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Taranaki Daily News, 8 April 1916, Page 2

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LONDON MARKETS. - By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, April 6v Wheat.—Steadily held and quiet. Tallow.—Dull; 725 casks offered and 344 sold. Mutton unsaleable, nominal quotations, fine 525, medium 495; beef, unchanged to 6d decline. Butter—Steady and quiet. Danish 1745; Australian, choicest salted 156s to 158 Sl unsalted 100s; New Zealand, 162s to 1645. Cheese.—Firm; New Zealand, 103s to 104s. ! Sugar.—American granulated, ?£4l to '£4 l 10s. Wool.—Bradford tops fairly steady, with good inquiry. The Argentine shipments are:' Mutton, 77,000 carcases; lamb, 43,000 carcases; frozen beef, 313,000 quarters; chilled beef, 92,000 quarters. NEW FREIGHT RATES. London, April 6. The new flat freight rates fixed to South Australia .Victoria, New South Wales and New Zealand are ordinary weight 80s, measurement 100s, except New Zealand, which is 102s 6d. LONDON WOOL SALES.' London, April 5. A meeting of wool buyers and merchants agreed that the terms for the third series Bhould be three weeks prompt and free storage. Sales will be held from the 11th till the 19th, and will adjourn for the Easter recess till May 2. They will close on May 6. AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. Sydney, April 6. Oats.—Feedings 2s 6d to 2s Bd, milline 2s 9d to 2e lOd. Barley.—Feeding 3s, seeding 3s 6d to 3s 9d. ' j Maize, 4s 7d to 4s 9d. / ' Potatoes.—Tasmanian £8 10s to T£io. Onions, £5. Adelaide, April 6. Wheat and flour as fixed. Bran, lli/ 4 d. Pollard, Is OJd. Oats, 2s Id. ' Melbourne, April 7. Bran, '£4 15s. Pollard, £5 ss. Barley.—Chevalier 4s 9d to 6 a fid, duck bill 4s 2d to 4s sd, Cape 3s to 3s 2d, feed Is lid to 2s Id Potatoes, £5 to £5 10s. Onions, £4 to £4 ss. THE HIDE MARKET. Melbourne, April 6. Hides.—There are moderate supplies. Stouts are firm and otluycs hava advanced fully %d. NEWTON KING'S REPORT. On Monday, 3rd inst., 'at Urenui, I had a fair yarding, for which there was good competition throughout for all lines, more especially cows and steers. Prices were:—Springing heifers £6 2s Cd to £0 15s, fat and forward cows £6 4s to £9 lis, store cows £4 to £5, aged store cows £3, 20-month steers £5 2s, rough 2%-ycar steers £5 18s, bulls £7, small empty heifers £2 12s, good £4 2e, cows and calves £5 17s 6d, weaner heifers 25s to 355, aged ewes 6s, f.m. ewes 10s, late-shorn 4-tooth wethers 23s 2d. At Rahotu on Tuesday ther.e was a good entry, with good competition, practically everything being cleared as follows: Weaner 'steers £2 9s l 6d, wp:mer heifers 30c to 40s, fat cows £B' 16s. forward cows £6 10s to ,£7 17s Od, store cows £3 138 to £5 7s 6d, springing heifers £4 7s Od to £5 ss, in-calf 2'/.-vear heifers £6 12s to £0 17s fid, in-calf 2-year heifers £4 to £4 7s 6d, bulls £4 10s to £B.

I held my opening sale at Inglewood on Wednesday, sth inst., when the yards were filled to overflowing with both cattle and sheep, there being a large attendance of buyers, and competition from start to finish was brisk for nearly all classes of stock, nearly everytliing being .sold at the hammer. Weaner steers, 20-month steers and cows were in great demand. Prices: Weaner steer s £2 14s to £3 Is, weaner heifers 22s to 40s, mixed weaners 31s 8d to 355, empty 80-month heifers up to £.l 12s fid, small and rough £2 10s to £2 18s, 20-month steers £5 5s to £5 12s, rough 15-18 months £4 Is Od to £4 16s, -2-year steers £0 it to £7, 2'/ 2 -,vear to 3-vear steers £8 to £9 15s, fat bullocks'£ls, fat cows £8 4s to £9 10s. fat heifers £7, in-calf 2'/ 2 -year heifers £0 7s to £0 10s, in-calf 2-year heifers £3 lis to £4 16s, springing heifers £5 7s Od to £7 as, dairy cows £S 10s to £9, forward cows' £7 to £7 17s 6d, store cows £4 to £0 'as, bulls £4 to £9 ss, fat black-faced lambs 18s fid, mixed-aged ewes 17s 3d, aged ewes 5s Od to lis Od. On the same day at Kohuratahi I had a good entry, the majority of which was sold as follows:—20-month steers £5 Is to £5 (is, rougher £4 Os 6d to £4 10s. empty 20-month heifers £3 10s 3d to £4 2s fid, good store cows £5 9s to £G 10s, in-calf heifers £5 lis, f.m. owes 12s 5d to 16s, fat ewes 20s 6d, fat wethers 2(is, 2-tooth ewej 24s 6d. LIVE STOCK SALES. ADDINGTON. At Addmgton live stock marfcet entries in all classes of sheep were larger than last week, and there was a good attendance. Store sheep—Forward lambs 13s to 16s, ordinary lambs 12s to 22s 9d, cull lambs 8s to lis 6d, two-tooth ewes 10s to 18s 4d, 4-tooth and fi-tooth ewes 19s to 25s 3d, low-conditioned 4, 0 and S-tooth ewes Us to 16s, two-tooth wethers 16s to 18s 4d, forward 4 and 6-tooth wethers 22s 2d to 23a Fat lambs—Extra prime wethers to 36s 9d, prime wethers 25s to 295, others 19s 9d to 24s Cd, merino wethers 18s fid to 21s, prime ewes 24s to 26s Sd, medium 19s to 23s Od, others 14s to 18s 6d. Fat cattle—Extra prime steers to £lB, ordinary steers £9 2s 6d to £l2 7s fid, extra prime heifers £lO las, ordinary heifers £7 to £l2, extra prime cows to £l6, ordinary cows £0 17s 6d to £l2. Store cattle—Yearlings 30s, 15 to 18month sorts £2 10s, 2-vcar steers £4 7s Od, 2-year heifers £4 16s, 3-year steers £6 10s, 3-year heifers £5 ss, dry cows £2 5a to £6 ss, dairy cows £3 5s to £ls. ' Pigs—Choppers '£2 10s to '£2 15s, b'aconers £2 18s to £5 3s (equal to 6y,.d per lb). Porkers 36 8 to 50s (equal to 7d to 7'/ 2 d per lb). Medium stores 28s to 38s, cseiall ISs to 275, weaners 12s to 17&-'" »URNSIDI% > At Burnside prices for prune fc'eef were about, tiie same as.last week, but medium

declined about 15a. Extra prime bullocks to £lB, prime £l6 to £l7 7s fid, medium £l2 10s to £l3 10s, light and inferior £7 10a. to £9 10s, Fat sheep—Extra prime heavy wethers net. with good competition. iPrices were i'liglitly better than last week. Medium quality declined Is Gd to 2s. Extra prime wethers to 36s 6d, prime 26s 6d to 28s Cd, medium 23s 6d to 25s Cd, extra prime ewes to 33s 3d, prime 28s trd to 30s 9d, medium 25s to 20s Od, light and unfinished 16s 6d to 18s. Fat lambs—Freezing buyers were not operating freely and prices declined Is Od to 2a. Extra prime to-25s 9d, prime 23s to 245, medium to good 18s 6d to 21s,