COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 November 1915, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

LONDON MARKETS. By Cable—Press Association —Copyright. London, November 4. Wheat—Very firm. Responding to strong American advices of the scarcity of freight sellers are holding for 9d to Is fid dearer. AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. Sydney, November 5. Oats—American, 3s to 3s Sd; Tasmanian, 3s (id. Maize—Yellow, 5s 6d; white, os; Javan, 4s 6d to 4s 9d; South African. 4s 9d to 5s 6d.

Potatoes—Tasmanian, £ID to £IS; New Zealand, £ls to £ls 10s. Onions—Old, £4; new, £8 10s to £9. Brisbane, November 5. Wheat—Prompt delivery, 6s; forward, 4s fld to 4s 9d. Flour—Old, £10; new, £l4 to r £l4 10s. Bran, Is o%d to Is l%d. Pollard, to is 6'/ 2 d. Oats—Old, -2s Od; new, 2s. Melbourne, November 5. •Wheat, nominal. Flour, £l7. Oats—Japanese, 2s s%dj Chilian, 3s. Maize, 4s Gd. Bran, £4. Pollard, £6. Potatoes, £l4. Onions, £3 10s to 1 £4.

NEWTON KING'S REPORT. On Monday, November 1, my Urenifll yards had a full yarding, with a heavy demand right through for all classes, practically everything yarded being j cleared at the hammer at the following I prices:—Yearling to 15-month-heifers £1 17s fid to £3 3s, good 15 month steers £3 18s to £4 ss, s mall or rough year-i lings £2 lis to £3 2s 6d, empty 2-year| heifers £4 4s to £4 Bs, 2%-year steers £5 7s fld to £0 4s, fat cows £8 los to" £lO 2s, forward cows £6 18s to £7 17s fld, store cows £5 17s to £6 12s fld, very small store cows £3 2s fld to £4 3s, pedigree Jersey bull 20gns., heavy bulls for boning £ll 5s to £l3 12s fld, dairy bulls £5 10a fo# small to £ll 15a for good, ewes and lambs 255, fat hoggets, (small line) 26s 6d. At Rahotu on Tuesday, 2nd inst., I had a very good yarding of all olasses, for which there was keen competition right through the sale, prices being:— Yearling heifers £1 15s to £2 Cs, 15month heifers £2 12s fld to £2 Ms fid, good £3 5s fld, 16-month steers £3 18s to £4 ss, rough yearlings £2 12s fld tb £2 16s, empty 2-year heifers £4 14s to £5 3e, small and rough £3 8s fld to £3 17s, fat cows (light) £Q 6s to £9 7s fld, forward cows £7 to £8 Is, store cows (good) £5 17s to £6 15s, smaller store cows £4 lis to £6 ls> small springing heifers £4 5s to £<3 2s, pedigree 2-year Holstein bull 26 gns., grade Holstein bulls (rough), £l4 to £ls, grade Shorthorn (rough), £9 to £l2, boner bulls (heavy) £lO 5s to £l3. On the same, day at Stratford, for my weekly springing heifer fair, I had a record sale. The special entry of 42 dairy cows on account of Mr. D. Yandle, Puniwhakan, attracted numerous buyers from all parts of the district, and considering that these cows were in milk, great prices were obtained, the highest being £lB 10s, but the other prices were consistent, the herd of 42 making the good average of £l2 9s 3d, which must be considered very satisfactory. Heifers (calved), on account of Mr. Yandle, made £8 10s to £ll, and springing heifers on account of other vendors sold very readily at prices up to £l2 and down to £4 10s to £6 5s for backward stuff. Dairy cows made £6 10s to £9 10s, the 100 head of dairy cattle sold averaging £9 10s 3d. ■ Private sales for the week are as follow: —15-month steers £3 15s to £3 18s, smaller £3 5s to £3 10s, choice Jersey and Holstein 15-month heifers £3 10s, yearling heifers £2 to £2 6s 6d, empty 2-year heifers £4 4s, rough 2-year steers ' £5 7s fid to £5 10s, 3-year bullocks £9 10s to £ll 10«, fat cows £9 to £lO sa, store cows £5 12s to £7 15s (according to condition), dairy cows £8 to £lO, dairy heifers £5 los to £7 15s, hoggets 21s Gd, ewes and lambs 29s to 325, pedigree Shorthorn balls 25 to 30gns., 3-year draught colt by Empire 40gns.

