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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 42, 13 November 1920, Page 12

/ Tho Bank of New Zoaland has received tho following advice from its London office under dato November 10:—"TallowMarket easier. Good mutton, £3 10b., £3 12a.; beef. £3 Ba., .£3 135.; jrood mixed, £3 Bb.. £3 10s.;(inferior,' £2 10s„ £2 15b." Mcßsrs. Dateety and Co., Ltd., report hr.vine received tho followinc cablegram from their London house under dato o( November 10:—"Tallow.—2440 casks were offered; 420 casks sold. Tallow, food colour, mixed.. unchanged. Medium and In. ferior descriptions.' 3s. to 4s. lower. Mutton, prime there are sellers at 75b.; buyers are holding off." Messrs. Abruhnm and Williams, Ltd., report:—At hide and tallow saljo, hold oil November 11, wo offered a good catalogue to a full bench of buyers, who, owing to adverse overseas reports, wore disinclined to operate, consequently atl grades of hides showed a considerable decline on last sale's rates. Calfskins were also lower by Cd. per lb. Tallow wn.s very dull of tsa'.lo, and practically no sales were made. Wo quote:—Ox, heavy, !>d; to Old.; medium, Bd. to Bjd.; light, G3d. to 7id.; cow, heavjr, 7id. to 7j<l.; medium, G3d. to 7|<i.; light, 03d. to 73d.; cut, flippy, Aind inferior Id. to G3d.; yearlings nnd kip, Gd. to Bd.; horse hides, ss. to 1-Is. .each; calfskins, best lines, lGld.ito 17d.j good, ltd. to 16{d.; stained, 11a. to 15Jd; cut, lOd. to IOJd.; cut nnd flippy, 2d. to 3d.; lioreo hair, 18jd. According lo Auckland files, tho troublo over tho admission tax nt Honolulu continues unabated, and lively times nt tho American liorf wore reported on the arrival of the Tahiti ni; Auckland this week. Tt appears that about ninety pas'eiigers on tho ship had not paid Hie necessary fee before leaving Canada, some asserting that Hie Amoncan Consul informed thoin the law had been rescinded. Scores of them offered to pay Iho impost at, Honolulu, but were told it could not bo nccepted then. Two second-class lndy passengers, more darin? than Iho men, clambered down the ropes of the vessel and spent the day nslioro denolto tho Customs officers. The local residents havo sent a petition to Washington urging the rcptnl of the Act,, but meanwhile there has been no ehango.