COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 June 1917, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

AMERICAN" WHEAT. Chicago, June 21, \\ heat July options opened 20!) cents, closed 203 cents; September options opened 183 cents and closed 178 cents. The visible supplies amount to 23,094;000 bushels. AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. Sydney, June 21. Oats.—Algerian feeding. 2a od to 2s <d, milling 2s 8d to 2s lOd; Tasmanian 3s Id to 3s Od. Mitisse. —3b sd. Potatoes.—Tasmanians £5 to '£B. Onions.—£6 10s to £7. Adelaide, June 21. Oats. —2s 2d. Melbourne, June 22. Barley—Chevalier 4s 3d to 4s 6d; Cape 3s to 3s 2d.

Oats.—Milling 2s 4d to 2s 6d; feed 2s to 2s 2d. Potatoes.—£3 10s to '£4 ss. Onions.—£s to £5 10s. AUCKLAND. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report:— Westfleld—Best dairy cows and heifers £l2 to £l7, others £8 10s to .£ll 15s, bulls £7 to £lO 10s, empty cows and heifers £0 to £S 73 6d, steer calves £1 10s to £5 15s, heifer calves, £3 5s to £4 17s Od; yearling to 18-inonth heifers £8 12s 6d. . • Pukekohe—Heavy draughts £22 to £37, medium sorts £lB to £2B 10s, light harness sorts £9 to £l*o, hacks £8 to £l6, ponies £3 10s to £B. Westfteld—Best oxen sold to £2 9s per 1001b, others £2 2s to £2 7s fld' per l'OOlb, cow and heifer beef £2 to £2 5s per 1001b. Steers sold at from £l3 15s to £ll9 17s 6d: cows and heifers sold at from £8 to £W 17s fld. Best wethers sold at from £1 15s to £2 Is (no extra heavv weights yarded); others £1 8s to £1 14s od, best cweß £1 lis to £1 17s Od, others £1 0s 9d to £1 10s 6d, hoggets 19s to £1 12s Od. Calves were yarded in good numbers and sold up to last week's rates. Runners made to £l2, heavv vealers £4 4s to £5 13s Od, medium £3 2s to £4 3s, light £2 Is to £3 Is, small and fresh-dropped 8s to 30s, very weedy 4s to 7s. Pigs yarded in extra large numbers and again sold 'well, choppers selling up to £9 12s Od, heavy baconers £3 16s to £4 17s, others £3 3s to £3 15s, large porkers £2 12s to £3 2s. medium £"2 Is to £2 lis, small 2Ss to £2, slips 12s to 255, weaners and suckers 2s Od to 10s. ADDINGTOSF MARKET. Store sheep—Two and four-tooth ewes SOs 4d to 325, four and Bix-tooth ewes 27s to 30s, six and" eight-tooth ewes sound-mouthed ewes SOs 3d, two and four-tooth wethers 24s to 29b, four and six-tooth wethers 295, ?5x and eighttooth wethers 27s sd, ewe lambs.24s to 26s Art, wether lambs 18s Sd to 23s I'd, mixed, sex lambs 15s lid to 24s Id. Fat lambs—Extra prime to 37s 3d, prime 2Ss Gd to 33s 3d, medium 25s fid to 2Rs. lighter sorts 22s to 255. Fat sheep—l Extra prime wethers to sfls fid, prime wethers 34s Od to *">s. lighter wethers 24s Od to 345, extra prime merino wethers 3Rs 0(1, merino wethers 22s fld to 2!)s 7d, prime ewes 33s to 40s, medium ewes 29= fld to 3°.9 fld, lighter ewes 22s fld to 235, merino ewes 28s. Fat cattle—Extra nrime steers to £24 'lss, prime steers £l4 to £2O, ordinary steers £lO to £l3 10«. extra prime Cows £l"> 2s Od, prime cows £ll to £l4, ordinary cows £S 7s fld to £lO lis. extra prime heifers £l7 17s fld. prime heifers | •£■ll to £l4 ss, ordinary heifers £8 5s to £lO 10s. ■Store cattle—Yearlings £2 I"a fid, 2vear steers £fl 10s. 2-vear heifers £5 17s fld to £0 2s (Id, 3-voar steers £lO 10s to £lO 15s, 3-vear heifers £lO 10s, dry cows £4 to £B. Pigs-JChonncrs £3 10s ( tn £6 12s. baconers £3 12s to £5 (equal to 7}d tn 7%d per lb), porkers 44s to 00s (equal to 9 l-4d per lb), small stores 28s to 355, weaners 13s to 18s. BUR'XSIDTT MARKET. At Burnside to-day 215 fat cattle were yarded. Prices declined from 20s to .'■ Extra prime bullocks £25 ss, prime £l9 to £2O, meMium £ls to £l7 10s'.' light 512 to £l4', extra prime cows and heifers £lB, prime £l3 to £l4 10s, others- £9 10s to £lO ss. Sheep—-2503 were penned. Prices for well-finished sorts were the same as last week. Graziers were in the market and the demand for lighter sheep was better. Extra prime wethers 34s 3d, prime 41s to 47s fld, medium 36s to 38s (id, light and unfinished 20s to 34s fld, extra heavy ewes 40s. prime 34s to 39s fid. light inferior 25a to 295, others 21s fid to 245.

Lambs—lllß were penned. Fats realised last week's rates. Prime 28s to 31s Gd, extra 3Us, medium 25a to 27s Od, unfinished 20s to 245., .