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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8767, 19 March 1907, Page 2

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London Markets. Press Association—Copyright. London, March 17. Hemp is flat. April-June shipment w£37. Wool is animated, and prices generally are well maintained. Best crossbreds aro •lightly dearer. Shabby crossbreds are weak. To date 55,252 bales have been catalogued, and 52,497 sold. The fleece portions of the following clips realised the prices stated : —Awatore lid, ES over T Hid, Ngatapu 12d, Titi 121 d, WD 13|d, Greenhill 15d. Hides are neglected and are unchanged. Thera are no dealings in leather or basils. Mutton. Canterbury, light and medium 4d; heavy, 3|d; others unchanged ; lambs, Canterbury, all classes, U-, North Island, 4|d. New Zealand i beef, 1801 b to 2201 b, fair average quality, ox fores, 2|d; ox hinds unchanged. Eiver Plate sheep and beef are unchanged. Wool sales: Good selection; good competition: highest level of the aeries. High Commissioner’s Report, Per Press Association. W Kx.r.iNQ'i’ON, March 18. The Department of Industries and . Commerce has received a cable from the ( High Commissioner in London, dated s tfce 16th inst., as follows:—The market is j 3

quiet Jan'd there is no change in prices. The lamb market is weak, as the supply exceeds the demand. 'Prime Canterbury brands are quoted at 53,. and other than Canterbury 4|d per lb.. The beef market is dull. Stocks in hand are heavy. Current quotations are Bld and 2|d per lb for Lind and forequarters respectively. The butter market is firmer. Choice Now Zealand brands are quoted nt 100 s, Australian 98s, and Danish Ills. The cheese market is steady at unchanged rates. The hemp market is dull. Good, fair grade on spot is quoted at .£37 10s per ton; March-June shipments =£37, and fair current Manila, on spot, .£3O 10s. The cocksfood seed market is unchanged since last week. The wool market is firm at a half-penny advance.

Wellington Wool and Skin Sales

Messrs Murray, Roberts and Co. report: Our catalogue comprised 185 bales wool, 1600 sheepskins, 550 hides aud I’S casks tallow. There was a full attendance of buyers, aud prices for wool, considering fhe 'rough character of tlio offerings, uiay be quoted par to J£d higher than the rate ruling in February sale. The catalogues contained mostly late shorn wools, which were more or less affected with seed and other foreign matter. Some very badly seeded parcels, which were unsaleable last mouth, were taken on Friday at figures which, considering ■ the condition of the wool, must he-deemed satisfactory. Skins wore very firm, inferior pelted lots showing a tendency in sellers’ favor. Hides, which were in good supply, were fairly firm. Tallow sold well up to late prices for medium, a few lots of hotter quality making higher figures. We quote—Wool: Coarse to medium crossbred o%d to heavy seedy B%d to 9>£d, medium clean lambs to seedy inferior 5%d to 7%d> pieces aud bellies to 6%d, locks 4d to sd. Skins: Sound pelted crossbreds to 9%d, quarter to half-woolled B%d to B%d, dead aud inferior to good lambs to 9%d, inferior pelted 7d to B%d, hare pelts lid to 3s 4d each. Hides: Medium ox GJkd to 6%d per lb, light GWd to d, medium cow Gd to (s>j{d, light 5%d to 6d, inferior aud damaged od to slippy hides 4J£d to od, sound calf 6J£d to 7d, faulty 4>Jd to Tallow : Inferior 18s 3o 3ls per cwfc., medium SSs to 3Gs 6d, prime 27s to 38s Bd.