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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16622, 20 August 1917, Page 3

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LONDON MARKETS. 1 Australian and N.Z. Cable Association- I (Reed. 5.25 pjn.) LONDON, August 18. "WHEAT. The wheat market is very quiet, few lines offering. Quotations on the Chicago market for September options are 8s 4id to 8s 43. FROZEN MEATS. No Australian or New Zealand mutton ia offering, but lamb is quoted at 10id. South American mutton is Quoted at lOd. and lamb at lid. i.In rabbits little business is beta* dose, as the trade is only receiving, small quantities of the damaged supplies.*'- The Govern--ment is keeping all sound supplies. HEMP. Th© market is quiet. High-point fair, distant shipment, nominally £90. RUBBER. Para. Ss 3d; plantation, 2s old: smoked. 2s 43d. m COPRA. I Spot. £45 ss. B HIDES. ■ Market is firm. No Australian supplies are I offering. The leather market is very firm, H and practically no supplies are available for B civilian requirements. Heavy Australian, H nominally. 32s to 40s. For basils, no busi- H ness is being done; nominally quotations Bj are unchanged. H LEAD. H Imports for the week were 7331 tons; ex- B ports. 1237 tons. M THE BUTTER MARKET. 9 A. and N.Z. Cable. LONDON. Aug. 18. M The maximum prices of butter have been fl fixed at the same figures as before. ■ Danish butter sold at Manchester touched M 2905. The general impression in Tooley BJ Street is that the whole of the provision trade BS will soon be under control. K SOUTHERN STOCK SALES. M The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Ej Agency Company reports: — In At Palmerston North on Thursday only a HJ small yarding came forward, and sold at HJ late rates. Aged store cows, £3 15s to £4 HJ 10s- store cows. £6 5s to £8 9s; fat cows, HJ £9 10s to £10 15s; guaranteed dairy cows, §31 £9 10s to £13 ss. , , . Ej At Feilding. on Friday, we had a heavy g| yarding of sheep and a medium entry of HJ cattle. Sheep sold well, and there was a total f| clearance. Small hoggets, 18s 4d; medium HJ ewe hoggets. 23= 4d to 25s 6d: medium HJ wether hoggets. 24s to 24s 6d; woolly wether ■£ hoggets, good. 2Ss 3d; shorn wether hoggets'. S "ood, 29s to 30s 7d; fat ewes, 37s 6d: year- M ling heifers £3 10s to £4 10s, 15-months £6: H yearling steers, small, £5 4s; springing HI heifers, £8 5s to £8 10s; cows, in calf. £8 Ha 10« to £9 123 6d; fresh cows, £8 sa. P|