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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 3120, 20 January 1908, Page 3

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LONLIOA JIAKKETB. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Wellington, have received the following cable luessages from their London house, under date of the Kith instant:— Frozen .Meat.—There is less demand for lamb, the market is quiet, and there is uuly a moderate business doing. Poor demand for mutton, the market is weak, and looks like going lower. The demand for beef continues, and prices are unchanged. Our quotations for New Zealand descriptions are: —l'rime crossbred lamb, Canterbury, heavy weights ad. light 5%d; prime crossbred mutton, Canterbury, heavy weights 3'/id, light 3%d; prime crossbred mutton, Is'orth island, heavy 3'/ s d, light 3'/ 2 d; prime ox l>eof, fores 2%d, hinds 3y»d. liuttcr. Market iirm. The Copenhagen official quotation is unchanged. We expect no immediate change in prices. The total imports of butter into the United Kingdom for-the wejk ending 11th instant amounted to 07,01)0 ewt, as compared with lol,ooo<jivt for the corresponding week of 1007, allowing a decrease of 3-l,OOOcwl. There is no demand for uusulted. Tallow.—Lower by (id per ewt. WELLIXIHUN WOOL SAIJO.S.

Dulgcty and Co., Ltd., report having held their wool sib* of the ->va-)On | in the concert-room ol the Town Mall,] when llu'V a catalogue of J about :>SOO links <mi of a total oll'ering i of B'HH) bales, The quality uf the wool ollVred was not equal to that of tin; corresponding sale of hist year, there being a large proportion of col toil ami inferior wools. 1 here wa* a large ami i epp tentative .att<iidau«'e of Kiig]N : i, foreign. iukl local buyer-. Competition war more animated than at any previous fdw held this season, Prices as compared with December sale allowed a decline all round —best halfbrcds to the extent of Id per lb, best erossbreds %d per lb, medium erossbreds %d per lb. inferior erossbreds Id to >'or the Tataramoa lambs wool we realised !M per lb, which was the top price for this Haw of wool. The highest price bid for | halfbrcds was ll'/.d per lb, for Stvatbrarroii; Tataramoa halfbred was passed in at tho same price. Rnngawhatl crossbred realised as high ae BVid; JP/T Shropshire cross, B%d; IUI/W, four bales of llonmoy, was passed in at B%d. We also offered the Jiireh llill clip (all merino), which was passed in, but afterwards disposed of privately. About three-fifths of our catalogue was sold under the hammer. The following gives an indication ji

prices realised, and, for the gake of comparison, values obtained for Ikcemlvr sale:—Merino, December, 1907, B'/ 2 t| to 10'/-(1; January, 1908, 8d to 9%d; super halfbred, December 10'/ u d to ll'/id, January B%d to i'Vi'l; medium halfbred, December il'/ 2 d to 9%d, January 8d to B%d; inferior halfbred, December S'/jd to lid, January 6%u to 7%d; super crossbred, December B%d to 9V,, January 8d to B%d; medium crossbred, 7'/ 2 d to January G%d to 7 3 /i<l; inferior crossbred, December Mto Vf.<l, January 5d to 0!/ s d; bellies and pieces, December ■Wid to 7'/ ; d, January 5d to fi%d; i-tuiiifd locks and pieces, 2 1 / id to 4<l, January 13/ idl 3 /id to IIV-d; dead, December ■j/jd to T'/jd, January 3d to 4d.

The following are som<* of our prin- I i-ipal sales: —Temona, linlfbml, 9(1; StiaUiciirron, halfbred, !)V',d; liWLi over crossbred, 8(1; ITB, Tim Pines. balfbred. 8 1 /i'l: M/Raia, merino, IT ft/Newman, crossbred. 8d; .T S, Romncy, &>, merino, 8%<l; Fairfield, erosslived, S'/'-d; RTt over W, Rnmney, K ; Vi (parsed); Kangawhiti, crosstired, S'/id; F M P. frosslirod, 8d: "Pitta - kanui. 7\U\\ Koniako, crossbred, 7V'|d; Mainifjat.au. crossbred, 7d; Biroli 3lill, merino, O-Yjd; JTK, crossbred, (pawed): Tataramoa, crossbred, B%d; hnlfbred, D%d (passed); PR conjoined, Kaiuma, crossbred, Hd (passed t: Tataramoa. halfbred lambs, i)d; Z/llapua, crossbred, 8d (passed).