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COMMERCIAL.

LONDQN MARKETS. By Cable.—Press Association—Copyright Loudon, Dec. 1. Wheat; The market is rather nervous owing to uncertainty regarding stocks from North AmericaCopper: Supplies 32,499 tons, deliveries 36,339 tons, stocks 15,045 tons, afloat 3500 tons visible 26,068 tons. Spelter; Spot £9B, three months £BB. lallow; At the sales 880 casks were offered and 841 sold. Mutton, lino 52s 9d, medium 50s; beef, line 52s 3d, medium oOa, btoeks 7558 tons, imports 1704 tons, deliveries 5309 tons. Rabbit skins: Two thousand were o/Fered. There was good demand and most were sold. Australian Id advance, furriers' sorts 2d; New Zealand Id to 2d advance, furriers' 4d.

LONDON BUTTER MARKET. PRICES VERY FIRM. Received Dee. 3, 5.5 p.m. London, Dec. 2. "lie butter market is not greatly disturbed by the prohibition of Australian expoit, though tiiis is one of the factors contributing to the high prices. The general opinion in Tooley Street is that the stoppage of Australian butter will harden the prices of all the choicest sorts, especially New Zealand, and greatly assist the sale of Siberian, whereof there are enormous supplies, the quality being secondary, but useful for blending with New Zealand and Danish. Another re- , suit will be to enhance the sale of margarine.

Quotations: Colonial is rather firmer; Australian 162s to 1665, unsalted 108s. There is good enquiry for the Rimutaka's cargo of butter, which is just discharging, at 166s to 170s: Tliere is a strong market for cheese, New Zealand being about 90s ,

I AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. ] By Cable.—Press Association—Copyright Melbourne, Dec. 8. Wheat: Scarce, 5s Id. Flour: £l3. Oats: Algerian 2s 7d to 2s 9d. Maize: Scarce, 5s 5d to 5s fld Bran: £4. Pollard: £7. Potatoes: £ll to £l2. Onions: Quiet, £2 to £4. MATTHEWS, GAMLIN AND CO. 'Matthews, Gamlin and Co report a small yarding at their Inglewood yards last Wednesday, owing to the Stratford Show, there was a small attendance, bidding was fair throughout, especially for good framed cows, and we sold the majority of stock yarded at the following prices. Springing heifers, £5 10s to £7 10s, ditto cow s £6 to £8 .las, store cows £5 5s to £6 12s Od. forward ditto £7 to £8 17s 6d ; bulls £3 10a to £7, empty heifers £3 2s to £4 7s 6d, yearling steers £3 4s to £3 18a, ditto heifers £2 3s to £2 l*ss, forward ewes (shorn) 8s Id, ewes and lambs (shorn) 22s 7d. N.Z. 'LOAN AND MERCANTILE AGENCY COMPANY, LTD. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report as follows: At Westfield yards on Thursday best dairy .cows and heifers sold at from £9 to £l2 10s, others £4 15s to £7, aged and inferior cows £2 15s to £4 10s; empty cows, £0 to £7 14s; bulls, £5 to £11; yearling "to 18-months steers, £3 12s to £8 2s; yearling to 18-months heifers, £2 12s to £4 ss.' On Wednesday, fat stock were yarded in full numbers and, with few exceptions, were of excellent quality. Competition was steady throughout, and last week's rates ruled. Oxen sold to £2 0s per 1001b cows and heifers £1 15s to £2 ss; steers sold at from £ls 10s to £2O 10s; cows, £6 10s to £2l 15s t'ov first prize taker at the Auckland Show. W. Gray, Cambridge, eight steers averaged £l6 2s 6d; M. L. Watkins, Maungatautau, 8 steers, £l7 Ss fld; a draft of 24 steers from Mnungaturoto. over £l7: 72 steers from the North sold at from £l4 15s to £lO. averaging close on £l7 per head. Calves were penned in large numbers, and again declined in prices. Runners sold at from £6 12s Od to £7 17i Od; heavy suckers £3 18s to £4 4s, medium £1 15s to £2 12s, light Lis to £1 12s 6d; small and fresh-dropped, from 3s to 10s. Sheep were penned in full numbers, and sold at lower rates. Best wethers sold at from £1 7s to £1 9s Cd, a small pen realised £2, others ,C 1 2s to £1 5s fld: ewes, 18s {ld to £1 3s 6d; hoggets £1 Is to £1 5s 9d. L&mbs sold at from 19s fid to £1 3s for best, others 17s Od to 18s fld. Pigs were penned in large numbers, and sold at slightly improved rates. Heavy baconers £4 5s to £5 Is. medium £3 !0s to £4, light £'3 to £3 9s; heavy porkers C 3 x to £3 18s, medium £2 to £3 ss; weaners, 14s to £1 fis.

