COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 July 1917, Page 7

COMMERCIAL.

LONDON MARKETS. Australian-N.Z. Cable Association. London, July 21. Lead.—lmports 1*2,20-1 tons, exports 81. r >. Frozen meats are unchanged. Rabbits.—Nothing doing. Hemp.—High point fair July-Septem-ber £92.

Rubber—Para 3s 2 l-4d, plantation 2s 7d. smoked 2s ti}d. Copra.—Spot, £45 ss.

NEW ZEALAND BUTTER. (By Telegraph—Special to Daily News.) Wellington, July 23. lx>nedalc and Co. (Mr. S. Turner, New Zealand agent) cable: Australian 'butter, failed, -lOSs; New Zealand, salted, 200s. All unsalted 3a extra.

FARMERS' 00-01'. REPORT. On Saturday we held a clearing sale of Mr. T:. N. Twoney, Tc Kiri, live and deal stock. Beßt dairy cows sold at from ,C'l"2 10s to £lfi, others £1) to £!-, heifers £S 10s to "£l2, bulls £lO, horses €2 10s to £2O, and the sundries etc., sold r.vell.

At Okaiawa yards on Holiday fresh conditioned cows £lO to £ll 15s, forward cows £8 10a to £ll 10s, store cows £5 lon to £8 t>s, wcaners £2 -10s to £3 6s, dairy cows to £M, store hoggets lis to lis (Id .

On .Monday, 16th inst., we held the clearing sale for Mr. .T. F. Stevenson. Best dairy cows sold at from £ls to £22 10s,'others £lO to £l4 10b, 134 cows averaging £l4 10s, in-calf heifers £9 to £ls, 90 heifers averaging £ll 1?. lioives £2 10s to £2O.

Tfie clearing sale on account of Mr. F. Prehble, Cardiff, was very satisfactory and everything sold well. On Tuesday at Te Kiri we held a clearing sale on account of Mr. X. Larpen. Best, dairy cows at from £l4 to £lB, others £9 10s to £l3 109, empty cows £(> 2s to £8 10b, 'bulls £lB 108, weanrr heifers £4. anil implements and sundries sold at ruling rate=. (In Tuesday we held a clearing sale cm account of Messrs Tapp Tiros' dairy cows, etc. Tlie cows sold at from J39 10s to £1« 10s. At Manaia on Wednesday n satisfactory sale was held of Mr. J. Aitken's dairy cows end Sundries. The dairy cow-; fdd at irora £.B 10s to £IS. On Wednesday, at W'nenunkura, on aw mi; of Mr. i'. A. Burke, dairy cows sold it from £lO to £24. averaging £l3 lis 6d, the sundries sold at ruling rates.

I At. Eltliam yards on Wednesday fat J cows sold at from £l3 to £l4 ISs 6d, ; fresh conditioned cows £lO to £ll 16s, 1 forward lows £8 10s to £9 15s, store cows £•" 10s to £8 S?. 'bull £9 9s, forward steers £l4 15s fid, Meaner steers £ 1 5s fid to £5 19s, wearier heifers £2 to £4 7s, in-calf heifers £8 to £lO IC-. store pigs £1 le to £1 10s, wean- | its 15s Gd, breeding sows £3 to £3 7s Gd.

At iTnwcra yards on Tuesday owes p,n,-! lainhs brought from 33s to 35s Id, fat cviv- [Jl's. forward wethers 345. hojjgots Hs 9d to 245, fat cows to £l4 7s 6d, forward cows £!) 10» to £lO 6s, store tows and empty heifers £5 15s to £g 1-Js (id, weaner steers £5 to £5 3s, weaner heifers £2 2s to .C 4 Is, the 1vortised dairy cows, on account of Mr. ,1 Lundnr sold at from £l*2 10s to £lfl 10s for the jifist, others £0 to_ £l2, other dairy cows sold to £l9, in-<ialf heifers sold at froiii £l3 to £ls, sto*B ■pies IS9 fid to 27s cd, weaner pigs 12s, breeding sows £3 10s to £4 6s. M Kaponga yards on Friday fresli condition cows £lO to £ll \% forward cows £S 10a to £0 15a, store cows and empty heifers £0 to £8 Bs, weaner steers £3 13s to £5 10s, weaner heifers £■> 10s to £4 Ss, dairy cows sold at from £l2 to £lO 10s, in-calf heifers £8 10s to £ll, hoggpts 25a. At the clearing sale of Messrs Butler Bros at Kaimata on Friday horses sold at from £1« 10s to £3O, in-calf heifers

£8 to £l2. weaner steers £0 "is, weaner heif.To £5 Is, and the sundries and implements also sold well.