COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 September 1916, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

HOME METAL MARKET London, September 20 'Copper, '£lls las and £ll3 10s; eleetrolvtic, £l3O 10s. Lead, £3O 10s and £29. , Spelter, £52 and £4O. Tin, £172 2s fid rtnd £172 7s Gd., Silver, 32 15-10 d. LONDON WOOL SALE? The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., have received the following cablegram from their London house under date 22hd inst: —Sales t'osed with good demand. As compared vitli July 2S, merino scoured and iiiftrior greasy are 5 per cent.; crossbred iroured 5 per cent, to 7i per cent, lower. WANOANUI AND WAVERLEY ' Wanganui.—Fat wethers (good) £2 to £2 Is fid, fat ewes 2fis 2d to 20s fid, forward wethers 33s Id to 34s M, light fat wethers and ewes 32s 3d, mixed hoggets 23s Gd to 27s Id, medium hoggets 21s, others las; fat bullocks £l6 Ms, fat and forward -bullocks £l4 7s Cd, forward bullocks £l3 Is to £l3 10s, store bullocks £H to £ll 12s, fat cows £lO 15s to £l2 ISs, empty cows £!> to £!) Us, cows in calf £S los to £9 12s Od, store cows £fi 17s Gd to £7 : 5.-;, 2-year steers £8 fls, bulls £5 to £B,' fresh*cows £S ss, yearlings £3 14s Od. to £4 12s Od, 18-months heifers £4 10s to £5, springing cows £9 os to £ll, medium springers £5 10s to £0 2s fid. IDigs: Heavy porkers £3 to £3 ss, good porkers £2 3s to £2 10s, medium do. 35s to 375, stores 25s to 30s, wcaners 14s, slips Ss to 12s. Waverley.—Ciood ,-ether hoggets 275, mixed hoggets -4s Ud, small do. VSs 3d, forward cows £8 17s (kl to £9 10s, medium do. £7 14s, empty heifers £7 to £7 5s iTd, spring heifers (good) £9 15s to £lO, medium do. £.B 15s to £9, others £S to £8 10s, springing cows £ll to £ll 7s Oil, 'backward do. £0 10s to £S ss, backward springing heifers £O, 2-year empty heifers £5 3s Od, yearling steers £4 4s, do. heifers £3, Shorthorn' bull £ll 7s fid.