COMMERCIAL.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11864, 19 February 1907, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

LONDON MARKET'bEPOBT. Messrs Bisley Bros and Co report having received the following cable from their London agents, Messrs Dalgety and Co, Limited, dated 16fch instant: Frozen ment: Fair demand for lamb. Poor demand for mutton. There is less demand for beef, and prices are weaker. We quote: North Island^ heavy sJ^d; New Zealand prime crossbred lamb, Canterbury, heavy weights, s%d;New Zealand prime crossbred mutton, Canterbury heavy, 4j^d ; North Island, 4}^d Canterbury lamb, light weights, 6d; North Island, 5%d ; light weighty Canter- , bury mutton, IJ^d; North Island, 4>£d Now Zealand prime ox beef, fores 2%d. hinds 3}£d Butter : Market weak Copenhagen official quotation is lower by two kroner (about 2s 3d) per cwt. The total imports of butter into the United Kingdom for the weekending the 9fch instant amounted to 110,000 cwt, as compared with 72^000 cwt for. the corresponding week of 1906. Tallow : Prices for all descriptions are unchanged. - . ,- ■