per centum, and five shillings net. FROZEN MEAT MARKET. LONDON, 29th March. The Incorporated Socioty of Meat Importers' Smithfield .market quotations for 'the undermentioned clnssojt of frozen meat arc based on actual sales of not lef« than one hundred carcases of mutton or lamb, or twenty-five- quarters of beef of fair average quality. The quotations are not for selected lines, but for parcels fairly representative of the bulk of the shipments now on the market. The prices i- whicli 'follow are on tha average a farthing per lb more than the values ex ship, this difference representing tho average cost in expense, handling, conveyance, and selling the meat : — New Zealand Sheep.— Canterbury crossbred wethers and/or maiden ewes. 48-501b, 4|d ; ditto. 64-721b, 4|d ; Southland, 66-641b sd ; North Island crossbred wethers alid maiden ewes, 56-641b, 4 6-16 d; ditto, ditto, best brand, 56-64,, 4^d ; New Zealand ewes, 46-6418, 4d. Australian Sheep. — Light crossbred and/or merino wethers. 35-551b, 3 5-l6d ; heavy ditto, 40'601b, 3£d ; ewes, 30-501b, 3id. South American Sheep.— Lisrht crossbred and/or merino wethers, 40-551b, none offering j heavy ditto, 56-721b, 4d ; ewes, 48-641b, 3Ad. New Zealand Lambs. — Canterbury lambs. 28-361b. 6Jd ; ditto,' 36-421b. 6d ; ditto, 42-50lb. sgd ; Southland, 28-421b, 6d ; North Island selected brands. 28421b, 6d ; North Island, 28-421b, 5 13-16 d. Austrian Lambs. — Best brands, 28-42jb, sjd ; fair quality, under 361b, sgd ; inferior quality (light weights). 54d. South American Lambs. —First quality, sid ; second quality, s^d. Beef. — Australian ox, crops. 160-2001b, 33d ; Australian ox, hinds, 160-2001b, 4?d ; New Zealand ox, fores, 160-2201b, 3|d ; New Zealand ox, hinds, 160-2201b, 4Ad ; South American ox, fores, 160-2001b, 3£d j South American ox, hinds, 160-2201b, 4£d ; South American chilled ox, fores. 160-2201b, 3 13-16 d; ditto, chilled ox, hinds, 160-2001b, sd. RABBITS. The market is quiet and prices unchanged. •