COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 July 1918, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. Melbourne, July 12. Barley.—Chevaiier malting, 5s 9d to 6s; Cape, 4s 3d to 4s 4d; feed, 3s 9d to 3s lid. Potatoes.—£3 15s to £4 ss. Onions.—£ls 10s to £l6. AMERICAN WHEAT. Washington, July 19. Chicago Teports that tho visible supplies of wheat and flour east of the Rockies arc 1,789,000 bushels. BURNSIDE. At Burnside yards 262 fat cattle were penned, Including a number of prime heavy. Competi!tion was good at late rates. Extra prime heavy bullocks, £25 12s 8d to £27 Ss; prime, £l9 to £23 12s fid; medium, £l6 to £lB 10s; lighter, £l3 10s to £ls 10s; medium, £l3 to £l4 10s; light and aged, £!) 10s upwards. I The sheep penned numbered 2939. Only a B few pens were really prime. Competition for I good quality was animated, and prices were B slightly higher than late rates, but Inferior I declined Is to Is 6d per head. Extra prime | heavy wethers, 555; prime, 48s to 52s 6d; mel' dium, 39s to 46s 6d; light and unfinished, 32s I 6d upwards; extra prime ewes, 57s 3d; prime I heavy, 45s 9d to 48s 6d; prime, 38s to 44s 6d; | medium, 40s to 36s 6d; light and aged, 22s I upwards. There were 799 lambs penned. The I quality was medium. Competition for prime was keen at* late rates. Graziers were operating for inferior. Prime, 28s Gd to 32s 9d; medium, 25s to 28s; light unfinished, 20s upwards. Of pigs there was a small yarding, which met keen competition, and prices were firm at late rates. Best baconers, B%d to B%d per lb; best porkers, B%d to 9d. ADDINGTON. At Addington market the yarding of stock was larger than that of last week, but comprised . only about a week's normal supply, and on account of butchers being out of stock there was a keen demand for fats. Fat cattle, of which there were some prime lines on offer, sold at the previous week's rates. There wero a few very prime lines of fat wethers on offer, but the ewes were inferior to medium. All showed more or less sign of the late had weather, and a number of lines had evidently been in the snow. The prices were about on a level with those of a fortnight ago, and the market for ewes was firm throughout. The few lines of hoggets sent in were sold along with the fat I sheep, and were not in very keen demand. Good wethers sold best in the store pens, other descriptions being in little request. Pigs and dairy cows sold well, and there was a fair demand for store cattle. Store Sheep.—Two and four-tooth ewes, 20s fid and 275; four, six and eight-tooth ewes, 27s Gd; two and four-tooth wethors, 25s 2d to 32s 6d; four and six-tooth wethers, 25s 3d to 34s lOd; four and six-tooth merino wethers, 9s Gd to 22s 7d; ewe hoggets, 20s 7d to 24s fid. Fat Sheep.—Extra prime wethers, 55s Cd; prime wethers, 40s to 475; medium wethers, 36s to 39s 6d; lighter, 33s fid to 35s 6d; merino wethers, 18s 9d to 19s 7d; prime ewes, 33s 6d to 37s Od; medium, 28s 6d to 335; others, 23s 3d to 295; hoggets, 23s to 32s 9d. Fat Cattle—Extra prime bullocks, to £26; prime bullocks, £lB to £22; ordinary bullocks, £9 17s 6d to £l7 10s; extra prime heifers, £l3; prime heifers. £ls to £l6; ordinary heifers, £8 12s to £l4 10s; prime cows, £ls to £lB 2s Od; ordinary cows, £9 7s 6d to £l4 10s. Store Cattle —Four-year steers, £ll 15s to £l2 10s; two and a half to three-year steers, £10: elghteen-months to two-year steers, £8; I dry cows. £6 to £7 10s; dairy cows, £7 10s to £1 7 j Pigs.—Choppers, £5 to £8; baconers, £4 10s lo £6 !»s (efjual to S\,id per lb) ; porkers. £2 4s to £3 10.S (equal to 9y>d to 9%d per • Hi); larje stores, to 575; medium, 38s to 48s; smaller, 28s to 365; weaners, 15s to 265. AUCKLAND MARKETS. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. Limited, reports: Westfield Store Sale. —Best dairy cows and heifers, £ls to £l7 15s; good, £l2 10s to £l4 115s; others, £9 15s to £l2 ss; poor and backward, £6 to £9 ss; two-year steers, £8 17s 6d; empty cows, £7 10s to £8 ss; fat cow. £lO ss; wethers, £1 5s 3d; owes in lamb, 17s fid; lambs, 15s. Albert Yards. —Medium draughts, £lB to £23 10s; spring cart horses, £l3 10s to £18; good hack and harness sorts, £lO 10s to £ls; others, £5 to £lO ss; weedy, 10s to £4 tig. Special monthly dairy sale at Pukekohe—j The demand was not quite as brisk as recent ! sales, although cows and heifers close to profit t sold well, best making £l6 10s to £lB 15s; | good, £l3 to £lO ss; others, £0 15s fid to 3 £l2 10s; poor and backward, £6 to £9 ss. i Pukekohe.—Yearling to 18-month steers. £5 * 7s 6d to £7 12s 6d; heifers, same age, £4 15s j to £6 15s; calves, steers, £2 17s Gd to £4 6s; s j heifer calves, £2 10s to £4 2s; weedy calves, £1 5s to £2 7s 6d; empty cows and heifers, £6 10s to £8 7s 6d. ' Westfleld Fat Stock Market.—Prime ox, £2 lis per 1001b, others £2 7s to £2 10s; cow and heifer beef, £2 2s to £2 8s; steeTS, £l3 17r, fid to £2O 2s 6d; cows, £9 7h 6d to £l4 \ i:d. Calves: Runners, from £6 5s to £lO '*■*: he-ivy vcalers. £5 2s fid to £6; medium, : : 7< <i«l to £4 17s fid;, light, 37s Gd to £3 1 and fresh-dropped, 5s to 52s fid. •-npers and baconers, £5 10s to £6 : baconers, £4 15s to £5 7s Gd; ' . •! ; .crs. £3 10s to £4 10s; medium, £2 1 1" £3 7s fid; small, 37s fid to £2 lis; ti) 33s fid; weaners and suckers. 10s •> Sheep: Beat wethers, £1 19s to £2 lid; medium, £1 lfis to £1 IBs 9d; others, l J ! 12s to £1 15s 9d; inferior fattod, £1 9s tn £1 lis 6d: best ewes. £1 9s to £1 lis 9d;

1 lighter, £1 4s to £1 8s 6d; inferior, 15s to £1 3s Gd. Lambs: Best, £1 6s to £1 9s 9d; good fat iambs, £1 2s to £1 5s 9d; unfinished, lis to £1 is 6d.