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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 164, 17 December 1914, Page 2

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LONDON WOOL SALES. By Cable—Press Association —Copyright. London, December 15. \ At the sale prices were unchanged and there was better competition for best sorts. There were heavy withdrawals for wasty and faulty. The fol-. lowing prices were realised for the fleece portions of the clips named:Kaputonc, top price 25Jd, average fi^d. LONDON .MARKETS. London,. December 15. Copper.—Forward, £SB 12s lid; electrolytic, £(il 10s. Tin—Spot £149, three months' £l4B 10s. Lead, £lO ss. Spelter, £2B ss, Wheat—Quiet, but firm. MELBOURNE WOOL SALES. Melbourne, December 15. At the wool sales there was keen demand for better classes and the recent weakness in ordinary recovered. NAPIER WOOI, SAT.ES. By Telegraph.—Per Proas Asso«iation. Napier, December 16. Some nineteen thousand bales were submitted at the second wool sale of the season to-day, to a full board of buyers. As was generally expected, prices, following the decline in evidence at Wellington, showed a decided drop, especially for fim-r crossbrcd-s,- which were lower by »d to 2d on the November sales. Coarse crossbreds held their own fairly well, and pieces were nearly on par with November. On the earlier catalogues the difference in prices was as follows: Best half-bred, ljd decline; fine crossbred, 1-Jd to 2d; second quality and coarse crossbred, par; inferior crossbred, rise. B. GRIFFITHS AND CO.'S REPORT. Messrs E. Griffiths received the following market report from their Lon- , don principles, Messrs Mills and Spari row, dated London, October 30, 1914: i Butter.—The market on all descrip- ■ tions has been quiet throughout the ■ quotations are lower all round. Our ; supplies have been rather heavier than ■ of late, owing to Siberian arrivals via ; Archangel and also free shipments of s .French. Current quotations are:—Dan. i isli 134s to 138sj Siberian, 113s to 1225; [ Australian salted, 124s to 12lis; Austral- • Jan, unsalted, 124s to 128s; Argentine, I salted, 120s to 1245; Argentine, unsalted, i 122s to 120s. - Cheese.—Market continue.! quiet with ; .prices showing an occasional Is reducj 1 tion. Canadian, 75s to 775; New Zeai '.land, 75s to 775. l . Bacon.—Wiltshire Cut: The killings ; .keep very heavy in Denmark, and with 3 free supplies generally, the quotations i have been reduced considerably during t the week. Irish, 50 to 701b5., GSs to 70s, 1 exceptionally 745; Danish, oOlbs to 701b5., ,- G4s to Go's, exceptionally GBs. Cumberland cut: The demand for this cut', as i well as for other American cuts has been. > exceedingly dull, and considerable reducl tions would be made on quotations to It do the'business. Canadian, 70s to 795; 1 American, 74s to 70s; long cut hams: demand very disappointing. Canadian, i- 70s to 745; American OSs to 70s; square ? shoulders: American OGs to GSs. 3 Lard. —American, boxes, 54s to 555. 3