COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17661, 23 December 1920, Page 5

COMMERCIAL.

THE LONDON MARKETS. HIGH COMMISSIONER'S ADVICE. [BY TEXEGBArU.—rEESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON. Wednesday. The Hijh Gonymissioner's cablegram. | dated London. December IS, is as follows:— j Meat. —For fresh meat average- prices i tare: English beef. Is Hd; mutton. Is 7',d; i lamb. Is lid per lb. In imported there is ; i fair trade. Butier.—The price of British tended I lower this week. The Irish market is. i very depressed, and prices are much j lower. New salted. £19 per cwt. (3s Aid per lb.; stored, nominally. £16 16a per cwt. I (3s pi?r lb.): Danish, free purchases have | been made on British account, at £14 16s ! per cwt. 2s 7|d per lb.), f.o.b. Cke»&e..—Very little business in English j this u-eek, at last quotations, viz., £7 10s ! to £9 6s per cwt. (Is 4d to Is Ss per lb.): j Irish, at £S 4s to £7 per cwt. (Is lid to Is ; 3d per lb.); Canadian, spot, market steady. white £7 8s to £7 16s per cwt. (Is 3Jd to Is j 45d p?r lb.): coloured, £7 14s to £S per i cwt. (Is 4id to Is 5d per lb.), c.i.f. Business is practically finished for this season, j Latest offers are £7 to £7 5s per cwt. ils I 3d to Is 3jtd per lb.). Hemp.—The Manila market is quiet and j | easier. ".T " grade October-December ship- i ! merit, £57 103 per ton; Decernber-Februsry I I shipment, £56 per ton: Jf.nunry-Marcli ! I shipment. £55 per ton. The New Zealand ! i market closed dull at last Quotation, vir.. j | spot. Inch points, £54 4s. per ton; fair. £59 | per ton ; December-January shipment. .fsl I 10s and £50 per toy, respectively, btit orices | are purely nominal in absence oi business. '