HIDE, WOOL AND SKINS. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd.. report:— Wheat—Fair demand at 4s lOd to 5s per bushel, ex store. 1 Oats—Sales steady at 4s Id to 4s 2d, ex store. Bran—Slow of sale at £6 15s per ton, ex store. Pollard—(Firmer, owing to supplies being rather short, £fi )-3s per ton, ex store Maize—Demand lias eased with lower prices prevailing for wheat. Price, 4s <M and 4s lOd per bushel, ex store.,, Chaff —Sales firm. Prime southern, £8 os to £9 7s 8d per ton, ex store; good local, £8 10s, ex store. Potatoes—Good quality scarce, £ll 7s 6d per ton, ex store. Fungus—Scarce; readily fetching 7cl per lb for good dry samples. Manures —In good demand; English basic slag, at £5 15s per ton, still finds ready sale. We submitted and sold average catalogues of hides, skins and tallow on Tuesday, competition being keen for all lines offering. Hides market firmer. We quote: Extra stout ox lOd to stout ox to 9%d, medium ox B%d to 9'/ s d, light ox B%d to B%d; cows, best lines B%d to B%d, good 8d to SVId, superior 7%d to 7%d, kips 8d tq 8y 2 d, stags fid to 6y 2 (l; horse hides, 3s 6d to 9s, damaged hides 3%d to 7d. Sheepskins—Market brisk. IJest butchers' skins, picked, to 14b 4d, good lines 10s 6d to lis Bd, medium 7s 6d to 8s Bd, small 4s 9d to 6s, pelts la 3d to Is 9d, spring lambs Is 3d to Is sd. Country dry and woolly skins: Best lines Bjd to 9d per lb, good 6y 2 d to 7'/jd per lb, damaged 2'/ 2 d to 5d per lb. Tallow —Market firm. Best mixed, to 2G.?, good 23s 6d to 25s 3d, inferior 18s Gd to 21s 6d, rough fat l%d to l%d per lb, Bones, £5; cowtails. Is; horsehair, Is 3d to Is 8y 4 d. Wool —In bags and dumps selling freely. Bright crossbred lid to 12% d, coarse crossbred 9%d to 10% d. inferior B'/ 3 d to »y t d, crutchings (best) to 11 %d, good 9d to 10% d, seedy f>d to Cy,d, locks and pieces 3Va(l to B'/jd.

johnsonvill; Prime heavy bullocks made £l6 12s Gd, prime bullocks £lO to £l-6 life, lighter £l4 15s to £ls 12s 6d, prime cows £lO, prime vealers £2 to £2 3s, lighter 26s to 31s, extra prime heavy wethers 28s 2d, light wethers 23s lOd to 245, good ewes 23s 6d, lighter 21a Gd to 225, prime lambs 16s lOd to 17a, lighter 16s to 15s 6d-

-MATTHEWS, OAMLIN & OO.'S , REPORT. Matthews, G&mlin and Co. report a full yarding at Inglewood last Wednesday, everything offered with the exception of one pen of heifers, at the hammer at the following prices:—Springing heifers £5 5s to £7 17s 6d, springing cows £7 10s to £9, store cows £4 10s to £5 15s, forward do. £0 to £7 17s, empty heifers £3 las to £4 sa, a few choice crossbred Holsteins fA 17s fld, 2-year steers £6 12s 6d, yearling do. £3 2s fid to £4 yearling heifers 3Ss to £2 lis, bulls £7 to £lO 17s Oct.

ADDINGTON. 1- at lambs—Prime 16s to 23s Id, others 13s 7d to 18s 3d. sheep—Prime woolly wethers 30s to AOs sd, others 19s to 29s 6d, shorn wethers 17s Id to 3Gs, prime woolly ewes 28s to 40s Id, others 18s 7d to 27s fid, shorn ewes lGs 9d to 375, woolly hoggets 26s to 425. Store sheep—Ewe hoggets 16s to 19s 3d, shorn ewe hoggets 16s Id to 18g lOd, extra good wether hoggets to 21s 3d, wether hoggets 18a 6d to 21a 9d, medium wether hoggets 16s to 17s 9d, halfbred hoggets 21s !W, 2-tooth wethers 15s 3d, 4 and 6-tooth wethers 23s lOd, shorn 4 and 6-tootli wethers 17s lOd to 18s fld, inferior shorn 4 and fl-tooth wethers 13s 9d to 18s fld, dry 4, 6 and 8-tooth ewes 225, aged ewes and lambs 7s lid to 13s, good ewes and lambs 13s fld to 14s 3d. Fat cattle—Extra prime steers to £24 ss, ordinary steers £9 12s fid to £l2 15s, ordinary steers £9 12s fld to £l2 15s, extra prime heifers to £lB ss, ordinary heifers £7 loa to £ll 10s, extra prime eows to" £M 12s fld, ordinary cows £6 15s to £10; price df beef per 1001b, 30s to 545, extra to 60s. Fat calves, 8s to 72a, ' Store cattle—Yearlings 265, 15 to 18months sorts 37s to £3 ss, 2-year steers £3 15s to £4, 2-year heifers £3 ss, 2y syear steerg £6 10s, 3-year steers £8 ss, 3-year heifers £5 2s fld, cows £2 to £7 ss. Pigs—There was the largest yarding of fat pigs seen at Addingt'on for a considerable time, but the quafity was only fair and prices were decidedly easier, though the market for store pigs kept up well.

