COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 132, 22 October 1912, Page 7

COMMERCIAL.

LONDON MARKETS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, October 20. Copra.—There is moderate business doing at £25 12s fid. Jute.—An October-November shipment brought £25. Hemp.—Firm; January-March £32. Cotton.—October-November 5.88. Rubber, 4s 7d. Linseed Oil, £3O ss. Hides.—Small offerings; prices have advanced V 4 d. Antimony, £8 10s, Wheat.—Afloat for the United Kingdom 2,405,000 quarters, for the Continent 2,135,000 quarters, Atlantic shipments 479,000 quarters, Pacific 30,000 quarters. Total: Europe 1,480,000 quarters, Argentina 88,000 quarters, Russian 320,000 quarters, Danubian 140,000 quarters.'lndia 179,000 quarters, Australasia '54.000 quarters. Cargoes quiet and steady; 41s 3d is asked and 40s bid for a New' South Wales shipment off the coast; 39s is aekei for four ports January-February and 38s 9d for February-March. Liverpool futures have advanced %d to %d.

HIGH COMMISSIONER'S CABLE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Monday. The following is the High Commissioner's cable under date London, October 19. (Note.—Quotations, unless otherwise specified, are average market prices on spot). Mutton.—The market is rather quiet, but holders are not anxious to sell, in anticipation of moderate supplies coming forward. Canterbury 4vid, North Island 4y 4 d. Lambs.—The market is quiet, with a ■ tendency in favour of buyers. Supplies of home-grown lambs are 'heavy and are 'lowering'the prices of New Zealand. Canterbury 5%d, other than Canterbury ,5%d. . . ' V,',? eef -— The market is very dull; supplies are increasing. New Zealand hinds 3y 2 d, fores 2%d. Butter.—The market is firm at an advance and active with a good demand. Hie Kaikoura's shipment of unsalted butter arrived in good condition and was •Offered at 134s (in second hand). Danish 131s, Siberian 112©, Australian 115s, .■Argentine 1255. : ; Cheese.—The market is quiet, with a tendency in favour of buyers. Canadian white 64s (id, coloured 65s 6d. , Hemp.—The market remains firm. Demand for spot is good, and also to arrive. Spot New Zealand good fair grade £3l 10s, New Zealand fair grade £3O 10s ifair current Manila £3O 10s. A forward shipment; of .New Zealand good fair grade brought £32, fair £3O 15s, fair cur2'«nt..Manila £3l. The output from ■tS 1 , |for he week was 36 >°00 bales, L Tfo6l.—The market remains firm.

KING'S WEEKLY REPORT. ton Thursday, 10th inst,, I held my spring horse fair at the Waiwakaiho yards.,-,-Horses, were yarded up.to the advertised numbers and I had an excellent attendance of buyers from all parts. Mr.- J: Wbbldrjdge's carrying plant and hfirses'/.were a special entry, these selling very readily at from £l9 5s to £3O lOj foryoung waggoners, and from £ll 10s to £lO JOs for aged horses. The waggons did not obtain much enquiry. On account of other vendors: Unbroken half-draughts brought from £2O 10s to £2B 10s, heavy broken horses £2O 10s to £35 10s, good "spring carters £ls 10s to £l9 11??,,. gig.horses and hacks £9 10s to £l4, "aged horses up to £7 10s. At the Waiwakaiho sale on Friday there -wasTrgood entry of most classes, with .a-good number of yearling cattle. Competition was good right through for everything except springers, of. which the qua-Bty'-Wasp'oor; Prices realised were: Ewee-an'dlamus 'lßs, hoggets las, mixed yearlings 1 £2 4s to £3 Is, yearling bull? £Fir<rtV£'2-17i, choice Jersey year: : ling 'heifers £4 15s, nice line of Jersey '.yearn'tig'toilo-month heifers £4 7s, small > Jet'sey'Holst'eins £3 12s Od, good grade 15-manthi heifers £3 to £3 9s. yearling ' heifers: £'2 10s to £2 10s, good' colored 'pen'of'ls-months steers £3 6s 6d, others i(goo'd)- £2 19s to £3 2s, small or bad I colored'£l 17s to £2 Cs, empty 2-j'ear icolored Jersey heifers £5 7s 6(1 to £5 17s, Igmdes from £3 19s 6d to £4 15s (ac-Icc-Tdin'g to quality), fat' cows £5 15s, (forward' cows £4 10s, store cows £3 10s jtb : '£3' 17s alid from £4 to £4 8s for ibest, small "£ 2 Iss Gd to £3 3s, aged ;£l 13s 6d'to £2 ss. bulls £3 to £5 ss. jsptfngin'g heifers (best) from £7 15s to ;JEO 7s Gel, smaller or late £4 7s Od to !£5 12s ; 6d, best dairy cows £(i 12s Gd to J£7 7s fid, others £3 2s Cd to £4 15s. j In my Urenui yards on Monday, 14th, I i had"a ' better entry of cattle,'most of ,by "pern being filled. A good number of : ; dairy"cattle were yarded, including .'some' very choice heifers. All' dairy iattlft were again sold before the stores, , inciting'very keen competition, best heifers selling at from £9 to £10,17s (id, and from £B 15s to £7 2s Od for good, 'though ■' smaller heifers, and lor late oalvers, though poor, from £5 to £0 ss, 'liest dairy cows £8 to £lO 10s. others ''£6 to £7 2s 6d, three-quarter bred cows ' ; £6 to £7 2s Od, ordinary cows £4 7s Gd tjo £5 12s 6d. - On 'rtcconHt or Mr. J. Glees'ony .pedigree Jersey bulls sold, as follows:'Waitoitoi's Pride, 17gns.; Randwiek's Glory, 'lsgns.; Chaka; liy 2 gns.; grade.Jersey bulls £6 15s. Other prices were: Mixed yearlings £2 18s to £3 3s, , ,Holstein-Jcrsey 15-months heifer's (very nice) £s' 9s, grade yearling heifers £2 las-fid to £3 3s, yearling steers £2 4s to £3, yearling bulls up to £3 10s, good 2-year bulls up- to £G 15s, 2-year colored steers £3 13s to £4, -small'3-year bullocks £5 7s 6d, good colored empty heifers £5 7s to £5 10s, empty sound Jersey dairy cows £5 18s, good stores £3 18s to £4 6s, and from £3 2s to £3 6s for iigcd'br poor, forward cows £4 15s to £8 ; ss, small fat cows £6 to £6 6s, fat 3-year bullocks £7, store pigs £l. On Tuesday at Stratford cattle came forward'much in excess of advertised numbers, in all about' 950 head of store cattle and 200 dairy cows and heifers (being yarded. The demand throughout was keen, very few pens being passed in. Store cows (about 150 yarded) and yearling cattle sold very readily. A very choice line of Jersey 15-months heifers entered by Mr. R. D. Harkness were much admired, realising, after good competition, £5 3s. A very nice line of 12s to 15-months steers realised £3 Bs, other yearling steers yarded being of very good quality. Prices obtained were: Colored 2-year heifers £5 2s to £5 18s and from £4 10s to £4 ISs, good grades from £4 2s G'd to £4 7s Od, small or poor £3 17s Gd, fat cows (small) £0 ,7s fid, forward cows £5 Is, to £5 13s, good-framed store cows (with good condition) £4 8s Cd to £4 15s, good store £3 17s fid to £4 4s, others £3 2s to 3 14s, boners up to £2 4s, choice 15-month Jersey heifers up to £5. 3s, good grades £2 19s to £3 153 fid, small £1 18s to £2 13s, best quality yearling steers £2 17s Gd to £3 Bs, others £2 Is fid to £2 16s, inferior £1 10s to £1 14s Od, 2-vear steers (very fair cattle) £4 10s Gd'to £4 145.. In the, dairy pens the quality of the springers'was not so good as at former sales, but a good number were cleared during the day as follows:—Rest heifers from £8 10s to £lO 2s Od, others £0 5s to £7 ss, and from £4 '2s Cd to £5 7s Cd, cowa £>G 17s 6d to £8 15s.

