1908.] 



Market Prices. 



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West End clubs and certain first class restaurants, with whom 

 it is a question of size rather than quality or flavour. 



The provision trade during the week was quiet, as usual in 

 holiday time, but prices were firm all round. Those for butter 

 advanced in some cases, from is. to 3s. per cwt. for continental, 

 but colonial was unchanged. Quantities in sight from all 

 importing countries were very moderate and decreasing, giving a 

 confident feeling to the trade. Gheese remained firm and bacon, 

 especially Irish and Danish, established a decided advance. 



Latest Markets. — There was a very good demand for fat cattle 

 at Norwich on the 25th, followed by a good trade at Islington on 

 the 27th, with an early clearance of the 860 on offer. Here the 

 price advanced to yd. per lb. for all well-finished Norfolks, and 

 if we may judge by weighbridge results, this figure was 

 occasionally exceeded. Certainty some few of those weighed 

 after sale were shown to have realized 40s. per live cwt. On the 

 other hand many useful bullocks were sold at 6\d. per lb., but 

 a large proportion of the supply came from the Norfolk yards; 

 and all these were admirably finished, and chiefly of those 

 medium weights so highly appreciated by the butchers. The 

 mutton trade on the same day presented a sharp contrast to 

 that for beef. The supply was very good, the majority being 

 in the wool on account of the weather, but the demand was 

 lifeless, and all could not be sold even at a reduction of \d. per 

 lb. The very finest small Down tegs in the wool did not 

 exceed %\d. per lb., the lowest price quoted at Islington for 

 unshorn sheep of this class for some years. The same quality of 

 clipped tegs were, at the same time, selling at 8d., which was only 

 allowing 4s. 3d. for the fleece. A few pens of very choice Cheviots 

 in the wool fetched no more than the English Downs. Fat 

 lambs were slightly firmer, but none realised more than ud. 

 per lb. 



On the morning of the 29th there w T as a great change in the 

 weather and a much higher temperature. This was immediately 

 felt in the dead-meat market, where a decided check occurred in 

 the demand for beef. The prices of the previous week had drawn 

 a better supply than usual from Scotland and Norfolk, but the 

 reduction conceded for this class of meat was, if any, scarcely 

 quotable. Port-killed fell about a penny per 8 lb., and 

 American chilled, 3d Chilled beef is very susceptible to 



