FINANCE.
BRITISH REPORTS. LONDON, April 13. Copper—Spot £SB 10s, three months £SB 2s 6d. Lead—£l2 9s 4[d. TALLOW. LONDON, April 13. Tallow—At the sales 1123 casks were offered and 512 sold. Mutton, fine 28s 6d, medium 26s 6d; beef, fine 28s 6d, medium 25s 6d. MELBOURNE, Thursday. The tallow market is depressed, and prices nominal and unchanged.
HIDES. MELBOURNE, Thursday. Hides are in good demand. Stout 6d to 7£d, heavy to s£d; average and medium 4|d to 4|d. FROZEN MEAT. The Colonial Consignment and Distributing Company, Limited, yesterday received the following cablegram from their London office: “Frozen meat market.—To-day’s quotations are: Canterbury mutton, 4|d per lb; Napier, Wellington, and North Island mutton, 4gd; lamb, first quality, lamb, second quality, sd; beef, hindquarters, 3d; beef, forequarters, 2£d.”
woofi. Williams and Kettle, Limited, yesterday received from their London agents the following wool report, dated March 11th“The second series of wool sales opened on the Bth instant, with a large attendance of buyers and good competition. As compared with last sales’ closing rates good merinos are unaltered, but faulty wasty parcels are 5 per cent lower. Fine and medium crossbreds show no change, whilst coarse crossbreds are 5 per cent dearer.”
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12732, 15 April 1904, Page 3
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198FINANCE. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12732, 15 April 1904, Page 3
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