COMMERCIAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 397, 2 April 1908, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

[ylessrs Levin and Company, ; kited, Wellington, report havkj held their usual fortnightly of wool, skin, hides, and low, last Friday, offering a fall quantity of wool in bales and >gs, a fair catalogue of skins, ,oo hides and a quantity of tallow id hoisehair. Wool,: —Market eak and depressed, and extremely

' prices ruling. We quote : fcdium crossbred, 4|d to 3d ; in)or, 3d to 4d ; lambs wool, 4d vhtljd; pieces, 2d 103 d ; locks, id fied. Skins :—Market weak. quote-Fine crossbreds. 3d * Jiium crossbreds, to aid hoggets, to 3#d; dry |lts, 2d to to 4^d; green pelts, 2s to 2s 8d ; lambs, (woolly), 2s to 2s green lamb pelts, is to is yd. L*tow Quiet. Parcels in -flng order £22 ss. Tins £ls • fig- Rough fat, to rsehaik: —is to is 3d per lb. rns . —ss to 17s 6d per hun1. Cowtaii,s is 8d per en. Hides : —Market somet easier but good condition >s still sell at very satisfactory : es. We quote: —Ox hides - |vy), sto ,r >t), to 4dJto 4}4d; cow hides, hides and slippy ■ to 3)4d; stag hides, 2}£d 2 3 ; bull hides, 2d to sj4d ; 4d to 2 d to 3d. IS » v « tt.

I Llondon Market.

>j Messrs Dalgety and Company, limited, Wellington, have received *e following cable messages from , r London House, under date of -626th instant:— Butter. — ket weak. The Copenhagen quotation is 6 kroner if 6/9) per cwt. lower. The . ’ imports of butter into the ®.d Kingdom for week ending instant amounted to 84,000 .; s compared with 76,000 cwt. r ,me corresponding week of ' 7 ; showing an increase of 8000 ". We quote finest 11 os per

. 'Pvt. There is an-increasing detmand for unsalted. __ Frozen Meat. —Mutton : Market firmer. (The market for New Zealand 'frozen lamb is easier owing to jheavy arrivals. Australian frozen lamb —Market firm. Beef.—Prices are unchanged. Taeeow. —Since our last advices tallow in general ps lower by 3d to 6d per cwt. .Buyers are doing hardly anything for the present.

Hide amt Skin Report.

Dalgety and Company, Limited, report having held their usual fortnighly sale of wool, skins, hides and tallow on Friday after- ■ noon. We offered a good cataj logue of wool and prices were easier in sympathy with London market. Skins were also slightly , in. buyers’ favour. We did not 11 any prime lines of hides. ~<j' quote as follows: — Wool : (vcrino, 6d to 6Jd per lb; x-bred, to s}(d ; lambs, 3>£d to j ‘ ,locks, Sheep Skins: —xbred, I broken and inferior, 2d to 2ld; x- [ red, damp, is yd each. Hides : •; -Ox—to per lb ; cow, —4d }■ 4 >6d per lb; calf,— to 5% d ; flings, —3j4d to 3fd. Tae-,-W ‘.—None in casks offered. tu tius-"2is 6d to 2is pd per cwt.