COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 October 1917, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

LONDON MARKETS. Australian-N.Z. Cable Association. London, Oct. 5. : Tin.—Spot, £245 12s fld; three months £242 V/s 6d. ■.- Silver.—46% d. ' . ■ Other metals unchanged. Tin stocks are 1-9,575 tons; spot 2294 tons, afloat 5410 tons, deliveries W63 tons. Wheat is quiet and very few cargoes or parcels are offering. The commission is realising fair quantities ex store. .Flour is inactive owing to the short PlyOatSj peas, and beans are firm and unchanged. Sugar is unchanged. AUCKLAND. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report:— Westfield store sale: Best dairy cows and heifers £l2 to £lO ss, others £9 10s to £ll 10s, aged and inferior cows £6 to £8 10s, empty cows and heifers £7 los to £9 los, bulls 7gns to 16gns. yearling to eighteen-months heifers £5 10s to £7 12s 6d, ditto steers £6 7s Gd to £9 10s, calves £3 10s to £5 7s 6d.

Albert yards: Heavy draughts £24 to £36, mediums £l7 to £26, light harness sorts £lO to £l6, hacks £8 to £ls. Westfield fat stock market: Ohoice ox sold at £3 per 1001b, others £2 12s to to £2 18s, cow and heifer beef £2 8s to £2 15s per 1001b. Steers sold at from £l4 17s fid to £26 12s «d, cows arid heifers £9 10s to £l7 17s fid. Calves: Runners' £7 5s to £9 17s fid, heavy vealers £0 5s to £7 2s Od, medium £3 15s to £6, light £2 10s to £3 2s 6d, small and fresh dropped 14s to £2 7s Bd, weak and bad colors 5s to 12s 6d.•'.-.''

■Sheep: Best wethers £2 fis to £2 16s, otheis £1 17s to £2 5 3 9d. best ewes £2 to £2 8s 6d, others £1 12s to £1 19s 9d, best hoggets £1 17s to £1 3s 3d, others £1 7s to £1 10s 9d, shorn wethers £j 13s to £1 1,5s 6d. Lambs:'-Best £1 4s to £1 Bs, others 19stQ 325.

.Pigs: Choppers £ti to £<s 15s, heavy baconers ■ £H "is- to £5 17s fld, medium £4 5a to £5 -2s Cd, light £4 2s fid to £i 10s,-larga • porkers £3 12s Cd to £4, smaller £2 7s 6d to £3 10s, small 32s 6rt to £2 6s, slips 18s to 31s, weanerj 10s to Ms.