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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 14058, 16 November 1909, Page 5

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THE LONDON MARKETS. (Press Aseociation-By Telegraph-Copyright LONDON, Nov. 14. The Board of Agriculture estimates the British wheat crop at 7,695,000 quarters; barley. 7,621,000 quarters; oats, 15,397,000 quarters. The demand for hemp is firm; good to fair, £26 per ton. Liverpool November-December shipment of cotton is quoted at 7.49 d. There is a good demand for rabbits and prices arc unchanged. Hares arc meeting with a dull market despite tlio shorter English plyTin plates, I.C. coke, 13d; I.C. charcoal, lid. Angle steel, X's ss; galvanised iron, best' brands, £'l3 12s Od; second brands, £'l3 7s Gd." Shares.—Waihi, buyers, £9 lis 3d.; sollcrs, £9 13s 9d; Waihi Junction, buyers 38s 9d, sellers 41s 3d. The Frozen Meat Trades Association's Snithfield Market quotations for the undermentioned classes, of frozen meat are based on actual sales of not less than 100 carcases of mutton or lamb or twenty-fivo carcases of beef of fair average quality. These quotations are not for selected lines, but for parcels fairly representative of the bulk of the shipments now on the market: —Mutton — Canterbury,! light 4.', d, medium 4 5-10 d, heavy Jicl; North Island, best brands 4d, ordinary 4d; Australian, heavy 3Ad, light 3jd; River Plate, heavy 3|d, light 3: : ; d. Lamb—Canterbury, light, 4Jd, medium 4Jd, heavy 4Jd; North! Island, selected 4d, ordinary 3Jd; Southland, 4d; Kiver Plate, 4|d. J3 ec f —Xew Zealand, fores 3 1-lCd, ! hinds 3 gel ; Australian, fores 3d, hinds 3 5-16 d; River Plate, fores 3d, hinds