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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 135, 6 July 1909, Page 3

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LONDON MARKETS. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., liave received the following cable messages from their London house under date of Ist inst.: — Tallow—Mutton tallow is unchanged; other descriptions 3d higher. Frozen meat —The demand for New Zealand lamb is limited and the market weaker. Beef is meeting with good demand and market is firm. The market for mutton is weak with only a poor demand. Quotations arc as follow: New Zealand prime ox beef, fores 3d, hinds 4'/ 2 , New Zealand prime crossbred lamb, Canterbury, heavy 3'/ s d, light i'/id; North Island, heavy 3y 4 d, light 4%d; New Zealand prime crossbud .nuton, Canterbury, heavy 2y 4 d, light 3%d; North Island! heavy 2d, light mi Wool—The list of arrivals is closed and all wools have arrived in time. The new arrivals have amounted 1 to 275,000 baies, out of which 135,000 bales' have been forwarded direct to manufacturers at Home and abroad, leaving 150,000 bales available for sale, which includes 10,000 bales old stocks. The dates of our own sales are 7th, 13th, lflth and 21st July. Expect that if any change in prices takes place it will be in favor of buyers, Wellington, 3rd June, 1909. HIDE AND SlilN REPORT.

Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report having ) held their fortnightly sale of wool, I skins, and hides' on Friday, when they offered a large catalogue of all claßses to a large and representative attendance of .buyers. Prices Were as follow: Wool—Prices were slightly easier, showing a decline of from par to %d for fleece and %d for erutchings, as follows —Half-bred, B%d; crossbred 6'/»d to 7%d; cros'sbred dead, 'lambs', to 7'/id; lambs' seedy 5d to s'/ 2 d; lambs' sliped, 8y 2 d; pieces, 3d to 5V4d; locks, 3d ; erutchings, 3V4d to fid. sale, an extra heavy line of green realising 9s 3d each. Crossbred, 6d to 7y 4 d; crossbred short, 5d to 5%d; crossbred broken and damaged, 2>/ 2 d to dead, 4%d; black, 3y 2 d; imerino, inferior, 3d to 4%d; pelts, 3'/ 2 d to 4%d; pelts, damaged, 2%d; lambs' 6%d to 7d; lambs' inferior, 5d to 5y 2 d; crossbred green, extra heavy, 9s 3d; heavy, 6s 4d-, crossbred damp, heavy, 5s 3d to 6s 3d; light, 3s; crossbred salted, 3s' to 5s sd; shorn lambs', damp, 3s Id to 3s 4d. Hides—Prices on a par with last sale. No prime heavies offered. Calfskins realised up to 9%d. Prices were as follows—Ox, heavy sloppy, up to 6y 2 d; medium, '6d to 6%d; light, 4%d to s'/ 2 dj slipy, 4V 2 d; cow, medium, 4%d to s*4d; cut and slipy, 4y 2 d to 4%d; dry, 6d; bulls', 4d to 4y s d; slippy, yearling 6%; calf, best, 8d to 9%d; medium, C'/ 2 d to IVA) inferior, 5d to 6</ B d. Horsehair, Is 5V 2 d per lb; taUs, Is ?d per dozen. ■Tallow—ln casks 23s 9d; in tins, 21s; rough fat Ids. Wellington, 3rd July, 1909. Mr. Newton King has received .the following cable from his Sydney agent re hides: "Mediums lower."