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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 189, 19 November 1910, Page 3

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AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. liv Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Sydney, November 17. I Wheat, 3s S'/id. Flour, £9. Oats—Algerian feeding. 2s 3d; nulling, 2s 5d to 2s 7d; Tasmanian sparrowbills, 2s Oil; giants, 2s Sd. Barley—Feeding, 3s; seeding, 3s 2d. Maize—Victorian, 2s lOil to 3s; local, j 2s Sd. Bran and pollard, £4. Potatoes—Tasmanian old, £9 10s; local new, £ll. Onions—Old, £G 10s; new. to £B. Butter, 9Gs. J Cheese, <>y 2 d. I Bacon, Bd. i Melbourne, November 17. Hides—Average supply. Good competition, prices well maintained. Wheat, 3s By a d. Hour, £9. Oats—Algerian milling, 2s feeding, Is lid. Barley—Malting, prime English, 4s 4d; Cape, to 2s Gd. Maize, 2s S'/od. Bran and pollard, £4 10s. Potatoes—Old, £7; new, £0 to £lO. Onions, £5 to £5 10s. Adelaide, November 17. Wheat, 3s 7d to 3s Bd. Flour, £8 to £8 10s. Bran, ll^d. Pollard, lid. CHRISTCIIURCH WOOL SALES. By Telegraph.—Press .Association. Christchurch, November 18. The wool sales concluded to-day with store lots. The highest prices were:— Merino, lOd; half-bred, ll%d; crossbred, O'/jd; three-quarter-bred, 9%d; Corriedale, lid; longwools, Sd; Downs, 10% d. STOCK SALES. NEWTON KING'S REPORT. At Urenui on Monday there was a good yarding, and bidding was brisk, especially for young cattle, every line offered being sold at the hammer. Yearling heifers made £2 lis to £2 19s; yearling steers, £2 10s to £3 3's; 15month do, £3 9s; empty heifers, £3 10s to £4 7s; store cows. £3 13s to' £3 10s; forward do, £4 5s to £4 13s; springing heifers £5 15s; springing cows £5 10s; two to two and a half steers, £4 8s to £4 17s; 3-year do, £5 10s; bulls up to £lO. On the same day at Douglas there was a full yarding with good competition, and a clearance was made of everything with the exception of one line of ewes and lambs. Mixed yearlings made £2 14s; yearling heifers. £2 12s Gd to £3. 3s Gd; do Jersey strain, £3 10s Gd; yearling steers, £2 8s Gd to £2 19s Gd; 18-month do, £3 12s; empty heifers, £4 to £4 12s; store cows, £3 Is to £3 18s; forward do, £4 to £4 3s; springing heifers, £5 to £5 10s; springing cows, £5 12s Gd; 2-year steers, £3 17s Gd to £3 19s Gd; 3-year bullocks, £5 7s Gd to £5 8s; bulls, £4 to £5 2s Gd; cull ewes and lambs, 113 Gd; fat and forward ewes and wethers, 16s. At Stratford on Tuesday there was a fair yarding with good enquiry. Yearling heifers made £2 14s Gd to £3 3s; do Jersey strain, £3 10s Gd to £4 lis; 18-month heifers, £3 13s Gd to £3 18s; . empty heifers, £4 3s to £4 lGs; store cows, £3 2s to £3 19s Gd; forward do, £4 15s to £4 18s; fat cows, £5 5s to £G os; fat heifers, £5 15s; 18-month to 2-year steers, £3 15s; 2 to 2%-year steers, £4 7s Gd; fat and forward bullocks, £G 10s; bulls, £3 to £6 2s 6d; stag. £2 lGs; fat and forward wethers, 13s Id.

At the heifer sale on the same day springing lieifers close up made £5 10s to £7 10s; later do, £4 5s to £5; heifers calved, £4 10s to £0; springing cows up to £8 15s; later do. £4 10s to £5 ss; grade Jersey bull, £0; Shorthorn bull, £ll. Clients will please note that this sale will be held fortnightly from now on.

