WOOL, HIDE, AND TALLOW SALES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 799, 23 April 1910, Page 7

WOOL, HIDE, AND TALLOW SALES.

—: 6 — : ■ ' '. . . Messrs. DaJeety ar.d Company. Limited, report having held thoir fortiiiEhth- sale of wool, skins, hides, and tallow yesterday, when a good catalogue of all classes was offered to the nsual attendance of I buyers. Wool sold well up to recent rates. Prices were as follow:—Crossbred, 7d. to 6Jd.; crossbred lambs, 63d. to Bd.: nieces, 4d. to 5Jd.; washed pieces, 53d.; dead, inferior, 5Jd.; crutchings, 5Jd. to 6i; rabbitskins, Id. Sheepskins: Prices wore, if anything, in sellers' favour. Half bred, 7Stl. to 9d.; crossbred, flue, 7id. to 73d.: crossbred, medium and'coarse, 6Jd. to 63d.; crossbred, seedy and broken, 5d.; lambs, 7d. to 7Jd.; crossbred shorts, 43d. to 63d.; crossbred pelts, 21d. to 4»d.:, lamb pelts. 4Sd. to 61d.; crossbred damp,' <s. 3d. to ba.; crosßbrod halfwools, damp, 2s. 9d. to 3s. Sd. Hidee: Prices on a par with la«t sales. Ojc. heavy, 7Jd., to Vid.; medium, Hi. to 7d.: cow, 6Jd. to 62d.: bulls. 55d.; yearling, 4id. to 6id.; dry hides. 5d.; calf, best, Bd. to 91d.; medium, 7d.: inferior, sd. to 6d.; tails. Is. per dozen. Tallow, in shipping order, 28s. 3d.; in barrels. 255. 6d.; in tins, 225. to 255. 3d.; horK oil, sa.' 3d. per drum.' ' ; ■.-.-.

Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., Wellington, report on their sale.held yesterday as.follows:—We offered a sood catalogue to the usual'attendance,of buyers. Bidding woe 'lteeii for eTerythinc ottered, and prices aU* round remained firm. .-We quote:—Wool: Only rough Quality offering.. Crossbred,-Bd.; lambs, 7Jd. to :73d.' Skins: Fine halfwoola, 71d.: medium, 7d.;"coarse, 6jd.; quarter-wools, 6d.; lambs,-7id. to Bd.; inferior and shorts', 3Jd. to 4Jd.: pelte. 41d.; butchers' half -dry aad ercen, Eood. 4s. 9d. to. ss. .Id. to ss. lDd.;. liehter. 4b. 2d. to 4a. 6d.;. liKht,-3s. Id. to 3s. lOrt.j lambs, 4s. 6d. to ss. 5d.; shorn lamba. is. lid. to 2s. 10d. to ,3s;- Hides: No heavy offering. • Medium ox, 7id. to 7Sd.; extra lißht, 6Jd.; staKS,vsSd.; damaced. 6d.; light to medium<cpwsi 63d. to 6Jd.; heavy condition, 61d.; yearliagri, 5Jd;. call, heavy, GJd.; medium, Bd. to BJd. Tallow: No shipping taUow offered, worth 28b. to. 2Ea. 3d. owt.; wine-pasks,-Kβ', 3d.; tins, 225. The New Zealand loan and-Mercantile Agency Company, Limited,. report as. follows:—London cables just to hand lenoYt a slight riße in fine croaebrcda, , merino, and short and shorn skine.. but. full-. woolled crosßbreds are 3d;' per lb. easier. Next London wool sales opening on Anril 26 are. expected to 6how a-rise of 5 per. cent, in merino and fine crossbred, but coarse croesbred is expected to , decline about 5 .per cent. It ia anticipated, however, that the market will improve later In the year. At our local sale yesterday wo submitted a catalogue of. about 4600 skins and, a small.Quantity of wool, hides, and tallow. Buyers were in full, attendance, and competition was'keen. 'Hides' «old_ well at late rates. There is an 'exceptionally Rood demand for tallow, in oaske, in eliiopinir condition, at from £27 Wo. to £28 ss, per ton. Wβ Quote-.—Wool: Crossbred, medium, 7Jd. .to' 85d. per lb.: crossbred, coarse arid , seedy,-. 6d. to 7Jd.; lambs, dinffy and coarse, 7d. to Bd.: lambs, Beedy, sd.to ;6id.; dead wool, 6Jd. to 7d.; prutchings, (rood. 6id.'.'Sheepskins:.CroES-. bred full-wbolled, coarse, 7Jd: to 73d.; crossbred, Quarter to' halfwools, 5Jd. to- 7d.; crossbred, auartor to halfwoole. damaned pelts, 4d. to 45d.; dead skins. s!d. to 6?d.; lambs, woolly, 73d. to 73d.; lambs, ehorji, 4Sd. to 6Jd.: croen skins, ,3a. to 6s. each; erccn lamb pelts, Is. to 3s. 2d. each. Hides: Cow and light ox, 61d. to 71d. per lb.: faulty and dry hides, 4d. to. 6Jd.: calf, best, 83d. to BJd.; .calf, damased. 55d. W 6Ja. Tallow, in tine, 225.,6 d.. t0.23b. 9d.PCr CWt. . . : . .;

