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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 181, 4 September 1909, Page 6

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LONDON MARKETS. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright London, September 2. Wheat—The American visible supply of wheat is 10,702,000 bushels. Copper .-On the spot £6O 2s fldj three months £OO Is 3d; electrolytic £OO 15s. The supplies total 42,185 tons, deliveries 30,520 tons, stocks 88,218 tons, afloat 3500 tons. Tin.—On spot £137 10s, three months £l3B 10s. The stocks total 19,888 tons, i spot 7958 tons, afloat 4727 tons. J Tallow.—The stocks total 5276 tons,! imports 3322 tons, deliveries 2145 tons. | STOCK MARKETS. NEWTON KING'S REPORT. At the Haymarkct on Saturday, owing to the extremely bad weather, very little business -was transacted. Small store pigs made 16s to 18s, pony £3. At Urenui on Monday there was a. good yarding of cattle, nearly everything being sold. Weaners made 18s to 28s 6d., yearling steers 335, 18-montbs steers £2 Us Od to £2 18s, empty heifers £2 15s , to £3 Os 6d, forward do. £3 10s, 2-year steeTS £3 2s Od to £3 ss, 3-year do. £3 19s to £4 4s Od, store cows £2 153 6d, forward do. £3 6s Od, springing cows £5 to £0 15s, cows in calf £3 to £4 ss, springing heifers £4 15s to £0 17s Od. At Rahotu on Tuesday weaners inado 15s to 28s, yearling steers'SOs to 355, | yearling heifers 30s, 18-inonths steers *£2 lis to £2 12s 6d, store cows £2 to £3 19s, forward do. £4 ss, empty heifers £2 10s to £2 13s od, springing heifers £4 15s to £5 Bs, bulls £1 as to £2 10s.

The same day I held a springing cow and heifer sale at my Stratford yards on account of Messrs. Mapp Bros, and other vendors. Cows close up made £6 to £lO, backward do. £4 15s to £5 10s, heifers close up £5 to £S 10s, backward do. £4 2s 6d to £4 15s.

At Stony River on Wednesday there was a good yarding, mostly dairy cattle. Springing heifers made £4 10s to £7 15s, springing cows £4 15s to £6 10s, 2-year steers £2 18s, empty heifers £i 10s to £2 17s.

At Waiwakaiho on Thursday there was a big yarding and attendance. Competition was good for both store and dairy cattle, prices for springers showing an improvement on the last sale. Mr. F. Sole's dairy herd were a nice lot and sold well. A grade Jersey on account of Mr. William Peattie, with a Tecord of 181b butter .per week, topped the price for cows at £l4 ss, as also did a pen of heifers at £7 5s from the same ivendor, Mixed yearlings made 20s to 36s 6d, heifer do. 38s to 42s «d, 18monhas empty heifers £2 12s to £2 16s, grade Jersey do. £3, yearling steers 38s, 18-months do. 495, 2y 3 to 3-year do. £3 16s 6d, springing heifers £3 10s to £5 10s, grade Jerseys £7 Bs, dairy cows £4 10s to £8 10s, store cows £2 10s to £2 12s 6d, forward do. £3 to £3 7s, bulls £3 to £4 ss.

STRATFORD WOOL, SHEEPSKIN, HIDE, AND TALLOW REPORT. YOUNG, HOBBS& CO, On Tuesday, 31st, we held our usual monthly sale of above produce. Wool, comprising mostly crutchings, ruled on a par with our last report. Sheepskins showed a substantial rise of y 2 d per 'b, while hides were keenly competed for at y a d to 14d per lb advance. New season's calfskins made their appearance and sold at' Id per lb higher than the best markets of last season. The principal demand for this class is from North America, and we anticipate continued demand for calf ait present prices. "iVe only catalogued small lots of tallow, which made recent .ruling rate%. We offered and sold 6 bales woo], besides a number of sa«k6, 500 sheepskins, 150 Jiidos, and 1000 calfskins, besides horsehair, cowtnils, etc. We quote—- • Wool: Fleece in bags 5%d to Od, crutchings 3y 3 d to sd, lambs' 5 1 / 4 d, locks JV 2 d. 'Sheepskins: Butchers' woollies 5s to 5s Od, butchers' salted 4s to 5s 7d, settlers' salted 3s 7d to 4s 3d, lambs' .3s 4d to 3s Bd, part dry woollies 2s 4d to ss.

Hides: Butchers' cow medium s'/ s d to Od, farmers' ox medium 6%d; settlers' cow, light to medium, 6d to 5%d; cows' .(cut) 4»/ s d to 4%d, stags 3 3 / 4 d to 4d. yearlings 4 1 / 3 d to 5%d.

Calfskins: Medium B'/ s d to 9d, light 7%d, cut 5 6 / B d, part dry sd.

Horsehair, Is 4d per lib; fat in tins, 21s.

VTCKERS & STEVENS' REPORT. Owing to tlie rough weather there was a small yarding and a small attendance at Inglewood on Wednesday. [Prices: Empty heifers £2 15s to £3 0s 6d, store , cdws £2 8a to £2 14s, yearlings £1 5s fo t'J Ss Od. good springing heifers £4 15s to £5 2s (id. medium do. £3 12s 6d to £4 10s, cows £3 10s to £5. AUCKLAND. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantie Agency Company report:— Horses were yarded in average numbers at the Durham yards on Friday. Heavy draught horses sold at from £22 to £3O, medium draughts £lB to £23, light harness horses £lO to £lB, hacks £8 10s to £l7, ponies £2 10s to £5.1 The coaching stallion Don Peter sold at £3O.

