COMMERCIAL CABLEGRAMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 3829, 12 May 1913, Page 5

COMMERCIAL CABLEGRAMS.

LONDON MEAT MARKETS

[UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPERIGHT.]

(Received May 11, 5.15 p.m.) LONDON, May 11. The Incorporated Society of Meat Importers’ Smithfield market quotations fot the undermentioned classes of frozen meat are based on actual sales of not less than one hundred carcases of mutton or lamb or twentyfive quarters of beef of fair average quality. The quotations are not for selected lines, hut for parcels fairly representative of the bulk of the shipments now on the market. The prices which follow are on the average a farthing i>er lb more than the values ex ship, this difference representing an average cost in expense, handling, conveyance and selling the meat. Mutton—

May 3. Mav 10. d. d. Canterbury, light ...42 * Canterbury, medium 4g Canterbury, heavy ... 4J 41-1 G Southland * North Island ordinary 41-10 4 North Island best ... 4]- 4 3-16 New Zealand ewes ... 313-16 311-16 Australian, light ... 3; 313-16 Australian, heavy ... * * Australian ewes ... 3 11-16 3§ River Plate, light ... * • * River Plate, heavy... 313-16 * River Plate, owes ... 3J * La mil — Canterbury, light ... 7 Canterbury, medium 6J • * Canterbury, heavy ... 6 5-16 Southland ' North Island, best ...62 * . North Island ordinary (> j Australian, best ... 6 6J Australian, fair ... 5J Australian, inferior... * 52 River Plate, best ... 6 River Plate seconds... 51 Frozen BeefNew ' Zealand, fores 3| ' 3 New Zealand, hinds 32 3J Australian, fores ... 3-i 21 Australian, hinds ... 31 31River Plate, fores ... 3J 3 River Plate, hinds ... 3jj 3jj Chilled BeefRiver Plate, fores ... 31 2§ River Plate, hinds ... 42 4g

*Nonc offering. Owing to heavy arrivals chilled fores fluctuated during the week between 2.)<l and 3d and hinds between 3]d and sd. RABBITS. The rabbit market is weak and little business is being done. New South Wales blues are nominally 15s and young 12s (kl. Many recent arrivals are considerably mouldy.