COMMERCIAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 399, 7 April 1908, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

London Markets.

Messrs Dalgety and Company, limited, Wellington, have received the following cable messages from their London House, under date of the 2nd instant.— Woot Sates: Sales closed more animated. Prices are lower as follows; Super Merino wools — 10 per cent, lower than closing rates of last series. Since our last telegram scoured merino wools, inferior and faulty qualities, 15 to 20 per cent lower. All other descriptions of merino wool 15 per cent lower than closing rates of last series. Medium and coarse xbred wools 20 to 25 per cent, lower than closing rates of last series, while fine x-bred wools are 10 per cent, lower. Out of the net quantity available for sale, some 77.000 bales have been sold for home consumption, 44,000 bales for the Continent, 4000 bales for America, leaving 78,000 bales to be carried forward to the next series, of which 59,000 were un-' offered. Frozen Meat :—The market for frozen mutton and lamb is firm without change in prices. Frozen beef market is somewhat firmer, supples having been rather short. Butter : Market weak. The Copenhagen official quotation is just two kroner lower (about 2s 3d per cwt). The total imports of butter into the United Kingdom tor week ending 28th ultimo amounted to 88.000 cwt as compared with 83.000 cwt for the corresponding week of 1907 ; showing an increase of 5000 cwt. Finest, nos.

Hide and Skin Report.

Messrs Dalgety and Company, limited, Palmerston North, report having held their usual monthly sale of wool, skins and hides on the 3rd instant, when a fair catalogue was offered to a good attendance of buyers. Wool and skins showed a slight decline on last sale rates. Hides, light lots, declined %d per lb on last months rates. We quote. —Wool,; x-bred medium, to sd ; seedy and inferior, to lambs, q.)4d to i*4d to 2%d. Skins: —x-bred (woolly), per lb, shorts to %d, wools, lambs, sd, inferior and damaged, i£d to 2d. Butchers part dry and green is 4d, is 6d, is Bd, is rod, to 2s id each, lambs is 4d. Hides :—Cows, medium, 4d, light to horsehides 6s to 10s 3d each. Calfskins (sound), to 4d. Tallow : —in tins 19s qd per cwt; tips is 3d per dozen.