At Stony River on Wednesday mixed weaners made £3 Is 6d; yearling heifers small, £2 7s Gd; do Jersey strain, £3 1.95; 15-month Holstein heifers, £4 4s; yearling steers, £2 12s to £3 4s; 18month do., £3 8s Cd to £3 10s; empty heifers, £3 15s to £3 17s; store cows, £3 3s to £3 16s; forward do. £4 0s Gd to £5 2s; fat do, £5 12s to £7; fat heifers, £5 17s; springing cows, £6 to £6 7s Cd; springing heifers, £5 ss; 3year bullocks, £5 12s; fat wethers, 19s Dd; bulls up to £B.

MATTHEWS AND BENNETT Matthews and Bennett report a good yarding of cattle at their Inglewood yards on Wednesday last. Bidding was brisk throughout, and previous prices were well maintained, being as follows: Springing heifers,' £3 15s to £5 2s 6d; good do, £6 to £7 ss; 2-year steers, £3 12s fid to £4 12s; fat cows, £4 lis to £5; bulls, £2 7s to £5 2s Cd; forward cows, £4 10s; store do, £2 10s to £3 Is; empty heifers, £3 12s Gd to £4 7s; yearling heifers, £2 13s; do steers, £2 18s; mixed yearlings, £-2 0s Gd to £2 15s; cows in milk, £3 7s Gd to £4 lis; springing cows, £5 15s to £7 10s; late and old do, £4 7s Gd to £5; grade Jersey do, £l2 ss. WANGANUI. Messrs. Dalgetv and C'o. report:—At our Wanganui sale on Tuesday we yarded 1000 sheep and 350 cattle, and have to report a poor attendance and a dull sale. We quote: Mixed woolly fat sheep 10s, fat shorn ewes 13s, two-tooth ewes 12s, two-tooth wethers 10s Od, mixed two-tooths 12s, ewes and lambs los to lfis fid, shorn do. 0s 7d, empty ewes 9s 2d, cull woolly hoggets 9s fid, fat and forward bullocks (four and five-year old) £7 Ss fid to £7 14s, two-year steers £4, 18-months do. £3 10s to £3 13s fid, yearlings do. £1 17s, £2 10s to £3 2s, poor-conditioned cows £2 12s, £3 2s, £3 3s to £3 7s, yearling heifers to £3, Jersey heifer in milk £lO 159, pedigree Jersey bull £ls 15s, dairy cows to £5 as.

ADDTXGTOX. At the Addiagton yards there was a moderate entry of store sheep of all classes. Four and six-tootii wethers in the wool made 13s 3d to 14s Id, shorn 12s 8d to 13s s<l, shorn two-tooth wethers 8s Gd to 10s, and small 7s fid, shorn four and six-tooth ewes with lambs 8s lid. ajred and cull sorts ."is Id to -Is lid. four, six, and eijrht-tootli ewes fls. twotooths 12s. woollv ewes with lambs Ds 3d. and woollv wether lionets l:is 7(1. There were about l.imi fat lambs' j penned. The prices paid for export were 14s Id to ISs !)d, and butchers' lots made 0s fid to 17s according to sfcte and quality. Over IWO lambs were taken for export. Fat sheep.—Woolly wethers IDs lid to 2.1s ?>d, shorn wethers 1-ls 4<l to l!)s Id. woollv ewes Ms lid to 23s fid. shorn ewes 11> 4d to 18s, wooliv lionets 17s to ]Ss !M, shorn lio'mi'ts I:ss. woolly merino wethers lfis 3d to ]!)s 3d. shorn merino wethers lis lid. Fat Cattle.—Steers nr.n'e £7 .Is to £ll ss, extra to £l,l I.ls, heifers £.l lis to £«. and extra to £l3 Is; cow* £4 17s fid to -CO 12s fid (equal to 27s (id to 32s fid), medium 24s to 275. eow and inferior 20s to 2?s fid per 1001b. HiHiailriliiiriMfeii

£4 Ids, two-year heifers £3 to £3 15s, three-year heifers £4 10s, t'our to liveyear steers £(> 4s, four-year steers £5 2s dairy cows £3 10s to £8 ."is extra to £ll.'

