WOOL, HIDE, AND TALLOW SALES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 869, 16 July 1910, Page 7

WOOL, HIDE, AND TALLOW SALES.

* , Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, report having held their fortnightly, sale of wool, skins, hides, and tallow yesterday afternoon. There was a large attendance of buyers, and . all lines were keenly competed for. Wool: Prices for wool and crutchings were on a par with, last sale rates, superior crutchings showing a slight advance.. Quotations:—Crossbred, 63d. to Bid.; lambs, inferior,-6Jd. to 7£d.; good crutchings, sid. to 6d. (a special line of four bales, bjd.); inferior ami heavy doj, 4d. to 5d.; scoured crutchings, 83d.; pieceE, 3d. to 1*(1.; washed pieces, 43d. Sheepskins: Competition was keen for ah lots, prices for dry skins being on a par with last sale. Priccß of'butchers' and green skins were slightly in sellers' favour. Quotations:—Crossbred medium, ■6(1. to 71d.; half wools, Sid. to 7d.; lambs, sd. to 6*d.; mixed and broken, s£d. to 6d.; butchers' green, 6s. to 7s. 5(1.; butchers' damp, 4s. 6d. to 6s. 5(1.; lambs' damp, 3s. Bd. to 4s. 3d. Bides: As compared with last sale, prices showed a decline of up to 3d. Quotations:—Ox, medium, 53d. to '6-Jd.; ox, cut, 4Jd. to 5Jd.; cow, heavy, 5Jd. to 5Jd.; cow, medium,. 43d. to 5Jd.; calf, good, 7Jd. to 93d.; calf, cut and inferior, 4Jd. to 6Jd.; bull, 5Jd; to sid.; stag, 53d.; horse, Bs. 9d. .Tallow: In shipping order, none offering;- in tins and barrels; 235. 6d. per cwt. Horse oil, 16s. per barrel. Itabbitskins, mixed, 9}d. per lb. Horsehair, Is. sd. per lb. Messrs. Levin and Company. Limited, I report as follows - regarding yesterday' 3 sale:—We offered. 50. bales of wool, 25C0 sheepskins, 400 hides and calfskins, and a quantity of tallow and horsehair. Thero was a good attendance of buyers. Wool: Competition was good, crutchings were fully a halfpenny per lb. lower than tho extreme prices that have been recently paid. Wo Quote:—Fine crossbred, Bd. to Jd.; coarse crossbred, 61(1. to 7Jd.; laniba wool, 6Jd. to od.; pieces and bellies, 4d. to 5d.: locks, 2{d. to 41(1.; crutchings, 4d. to 6*d. Skins: Dry skins were steady, at current .prices, but green skins were slightly easier. Wo Quote:—Fine cross,'urcds, Bd. to BJd.; medium' crosabreds, 7d. to-Sd.; coarse crossbreds, 6d. to 7Jd.; hogget skins, 6d. to 63d.; dead skins, 4d. to Old.; dead hoggets, sd. to 6d.; lambskins, 53d. to 7Jd.; quarter to half-wools, 4d. to 5Jd.; dry pelta, 2}d. to 5(1.; green skins, 4s. to 7s. 7d.; lambskins, 2s. 6d. to 4s. 8d; Tallow was distinctly firmer. Parcels in shipping order, £27 155.; tins, £20 to £24. Hough fat, £10 to £17. Horsehair, Is. to Is. 4d. per lb. Horns, ss. to 15s. per ICO. Cowtails, Is. 6d. por dozen. Hides: Hides were again firm at tho lower basis of prices now ruling. Calfskins also showed a firmness which is encouraging. Wo quote :-Ox hides, heavy, 6}d. to 63d.; ox hides, medium, 68d. to 62(1.; ox hides, light, 6d. to 63d.; cow hides, 5Jd. to 6d.; cut and slippy hides, 3d. to 5d.; stag hides, 4(1. to 5Jd.; bull hides, 4d. to S J ,d.; yearlings. 5(1. to 6d.; ealf, best, 9(1. to 9Jd.; call, medium; 7id. to BJd.; calf, cut and slippy, sd. to 53d. Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., Wellington, report on their sale as fol-. lows:—Wo offered a good catalogue to the usual attendance of buyers, end competition was keen for everything offered, though at reduced rates. Wo quote-.— Wool: Market wa:< steady at late rates; rough crossbred. 71d. to 73d.; crutchings, medium, 6d. to 63d.: heavy, 6(1. to 5Jd.; dead, 6Jd. to 6id.-, lacks and nicr.ee, 3>,d. to 4Jil. Skins: Prices were easier, and can be quoted 3d. lower. Coarse. crocsbreds, 7(1.; half-wools. 63d. to 7d.; quarterwools, 51d.; lambs. 7*d.: first dead, 6Jd.; second dead, 53d.; shorts aim inferior. 'lu\. to lid.; haU-dry and green heavy, 6s. lid. to 7s. :.d.: medium. 6s. Id. to 6s. 9(1.; light, 4s. 9d. to ss. lid.; woolly lambs, 4s. 6d. i;tn 4s. tod.: shorn lambs, 2s. 4d. to 2s. Bd.

