COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 301, 29 May 1915, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

LONDON MARKETS. London, May 27. Copper—-Spot, £77 ss, £77 10s; three months, £7B ss, £7B 10s. Tin. —Spot, £lOl 15s, £lO2 ss; three months, £lOl 10s, £lO2. Lead.—£2o ss, £2O 12s fid. Spelter, £BO to £7i>. Silver, 23s Oil. 1 Sugar.—Steady iuul unchanged. Bradford tops in strong demand; 64's 35(1 super fiO's 31V,d, common 00's 33'/ s d, aO's 31d, 50's 30d,~45's 27% d, 40'522/2 d.5 ] / 2 d. AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. Sydney, May 28. Oats. —Tasmanians us Od, New Zealand A Cartons 5s 5d to 5s Cd. Barley.—Cape feeding 5s Dd, English Os.

Maize, 5s 7d to 5s Dd. Potatoes.—Tasmanians £0 10s to £B, New Zealand iTJp-to-Datcs £7 10s. Onions.—Victorian £S, New Zealand Globes £5 to £5 10s. Cheese, fl'/sd to lOd. Bacon, 8 1 /!. dto 9d. Adelaide, May 28. Wheat, 8s 4d to 8s sd. Flour, £l7 IBs. (Bran, 2s 2%d. Pollard, 2s fid. Oats, 5s 9d.

;■ Melbourne, May 28. Hides.—'Moderate supplies. Heavy and good are unchanged, whilst others are a farthing lower. Wheat. —Nominal 8s l%d. Flour, £l7. Oats. —Nominal 5s l';<£d. Maize, 5s s'/ s d. "Bran, £lO ss. I'ollard, £ll 15s. Potatoes, £5 10s. Onions, £0 10s to £fi 153.

Matthew's Gamlin and Co. report a small sale on 'Wednesday last. Store cows were in fair demand, and wc could have sold weaners bad they been yarded. We quote: Fat cows, £0 15s to £7 7s Od; forward ditto, £4 103 to £5 ss. Springing heifers, £5 10s to £8; weaner heifers, 15a to 32s fid. JOI-INSONVILLE. At Jolinsonville prime bullocks made £l4 17s fid, prime light bullocks £l2 2s 0d to £l2 17s Od, light cows £5 fis to £is 10s, prime heavy wethers 27s Dd, prime wethers 20s Bd, lighter 24s 7d, extra prime heavy ewes 27s 9d, 'prime heavy „.ewes 20s, prime ewes 24s lOd, plain ewes 18s to 20s, prime woolly lambs 18s Id to 18s sd, lighter 15s Od to 10s 3d. IA'DDINGTON. I Store sheep.—Good ewe lambs 9s 9d to 10s, good lambs Ss 2d to 0s 9d, medium lambs 5s Od to 7s 7d, cull lambs 2s Id to 5s Cd, good 2-tooth wethers 12s fid to 14s 3d, forward 4 and 6-tooth wethers 15s lid to ISs 3d, good 4 and G-tooth wethers 13s 4d to 14s 3d, aged forward ewes 10s, cull ewes 4s to 5s 2d, 2-tooth ewes 12s. Fat lambs—Prime lambs 16s to 20s lOd, others 10s Od to los Cd. Fat sheep—Prime wethers 20s to 24s 4d, others 15s od to 19s fid, merino wethers 12s Od to 15s, extra prime ewes to 25s Od, prime ewes 10s Od to 20s, medium ewes 12s fid to 10s, inferior ewes 10s to 13s. Fat cattle —Steers, extra up to £2O 15s, prime steers £7 15s to £lO, heifers £5 s;i to £lO 17s Od, cows £4 7s Od to £lO. (Beef prices were 23s to 37s Gd per 1001b, extra prime to 40s per 1001b. • Store cattle —A small yarding 'of .stores met with a dull sale. Fifteen to 18-iiionths made £2 17s Od, dry cows £2 'ss to £2 12s Gd, dairy cows £3 10s to £lO. 'Pigs—Choppers £2 to £5 10s, heavy baconers £3 2s Cd to £3 12s, light baeoners £2 10s lo £2 17s Gd (equal to si/,d to 5%d per lb); large porkers 28s to 30s (equal to s'/,d to ii%d per lb); small stores 12s to ISs 7d, very small ■weaners 3s 3d, good weaners tip to Bs. ' AUCKLAND. At Westfield yards on Thursday last dairy cows sold at from £5 to £lO, empty cows £3 to £4 12s, heifers £2 15s to £3 18s, calves 18s to 335, bulls £3 to £0 10a. At Coromandel yards on Thursday fat wethers sold at from 17s to 21s, ewes 13s to 10s, lambs lis Od, ilairv eows £5 17a Od to £7, two to three-year-old steers £5 to £0 ss, heifers £3 to£4 ss, calves 10s to 355. 'Beef steers sold at from £9 15s to £ll 2s fid, cows and heifers £5 5s to £7 17s Od.

At Henderson yards on Monday dairy eows sold at from £5 to £9, .grown steers CO to £S 10s, yearling steers £3 to £4, calves £1 to £2 2s fid, bulls £3 to £7 10s.

At Albert yards 011 Friday drauglit horses sold at from £2O to £2O, medium draughts £lB to £23, light harness horses £lO to £l7, hacks £5 to £l2 10s, weeds £1 to £2.

At Westfield yards on Wednesday prime oxen sold up to 41s, others 35i to 38s per 1001b; cows and heifers, 29s to 35s per 1001b; steers sold at from £lO to £lO us, cows and heifers £4 10s to LI 1 10s. 'A draft- of 12 steers from Waiuku averaged £ls lis Bd. and several other consignments averaged over £l4 10s. Heavy vealers sold at £5, medium weights £3 10s to £4 ISs, lighter £2 to £3 ss, smaller 20s tq 38s, small and fresh-dropped 3s to ISs, Wethers, heavy weights, 24s 3d to 2Ss 9d, light weights 20s to 23s 9d, ewes, heavy weights, 21s to 24s 9d, others 18s 9d to 29s 9d, hoggets 19s to 21s. Lambs were yarded ill average numbers; best sold at from 15f .3d to 19s, others 10s Od to lis 9d. Pigs: Large baconers sold up to £5 14s, baconers £3 5s to £!, large porkers £2 8s to £3, porki"'s 2(v; to £2, slips 15s to 255, weaners 8s to 12s Od.