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Taranaki Daily News, 24 October 1916, Page 7

COMMERCIAL.

WHEAT AND FLOUR Australian-N.Z. Cable Association. London, October 22. The wheat and flour afloat is 2,J?20.000 quarters, fax .the Continent 3,305,000 quarters; Atlantic shipments 514,000 quarters, Pacific nil. The total to Europe is 1.500,000 quarters, including Russia 20,000 quarters, India; 135,000 quarters, Argentina 230.000 quarters, Australasia 203,000 quarters.

LONDON MARKETS. London, October 21. Co'jU'a—Oetabev-Decembci shipments, £34 ss: Hfcmp. Quiet. October - December [shipments, £sl. Rubber.—Para 3s 4y»d, plantation 2s 4%d, smoked 2s 4'^d. Rabbits.—Firm and unchanged. Mutton.—New Zealand, S'/Jd to, B%d; Australian, S%d to S'/od. Lamb.—New Zealand and Australian, p%d to 10d; South American, B'/>d to 9d.

N.Z.L. AND It.A. CO.'S REPORT. The New Zealand Loan and Mercan» tile Agency Co., Ltd., Hawera, report as follows:

Kakaramen.—Cows and calves fetched £!) 13s tc £M 10s, fat cows £lO 10s to £l3 13s, forward cows ;B8 15s to £lO, stores £7 7s to £8 15s, dairy hulls 12gns. to 14gns., yearling steers £5 lid to £O. small £3 to £3 10s, yearling heifers £3 (is to £3 12s, dairy rows .IMS to £'2o, 3-year springing Ueifer : £l(2 5s to £W> ss. -i-year-olds £!! to £11; forward ewes'32s Od, hogGets -27s fid. Eltham. —Forward tows £0 to £lO Is, store lows £7 Is to £8 17, cows and calves (small) £7 2s to £8 -17s ild, yearling heifers £1 15s to £5 10s, yearlings dairy bulls- .tfi 10s to £0 ss, 2-year bulls £lO to sls, 3-year springing heifers £ilo 2s (id to £l3 15s, 2-year springing heifers £!) to £lO 10s. llawera.—Fat eonvs made £ll lis to £l2 9s, forward cows €!) 10s to £lO 15s, store cows £7 10s to CS "is. 2-year empty Shorthorn heifers £B 5s to £7, yearling steers (small) £4 lis to £4 14s, Jersey cross yearling heifers sl.l 1.5s to £ls, ?-vear springing heifers £!> to £l3 10s; 'fat ewes 33s to 35s 7(1, 4- and fi-tooth wethers 34s Id, mixed iioggets (small) 2(is Od, forward ewes Bis Od. At Hawera, on Friday, 20th inst.. ive held our annual bull fair, and report a good sale, the following prices being realised: 2-vear Shorthorn bulls 15% gn3. to lSgn.s., 2-year Ilolsteins loVs gns. to lSgns., yearling Shorthorns 11 Va gns. to 12gns., 2-year Jersey bulls' 12% gns. to JO'/sgns., ordinary dairy hulls lOgns. to 14gns.