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Statistics of Live Stock and Dead Meat 



Imports at CorrespondiDg Periods. 



Newgate and Leadenhall have been heavily supplied with 

 meat, in which a good business has been passing, at in'egular 

 quotations. The range in the value of beef has been from 3s. Qd. 

 to 5s. 2d. ; mutton, 4:S. to Qs. ; lamb, bs. 6d. to Ss. Gd. ; veal, 4^. 

 to Qs. 2d. ; pork, As. to 5s. Sd. ; per 8 lbs. by the carcase. 



Owing to the immense arrivals of wool from our colonies and 

 the high value of money in the discount market, the wool trade 

 has been in a very depressed state, and the quotations have 

 declined l^d. to 3d. per lb. The fall would, no doubt, have been 

 much greater had not buyers from France taken about 75,000 

 bales of Australian at public auction. The great increase in the 

 duties on woollen goods in America is calculated to keep down 

 the value of wool in the United Kingdom, more especially as 

 our imports from various quarters are increasing every year. The 

 supply of Australian wool now in warehouse for the August sales 

 is very little short of 100,000 bales. Annexed are the current 

 prices of English wool in London : — 



Per Pack of 240 lbs. 



Fleeces : — £. s. £. s. 



Southdown hoggetts 16 10 to 17 10 



Half-bred hoggetts 18 to 19 



Kent fleeces 17 to 19 



Southdown ewes and wethers .. .. 16 to 17 



Leicester ditto 17 to 19 



Sorts : — 



Clothing and picklock 19 10 to 20 10 



Prime and picklock 18 to 19 



Choice 17 to 17 10 



Super 16 to 16 10 



Combing : — 



Wether matching 20 to 21 



Picklock .. ". 17 10 to 18 10 



Common 15 10 to 16 



Hop matching 21 to 18 10 



Picklock matching 17 10 to 18 10 



Super ditto 15 10 to 16 