( BURNSIDE. Fat Cattle —Prime 'bullocks made £2O to £22, extra to £23 12s 6d, medium to good £lB 10s to £lB, light £l2 10a to £l3 Ids, best cows and heifers £l4 to £l6 10s, extra to £l6 17s fid, medium to good £ll to £l2, light and aged £9 to £lO. Fat sheep—2o23 penned, the quality being below last week's standard. Prices opened about last week's rates, but towards the close advanced la per head. Prime wethers made 44s to 47s fld, extra to i>Qs, medium to good 32s to 38s, light 24s fid to 28s, best ewes 32a to 38s, extra to 51s, medium 24» 0d to 275, light and unfinished 19s to 21s, prime shorn ewes to Dos 3d, heavy do. to 365. Fat lambs—B3 were penned, and sold up to 245.

WANGAUUI. Cuttle—Eight fat bullocks passed -at £l7, five prime fat cows £l2 lis, nine fat cows £ll 10s, nine fat cows £lO 14s, eight fat cows £8 7a, one fat cow .£8 4s, five fat bullocks passed at £ls 10s, 140 forward young cows passed at £6 17s 6d, S3 three-year heifers £5 17s 6d, 16 3-year heifers passed at £5 2s 6d, 10 2-year steers £5 12e, 22 2-year heifers gassed at £3 10s, 11 store cows £5 Is 6d, eight fat cows and six calves'passed at £4 lis, 36 cows and calves £8 6s, 63 2%-year bullocks £7 5s 6d, 46 2-year steers £6, 45 store cows passed at £5 143 6d, 33 store cows £7 6s 6d, 27 cows and six calves passed at £5, 15s, one vealer 10s, three vealers 9, three vealers 20s 6d.

I AUCKLAND. The Xew Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd,, report:— At Westfield on Wednesday oxen 9old to £2 7s pev 1001b, cowg and heifers £1 15s to £2 ss. Steers sold at from £ll 10s to £2O 7s 6d, cows and heifers £7 "2s 6d to £lO 2s 6d. Wethers in wool sold at from 28s to 38s 9d, shorn do. 23s 6J to 31s 9d, ewes in wool 24s to 365, shorn do. 18s 9d to 27s 3d, lambs (in full* supply), sold at lower rates, from 13s 6d to 22k 9d. Calves: Runners £6 15s to £8 12s (id, heavy suckers £3 15s to £5 ISs, medium £2 19s to £3 10s, light £1 10s to £2- 13s, small and fresh-dropped 4s to £ 17s. Pigs were penned in large numbers and sold at last, week's prices. Heavy baconers £4 5s to £5 Is, medium £3 10s to £4, light £2 18g to £3 7s, Jieavy porkers £2 18s to £4 2s, medium £2 iOs to £2 17s, light £1 17s to £2 (is, slips £1 7s to £1 ISs, weaners 14s to. £1 Is. At the same yards "on Thursday best dairy cows and heifers sold at from £9 5b to £l4 17s Od, others £5 17s fid to £B, aged and Inferior cows £2 to £5, empty cows and heifers £6 to £8 3s, bulls £5 10s to £ll lis, yearling to 16-months heifers £3 5s to £4 los. At Albert yards heavy draughts made from £2l to £3B 10s, medium £l7 to £2B 10s, light harness liorses £ll to £2O, hacks £9 to £l6 10s, ponies £4 to £8 los, weeds 10s to £2 10s, harness and produce at ruling prices. At Papakura on Monday best dairy cows sold at from £9 to £l4, others £5 to £7, aged and inferior £1 los to £4 7s fid, best heifers £7 to £lO 17s 6d, others £5 2s 6d to £f> 12s (Id, bulls (according to quality) £5 5s to £l7 17s. On Tuesday at Papakura we had a full yarding, and prices ruled very high. Grown steers, in forward cbndition £ll 17s 6d to £l3 15s, 3 to 4-year steers £9 17s 6d to £ll 12s 6d, 2 to 3-year -steers £8 13s to £ll, yearling to 18-months steers £3 16s to £5 19s, empty cows and heifers £6 to £8 4s, yearling to 18mouths heifers £3 3s to £5 4s, calves £1 15s to £2 17s, bulls £5 10's to £l3 13s; beef at fully Weatfleld rates.