COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 160, 23 November 1912, Page 6

COMMERCIAL.

LONDON MARKETS.

I'y Cable—Press Association —Copyright. London, November 21. Silver, 2!) 1-Ifid per ounce. Share Quotations—Waihi 31s lOd. and 33s Id. Jute.—Dull; November-December £26 ss. Butter. —Dull; colonial declined about 2s. AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. Sydney, November 21. Wheat.—Old 4s G l /j.d to 4s 7%d, new 3s 2y s d :to 3s sd. Flour, £!) 10s. Bran, £6 10s. Pollard, £7. . Maize,. 4s 4d. to 4s fid. Oats.—Algerian nominal; New Zealand whites 3s sd, giants 3s fid. Potatoes.—Local £lB to £2O, New Zealand £lB. Onions. —Weaker; local £9, Victorian £8 to £8 10s. Butter.—Selected 104s, prime 06s to 100s. Cheese, Bd. Bacon, By,d. Adelaide, -November 21. Wheat.—Old 3s lid. Bran, Is 2V 3 d. Pollard, Is 2y>d. Oats.—Old 2s 9y a d, new 25..t0 2s 3d. Melbourne. November 21. Hides.—The. supply is moderate and bidding active; prices are firm; calf is dearer. .... Melbourne, November 22. Wheat, 4s 3%d to 4s 4d. new 3s 8d to 3s fld. Flour, £fl 155.Oats.—Algerian feeding 3s 2d, New Zen land 3s 4y s d. Maize, 3s lid. Bran, £6 ss. Pollard, £7. Potatoes, £l3 to £l6: Onions, £6 to £7 Os. NEWTON KING'S WEEKLY REPORT.

At Whagamomona on Friday, owing to the bad weather and also to one vendor being unable to muster his cattle out of the bush, all stock entered did not come forward. There was a fair attendance and, with the exception of two or three pens, everything was,sold at satisfactory prices. -Twelve to fifteen-months steers made £ 3 to' £3 8s 6d, empty heifers £3 Is to £3 7s, 'bulls £2 15s to £3 7s, springing heifers £5, store cows £3 los. At the Haymarket, New Plymouth, on Saturday, 16th, I had a big entry of pigs, all being cleared at the following rates: —Weaners 8s to lis Bd, slips 15s to 225, small stores up to 275, good to 38s, sows £2 10s.

On Monday; 18th inst;, at Okato, for Mr. R. H; Coltman's clearing sale, I had a very large attendance, buyers gathering from all parts of Taranaki. The dairy cows were in excellent condition, reflecting great credit on the vendor. About twelve cows had been in milk all the winter and 'including these the herd averaged £8 ss. Best cows in milk realised from £!).5.8.t0 £l3 15s, secondgrade £6 to '£7 ss', winters milkers £4 7s 6(1 to £5 15s, store cows £4 7s Cd to £4 16s-,- cow- -with -two calves £5 10s, springing 2-year heifers £5 10s, empty. 2-year heifers £4 7s-,- heifer calves £1 15s, mixed calves 12s, sow with litter of six £5 ss, store pigs £1 18s 6d, slips 143 to. l!)s, igeldfrig .'£2 B.: .'Sundries and furniture soldvery Teadily at satisfactory prices.. : <■ On Tuesday, 10th, I had a fair entry in my Kahotu yards, with an excellent attendance. : i Bidding throughout was very spirited, every line being cleared at the hammer without exception. Price# considering the quality of the cattle, were considerably in advance of recent sales as follows:—Small 15.months heifers £2 13s to £3 2s, good £3 5s 6d to £3 12s, 15-moriths steers (with color) £2 ( 12s to '£2 lite, good . 15-months steers £3 7s, 2-year enlpty heifers £3 IDs Gd to £4 15s, bulls from £1 lis 6d to £s,' good store and, forward ...cows £4 7s to £5 12s, small or aged £2 5s to £3 4s, j small fat cows, £6, 2-year steers £4 Is, < small slip'pigs 14s 6d.' ' , At my Stratford dairy yards on the same day springing lieifers sold at from £5 Hts to £8 12s Cd, heifers (calved) £• 7s 6d to £6 1% springing' cOws up to til 12s Cd, aged £5 to £5 7s 6d. Private -sale's for the week:—Yearling steers (cojored) £2 15s, mixed yearlings £3, empty'2 to -2%-year heifers £4 0s to £4 -liW, fat cows £7 to £7 ss, 3 to 3%-ybar bullocks £6 5s (net)', bulls from £3 10s to £O, lambs 'for forward delivery 'llls, fat wethers £1 2s Od to £1 4s, store wethets 13s 9d,' small: hoggets 12s 8(1, drav £l2, gelding £25, pony £ll.

