COMMERCIAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 23 December 1890, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

■ — —♦- T— — The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, , Limitedreport as follows for the week ond, ing 19th December.:—Wool—During the last week this product hus come to band for both local sale and shipment in very great quantities, and a large catalogue is anticipated -^ for the Company's next auction sale on Monday, the" 29th instant. The attendance of foreign buyers will be considerably augmented, and, fo'lowing the recent improvement in ad* vices from London relating to fluan* cial matters, a satisfactory result may be fairly looked for. Frozen meat —Considerable enquiry is now being made for both mutton and beef, and we havo recently effected sales o{X, several large parcels at f. o. b. prioes which compare very favourably with London returns Sheepskins — Dried woolly skins brings from 3d to 6d per lb ; green pelts from Is to Is 6d. Hides, all coming forward are readily placed at jrom Id to Bsd per lb, ' according to weight and condition Tallow —Prime mutton sells at up to £20 ; inferior and medium from * £14 to £18. Grain Oats -The likelihood of a shortage in the coming crop, and the fact that but small stocks of old are held points to higher prices ruling in the immedfuture. We have sold lately at from . Is 8d for lon« to Is lOd per bushel tor short fair feed; packs 'extra. Fowl wheat there is n.-t m'.ch in the market, quotation* up t> 8s 6.1 per bushel. Feed ba'ley is selling at 2s per bus! i el. Hemp-^ThWe^ are a Jood many orders i in Hind; Price*

r.n.ge from £l~> 10s por ton for fair, up to £17 for good. Fine is wm'.h £18 10s f. o. v. At the wool sale at Christchurch on Friday 2700 bales were offered, and 1713 sM. Prices ruled about the same »s yosterday. The highest prices realied for greasy wool was 10-} d for. half bro'l, which last year fetched 12£, d. It was grown by Jas. Little, of Waikari. A Buck 'and and Sons held 'heir second wool sale sit Auckland on December 19th All the bales offered, ;><JO were disposed of. The prices obtained for the coarser wools were much the san:e as the kst sales while finer wools sold at a slight advance. Merinos ranged as high a? 8d per lb for one parcel : cro-sb'.ed wools averaged from <H to (i^d p»i I-,