COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 February 1919, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

THE METAL MARKET. London, Feb. 10. Copper—£Bo and £79 10a. Lead—£29 10s and £27. Spelter— £4B. Tin— £245 and £242. Silver—4B 7-16 d. AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. Melbourne, Jan. 8. A further 20,000 tons of wheat has been sold. Swedish commission at 5s 9d bushel. Barley—English lilting 5s 8d to os lOd; Cape, 4s 4d to 4s Od. Oats—Algerian feeding 4s 8d to 4s lOd, milling 5s to 5s Id. Maize, 6s lOd to 7s, Potatoes, £l4 to £l4 10s. Onions, £ll 10s. AUCKLAND MARKET. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report as follows: At Westfield store sale best dairy cows and heifers made from £l3 to £l7 17s Gd, others £8 to £l2 15s, bulls £0 to £l2 las, empty cows and heifers £G 10s to £8 17s Gd, heifers suitable foJ 1 dairy purposes £5 10s to £7 10s, yearlings to IS-montli steers £4 12s fid to £7 ss, ditto heifers £4 to £0 15s, calves, ordinary £1 to £2 10s, best £2 15s to £3 10s.

At Papakura, dairy cows and heifers I sold under keen competition, best selling to £2l, others £8 to £l3, bulls £0 to £l7 2s 6d, according to weight and quality; small yearling bulls £3 10s upwards, empty cows and heifers £0 to £9 2s Gd, heifers, suitable for dairy purposes £5 to £7, yearling to 18-month steers £4 10s to £7 ss, 2 to 3-year steers £8 to £lO 10s, no grown steers were yarded; yearling to 18-month heifers £3, 12s 6d to £(> ss. The sale for calves was dull, best selling to £2 17s others £1 5s to £2, inferior c&lves 12s upwards, aged and inferior cows £2 to £5. At Westfield fat stock market choice ox sold at £2 lis per 1001b, others £2 8s to £2 10s per 1001b, cow and heifer beef sold at from £2 4s to £2 9s per 1001b. Steers sold at from £l3 17s Gd to £2l 12s Gd, cows and heifera sold at from £8 10s to £l7 ss. Calves: Heavy vealers made from £3 2s Gd to £4 17s Od, medium £2 12s 6d to £3, light 35s to £2 7s Gd, small and fresh dropped 3s to 255, Died) n well-done calves are wanted. Pigs: A good average yarding, with prices a little easier than last quotations. Heavy baconers £4 15s to £5 15s, small choppers and light baconers £4 to £4 12s Gd, large porkers £3 2s Gd to £3 12a Gd, medium £2 5s to £3, small £1 7s Gd to £2 2s Gd. Sheen: Best wethers £1 13s to £1 17s, medium wethers £1 8s to £1 12s 6d, others £1 4s to £1 7a Gd, best ewes £1 7s to £1 lis Gd, medium ewes £1 3s to £1 Gs 9d, | others £1 to £1 2s 9d, inferior and light | ewes 15s upwards, best hoggets £1 10s to £1 15s, others £1 3s to £1 Sis, woolly hoggets to £2 2s. Lambs, also in J large numbers, sold at improved prices, j bt-st £1 3a to £1 Ss 9d, others 17s to £1 2s 9d, inferior 10s upwards. I