THE FROZEN MEAT MARKET.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 128, 1 June 1908, Page 5

THE FROZEN MEAT MARKET.

(Received June 1, 8 a.m.) LONDON, May 31

Consols have risen to £88

Copper, spot £57 15s per ton, three months £58 ss"; tin, spot £129 15s, three months £128 12s 6d; lead, £12 17s 6d.

Hemp—A May-July shipment brought £26 15s. Copra is steady. South Sea £15 17s 6d.

I At the rabbit-skin sales 1937 bundles [.were offered, and 1726 sold: New Zealand winters advanced three-half-jjsstce. *' The Frozen Meat Trades Association's 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 far average quality. These quotations are not for selected lines, but for parcels fairly representative of the bulk of the shipments now on the market— New Zealand sheep, crossbred wethers and maiden ewes: Canterbury light (4.8-561bs) 4|d, heavy (64-721bs) |3id; other sorts and lambs unchanged.

New Zealand beef, 180 to 2201b5, fair average quality: Ox fores 3d, ox hinds 3fd. River Plate sheep unchanged; beef, fores 2|d, hinds 3|d.