' At. Douglas on Monday I had a very good yarding of cattle and an improved attendance of buyers. Bidding from start to finish 'was very brisk, prices obtained being right up to the present high market rates. • Two-year steers made £4 to £4 7s fid, dairy bulls up to £B, yearling heifers £3Js fid to £3 7s Cd, 2-year empty lieifem£4« r 7s to £5 ss, \ yearling steers <*£2,,Cd, cows and I calves £4 2s Od to £5 15s, store cows j £2 lis to £4 13s, springing heifers (very choice) £l2 to £l3, good £0 10b to j £8 ss, springing eows £9 to £ll, 2-year v filly £7 10s, mare and foal £0 ss, un- j broken 2-year-filly £l3. ! Jn my Stony River yards on Wednesday tliere was a fair entry and a good attendance. A very nice line of 12 to 15-months steers were yarded by Mr. A. Gray, of Okato. These cattle were all by a purebred Shorthorn bull and were much admired, realising £3 10s, after keen competition. Mrs. Larkin's dairy cows were in rather rough condition, but met with excellent competition, bringing from £8 to £l3 fpr best and from £4 to £7 for aged. Other prices were: Yearling steers £2 8s 6d to £2 19s 6d, Shorthorn yearling heifers £3 3s 6d, grades £2 5s to £2 lis, mixed steers j and bulls £2, empty 2-year heifers (good J line) £4 6s to £4 16s, aged store cows ) £2 to £2 5s fid, cows £3 5s to £3 15s and £4 ss* to £4 14s for goodconditioned young cows, fat cows £6 15s, 2-year Holstein bulls (well marked) £l9 and £l2, grade Holstein bull £4 16s, yearling Shorthorn bulls £5, 3-yoar ! Shorthorn bull £8 2s 6d, pedigree Jer-' sey bull (K.C. 7th) 2figns., grade Jersey bulls £3 3s to £5 ss, springing heifers £4 7s Cd to £7 17s 6d (according to quality), trap horse £l2, dray £l2, trap and harness £lO. Private sales for the week: —Yearling steers £3 to £3 3s, .yearling JerseyHolstein heifers £4 6s, grades £3 2s 6(1, store cows £3 10s to £4 2s Od. fat cows £6 to £7 ss, 2i/ a -yoar steers £5 12s fid, 2-year steers £4 iOa, colored £3 15s to £3 17s Cd, pedigree Jersey bull 20gns, grade 3-year Holstein ljtfll (well marked) £2O, 2-year Holstein bull (well marked) £2O, trap and haruess ,: £2l,hacks £9 to £lO 10s, heavy geldings £35 to £4O, half-draught gelding £25, ewes and lambs; (with small percentage) 14s to 15s, hoggets 15s to lCs, small 13s to 13s 9d.