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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 286, 4 December 1901, Page 3

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LONDON MARKETS. PJB FBBSB ASSOCIATION. Lohdoh, December 1. At the wool sales yesterday the following prices were realised: —Talma clip 6d, Daletborpe B|d. Canterbury mutton 3§d, Onnedin and Southland 3jd, North Island 2fd; Canterbury lamb 4 5-18 d, fair average unchanged. Beef unchanged. These prices are official quotation! furnished by the Frozen Meat Trade Association. The basis of quotations is sales of not less than 100 caress js of mutton or lamb or 25 quarters of beef. All quotations for mutton are for fair average quality. Quotations for New Zealand lamb do not include sales of small lambs or heavies of inferior quality. All hides were withdrawn from sale in expectation of an advance. New Zealand basils Is. Hemp, quiet; good to Wr Auckland October-December shipment --33. Two Sooth Australian wheat cargoes of 10,000 quarters and a Victorian sailer December-January shipment sold at 29s 3d. Copper: Spot £59 2s 6d, three months £s7*6d. Tin: ttuee months £lO6. Silver, 2s )jd per ox.

London, December 2.

At the wool sales the quantity catalogred to date is 52,335 bales, of which 16,996 have been sold. Continental buyers eagerly competed for bast wools to-day at the highest rates of the series. Faulties were slow of ■ate.

Wellington, December 2.

. The Agent-General cables from London, 30th November:—•• Mutton very dull; shipments now arriving; very heavy stocks accumulating ; River Plate in large supply and being strongly pushed for sale; great number of stale carcases being placed on the market. Ganterhurr mutton 3§d, Dunedin and Southland 3£l. North Island 2Jd, Biver Plate 2jd, Australian 2sd. Dull sale for all lamb; Canterbury 4Jd, other brands 4jd; market speculative. Beef weak, stocks of New Zealand on hand light; New Zealand hinds Sid, fores 2Jd. Batter, steady. The Karamea's batter arrived in good condition; selling at 108s to 118s; Danes reducing prices 116s. Cheese steady; Canadian 465, Hemp, quiet at former quotations.

AUOKIAND WOOL MARKET. Auckland Decern b»* S. The wool sale* opened to-day, wheu J 308 bales were offered and a fair proportion sold, though toe prices realised ruled low in sympathy with southern sales. The top prices touched was fid for ten bales ol halfbreed fleeces.. There was an average fall all round, compared with last year's opening sale, of about ] Jd, balf-breds declining from |d to-Jd, finer cross-breds from Id to IJ<*, medium and coarser wools about Sd. Prices ranged:—Half-breds 4Jd to 6d, fine cross- . "breds 3Jd to 4JI, medium and coarse cost- , breds 2Jd to 3Jd, Lincoln wools to 3d.