| Hides: Market declined from id. to Id. per lb. Ox hides, medium to heavy, 6Jd- to 68d.; heavy cows, 53d.; medium, 51d.-, light, 5Jd. to sgd. Tallow, in tins. 245. 3d. ewt. Cowtails, Is. 4d. dozen. The New 7.ea!aud liosui and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report as fallows:—We offered, at our sale yesterday, catalogues of about 50 hales and a number of hags of wool, 21C0 skins, and a small lot of hides and tallow, rabbitskins, and horsehair. There was a, ?oort attendance of buyers, and keen binding for wool and skins at a, slightly lower range of prices than those ruling* at last sales. Cabled reports from London regarding the i-m----r- shrios imlionle a plight decline in wool, and a fall of id. to Id. per lb. in skins. Hides were lower by 'about Id. per lb. "We quote:—Wool: Crossbred, inferior, 7d. to: 73d.; crutchings, medium, 13d. to M.; crutchings, inferior and seedy, 4d. I to 4Jd.; locks, merino, 4d.; dead wool, in hags, 7d. Kheapskins: Merino, 6d. to 73d.; halfbred and fine crossbred, 7*d. to 83d.; crossbred full-wool!ed, course, 63d. to 7Jd.; quarter to half-wools, sd. to 7d.; damaged and loose pelts, 13d. -to 4?d.; dead and broken skins, 43d. to _ 6Jd.; lambskins, woolly, 7d. to ,73d.; lambskins, shorn, 4Jd. to M.; prrecii skins, 3s. 6d. to 6s. 9d. each. Hides: Cow and light ox. sgil. to si;d.; faulty and light hides, 3iid. to Sd.; calfskins, sound, Bd. to 9gd.: calfskins, faulty, 4d. to 5Jd. 1 Tallow, in' tins, ISA. Gd. to 235. 6d. per ewt, Bough fat, 18s. to 20s. 6d. per ewt. Rabbitskins, 6id. to 13id. per :b. Messni. Murray, Huberts, and Co., Ltd., report:—We submitted a catalogue- of 110 bales wool, 20C0 sheepskins. ICO hides, and a quantity of tallow at yesterday's sale. Although a lower range of values was expected, owing to the reports received of the present London sales; competition for .both wool and sheepskins was extremely keen, and prices ruling last sale were often obtainable; occasionally values could bo quoted as a farthing lower. Considering that the saJa was held close on the heels of 'a drop in scouring wools and skins, wo experienced a most satisfactory sale. Hides mot a dragging sale at about a halfpenny per In. lower than last sale; but it may bo mentioned that the wet, sloppy weather materially affected the condition of the hides. Wo quote:— Wool: Crossbred,' oddments, 6Jd. to 7Jd. per lb.; crutchings. good clean. 6d. to 63d.; do. medium, 5Jd. t'o 53d.; do. seedy and inferior, 4d. to sd. Skins: Crossbred, medium to fine, 7Jd. to 81d.; do. coarse 6Jd. to 71d.; do. short wools, 5Jd. to Wd.; lambs, short, 4Jd. to 6M.; do. woolly, 63d. to Bd.; dead and hoggets, 4Jd. to 6Jd.; damaged and inferior crossbred, a 2d. to s*d.; green and damaged, small, 2s. 6d. to 4s. lOd. each; do., heavy, ss. 6d. to 7s: each, nides: Ox, fair medium, 53d. to 63d.; ox, light,. 53d. to 6d.; co\v, ordinary medium, s*d. to s>|d.; dannged hides, 4rt. to s}d.; calf, good medium. Bd. to 9d.; calf, heavy, 53d. to 65d.; calf, damaged, 4'd. to 6d. Tallow, casks, 275. to 275. 9d. per ewt.; .tins, etc., 18s. '6d. to 235. per ewt.