WEST AUSTRALIAN LOAN.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1068, 6 March 1911, Page 8

WEST AUSTRALIAN LOAN.

FULLY SUBSCRIBED. .3y Telegraph—l'r.iss Association—copyright. (Kee. March 5, 5.5 p.m.) London, March 4. The West Australian loan has been fully subscribed. [Tho loan was for £1,650,000. at 3) per cent., the minimum price of issue being £96 10s., .the same as atU.»tcd in the case of the last two dotations. Sir Newton Moore when in the United Kinedoin some time ago gave notice to the holders of 4 per cent, inscribed stock, of the amount of £1,876,C00, that ho intended to convert the issue into 3i per cent, stock in April next. No doubt the present loan is to provide for that transaction.! FROZEN MEAT. Uy Telegraph-tress Association-Copyright. (Ecc. Match 5, 5.5 p.m.) London, March 4. Tho Frozen Meat Trade Association's Sniithfiold market ciuotatious for the undermentioned classes of frozen meat are based on actual sales of not less than one hundred carcasses of mutton or lamb, and twenty-five quarters of beef of fair average finality. Tho quotations are not for selected lines, but for parcels fairly representative of the bulk of tho shipments now on the market. The prices which follow are on an average a farthing per lb. more- than the value ex ship, this difference representing an average cost in expenses.' handling, conveyance, and selling the meat :— Mutton:— '"" '" . Feb. 25. Mar. 4. d. d. Canterbury, light — — Canterbury, medium — — Canterbury, heavy — — Southland — — North Island, best .: 4 3J North Island, ordinary... 33 3 9-16 • Australian, light 3 215-16 Australian, heavy 215-16 25 River Plate, light 3J 3i River Plate, heavy Si 3i Lamb:— Canterbury, light 5J 53 Canterbury, medium 51 53 Canterbury, heavy — 5S Southland — — North Island, selected ..; 5 43 North Island, ordinary... 45 41 Australian, best 4J 4h Australian, fair 38 35 Australian, inferior 3§ 33 River Plate 41-16 315-16 Beef:— New Zealand, ox fores ... 3ft 3S . New Zealand, ox hinds... 33 33 Australian, ox fores 11 U ' Australian, ox hinds 35 35 ■. River Plate, ox fores 2J 25 Kiver Plate, ox hinds ... 33 38 Babbits ire unchanged, and the demand is improving. Tho New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, have received the following cablegram from their London house, under date March 3:—Frozen Meat: Stocks of mutton and lamb arc heavy, and the market depressed. The beef market is firm.

GRAIN AND ..PULSE. IBy Telegraph—Press Association.! London, March 3. Wheat—The wheat markets are. depressed, ospecially for distant cargoes, owing to the continued pressure to sell Indian and Kircr Plate cargoes; tho weakness in America, and the heavy world's shipments, although tho decreasing stocks in the United Kingdom caused a demand for near wheats. For Australian January-Fcbruary-March ehipmer-t. J3s. 9rt. per tsnarr ter was asked, and 335. 6d. for parcels March-April; and 31s. 9d. to 325. for cargoes. For ■ tho New Zealand new crop. March shipment, there is but small ino.uiry. Australian, spot, ranges from 36g. 6d. to 375. Flour>—Tho flour market is slow. Australian patents sell at 255., ex store, and 235. '3d. for February-March 6hipmc.it. 'Oats arc slow of eale. Gartons are auote'd at 19s: to '21s. 6d. per (juarter; sparrowbills, 183. 6d. to 20s. 6d.; La Plata MarchApril, 13s Beans.—New Zealand are slow of sale at 355. to' 365. SILVER.:, , : . :.. London, 'March ; S.Bar.silver i 3 quoted at 24 5-16 d. per ounce standard. FEILDING MARKET KEPOKT. Messrs. A. H. Atkinson and Co.. Ltd., of Feilding, report that at their weekly sale on Friday they sold a good large penning of poultry at current rates. The birds offering were, as usual, anythine but finished sorts. Pigs met no keen demand, attention only being given to porkers, and, of these, very little of quality was offered. Of fruit and produce there was a very large quantity forward. Peaches of coed | round quality forward at ss. 6d. .to 6s. ' per case. Prime tomatoes met with keen' demand, and every case forward was sold. Good table potatoes were scarce. Quotations:—Figs: Wcaners. 55.; stores. 95.. 135., 1%., 16s. 6d.. 17s. to 18s.; light norkcrs. 20s. 6d. to 235.; aged horses. 155., 205.. £2 2s. 6d. to £5. Poultry (at per pair): Hens. 2s. 3d., 2s. 6d,, 2s. 9d.. 35., 3s. 3d.; cockerels, is. 6d;, Is. 9d., 2s. 6d.. 3s. to 45.; ducks. 2s 3d. to 45.: pigeons, Is. 6d.; dogs. 2s. £d. Produca: Onions, lid. to sd. per lb.; passion fruit. Is. 9d. .per box; tomatoes, 2s. Sd., 3s. 3d. /to 45.; potatoes, Bs. to 10s. per bair: melons. 6d. to Is. each: Algerian «ats. 3s. 4d. per bushel: ryegrass, seed. 6s. 6d.: wheat. 4s. to 4s. 3d.; factory bacon, 7d.; hams, 9d.

: HIDE AND SKIN BEPORT. Messrs. Dalgety and Co. report:—At our monthly sale held at Palmerston last week we offered a full catalogue to a Eood attendance of buyers. Competition was keen for all,lots, and a total clearance wa.s effected at the following prices :—Wool: Crossbred, from 7Jd. to. 7Jd.; inferior, td. to 6Jd.;' lambs, from 71d. to 73d: seedy. 61d. to 63d.; dead, sd. to 63d; pieces, from 4d. to 4id.; locks, from 3*d. to 4d. Sheepskins: Crossbred full wool, rough, s!d. to 61d.; lamb, 6.id.; i-wool pelts, 4jd. to 42d.: bare pelts, 3Jd.*to 4d.; inferior and damaged pelts, from Ud. to 3d.; lambs pelts, from 31d. to. 33d.; dead skin, 45t1. to 5d.; dead hoggets, 43d; butchers' salted pelt, at ptr niece. 25., 2s. 7d., 2s. 8d„ 2s. 10d.. 3s. to 3s. 3d.; lamb, from Is. Id. to 3s. 3d. Hides: Medium to heavy ox, 6sc\.; light, 6*d.: cow 6, best lines, to 6jd.: good, to 6d. and 64d.: inferior, from 51d. to s?d; heifers and steers, 6d.; -bulls, 5d.; yearlings, 6gd. to 7i!d.; cut, 5d.; cow and ox, nut and slippy, 4!d. to s\i.\ horse, from ss. 6d. to 9s. 9d. each. Calfskins: Sound calf. BJd- to 9U-: cut and slippy, to 7Jd.; dry calf, Is. 6d. each. Sundries; Tallow, in tins, from 245. 9d. to 255. 3d.; inferior fat, in tins, to lis. 3d.; in drums and barrels, from 245. 9d. to'2ss. 3d; horse, Is. 6d. per lb.; infciior rabbit skins, from 6d. per. 11).