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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 18, 9 June 1914, Page 2

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TARANAKI WOOL, SKIN, HIDE AND TALLOW SALES. W. M. BAYLY & CO'S. REPORT. j On Tuesday, the 2nd June, we held out monthly sale of above produce, our catalogue comprising a fair quantity of wool, hides, tallow and slieepskins. There .ras a good attendance of buyers, and competition was keen. We quote:— Wool in bales:; Lamb's seedy, <ji/ 2 d; lambs, clean and bright, 9d; ewes, 8y 2 d; black, 7'/4<l; fleece in inferior, rjid. Sheepskins: Butcher's half wools, damp, 4's £kl each; half wools, dry, 7y 2 d per lb.; three-quarter wools, 7%d per lb.; lamb full wools, 7s each; salted half wools, 4s 9d each; settler's three-quarter wools, 7%(1 per lb.; fulls, 8d per lbpelts, s'/ 2 d per lb.. I/ 4 Hides: Butcher's medium cow, unwashed, 8d per lb.; washed, S'/ 2 d per lb.; light washed, B%d per lb.; settler's cow, 7d; calfskins, 10% d. Tallow: In casks, medium, 24s 6d per cwt; in tins, 22s 6d per cwt. Our next sale will be held on Thursday# June 30, when we expect to have an increased entry. AH produce consigned to us will receive special attention. LONDON MARKETS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright London, June 7. Frozen meat.—New. Zealand, North Island sheep 3 13-lfid, best brands 4 1-I'tid; ewes, 3%d: Ciiiuturhury JaimiUs, heavy 0 l-l(kl; beef, fares 3 7-16 d, hinds, 4 7-16 d. Hides. —Dull. Queensland' and' Sydney meat works, all weights B%a to By.d. Leather.—Basils, New Zealand 17s to 21a Wheat.—l'inn, atitJi fair demand, J7s 1 6d is asked, 37a 3d offered. The wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 3,060,000 quarters, 'or the Continent 2,415,000 quarters; the Atlantic shipments are 373,000 quarters, Pacific nil. Copra.—WeaK; South Sea bags £24 5s to £34 10s. HIGH COj\IMLS»IONIihtS (REPORT. By Teiegrapu— Press Association. 1. ellingiton, Monday. following is the liigu Oonimissioneir's cablegram, under date Loudlon, June 0. (Note: Quotations unless otherwise specified, are average market prices on spot) Mutton.—Good demand continues and prices aro firm, especially for lightweights. Canterbury 4%d for. lightweights, heavy-weights :t%d, North Island 4%<1 for ibest quality light-weight. Lamlb.—The market is quiet but steady with less demand 011 account of the largo supply of inferior quality EnglisUil lamb. Canterbury 0 5-Kid for ]. flrdt-class quality to as high as 6%4 Beef.—Less demand owing to supplies of American chilled beef being large. New Zealand hinds 4 7-10 d, ton's 3 7-10 J. chilled hinds 5%d, fores 3'/ 2 d. Butt or.—There is 110 alteration in uic butter Market since, last week. Danish 114s to 116s'. The New Zealand market is quiet but steady ait lOto to 110s, Australian 100.5 to 104s. lllte .Siberian mar■ket is quiet and steady at 98s to lft>s. Irish creamery slow at 104s to 103 a. Cheese.—l tie market is flirner. Old Canadian is iirm at 08s to 70s; new is in good demand at lil.s to 02s. NVw Zealand is 111 good demand—white (i'is ' to 03s, colored 04s to Cos. It is estimated that Canadian cheese stocks on June 2, at -London, Bristol and Liverpool, were 33,000 boxes, against 07,000 boxes at ithe same time last year. New Zealand und Australian stock) in London and Bristol were 37,000 crates, as agaiifct 34,000 crates last year. Hemp.—The market is iquiet,) w'itli small ou'siness doing. Prices have declined. Manila fair current £2O, June ( to August clMpnient 5s more. The output from Manila for the week was 21,000 bales. New Zealand good fair £2O, fair £23, June to August shipments 5s more in each case. The 'stock of New Zealand hemp at the end of May -was 971 tons. (Hisal.i —The market is- reported to be easier. New liork quotations are 525 cents (equal to £25 per toil) c.ii. Europe. The shipments from Progreso during April wore 102,893 bales, against 47.038 during April last year. The stocks at fetac beginning of May were 40,057 bales, against .127,000 last year. Tow.—The maiilcot is quiot, and! very little offering. The nominal values aire: Second g"ade £l3 10s, third grade £l2 10s. The stock 1 at the end of May was 334 tons. Kauri tlum.—The market is firm, but little doing, and prices are nominally unchanged. Fifty packages were offered, Mostly of a low gradto, and none sold. Hop*.—Tne market is quiot, and prices fairly steady. English, 115s to 1355;, Continental, 95s to> 200s; Califoniian, 753 to 100s. Wool.—The market is quiet and! firm. ,