Messrs. Levin and Company report:—Wβ held our fortnightly sale yesterday, when we offered 40 bales of wool, 300U skins, 1500 hides and calfskins, and a quantity of tallow and horsehair. There was a eood attendance of buyers. Wool: Owinit to firmness in oceniDK of the Antwerp sales, we had most spirited competition for tho wool offeriuE. which consisted mainly of odd bales of hoavy-conditloned crossbrede, and theso bales realised 7»d. to 9Jd.pcr lb. We quote:—Fine orossbreds, 9d. to IOJd.; coaree crossbreds, 7Jd. to Old.; lamha , wool. 71d< to 9d.; pieces and bellies. jW.'to 6d.; locks. 2id. to W. Skins: Very Jew woolly skins werq< offering, but wo had a fair catalogue of halfwools and' short wools, which met with' strone demand at full prices. Wo auoto:—Fine crossbreds, Bd. to 9d.; medium crossbreds. 7d. to 81d ; coarse crosebreda, 6d. to 7Jd.; hoeptet skins. 6d. to 61d.; dead skins, Id. to 6d.; dead hoggets, 6d. to 6d.; lambskins, 6id. to 73d.; quarter to halfwools. Id. to 6Jd.: dry Delta. 2id. to sJd.i ereen pelte, 3s. to 4s. 10d.: lamb pelts, Is. 6d. to 2s; Bd. Tallow: Very firm. Parcels in shipping order, £28 55.; tins, £20 to £23 55.: rough fat, £10 to £17. Horsehair, Is. to Is. 4d. per lbr Horns, ss. to 15s. . per hundred. Cowtailn, Is. 6d. per dozen. . Hides :~Wo brought forward a cood catalOßue. . AH" lots were caecrly competed for; prices beiag well maintained at current rates.'■" Calfskins were dearer to tho extent of 11 halfpenny per lb. ■ Wo quotes-Ox hides, heavy, 7d. to 78d.; ox hides, medium, 7d. to.7Jd.: ox hides, liirht,61d. to 7Jd.; cow hides, 6Jd. to 6Jd.; cut and slippy hides, li. to 6d,: stae hides, Id. to 55d.; bull hides, Id. , 'to Sid.: yearlings, sd. to 63d.; calf, best, 7d. to 9Jd.j oalf, medium. 6d. to Bd.; calf, cut and slippy, sd. to 6d. r

Messrs. Murray, Roberts and Co.—Our catalogue yesterday comprised 25 bales of wool, 3000 sheepskins,; ZOO hides, and ssvoral casks of, tallow. The .attendance was good, and'competition .very animated, tlio buyors being keen for business'at' prices which aro slightly in escess ','ot ratoß ruling'last s:ile. .Pieces .were tho only sorts easier in price. Prices current were as below:—Wool: Crossbred! rough, seedy, etc., 7d. to B}d. per lb.; crossbred, fine, Bd. to 9d.; pieces, locks, etc., 2id. to 5Jd. Skins: Crossbreds, flno, Bil. to 9d. per lb.;.crossbreds, 7d. to Bd. per lb.; lambß, woolly, 7id. to BJd. per lb.; lambs, shorn, sid. to ,7d. per lb.; half-woblled crossbreds, 6d. to 7id. pet lb.; dead and damaged, 2d. to 53d. per lb.; green and salted/ 3s. 6d. to 4s.- 10d, each. Hide 3: Heavy ox, 7Jd. to 7Jd-; medium ox, 7d. to 7gd.; light ox, 6Jd. to 71d.; cows, 6Jd.' to 62d.; ' faulty hides, 41d. to 6Jd.; calf, sound, Bid. to 91d.; calf, damajed, 4Jd. to 7d. Tallow: This, etc., 20s. to 245. 6d. per cwt.; casks. 255. to 235. 3d. per cwt.

SHEEPSKINS. '.- ' The' New Zoaland Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, have received the following cablegram from their London house, under date April 21:—"Sheepskins: Combing merino sheepskins, 'short and shorn' descriptions, flno crossbrods, and lambshave advanced i&'. per lb. since last sales. Coarse croEsbreds have declined sd. per lb." .