COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 November 1916, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

LONDON MARKETS. Australian-N.Z. Cable Association. London, Nov. 20. Wheat is firm. For parcels just shipping (is 3d is asked. Frozen meflt. —Owing to Army requirements, all New Zealand meat is quoted at !>%d. South American mutton, S%d, lamb 3d. Hemp—The market is quiet and unchanged. Rubber.—Para, ;ls 4d, plantation and smoked 2s B%d. Copra.—October and December shipments, £39 10s. Shares.—U'nion Steamship Co.. £2l4s

Butter: Very firm; Danish scarce at about 2245. Choicest Australian salted, 204s to 200s, exceptionally 208 a, salted 208s to 210s, exceptionally 2125, secondary l!His to 200s. All is clearing directly it is landed. The quality of the new butter is excellent. New Zealand is not. offering until the end of the month, when 32,000 eases are due. Cheese: Firm; Canadian, white 124s to 12(is, colored to 128s; New Zealand, nominal, pending arrivals.

The wheat and Hour afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,845,(WW quarters, for the Continent 3,000,000 quarters. Atlantic shipments are 001,000 quarters, Pacific nil. 'J'he total to Europe is 1,153,000 quarters, Russia .10,000 quarters, Argentine l:,rfi,ooo quarters, Australasia 90,000 quarters. KEWTON KING'S REPORT At Wahvakaiho on Friday, 17th ins*., there was a. good yarding, and brisk bidding for all lines.. Ewes and lambs made 40?; woolly hoggets, 34s fid; springing heifers, £7 10s to £l2; springing cows, £9 2s 8d to £l4 10s; pedigree Jersey cow, 20 guineas, two heifers 15 and 15'/ 2 guinea? respectively; store cows, .£8 Ills to £lO Is; fat cows, £l3 12s fid; cows and calves, £ll 2s Od; heifer yearlings, £5 las Od to £0 10s Od; 2-year empty heifers, £8; mixed yearlings, weedy, £3 15s to £4 03.

At Douglas on Monday there was a good yarding, and excellent prices were realised. Mixed yearlings made £5 lis; yearling steers, £0 4s to £0 17s; ,15 to 18 months steers, £9 10s; yearling heifers, £5 lis to £0 2s; 18-months heifers, £7 0s to £7 10s; store cows, £7 to £8 »s; forward cows, £9 12s to £ll 2s; fat cows, £l2; springing heifers, £S 15s to £lO 10s; bulls, £0 5s to £7; hoggets, 325. At Stratford on Tuesday there was a. good yarding in the store pens, and, considering the advanced stage of the dairying season, a good many springers came forward in the dairy yards. Bidding for all classes ivas very keen, and everything sold at advanced prices. In the dairy yards springing heifers made £8 10s to £l3 10s; heifers at full profit, £9 IDs; springing cows, £9 10s to £lO. In the store yards, store cows (poor) made £7 15s to £8 7s Od; forward cows, £9 5s to £11; fat and forward cows, £l2 15s to £l3 17a 0d; 12 to 15 months heifers, £4 19s to £0 15sj 18-months heifers, £0 10s to £7 7s; yearling steers, £0 15s; 2-yenr empty heifers, £8 ss. At Inglewood on Tuesday there was a. big yarding and attendance, and everything sold at advanced rates, the sale being one of the most successful yet held. Springing heifers made £7 10s to £9 10s, good £ll to £l3 10s; cows at profit, £l3 15s; springers, >£B l'ss to £l2; store cows, £8 to £1) II*; forward cows, '£lo 10s to £ll 10s; fat and forward cows, £ll 15s to £l2 G.>; yearling steers, £G 4s to £7 Is; mixed yearlings, inferior, £4 14s; Holstein heifer yearlings, £0 12s to £7; 2-year empty heifer 1 !, £9 2s; mixed heifer yearlings, £0; cows and calves, £9; bulls, £7 15s to £ll Ks; ewes and lambs, £2 2s; fat ewes. "2 to £2 Is 3d; forward ewes, 35s 0\

At Ivaponga on Frii!..y, 24th inst., there was a. good yarding and attendance, and everything sold at satisfactory prices. Store cows made £7 l'2s (kl to £!) Ms; forward cows, £lO .is to £11: fat cows, £l2 to £l3 7s; springing heifers, £lO as to £l2 10s; springing cows, £l4; empty heifers, £9 Bs.

At Eahotu, on the same day, there was a fair yarding and attendance. Yearling steers made £G lis; heifers, £;) 14s to £0 15s; IS-months heifers, £7 10s; store cows, £7 4s to £!) 12s; forward cows, £lO (is to £ll ss; fat cows, £l3 10s to £l7 10s; extra prime 18-month; steers, £8; bulls, ,£lO 10s to £l4