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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 150, 16 June 1908, Page 4

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NEW PIAMOUTU HIDE. WOIJE, SHEEPSKIN AND TALLuW SAJ.E. ilcssis. L. A. Nolan & Co. report: We held our usual four-weekly sale on Wednesday, June 10th. For all good lots competition was spirited and prii:es about ou a par with liioae realised last month. llides held at abuuO last month's rates, with a slight upward tendency, particularly in heavy. In regard to skins the same remarks apply as last mouth. Tallow showed a lurther decline. We quote:— Hides.—Butchers' cow, light 3%d to Id, medium 4d to 4%d, heavy 4'/ 2 d to 4%d; butchers' medium condition, light 3%d, medium 3%d to 4%d, heavy 4%d to i'/sd; settlers', Id to 3%d, according to condition; calf, 5%d; damaged, -%■.! to 3%d; large, 3y s d; horse, js to (is 3d. No ox offering. •Skins.—Salted, Is lld to is; extra good, 3s; damaged, lOd to Is 3d. Tallow.—Medium, -Is; tins, ISs to 18s (id. Our next sale will be held on Bth July.

UIGII COIBIIKSLONJUiS HEVOBT. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, .Mondiiy. T!u> Department of Industries and Commerce has received the following cablegram from the High Commissioner at London, dated June 13: — Frozen meat— I The market is dull and trade for all classes is very slow. The present prices are barely maintained, Canterbury 4'/ s d, North Island S'/ad. The lamb "market is very linn. There is good demand for all brands. Prospects are favorable for obtaining high prices during this season. Canterbury other tlian Canterbury There | is better demand for beef owing to the reported scarcity ill America, but there has been 110 change in prices. lintter—The market is linn, with good demand. The stock of New Zealand butter is exhausted. Danish is quoted at 11'2s, Australian 104s, and Siberian 102s per cwt. Cheese—The market is quiet, but steady. There is good demand for lietter glades. White makes, of which there is a small supply, are quoted at ] (i2s, and colored makes, which are in large supply, at 37s per cwt. Hemp—The market is quiet, with 1 small business doing. Following are . current quotations:—<!ood fair grade on the spot, £2l; IDs, fair grade 011 ihq [ spot C2t Ills, fair current .Manila on tlies pot £'2l 10a; July to September , shipments: (iood fair grade til. fair " grade £25, fair current .Manila ,Cis per ton. j Wool 'Hie market is quiet but steady. Current quotations for Bradford tops are as follows:—Thirty-sixes r low crossbreds !>%<!, forties low crosslinks Ul'/od, forty-fours medium cross- ? breds 11'/id, tifties half-brcds Is :i%d, fifty-sixes quarter-breds Is li'/jd. sixties merinos Is !»d.

Kauri gum is quoted as follows: Ordinary to fair three-quarter scra|K'd ItiOs, fair half-scraped 105s, brown fair half to three-quarter scraped Sos, brown pickings, common to eood 50r, bush fair to (rood pale and amber scraped 12.15. The slocks held in London amounts to siis tons, and lln-re is a fair demand tor the ln-ltcr j_ r r;ulcs. Hops—The market i.s vcrv dull. *