On Saturday cows close to profit sold at (from £5 10s to £0 12s 6d, heifers £5 to £8 10s, backward springers £3 17s 6d to £5 10s, heifers £3 10s to £i 10s, bulls £4 7s Od to &1 12s Od. Cattle: At the Newmarket yards on Tuesday there was a moderate number of Vlairy and store stock yarded. Dairy cows sold at from £3 15s to £lO, empty cows £2 10s to £2 17s, caves 19s to £.l 19s. Beef was yarded in full numbers, with cattle of nice quality, although mostly light-weights. Prices showed no improvement on last week's rates. Oxen sold to 21s per 1001b, and cows 17s to 19s. Steers sold at from £5 12s Od to £9 2s 6d, cows £3 10s to £7 173 6d.

Sheep were yarded in usual number*, and sold at scarcely late rates, wethers selling at from 13s 9d to £1 Is, ewes 12s to 19s fid, hoggets 10s Od to 10s Od, spring lambs 9s 6d to 14s. Pigs: Porkers sold at from 18s to £1 2s, weaners 10s Od to 14s 9d, baconers £2 2s to £2 18s.

Hides: Market continues firm. Wo quote—Extra stout ox 7d to 7%d, stout do. 6'/ 2 d to 6%d, medium do. 5%d to fl'/sd, light do. sV£d to 5%d; cows', best lines 5y 2 d to 5%d, good s'/ 4 d to 5%d scored 4'/ 2 d to sd; kips 5d to 5%d, calfskins 6d to 7d, cut 3y 4 d to 4'/,d sta"s' 4d to 4>/ 4 d, damaged hides 3y,d" to 4%d horse "hides 3s Od to 7s 6d.

I. Sheepskins: Market brisk. Best butJ chers' skins, large to 0s 7d, good lines e os to 5s 9d, medium 4s to 4s 6d, small - 3s 2d to 3s 8d; country drv skins, larje .1 to ss, medium 3s 6d to 4s 3d, small Is Od 3 to 2s Od. ADDINGTON. B At the Addington live stock maTket , on Wednesday, owing to wet weather 2 entries of stock were generally smaller , than of late, and the attendance was ~ limited. One lot of three-quarter-bred . ewe hoggets made 13s, halfbred hoggets (small and mixed sexes) 9s 3d to 9s Od , ewes and lambs 6s lid, all counted' , There were a few new season's fat lambs penned, and they sold at 15s 6d to 18s. t The supply of fat sheep was a short . pn«, ibut included some good lines of . wethers. Prime wethers made 16s to , 16s 3d. others 10s to 13s 6d; merino , wethers 13s, hoggets 9s 6d to 13s 6d 7, ", ro were 3W f at Battle entered, the £',.• icing of good and prime quality. 1.1-iu.s, ruled about equal to Is per 100'b ff? ." S^T^ k '? Tf tcs - Steers made | £0 5s to £ll ss, heifers £5 5s to £9 5s , f?i'i W° f 7 17.5-eq.ial to 13 a 0d to 2U fid for prime. 17s 6d to 19s for medium, and 15s Od to 17s for cow and inferior sorts per 1001b. A small yarding of store cattle met with poor demand, learlings made 288s to 30s 15 to 18-montlH £2 5s to £2 9s, 2-year steers £4 2s Od, 3-year steers £5 15s t<> £6, dry cows 20s to £3 17s 0d Dairy cowslwere also dull of sale at £3 1 to ±.7 15s: i There was a medium entry of all ' classes of pigs, a)l d they sold at about ' the previous week's prices, except stor-s I wljfch were a little easier. Choppers ! sold up to £3 13s Od, large baconers 55s 1 to 635-equal to 4%d per Ib; large porkers 40 S to 445, lighter 35s to Ost-equal " to o%d to »%d per lb; large stores 23s to 30s, medium 10s to 20s, weaners Us ,,i DUNEDIN. " .r wtL "J"oon^ n . sido stock """'tot on Wednesday 278 head of fat cattle were yarded a fair proportion consisting of prime heifers and bullocks, andthe bal. nice of medium and inferior quality Prices receded about 10s per head, cv cept; for heavy-weight bullocks. Prime qwdity Mocks sold at k.i. i'"!

rates, fiesfTibuUocks £lO to £ll 10s, extra to £l2 7s 6d, medium £8 to £J; best heifers £7 to £8 ss, medium £5 to £0 10s.

Sheep: 3435 yarded. The entry ineluded 200 hoggets, which' sold at f«lling prices. The quality of the sheep was only medium, and prices on account of the numfe penned showed a decline of Is to Ib 6d on last week's. Exporters were not operating, and most of the butchers have big supplies on hand. Best wethers 13s 6d to 15s, extra to 16s fid. medium 12s to 13s, inferior 10s 6d to lis 6d; best ewes lis to 12s od, medium 9s to 10s.

Pigs: 120 yarded, average yarding of good quality. A fair number of suckers were forward, and a number of pens of porkers and Ibaconers. Suckers 15b to 17s Od, slips 21s to 25s 6d, stores 29s to 38s, porkers 39s Od to 475, light baconnrs 49s to 575, heavy to 00s.