COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 September 1916, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

LONiD'ON MARKETS. Australian-N.Z. Cable Association.' London, September 30. Wool.—The market is lower. A miscellaneous selection of faulties was slow of sale and prices were irregular. Good sorts are selling well at late rates. Tallow.—There 'Were offered 1929 disks. There was a good demand and 1711 were sold. Mutton and beef, both line. 4.->s, medium 41s Od. Wheat.—The market is inactive, with | nn easier tendency.

THE WHEAT MARKET. London, September 21. Wheat.—The visible supplies total 8,03,/, COO bushels.

AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. Sydney, September 21. Oats, Algerian feeding, 2s fld to 2s 7d; milling, 2s Sd to 2s 9d; Tasmanian, white, 2s lOd to 3s. Barley, 3s Od to 4s. Maize, 3s to 3s. lOd. Potatoes, Tasmanian £0 15s to £8 10s. Onions, £4 to £5. Adelaide, September 21. Oat, Is Sd to Is 1 Od. Melbourne, September 21'. Hides, moderate supplies; lights and kips firm, but heavies neglected. Melbourne, September 22. Oats.—Milling Algerians 2s 2d, feed in" Is IOJd to 2s. Potatoes, £4 10s to £5 10s. Onions, £3 to £3 10s,

ADELAIDE WOOL SALES. Adelaide, September 22. At the wool sales record prices were rtaehi-d for greasy merino, 21} d, and for scoured tiSSO. RAXGIOTU (MANAWATU). Small yearlings £1 19s to £2 lis 6d, good la-months heifers £4 Is to £4 9s, yearling steers £4 2s, 2-year empty heifers £5 os, rough store cows £4 7s to £0 2s, good empty cows £7 to £7 15s, forward-condition cows £S to £9 Is, cows with calves £6 13s to £7, spring dairy cows £0 to £7 15s, springing heifers' £5 2s to £8 2s fid.

ADD'INGTON. Store sheep.—'Hoggets (mixed sexe9) 18s 3d to 235, ewe hoggets 21s 9d to 275, wether hoggets 18s 7(1 to 26s 4d, 2-tooth ewes 22s 2d to 20s 9d, 2, 4, 6 and S-tooth ewes 30s 3d to 30s <Sd, soundmouth ewes and lambs (all counted) 13s 9d to 19s Id, 2 and 4-tooth wethers 23s S>d to 30s, 4 and fi-tooth wethers 2Ss 4d to 32s 6d, merino wethers 14s 8d to 14a 9d. Fat sheep—Extra prime wethers to 625" Cd, prime wethers 32s to 39s fid, others "27s 4d to 31s, extra prime merino wethers 30s to 34s Gd, others 24s Id to 2Gs, extra .prime ewes 41s, prime ewes j 31s to 375, medium ewes 2Gs to 30s, others 17s to 255, hoggets 27s to 28s 3d, shorn hoggets 10s fid, new season's fat lambs 24s to 31s.

Fat cattle—Extra prime steers to £l9 15s, prime sters £ls 10s to £l9, ordinary steel's £ 9to £l4, extra prime heifers £2l lfla, prime heifers £l2 10s to £IU, ordinary 'heifers £S 10s to £l2 10s, extra prime cows £l9, prime cows £ll to £l4 10s, ordinary cows £8 to £lO lis. Store cattle.—ls to IS-months £3 "s Gd, two-year steers £5 9s to £G, twoyear heifers £5 7s fid, three-year steers £9 2s fid to £ll *>s, three-year heifers £7 Ms to £8 ss, dry cows £3 10s to £3 7s Od, dairy cows £3 153 to £ls ss. light porkers 44s to 50s (price per lb, B'/ 2 d); large stores 4Ss to 535, medium 40s to 475, smaller 30s to 375, weaners 20s to 30s.

BURNSIDE. Fat "sheep.—Best wethers 34s to 38s, extra prime heavy 48s, medium 2ns to

iPigs,—iA small yarding sold much on a par with last weeks' high rates. Only a few store came forward, and these sold well.

AUCKLAND. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., report:— At Westflold stock sale last Thursday best dairy cows and heifers sold at from £9 to £l2 15s. others £5 5s to ;CS 15s, aged and inferior cows £.l to £4 10s, bulls Ogns to 13Jgns, according to quality; yearling steers £4 5s to £5 ss, yearling heifers £3 to £5, empty cows and heifers £5 8s to £S 4s. At Albert yWuls on Friday heavy draughts brought £22 10s to £34, medium draughts £l7 10s, to £27, hacks, £5 to £l3s, ponies £4 to £7 10s, light harness sorts £lO to £ls. At Waiuku on Saturday best dairy cows and heifers brought £lO to £ls .'is, I others £6 10s to £9 10s, bulls from ogns to 12Jgns, empty cows £5 15s to £8 2s Oil, calves £1 15s to £3 12s Od, twovcar steers £7 10s to £8 17s Gd, yearling steers £4 12s Od to £5 7s od, pigs, weaners 4s to £1 7s fid, slips £1 153, turkey liens 4s 9d to fis Od.

At Westficld fat stock market on Wednesday best oxen fold to £2 Ss per 1001b, ether oxen £2 4a to £2 7s, best cow and heifer beef £2 3s to £2 Cs, others £2 to £2 2s, steers Jold at from £ll 103 to £2O 12s 0(1, no heavy-weights yarded; cows and heifers 3old at from £8 5s to £l4 15s. Calves: Runners sold at from £0 10s to £lO 10s, heavy suckers £1 to £5 15s, medium suckers £2 Mis to £3 18s, light suckers £1 10: to £2 12s, small and fresh-dropped 3s to

£1 Bs. Sheep: Best wethers sold at from £2 to £2 Us 3d, otliei wctlicrs £1 17s (Id to £1 9 s 9d, unfinished wethers £1 14s to £1 17s, best ewes £1 10s to £2 0s 3d, others £1 8s to £1 15s (id, shorn wethers, first at" the season £1 IDs to £1 14r fld, best hoggets £1 9s fld to £1 14s !!d„ best hoggets £1 9s Cd to to £1 13s 3d, ithers £l4sto £1 9s lid to small hoggets 18s to £1 3s, Spring lambs in small supply sold at high values, selling at from £1 3 to £1 10s Od. Pigs were penned in large numbers, and show-

Ed no .improvement in prices. Choppers £5 10s to £0 10s heavy baconers £4 Is to £5 Bs, medium ■ baconers £3 12s to £4, light baconers £3 5s to £3 lli, large porkers £2 17s to £3 4s, medium porkers £2 8s to £2 15s, light porkers £1 15s to £2 7s, slips £1 5s to £1 12s, iveancrs 12s to £1 3s.