SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 10, 13 January 1904, Page 2

SPORTING.

A special meeting of the stewands of the Wellington Racinig Club, act- ] in'g winder legal advice, decided that j the request of bookmakers to be li- ! censed to do business at tihc forthcoming meeting co'iihl not be wUertainu(l. A London cable mess-agv st»at\;s that the Dulke of I > ortlarJd, addres.si'nig* tine Vo,unigi Men's ('hnwtian As-rfoL-iat.'ioji at Manstieki, advised Ivis hmrers to give a cold slhoulder to bookmakers. He haid enjoyed much pleasure from twenty years' conmecttiik»v with the turf, liut in betting a man lost half the enjoyment, besides large sums of money. With the best -horses and the best information it was impossible to win at betling. COMMERCIAL. AUCKLAND WOOL SALES. AUCKLAND, .Inn. 12. At the second wool sale 3447 bales were catalogued. They were a good deal by weather. Prices iul 1 roiled, with the exception o'i those for fine wool, show an affrvmce of a fai'tliirig to a halfpenny compared with the first sales. Albout one-lifth of the catalogue was passed. Fine cross-bred 7d to B.|d, murium 6i'd to coarse crossbi-cd 5Jd to 6id, Shropshire 6d to Sd. EXPECTED ADVANCE IN WOOL. The Wangaim-i branch of tlue New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. has caible advice front

London of an anticipated rise of 3 to 10 |wr cent, m meidium oifd coarse crossed wools. HOME MARKETS. LONDON, Jan. 9, Consols, 87|. Copper—rSj>ot, £SB 3.0s ; three months, £57 17s Od.

Tin-—Spot, £132 30s; tlyw months, £.132 12s Od.

Lead, £ll 8s l£d. Silivor, £2 2s 6 5-lGd. Wheat—The Polly Woodside's cargo was re-sold at 29s 6d.

At the rabbit skin sales, 1890 offered, ajitl 168 ii sold. New Zealand winter's unchanged ; Tuisni-anian ai,U Australian declined a halfpenny to a penny ; secondaries and inferior, a penny to twopence.

Sheep Cantei'ljury, 4Jd ; Dunedin and Southland, 4i'd ; Nqrlili Island, 4Jd. Lamb Canterbury 14 3-lGd ; D«ncdin aatd Southland, 4Sd ; North Island, 4gd. Beef—Unchanged.

River Plate sheep, heavy and light 8 11-16. Beef : Fores, unchanged Hindis, 2jd. HOME BUSH MARKETS.

. , SYDNEY, Jan. JI. • 1 rices of sheep remain unchanged, Hut cattle are dour. Best wet'hers nvake 19s, extra 21s 7d, g-o-od 17s to y 8 3,.'V OSt cwes 18s ' 16s 6d to 1/s tad, best bullocks £ll 5s extra £l3, good £lO ss, best cows' £8 hL'J^r m rf 10 ' ,S ' eX>ad £T 15S * fcest beei 26e 6d per 1001b.