COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 January 1916, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

LONDON MARKETS. By Cable.—Press Association—Copyrigiit * London, Jan. 19. Tallow.—One hundred and ninety-six casks were offered and 14G sold. Mutton, fine 55s fid, medium 50s; beef, fine 53s 3d, medium 495. Wheat.—Firm; sellers are asking from 3d to Is.advance. Wool. —There is a better sclectipn of greasy erossbreds and prices are harder. Merinos are selling at fully openiug rates. AUSTRALIAN MARKE'Xis. Sydney, Jan. 20. Oats.—Chilian 2s to 3s, local 2s lid to 3s. Maize.—South African 6s 4d to (is 6d. Potatoes.— I Tasmanian, old £lO to £l3, new £ls to £lO 10s; American, £l4 to £ls. Onions.—Old £2, new £3 10s to £4. Adelaide, Jan. 20. Flour. £l2 to £l2 10s. ; Bran, 10} d to lid. ' Pollard, Is 3d to Is 4d. Oa'ts, 2s 2d. Melbourne, Jan. 20. Hides.—Moderate supplies; heavier and medium very firm; lights were favored by buyers. Wheat, 5s ."id. Flour, £l2 10s. Brail, £4 10s. Pollard. £(i 10s. Oats.—Milling 2s 4d to 2s 4id, feed 2s 3!d to 2s 4d. Maize.—Red 6s 3d. Potatoes, £l2 to £l2 15s. Onions, £2 to £2 10s. SYDNEY WOOL SALES.' Sydney, Jan. 21. Tho wool sales, reflecting the London market, closed animated and strong at the highest rates oi' the week with an advancing tendency. Scoured crossbred made the record price of 25Jd. NEWTON KING'S REPORT. On Friday, 14th. inst., at my Waiwakaiho Yards, f had a fair yarding of cattle which sold as follows:—Yearling to 15-month heifers £2 15s to £2 18s fld, 18-month steers £4 to £4 12s 6d, bills £7 15s to £l4 10s, fat cows £9 10s £ll Ss, forward cows £7 7s to £9 17s Cd, store cows £4 8s to £7 2s Od, springing heifers £4 128 Cd to £7 17s Gd. At Douglas on Monday, 17th. inst., I had a very heavy yarding, all pens and rat os being well filled. Buyers were numerous, bidding spirited, a very large -ale resulting, prices throughout being well in advance of previous sales. Good 18-month heifers made £4 3s, small vcarling to 15-months £1 17s Od 'to £3 Is, small 15-month steers £3 lis to E3 Ills, 2 to 2%-year steers £6 Is to £(! 16s, fat and forward bullocks £l2 7s. fat and forward cows .£8 lis to £ll, forward cows £7 to £8 9s, store cows £4 17s to £0 ISs, bulls £0 15s to £l3 2s (Id, 2-tooth wplhers 18a 3d to 121s 4d, culls 13s 3d and 14s fid, 2-tootli ewes 20s Id, •!-tooth ewes and wethers 23s 2d, 4-tooth forward wethers 23s sd, woolly lambs 12s 4d, shorn lambs 10s Jd, culls 7s 3d to 9s, 4 and fi-tooth and f.f.m. owes 19s, f.f.m. ewes 19s lid, f.m. ewes 17'-. lOd, 14s, Bs.

At Stratford on Tuesday, 18ih. inst., there was iv good yarding, which met with good competition, the whole of the sheep being cleared at the hammer, and the majority of the cattle during the day. Prices obtained were: —Fat cows £9 5s to £ll 10s, light fat cows £8 to £9 Is, forward cows £7 2s Cd to £7 19s, store cows £5 Ss to £ti 17s, light store cows £4 9s to £4 18s 64, empty 2-year heifers (rough) £4 2s to £4 Ids, choice line of Shorthorn 18-month heifers £5 4s, good 18-month heifers up to £4 4s. others £- 17s (id to £3 9s, 2 and 21year steers ;C7 Is to £7 18s, lu-nionth steers £4 to £•! 6p, yearliiu; stem £2 15s to £2 17s, springing heifers £6 >s Od, bulls from £0 10s to £ll 2s (id, iveaner heifers 24s (id, weaiier steers .10s, uvollv limbs )2s (id, culls Ss, fat ewes 2-1 s (kl, forward (wes 19s Od, F.m. ewes 12s 8d I ) 14.i id.

