LONDON MARKETS.

Feilding Star, Volume XXV, Issue 221, 7 March 1904, Page 2

LONDON MARKETS.

. ■ — ■- — ~ — ; — ♦— ; — ' . r Telegraph. Press Association. Copyright Received March 7, 8.88 a.m, ; : ■: Ijondon, March 6. Hemp is quiet -Fair FebruaryMarch shipment £81. ; .-■ -Sheep — Canterbury, unchanged; Dunedin and Southland 4§d ; North Island, ordinary, 4 8-16 d; best, 4 5»16d. Lamb— Canterburyj new season's, : s|d ; North Island,, sfd. River Plate sheep are unchanged. Lamb, 4|d. Beef— N.Z. and River Plate are both unchanged. : Wheat— l7,ooo quarters of Victorian February shipment 'shipment sold at Sis. ■■■."?. ;':-■■ ' \ l -' : -'- : ,'[ . The Frozen Meat Trade Associr ation'a Smithfield market quotations for the undermentioned classes of frozen meats are based on actual sales of not less than 100 carcases of mutton or lamb, or 25 carcases of beef of fair average quality. These quotations are not for selected lines but for parcels fairly representative of the bulk of the shipments now on the market. N.Z. sheep — Crossbred wethers and maiden ewes, Canterbury light, 48 to 761 b; Canterbury medium, 56 to 641 b; Conterbury heavy, 64 to 721 b; Dunedin and Southland, 56 to 641 b ; North Island, 55 to 651 b; N.Z. lambs, Canterbury, light, 28 to 861 b; Canterbury heavy, 86 to 421 b; Dunedin and Southland, 28 to 421 b; North Island, 28 to 421 b; N.Z. ax. fores, 180 to 2201 b; ox hinds, 180 to 2201 b. _________