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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 109, 8 June 1909, Page 3

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HIGH COM.\II,SSU)XIiR ? S CABLK. j By Telttgrnph.—Press Association. ti u - •' Wellington, Monday. _ lue _ Higa Conunwsioner's miDiv of June sth is as follows: The mutton marKct continues dull, j rhere was a better demand at the close j of the inarkvt on account of low prices,! out the stocks on hand are honvv I Good light weights are getting veiv soiree. Canterbury 2%, North JWaml | 2%d. i The lamb market is weak and low 1 prices ait* increasing the output. Good demand continues. Canterbury 4%d for light weights. North Uland weights 4i/ s d, and heavy weights 3%d. The beef market is rising. Stocks are small and there is good demand for all descriptions. Prices are advancing. New Zealand hinds 4>/ 4 d. fores 2%<1. The butter market is dull, with very little business doing. Buyers are holding back, expecting prices' to go lower. Choicest New Zealand 103s, Danish 109s, Siberian 08s, Australian 08s.

• The cheese market is rather quiet, and the demand is falling oft'. New Zealand white 05s, colored Wis.

The hemp market continues dull, and 1 no transactions of importance are reported. New Zealand good fair grade on spot £23.; New Zealand fair grade on spot £2l 10s; fair current manila on spot £2*2; June-August shipments of New Zealand good to fair £22 10s, New Zealand fair grade £2l 10s per ton Manila fair current £2l 10s. The . Manila output was 10,000 bales.

There is no change in the cocksfoot ] market. The wool-market is quiet and! small business is doing. Bradford tops arc quoted as follows: Thirty-sixes low erossbreds Is, forties do. Is Id, fortyfours medium do. Is 2d, fifties halfbred* Is (i%d, fifty-sixes quarter-breds Is lOd, sixties merinos 2* 3d.

The wheat market is quiet but steady. I New Zealand long-berried wheat on spot,! ex-granapy, per quarter of 4flll lbs 40s fid, New Zealaud short-berried do., 4.>s fid. The oats market remains linn, with no change* in prices, namely: New Zealand oats, short sparrowbills, ex-granary, on spot, per quarter of 384 lbs 2fis fid; .New Zealand oats, Danish, ex-granary, per quarter of 320 lbs 20s 3d. Tlio beans and peas market is iivm owing to reduced supplies, Nvw Zealand beans, f.a.q., old crop, per 504 lbs 30s fid; New Zealand pease, partridge, per 504 lbs 40s Od. Shipments from River Plate during May were:-—London, mutton 01,000. lamb 35,920; Liverpool, mutton 104,334 lamb \13.435; Hull, mutton 14,000, lamb 500; Newcastle, mutton 0,012, lamb 357; Southampton, mutton 7,455, lamb 744; Cardiff, mutton 8500. hinib nil; Plymouth, mutton 1,202, lamlrOo;.

The Xi*w Zealand l.oan a:i-l Mercantile Company have received the following report from their London house under date 'June sth:—"We look for a weakness iu the prices of merino, cross-bred, short, shorn and peltv skins; others firm