LONDON MARKETS.

Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 85, 12 April 1917, Page 3

LONDON MARKETS.

HIGH COIVtMiSSIONER'S RJfiPORT,;

Tlie Departnieiit of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce has received the. following cablegram, dated London, oth April. 1917, from the High Cbmmissipner for '. New Zealand. (Note• Quotations, -unless otherwise epecifiod, are average market prices on sDot):^— .■ . :..; :..: ■.-; v Meat:—i-Tlier© is no material change in tlio' market, with ; the exception prices • arp higher -for Argentine nmtton *xnd lamb owing to tho contin nod . small supply of New Zealand mutton and lamb: New Zealand mutton, per lb, B£d; ©we mutton j Bid; Argentine mutton, heavywoight 12id, lightweight 12id;, New Zealand. iamb, 10' l; Argecntine lamb, 14d. New Zea,?and beef, no supplies available; New ' Zealand boneless beef, UJd. New Zealand pork for .the Government. 10 } d; Argentine* chilled beef, hinds^fd, foires Ipid1/ ; ' Butter.—The market is easier. Danish butteri piicea are lower, 218s to 2225: Australian butter, salted 198s to 2025, ansalted 196s to 200s; New Z&iland, salted 214 is to l2lßs, unsalted 208s to 210s; Argentine, ]96s to 200s. Cheese—-No quotations, owing to short supply, with the exception of States flats,Vi6os; Estimated Canadian and Sj-stes cheese stocks, London, Liverpool, Bristol, nil crates, against 28,(HKr at same timo last year. Estimated1 New Zealand and Australian cheese stocks, London, Bristol, nil crates, against 28,000 at same time last year. ; Hemp and Grain.—No qhango' in the markets.,. .^XwAj' ■-""*■: ::