BURNSIDE MARKET. At iftrnside 189 fat cattle were yarded. t Only a few prime heavy cattle came forward. The sale opened well above last week's prices, and continued pretty good right through. Best bullocks £l7 to £l!), extra to £2l 7s fid, medium £l4 to £l6, light to £l2 10s, best cows £lO 10s to £l2, extra to £l4 15s, medium to £9, light and unfinished to £7.

Fat sheep: penned. The entry was more than' sufficient for butchers. Prices fell about Is to Is fid. Best shorn wethers 27s to 295. ex'tra to 335, medium 23s Od to 25s Od, best woolly wethers to 395, extra to 50s, best shorn ewe 3 23s to 255, extra to 28s, medium lfls to 21s, extra good woolly ewes, to 475.

Fat lambs: 187 penned. Owing to the large yarding prices were easier. Be9t to 21s, extra to 26s 3d, medium to IRs, light to 15s fid.

ADDINGTON MARKET. At the Addington live stock market on Wednesday the following were the quotations: Store sheep: Two-tooth wethers, 7s 9d to 10s Cd, two-tooth ewes lis to 15s, forward four and six-tooth wethers, 17s lid to 20s lid, other four and six-tooth wethers 15s 2d to 17s 4d, two, four, and six-tooth owes 17s 3d, mixed two-tooths 10s lid to lis Bd, woolly ewes and lambs 12s Ud. aged ewes and lambs 7s to' 9s, shorn merino ewes and lambs 3s sd, fairly good woolly hoggets los to 10s 9d. Fat sheep: Woolly wethers 29s 3d, prime shorn wethers' 20s to 28s, others IBs to 19s Cd, shorn merino wethers 13s Id to 16s, woolly ewes 225, prime Bhom ewes 20s to 28s 6d, medium ewes 16s 6d to 19s Od, lighter lis to 15s 6d, ho "gets 12s to 21s,

Fat lamb 3: Prime 19s to 24s Od, light sorts 12s to 18s 6d.

Fat cattle: Extra prime steers to £2l ordinary steers £7 17s 6d to £}2 10s, »rune heifers to £ll 12s 6d, or-

dinary heifers £7 7s (id to £lO 10s, extra prime.cows to £ls, ordinary cows £6 to £9 10s. Store cattle: Fifteen to eig-liteen-month 2fis to 55a, two-year steers £3 15b, two and a half-year atccrs £5 19s, twoyear heifers £3 10a,' two-year steers £7 7s 0(1 to £9 10s, dry cows £1 10s to £8 17s, dairy cows £3 to £lO. Pigs: Choppers 40s to 100s, baconers 55a to Ills, porkers Ms to 42a, medium stores 22s to 20s, smaller 14s to 21s, wcancrs 4s 6d to 13s. TIMARU WOOL SALE. For the first wool sale at Timaru on Wednesday, 0070 bales were offered, and there were left unsold only 67 bales. •The offering was less than a year a'go, as many clips had been sold privately. All kinds (even out of condition wool) were competed for, the competition was very keen, but the sales were quieter than usual. French, American, and Dominion buyers were most eager bidders. The top price was 20d for super halfbred. The range of price 3 was as follows: Merino, (little offered) and C'orriedale lCd to 20d, medium 14(1 to l»%d, inferior. 12Jd to 133 d, super three-quarter and crossbred 141 d to 18id, medium 13d to 14Jd, inferior UJd to 12.$ d, best pieces 12cl and J 4Ati (one lot medium pieces and bellies 10d to llgd, inferior !IJd to fl3 <l, locks to 7d, erutchings 9Jd to 9Jd, scoured halfbred 24id, threequarterbred 23d, crossbred 2l"d, pieces 20Jd.

The prices are considered highly satisfactory, as the wool was not in the condition as is usual for this district, owing to the drought and strong winds.

DROUGHT IN QUEENSLAND. LOSS OP CROPS AND STOCK. An ex-New Zealand woman now residing in Queensland, writes that the drought there is most severe (3ays the Auckland Herald). Her lmsband, she said, lost 100 acres of wheat, worth £3OO, through the plant life being burnt to stubble on account, of dry, hot weather and no rain, and the horses were just -able to move about. A number had died through licking mud in an endeavour to quench their thirst. Other landholders had lost thousands of sheep and stock for the want of moisture. For more than a week recently Brisbane was envejoped in a haze of smoke from bush fireß, which are so severe as to drive flying foxes by thousands into the city. The Botanic Gardens were invaded by these strange birds, which hung on the bamboos in such numbers as to weight them down. They also perched on the branches of the bunya pines, and when disturbed by boys or by the noise of foundry and steamer whistles near by they hovered about in clouds.

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Taranaki Daily News, 4 December 1915, Page 2

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COMMERCIAL. Taranaki Daily News, 4 December 1915, Page 2

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