COMMERCIAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 95, 22 December 1914, Page 7

COMMERCIAL.

HIGH COMMISSIONER'S MARKET REPORT. Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, Dec. 21. The High Commissioner reports as follows: Note: Quotations unless otherwise specified are average market prices on the spot. M'utton: More demand., owing to short suply of Dutch, but market declining on account of frozen supplies increasing. Canterbury mutton, 5 1-Sd, North Island 5Jd; lamb market quiet. Canterbury twos G 9-16 d; other than Canterbury 6 3-Bd. Beef: Better demand for beef owing to short supply of Irish and chilled. New Zeaalnd hinds 6 3-8 d; fores s:';d; chilled hinds 7 3-8 d; fores 53d. Butter market firm. Danish very slow. Supplies decreasing 150/ to 154/ per ewt. New Zealand: Market is firm, gccd demand, 136/ to 138/; Australian: Market firm, moderate supplies coming forward, 134/ to 136/. Argentine: Firm, 132/ to 136/. Cheese: Market not quite so firm, Canadian firm, demand only moderate, white and coloured per cwt., 78/ .to 79/; exceptional SO/. New Zealand: Market declined further, white and coloured, 76/ to 77/. The Ruahine, Tainui, and Pakeha are in dock. The Ruahine and Tainui are discharging butter and cheese, but the Pakeha cannot discharge for three days. The dairy produce market is rather unsettled owing to delay in delivery from docks. The hemp market is somewhat steadier, very little New Zealand being on hand. New Zealand good fair grade, per ton, £26; fair £24. These prices are nominal, January to March. New Zealand gooc fair grade, per ton, £24 10/; fair, £22 10/: fair current Manila, £25. The output from Manila for the week was 16,000 lbs.

STOCK SALE REPORTS. FREEMAN R. JACKSON AND CO.'S REPORT. At our Wanganui sale on the 16th hist, we had a heavy yarding, viz., 960 mixed cattle, 3000 sheep and 140 pigs We had a good attendance of buyers. Sheep maintained late values and ill found purchasers wich the exception of a pen of ewes and lambs. Some useful cattle, including several pens or forward bullocks, were yarded.th© bulk being sold before the day closed, at satisfactory prices. Pigs were in good demand. At cur Waverley sale on the 18th inst. we yarded 500 head of cattle. The attendance was good and competition keen throughout, practically everything sold under the hammer, prices being in vendors' favour. We quote: At Wanganui.—Sheep: Fat shorn ewes 18/ to 18/7, woolly fat ewes (me. dium) 21/3, light fat wethers in wool 23/7, forward shorn ewes 15/6, woolly wether hoggets 18/6, shorn two-tooth wethers 16/3 to 17/, 2-tooth ewes 16/, medium two-tooths 12/3 to 13/6, cull do. 11/, fat lambs 15/. Cattle: Light fat bullocks £l2 to £l2 9/, heavy fat bullock £l4 7/, fat cows £8 10/ to £9, fat and forward ows £6 10/ to £6 17/6. fresh cows £6 3/ to £6 5/, backward ditto £5 10' to. £5 15/, store cows £3 16/ to £4 10/, yearling heifers Cgcod) £2 14/6, medium ditto 36/ to 40,', yearling steers £2 1/ to £2 5/, small ditto 30/6, good yearling steers £2 15/, mixed ditto 35/,-yearling Jersey bulls 38/, Ayrshire do. 3gns., bulls £7 7/6 to £B, 12 to 15-months steers 3gns., two-year s teers £4 12/ to £4 17/, 2ito 3-year steers, £5 16/ to £6 15/, 18-month to two-year steers £4, 3 to 3S-year bullocks £8 7/6 to £8 16/6, fat and forward bullocks £lO, threeyear bullocks £7 10/, vealc-rs, 20/. Pigs: Heavy porkers £2 5/ to £2 10/, good porkers 30/ to 37/6, medium ditto. 23/6 to 29/, .stores 18/ to 22/, slips 14/ to 15/6, empty sews £2 10/ to £2 17/6. At Waverley.—Fat cows (good) £8 18/ to £9 5/, medium ditto. £7 13/ to £7 18/, fresh cows £6 10/ to £6 12/6, medium ditto, £5 15/ io £5 17/G, store cows £3 19/ to £4 5/, springing cows £5 10/, cows and-calves £6 11, forward bullocks £lO 2/6, 3 to 31year bullocks £7 18/ to £8 5/, 22,-year steers £5 11/ to £6, 3-year steers £7 13/, 21-year steers £5 to £5 7/, empty heifers £4 14/, 2-year steers £4, 15month steers £3 5/6, bulls £4 to £8 2/6, Turkeys 11/ to 14/.

WELLINGTON WOOL, SKIN AND

HIDE SALE

Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report as follows: We offered a large catalogue of all classes of produce to a big attendance of buyers. Competition was very keen for everything offered. Bag wool .ruled at late prices, whilst skins were higher by a half-penny per pound for all sound full wools. Hides also advanced a full half-penny per pound up to 91d being paid for heavy ox and light cow. We quote: Skins: Half-bred 9|d to 93d, fine crossbred 83d to 92d, coarse to medium crossbred B|d to 93d, short to halfwools 5d to 7d, dead and damaged crossbred 5d to 73d, inferior 2h& to

I-8d to 9'i'd, heavy cow 9:\d , medium cow 9d to 9 3-83,.light cow 9d to 9Jd, cut and slippy 4d to BJd, bulls and stags 4d to 7d, yearlings 9d to 10 3-Sd, best calf 12d to 13 l-Bd. medium to gcod calf 10d to 11 7-Bd. Tallow: In casks 17/6 to 22/, in tins 10/ to 10/6.

Levin and Ce., whose next sale will be held on Friday, January Bth, report similar prices.