LONDON MARKETS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1016, 19 November 1917, Page 5

LONDON MARKETS.

HIGH COMMISSIONER’S CABLE. (Peb Pbess Association.) WELLINGTON, Nov. 19. Tlio High Commissioner's market report, dated Ixmdon 17th. (Note: Quotations unless otherwise specified are average market prices on spot) is as follows: Moat.—Home killed beef very scarce, a largo proportion of second-class quality selling at ' 12d. Home killed mutton: Scotch lambs in fair supply 13d. No frozen meat has been released during this week by order of the Government. N.Z. mutton and lamb, no supplies available ami no quotations; Argentine mutton, lamb Argentine beef, no supplies available and no quotations. Butter. —All descriptions of .butter very scarce; no official quotations v.ith exception of Bans 256s 8d and Hutch 2295, Danish and Dutch in small shipments. There is dissatisfaction on account of the fixed maximum prices. Cheese. —Choose is in small supply. English cheddar 1425; all others at Government prices. Hemp.—Manila and New Zealand markets no change; stocks here at 31st October tills rear are, Manila 15,134 tons. New Zealand' 562 tons, against 7394 tons and 443 tons respectively last year. ’1 he Manila, output this year, up to November 12, w 1,085,000 bales, against 1.039.000 bales last 1 Cook-foot. —Market, firm but little doing. Good Danish is quoted at £8 5s ex warehouse. , . , Wheat and oats—Market .quiet; no alb ration in prices.