LONDON MARKETS

Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 74, 25 September 1917, Page 2

LONDON MARKETS

HIGH COMMISSIONER'S CABLED REPORT

The Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commero© has received the following cablegram, dated London, 22nd September, 1917, from Jhe: High Commissioner for New' Zealand. (Note.—Quotations, unless otherwise spepified, aro average market prices on spot.):— \ Meat.^-Ho.me-J[dllc.d muttpn and English lambs: a small supply atinaxiinuni prices. Home-killed beef, lid a-njrt 12<1; demand less than" supply, owing to. large supply of Irish beef- N.Z. mutton, p&r lb, Bgd; ewe mutton,- Bid; , Argentine mutton, ll|d; N.Z. lamb, 10d;. "Argentine lamb, llj-d; Patagonian, under Government .control, lOd. Large supplies .of Argentino beef, .chilled hinds lid", fdr.es 9id. _ ' . | Butter and Clißese^-Market cqntm.ues firm owing to .continued small supplies.' Danish , New Z.ealahd, arid Austrjdiin, no supplies available, no quotations. Paris, T2l2s to?2os per cvyt; Irish creamery and Argentine, offerings are very small, 206s;.""unsal/te'd;' 209s:.'""Cheeso market continues firm. English Cheddar, per cwt, 1325; States ..Plats and Canadian at Government.'price 13_O£ 5d"." ..Q'rder"-issued by Food Controller raising maximum price f \ Paris unsalte.d butter, to 258? to take effect" on'and' after 24th September; also Engb'sh Clieddar 137 a, to .t&k.? ctEect on i and after Ist October. '" : Hemp—ManOa, market continues firm. New Zealand, maximum prices Ijavo beeii fixed from- 17th"" September:'"" Good fair, per ton, £84; high point, £82; fair, £81. Tow, first grade, £59; second . grado, £56; third 'grade, '£54. British Basi African sisal, maxjmum prices have been fixed T First grade," £84; second grade + £82; to\y, £65. ' Wheat—Maximum prices havo been fix- . cd: No. 2 Manitoba Northern, 745; No. , 2, harcl winter, 755; Australian, 77s 6d. Market quiet, small business doing. " "', Oats—Market quiet b,ut steady, no change in prices. .