MATTHEWS, BENNETT i: CO.'S J IE POUT.

Matthews, Bennett and Co. report that then' ; was a fair yarding of cattle in their Ingle wood yards on Wednesday last. Prices were good and nearly every lot sold well. Springing heifers £-5 to £7, dairy cows.v £4 to! £6 : 15s, store cows C-2'l'Os to £3 15s (id, fat. cows £6 (3s, bulls. £S tu-.£5 Is,.yearlings to 15months steers £2 lfls to £3 2s, 2-year to 2%-year- steers ,£4. ,13s fid.

SOUTHERN MARKETS.

, ADD.INGTON. Fat lambs—.Best, lamb.} made ICs 6d to 20s, lighter'l4s~fo lSs'ffd.' ' Fat sheep—Prime'woolly wethers 24s to 29s 6d. others 21s- l.d to 23s Cd, woolly ewes 21s 3d to 28s' Cd, woolly hogget's 17s 4d'to 23s Bd,-woolly merino wethers 17s 9d to 22s Vil,- prime 'slibrn wethers lfls to 2-ls, light 17s to 18s fid, pritne shorn ewes 'lßs to '24s-.id-,~ others 15s jto 17s 6(1. Fat decline .to the extent of 2s per 10011), the decline being most noticeable in the case of go;od beef. Beef realised 26s to 33s per lOOljb; steel's made ..£8 $3! to ss, extra jto £l4 ss, heifer* £7 17s 6d to £9, ajid cows £6 fid to Store.cattle—Yeaxlings £2 lis, fifteen to eighteen-montlis..s i (?rts £3 IDs to £3 15.3, two-year steers' £3 7s Cd to £3 los, twelve to eightcen-mqnthfl so r rts,;£4, two and a-half to three-year steers £5 ss, two and , a-half steers .£6, .three-year steers £7, 17s 6d, three-year heifers £5 15s, dry e'o>V3 £3, la 6d to. £6 7s fid. Dairy cows also sold well, prices ranging from £4 5s to £l'd. Fat pigs—Choppers realised £3 10s, to £6 7s, hea,vv bucotiersifiSs to 725, extra to £3 10s, lighter sorts 52s to 60s (these prices being equivalent-to 5%d to o'/jjd per lb); heavy porkers 40s to 50s, lighter 40s to 43s (equal to : s%d' L(> 6d per lb). There was an average yarding of store p'igs. The demand waa on a par with the previous week and below the aver-age.-of three t;rfour:wec\ks ago.' Large stores realised from 42s to 40k. medium S2s;to ,40s) snail lots;22s to 28s, weaiiors 15s to 20s. . ■■ ,

iHiiiXiSnjiL.- ;■ Pat cattle—Prime 'bullocks £l3 10s to filft.c^.tß l^| £l2 10s to £l3,.ligKt and, inferior £0 to £ll, exti'rt' 'tft' '£l4 '2s"tfxK , 'mKlnim £7 ]o< to £9. ' ' ' • '' I Fai.'Shedjvr-Brirtfi! wethers,gGs .to' 27s 6d, extra,to 3&;<)d,.nv?fliljj)|,24s .to 25s 6d, light and shorn wethers Itfs tilt" to' '22s, 'medium fid to 20s, prime ewe's''24s' to '2os (Id. extra to-28a 9d, medium »2'ls. :6iV to 235, light and inferior 17s to 19s.

Fat lambs —Prime 17s to 18s 6d, extra to 18s 9d, medium los to lGs Gd, light and inferior 13s to 14s Gd. JOHNSOXVTLLE. Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on thair Johnsonville sale as follows: —Extra prime heavy bullocks £ll 10s to £l2 ss. prime heavy bullocks £ 10 10s to £lO lis, lighter £9 10s to £lO, prime weaners £2, light £1 2s to £1 os, extra prime heavy wethers £1 9s, prime heavy wethers £1 Bs, good ewes £1 3s 8d to £1 4s 2d, light £1 Is Gd, primes horn wethers 20s 7d to 20s lid, prime ewes 18s to 18s Gd, lighter IBs 8d to 17s, plain lGs Gd, prime lambs 15s to 15s 3d, light 13s to 13s 9d.