COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 August 1917, Page 6

COMMERCIAL.

' l»i THE HOME MARKETS. London. Au.gnsfs 2s. Lxeessive rain has beaten down com m many parts of England, seriously affecting the harvest prospects. For wheat and flour there is a limitci business. Oats.—Firm and quiet. ■Pea* and 'beans, steady hut inactive. 'Sugar.—Unchanged. Butter.—Scarce. Australian and New Zealand are cleared till new arrivals aw available. Quotation.; nominal at maxima. Danish is quoted at Manchester at 3COs. AUCKLAND. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company report: Albert yards—Heavy draughts £2O 10s to £3O, medium sorts £lo°to £lB- - £7 to £lO 10s; ponies £1 to £8 10s; weeds £1 upwards. Westlield store sale!— Best dairy cows nnd heifers .€l2 to £l6 10s, others £8 10s to £ll 15b; bulls £7 7s to £l4 14s; empty cows and heifers £0 10s to ■CO ss; yearling siccr ?. £f! 5g to £7 m M; ditto, heirers £5 to £(j. calves £3 to £4 15s. Westlield fat stock sale.—Choice ox sold at from £-2 10s to £2 14s per 1001b others £2 7s to £2 10s, cow beef from A- 7s to £2 l.'ts; steers from £l4 10a to £27 12s (id; best wethers £2 2s to £2 Ss <Jd. others £1 17s Io £2 Is fid- inferior wethers £1 12 s Gel to £1 16s 3dbest ewes £1 Ids to £2 3s 3d, others £1 10s to £1 15s 3d; inferior ewes £1 ■ls to £1 "s (id; lionets, best, £1 10s to £1 10s 6d, others £1 3s to £1 Ss !ldrunners from £7 5s to £lO 10s; lieav* vnalers £« 5s to £7 3s. medium, £5 ys to £a 18s; lighter £3 10s to £4 17'Ulight £2 10s to £3 7s (id; small and fresh-dropped 3s to £2 3s. Pigs.—Choppers from £5 to £7 4,. heavy baconers £1 Ms to £5 10s; other..'; £3 17s to £4 13s; large porkers £3 5s to £3 16s; medium £2> <U to r?, 4ssmall 30s to £2 7s Cd; slips 17s to 27s fid; wcaners and suckers Ss fid to 16s (id. K.Z. LOAN AND MERCANTILE REPORT. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd., Stratford branch, report as follows: (.in Saturday, August 18, we held our spring horse fair. Half-draughts, £ls to £2B, gig horses £6 10s to £l2; old horses 10s to £4 15s. At Stratford on August 21st.—Store cows, light £4 14s to £0; £9 for good; in-calf cows £7 ss; late in-calf heifers £S 2s Od: weaner heifers £4 8s 6d to £4 10s (id; hoggets 20s Oil to 2!)s 6d; dairy pens: heifers, late calvers £8 5s to £1(1; jrood early sorts £lO 17s fld to £l2 10b. 'Pig pens—Store oi>v- 25s to 30s, slips (is to 12s. Since wo last reported we have sold the following lines privately;— Old incalf cows £7 to £(); lines'dairy cows £l3, £l4, and £l4 14s; si>ringin'<* heifers £l2 to £l2 15s; hoggets Gd, 24s OdT-to 26s Gd; Shetland pony £B. BURNSI.DE. At Burnside to-day 250 fat cattle were penned. The quality was not too good, and prices were easier. Best bullocks, £2O to £2l 10s; extra, £23 15s; medium :good, £l6 lOs to £lB 10s; best cows and heifers £l6 to £l7, extra £23, .medium to good £l4 to £ls, others £lO upwards. Sheep (2102 penned). The quality was not so good as lately, and values dropped about Is Od. Best wethers 42s to 48s, extra 555, medium to good 35s to 3Ss; best ewes 52s to 545, ex'tra 4!)s Od, medium to good 345, 38s, others 27s (id upwards. A very small yarding of fat pigs sold at an advance., on last week's rates. There was alarge entry of stores, and prices, .especially tor suckers, were slightly easity:,