At Stony llivor on Wednesday, 19th, I had R good entrv, the whole of which was cleared at the following prices: Choice .Jersey 18-month heifers, £5, good lieilers £4 4=. smaller 18-montli heifers £2 -Is Od to £3 95.. 18-month steers £3 Ss Cd to £4 10s,' fa; cgv,\. £8 lis to £lO 12s Od, forward cows £7 2s to £S, store cows £5 103 to £G 19s, light istores £3 14s to £4 15s, heavy bulla £9 2s Cd to £l4, Gtliera £0 5s to £3 10s, springing heifers £5 17s Cd to £6 2s Od, weaner steel's 30s to 37s (id, mixed weanera 27a Cd, black faced lambs 12s 3d to 15s, shorn lambs 10d to 10s 9d, fat ewes 21s to 22s ad, f.m, ewes 9s to 12s.

At Kohuratahi on the same day there waa not a big yarding, but prices obItained were good as follows;—18-month heifers £3 103 to £3 19s, 18-month tteers £4 12s, yearling steers £3 to

£3 12a, 2-year steers £5 7s fid .to £5 12s, 2J ito 3J-year b-illoeks £0 12 s fid, store cows £C 17s to £7 10s, fi-tooth and 4-year ewes 18s Id, 4-tooth ewes 21s 3d, 4-tooth wethers 22s 8d to 23s 2d, lambs 10s. Private sales for the week:—lß-month heifers £3 3s fid, 18-month steers £4 10s, 2 and 21-year steers £5 10s to £7 10s, 34-year bullocks £ll 10s, fa'l bullocks £ls, store cows £5 18s to £7 4s, dairy eows £0 lis to £lO 15s, 2-tooth wethers 20s, springing heifers £5 10s. f.m. ewes 17s 3d to 17s Od, lambs from 0s 0d to lis. MATTHEWS, OAMI.IX, AND CO'S. REPORT. Matthews, flamlm, and Co. report it fair yarding of stock at their Inglewood yards on Wednesday lust, when all stock yarded met with pood competition, prices as follows: —Springing heifers, £5 to £0 10s, fat cows, £7 17s to £lO 10s, forward do, £lj os to £B. store do. £4 lis to £5 l, r >s, empty heifers (13mosths) £2 10s to £3 12s, 20-month do, r.w.b. £3 10s to £3 15s, 20-month steers £4 (Is to £4 14s fid, bulls £G 15s to £lO, weaner heifers 26s fid. i JOKNSONVTUE. 'Prime bulleoks made from £l7 10s to £l7 12s fid, lighter £lfi to ill! 10s, vealers 4fts to 445, extra prime heavy wethers 27s Id to 27s Bd, extra heavy ewes 2(is, good ewes 22s fid tp 23s 2d, lighter 20s Od to 21s fid, extra heavy lambs 22s Id, prime shorn lambs 17s fid, plain woolly lambs 14s to 1 Us. ADDIXGTOX. Store sheep—Good forward lambs l3s fid to 14s Id, medium lambs lis to 13s 3d, light lambs 5s Od to fts fid, cull lambs 2s iid to -1s i)d, forward 2-tooth wethers to 15s fid, backward 4-tooth wethers !ls 3d to lis 3d, medium 4 and fi-tootli wethers 13s to lus, failingmouthed ewes 5s to 7s sd, good 2-tootli ewes 14s to IBs Bd. Fat lambs—2Sl7 yarded. Prime lambs 20s to 22s lOd. medium 15s to 19s Od, lighter lis fid to 14s fid. Fat sheep—Prime wethers 22s to 275, others 15s to 21s fid, merino wethers 15a fid, prime ewes 21s fid to 2fis, medium ewes ]Bs fid to 21s, lighter 10s to 16s. Fat cattle—Extra prime steers to £l9, ordinary steers £7 15s to £ll 10s, extra prime heifers to £l3, ordinary heifers £ti to £7 10s. extra prime cows to £l3 17s fid, ordinary cows £fi to £8 10s: price of beef per 1001b, 29s to 455, extra to 50s. ' Store cattle—Yearlings 225, 15 to 18month sorts £2 12s lid to £3, 2-year steers £4 ss, 2',/,-year steers £4 17s Od, 2-year heifers £3 ]ss, 2%-year rielfers £4 10s, s-ycar steers £fi 17s fid to £B, 3-year heifers £4 10s to £5 10s, drv cows £2 10s to £7 10s. Hairy cows, £3 5s to £l2 ss.

Pigs—Choppers 40a to 80s. baeoners 30s to fl'is (equal to Oil per lb). Porkers 28s to 42s (equal to 5,1 to 5%d-per lb). Eest stores 27s to 325, "medium 18s to 25a. smaller 10s to Ills, weanera Is !M to 0s 6d.