Fat and store pigs.—Choppers sold ir,t to 00s, heavy baeoners 47s Gd to 555, and lighter 40s to 45s (equal to 4d to 4'/id per lb.), large porkers 27s lid to 325, smaller 20s to 25s (equal to -td per lb.), medium stores 14s to 18s, smaller Ss to 12-.. a:ul weaners 3s lid to 7s. BURXSIDE. Cnrusi.le stock market: —Fat cattle: 148 were yarded, a fair proportion being medium'and heavy-weight bullocks. At J the start of the sale prices were about 15s per head lower than last week's rate, and, before the close, bullocks had declined fully £1 per head. Best bullocks sold up to £l3; extra, to £l4 IDs; prime, £lO IDs to £l2; lighter, £8 15s to £9 10s; best heifers, to £8 15s: extra, to £9 ss; good, £7 to £8; lighter, £5 10s to £O. Fat sheep: 1920 were pinned, consisting pi;incipallv of good to prime wethers and wees. Prices opened from Is to Is Gd easier than last week's rates, but improved slightly as the sale advanced. Prime wethers made up to 275; extra, to 30s 3d, good, 22s to 245; best shorn wethers, to 21s 9(1; good, 17s to 19s; best ewes, to 255; extra, to 29s 3d, good, 18s to 225; medium, 15s to 18s; shorn ewes, to 17s 9d. Lambs: 359 were penned. This was a larger yarding than usual, and prices declined fully Is per head. Prime, 15s to His 3d; extra, to 20s; good, 13s to 14s Gd; light, 9s 9d to l'is Gd. Pigs: Young pigs were plentiful, but prices for good sorts were well up to last week's rates. Porkers and baeoners met with a brisk sale, and advanced about ] /jd per lb. Suckers, 7s to !!s lid; slips, lis to 15s; stores, 18s to 255; porkers, 32s to 3os Gd; baeoners, light. 38s to 425; heavy, 45s to 08s. DAIRY PRODUCE REPORT.

Messrs. E. Griffiths and Co., New Plymouth, are in receipt of the following market report from their London principals, Messrs. Mills and Sparrow, dated the 7th of October, 1910: The labour troubles, which at the commencement of the week, assumed a rather serious aspect, now look like passing away. The lock-out in the cotton mills, which affected 150,000 and would eventually have affected 300,000 workers, has just been settled, and work will be resumed next week. There are still, however, other strikes to be dealt with, but there is every prospect of this masters and the men coming to terms within the next week or so. As can easily be imagined all this trouble has had a depressing effect on the market, so that the fact that prices have been fairly well maintained during the jwst, few weeks tends to show that the market really is 011 a firm basis, and we anticipate, when conditions are again normal, that a much better trade will be experienced. BUTTER. Danish.—The quotation has been raised two kroner. Siberian.—Arrivals are now slowly decreasing; there is no improvement in the qauilty, the bulk of which is of a secondary character. This is not clearing as the buyers at the moment are requiring something very much better. French.—Trade continues steady. Owing to the fine weather that we have been experiencing lately, the quality has been more satisfactory than has been the case for some time past. Supplies continue 011 a fairly good scale for the time of the year, but with the approach of a little cold weather, they would show a. material shrinkage.

Australian. —About 7000 boxes have been landed this week ex s.s. Otway, and the quality generally continues to please. Although the quantity is only small, buyers are gradually taking more interest in the goods, and we fully anticipate that the trade will expand considerably during the next few weeks and that the increasing quantities will be absorbed as they arrive. Secondary grades are still slow of sale, but this is somewhat to be accounted for by the present fine weather, the temperatures being very high for the time of the year. A little nip in the air is needed to whet buyers' appetites for the lower grades. New Zealand. —Stocks are practically clear and there is nothing due before s.s. lonic oh the 20t.h inst. CHEESE.

Canadian.—Buying continues on a "hand to mouth" scale, which is really a healthy sign at this time of the year. Best goods command about Is a cwt. over last week's rates, while seconds also have a firm tendency. New Zealand.—Stocks clear. WHEAT MARKET.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company have received the following cablegram from their London house, under date Kith inst.:—Wheat: Sales of Australian have been made at 355, c.uf. The market is quiet but steady, owing to unfavorable crop reports. The outlook in the Argentine is uncertain. We quote per quarter, c.i.f., New Zealand long-berried, 30s 9d; short-berried, 30s 3d.