Commercial

Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 May 1914, Page 2

Commercial

LONDON MARKETS. Dalgety and Company, Limited, Wellington, have been advised by cable from tlieir London office jip follows:— Lamb.—Market iirm. Auy change in prices is in favour of sellers. Miitton.—Market firui hut prices unchanged. Beef.—Prices are from £d to |d per lb higher but there is a poor demand ovv.ing to hot wea her. prhe3 are unchanged:" Beef, gool colour, M'lower, mediuiii and mfivuv descriptions 3d per cwt. lower. HIDE ANT) SKIN lIEPOKT. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report: At our usual monthly sale aeid on Eriday last we offered a fair catalogue io a good attendance of buyers ; competition was keen and all lines were cleared at the following satisfactory prices:— Wool.—Crossbred, rough and inferior, 8£ to 8j(d; lambs Tid to B£d; dead, 7M to 8d; pieces 6d to 6Jd; locks and pieces, 5Jd to uid; locks, 5d to s|d; pieces and bellies, to 7|d; black wool, seedy, sfd. Sheepskins.—Eull wool, coarse id to B£d; half-wool, 8d to BJd; lialf-wool 6£d to 7sd; pelts, 4£d to (lid; lambs, woolly short and shorn, 6£d to 7sd; dead, 7d to . TJd; inferior and damaged, 5Jd to 7d; pelts, torn and inferior, 4d to od; dead hoggets, 7d to 7|d. Butchers sheepskins.—Salted :»nd partly dry, at each—Best heavy lines, 6s to 6s sd; medium to good, 5s 4d, 5s 6d, 5s 7d to 5s 8d; light, 4s to 4s lid; lambs, 2s •'is to 3s 3d. Hides.—Ox, medium weights, Bld to B|d; light, Sid; cows, best lines, Bfd to BAd; good, B£d to S£d; inferior and rough, 7|d to 8d; cut and slippy, Td to 7^d; yearlings, to 9|d; cut and slippy, 6d to 7i; horse hides, nd to 10s. Calfskins.—Round lines, ltjd to 9fd ; cut and slippy, 6d to Bd. Sundries.—Tallow in tins, 23s Od: casks, 26s 6d. Opossum Skins. At our fortnightly sale on the 1 )tli instant we offered a large quantity of opossum skins, which were keenly sought after, and as a good number of buyers are now interesting themselves in- this business, prices throughout were i) to full market value. On the whole the skins were in fairly T :ood condition, but were, of course, not as Avell furred as they \"ill be later in the year. In ■<ome cases insufficient attention had apparently been paid to drying, and we would point out" to -lients that a great deal of harm can be done by rough handling iust after the skins have been ta- ' eii off and before they have cooled. The following is a range of nricos:—Best, 4s Dd to 6s; medium, 2s 8d to 4s 4d; inferior. Is '0.1 to 2s 4d; kittens, Is to Is lid.