COMMERCIAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3397, 30 January 1920, Page 5

COMMERCIAL.

TAIHAPE STOCK SALE REPORT. ‘:

Messrs Abraham and Williams Ltd,‘ report. At Tai-hape on Wednesday; We had‘ a good yarding of sheep and a fair entry of cattle. There was a: decided improvement in the market‘. compared with late sales and practice ally all lines changed hands at tha following quotations: Mixed aged ewes 17/2, 18/3, to 25/2, mixed 2-ths 16/7, 20/7, 24/, to 26/, small véoolly lambs 9/ to 10/2, shorn lambs 12/2 to 12/5, cull lambs 3710 to 5/, mixed aged Romney rams 17/ to 39/‘, 3 and 35-year bullocks £l3 6/, 2; and 3-year steers £8 10/ to £lO 15/, 24 year steers £7 11/, £B, 2 year -heirs ers £7 5/, cows in milk £6 15/ td £ll 2/6, fat cows £ll 10/, yearling steers £3 to £4 7/, yearling heifers‘ £4 5/, S_H. bull £ls 7/6. :

LONDON WOOL SALES.

Messrs Dalgety and Company, Ltd.” are in receipt of a cablegram from’ their London House, under date of 23rd instant, reading as fo1lows:—-—“Wcol sales closed firm. 104,000 bales were c-fiered "on inspection, and 42,300 ac-1 cording‘ to description. English buyers are the principal operators, andi French buyers are buying again more! freely, but the Americans are. not buy-4 ing very much.’ Merino Wools ta.l-e~5 per cent higher, fine crossbreds, firm, but unchanged, mediu-m and coarse) cross'bl-eds 5 per cent higher, as coma pared with last sales’ closing rates.. For medium and coarse erossbreds The Government limit is Still often ma high.” The New Zealand Loan and M 01" cantile Agency Co., Ltd., ‘have received the following eablzegram from their London house under date 21st. January, 1‘920.

Tallow: VVe quofe present spoti values for the following descriptions of tallow.——FinQ'muf’fo|n £lO9 per ton; good beef, £lO9 per ton; mixed, £9B per‘. ton. Good demand, market firm. COMMONWEALTH QUOTATIONS. Received 12.5 a.m. . . SYDNQY, this day. Following are this week’s produce quofat;'«ons:——Oats, Tasnlanian write 7/, Algerial feed 6/6 to 6/7, milling 6/6 to 6/8; barley, Cape 6/6; maize, 10/ to 10/3; potatoes, £lO to £ls per ton; onions £l7 to £l7 10/' per Ron. Adelaide.——Oats" 5/6 to 5/7.

Melbourne.—The hide market is firm, ‘a penny advance all round; Barley, English, 7/ to 7/3, Cape 6/ to 6/3; oats, milling, 5/11 to 6/, feed 575 to 5/7; potatoes, £7 to £7 10/ per ton; onions £ll per .ton_

6, BOXING. _

WELLS KNOCKS OUT REEVE. LONDON, Jan. 27. Bombardier Wells knocked out Reeve in the fourth round. ~

IN THREE ROUNDS_

McLAGLEN KNOCKED OUT. Many people in New Zealand will remember Captain Victor McLaglen, who gave exhibitions of his system of bayonet-fighting in the 'Dominion early in the Great War period. McLaglen afterwardswas on active service in Mesopotamia. Nowadays. he is 9. professional 11ea"vweight ‘boxer in Great Britain. But McLaglen is some distance below championship form. A few Weeks ago in London he was beaten by Frank Goddardin three rounds. Some months ago Goddard lost flln English championship to Joe Beckett. Vwho» re‘: centh’ was knocked out by Georges Carpentier in 70sec. Of the GoddardMcLaglen fight, the London Sportsman says: “Although occasionally‘ Goddard did well in friof in-fighting. McLaglen had the advantage in 1303!ing exchanges at long range- He fought his man Well with both hands. and at the end of the seco‘n‘d round! Goddard was certainly behind for points. In a‘ way this was partly EX? pected, as Goddard has 110 Darticular pretensions to be regarded as a boxer. The third round brought about a. coma pflete change. Goddard -had the stifa fer punch. He had shown his capacity to take a punch. but when it was up to his opponent to do so, he soon failed_ He was first damaged by 3' kind of upper-cut. and began to stagger. Goddard missed him at first, but soon got a. couple of hard blows to the face. . McLaglen went weak, and a.‘ light "hook sent him to the floor foi‘ 93 count-out. Silf)'ério«r power of blowwon Goddard the fig-ht." ‘