The Hop Markets.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 71, 16 February 1883, Page 2

The Hop Markets.

'■ ..., -,.'.' •■ •" London, Nor. 24. .Hops,^ra^G..-Whibl6j,jficreJtiigL, of the Exchange i and Hop Warehouses (Limited), reports as follows :— " No 1 imprpYement m the English hap.mar« ket can be noted'for the wick. 'Factors have only a limited slioW of samples, and for these extreme rates are asked. Business m the Borough is extremely quiet* arising more from the absence- of t buyers than from any disposition on the parYof holders to reject legitimate rates' if offered. No great arrival ; dither from America or the Continent/ is anticipated After this month ; on thS^ contrary, large consignments are being made on German ac'connt, prices being folly L 2 nigher there than m London; r j The " Americans haya this season seht^ us $ome superb samples, which v enk ' dently show that the plant, as it ad-' 1 vances m age, loses that obf actionable I flavour which originally distinguished ifc ; The history : of the lop trade' shows that this is not'thefirst year by many that the American supply tiasr administered a severe check to "the Englishplanter. On the whole, the hop trade' seems to have settled down fo* the first time until after Christmas, when the campaign will y: -be once .mdre' coin--raenced." The firmness of the) Borough * hop market is maintained, but business^' is quieter. StockY are 1 very 1 small. The American markets are improving, and the Continental are about exhausted. Fast Kent Goldings, L2B to L4O ; Mid Kent ditte, L 26 to L 35 j Weald of Keats, L 25 to 29 ; Sussex, L2S to L2B Bavarians, L 24 to ISO'y yearlings L19t0L25.

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