COMMERCIAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 383, 27 February 1908, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

Wellington Wool Sales. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Wellington, report having held their fourth sale of the season to-day, when a total catalogue of 2286 bales were offered from all brokers, their contribution to which was 1149 bales, out of which they sold 782 bales. Buyers were present in good numbers, and competition was animated throughout the sale. The quality of wool offered, as is usual at this time of the year, was of inferior quality, there being a fair portion of seedy, dingy, and log-stained lots. As compared with our January sale, prices showed a decline of up to id per lb for medium crossbred ; coarse and inferior crossbred, 1 %d. Best lambs sold from at par to %d below January rates, and inferior lambs showed a drop of fully id per lb. Our highest price for lambs’ wool was Birch Hill scoured locks we sold at 1/2, and scoured combings at is, while several lots of crossbred wool realised 7d. The following gives an indication ot prices rcu at February sale:—Merino to medium yj£d to B*4d, inferior 6d to 7d, medium 6%d to 7d, inferior 4d to 3d, lambs, best quality to y%d, medium 5d to 6d, inferior 2j£d to bellies and pieces 3d to 3d, stained locks and pieces to 2j£d, dead 3?4d to crutchings to The following are a number of our principal sales:— Leatham lambs yd, B in circ’e crossbred EMP. lambs y>£d, JM conj. crossbred 6j£d to yd, 3A/ BELLEVIEW lambs yd, TFE lambs yd XRL lambs yd, LEATPIAM halfbred passed at Bd, BIRCH HILL scoured locks is 2d, scoured combings is, greasy merino combings Bj£d, STOCKMAN’S crossbred yd, PANGO merino yfd, H/G/M lambs PKS merino y %d, P&3 halfbred FI lambs We shall be holding a supplementary sale in March. London Markets. Messrs Dalgety and Company, Limited, Wellington, have received the following cable messages from their Loudon House, under date of the 20th iust. : Butter.— TLe Copenhagen official quotation is 1 kroner (about per cwt higher. The total imports of butter into the United Kingdom for the week ending 15th inst., amounted to 105,000 cwr, as compared with 89,000 for the corresponding week of igoy, showing an increase of 16,000 cwt. The market is depressed, and prices are declining owing to high prices and restricted consumption. Frozen Meat —New Zealand Beef: Prices are lower by }id per lb. Foresprices are rather dearer. Mutton and lamb—prices are unchanged. Taeeow. —The market is dull and there is very little doing ; prices for good to prime mutton tallow are unchanged. Other descriptions, 3d to 6d percwt lower.