COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL

Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 37, 14 February 1916, Page 6

COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL

FROZEN MEAT,

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.)

LONDON, 12th February,

The Incorporated Society of Meat Importers' Smithfield Market quotations for frozen meat are 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. The quotations aro not for selected lines, but for parcels fairly representative of tho bulk of the shipments now on the market. Tho prices which follow are on the average a farthing per lb. more than the values ex ship, this difference representing the average cost in expense, handling, conveyance, and selling of the meat: —

Mutton. —Canterbury, light 7gd, light (seconds) none' offering, medium 7id, heavy none * offering; Southland, none offering; New Zealand, best none offering, ordinary none offering; North Island ewes, none offering; New Zealand ewes, 7 l-16d; Australian, heavy 7 1-lfid, medium 7_d, light 7|d, ewes 7d; River Plate,' wethers/ light 73d, heavy 7jjd, owes none offering. , Lamb.—Canterbury, light Bd, seconds 7_d, medium . Bd, heavy 8d; Southland, none offering; North Island, ordinary 7_d, selected 8d; Australian, _ best 7£d, .secondary". 7_d, inferior 7|d; River Plate, first ""quality-none offering, seconds nono offering. ' . Beef. —Argentine, \ chilled fores 6£d> ■hinds 7_d. .' ' . RABBITS. Colonial rabbits are dull, and prices are unchanged. LONDON MARKETS. ' . LONDON, 12th February. Jute.—Native first marks, FebruaryMarch shipment, £31 5s per ton. New Zealand Hemp.—February-April shipment, £47 per ton. Copra. — January-February shipment, £34 10s per ton. .Cotton. —February-March deliveries, 7.81 d per lb. Rubber.—Hard fine Para, 3s 2d per lb.; plantation, 3s s_d; smoked sheets, 3s 4_d. Wheat. —Firm. : Cliioago. May options are quoted at 128 cents; July, 121£ cents. Butter.—Danish butter is quoted at 158s to 1625. : Hides. —Very , firm; Australian, ld|d and ll|d. , Leather. —In good demand.; . best Sydney, 17d to 19_d; basils, in better request owing to short supplies; there is some enquiry for Government contracts,; first Sydney being quoted at 14d to 15_d, and - New Zealand, from 16d to 17d.' Silver.—Bar silver is quoted at 26 5-16 d per ounce standard.

BREADSTUFFS.

(Received February 14, 9 a.m.) . X LONDON, 13th February.

Wheat is 3d ■ dearer, on scanty offerings.

The' whoat and.flour afloat for tho United Kingdom is 1,185.000 quarters; for tho Continent, 3,090,000; *Atlantic shipments, 962,000; Pacific, 150,000.' The total shipments to Europe during the week amounted to. 1,440,000 quarters, including 53,000 .from Argentina. ,