§ MR. ALEXANDER CROSS (Glasgow, Camlachie)To ask the First Commissioner of Works, when it is proposed to complete the decorative work by filling in the two vacant panels in the Outer Lobby.
(Answered by Mr. Harcourt.) No provision for this work has been made in the ensuing year's Estimates, and I cannot
| Average Prices of British Cattle and Sheep per eight pounds, sinking the offal, at the Metropolitan Cattle Market. | ||||||||||||
| Period. | Cattle. | Sheep. | ||||||||||
| Inferior Quality. | Second Quality. | First Quality. | Inferior Quality. | Second Quality. | First Quality. | |||||||
| s. | d. | s. | d. | s. | d. | s. | d. | s. | d. | s. | d. | |
| 1880–1892 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 3 |
| 1893–1905 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 9 |
§ The Board of Trade have been good enough to supply index numbers as to the prices of beef and mutton since the year 1871, from which it appears, taking 1008 undertake under present financial conditions to ask for funds for merely-decorative purposes.