COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 September 1919, Page 7

COMMERCIAL.

LONDON MARKETS. By Telegraph—Press Assn.-Copyt'sht. London, Sept. 8. Copper.—Spot £IOO 7s 6d, three months £lOl 7a Cd, electrolytic £lls. Lead.—£2s 2s 6d and £25 17s 6d. Spelter.—£4o 5s and £4l ss. Tin.—£2B2 15s and £275 7s Sd. Silver.—«ld.—Reuter. LONDON SHARBMARKET. Received Sept. 10, 7.40 p.m. London, Sept. 9. Walhl Junction 14s and 15s. P. and O. £565, Bank of Auslralaslo £139 ss, Bank of New South Wales £34 10s, Union Bank £64 5«, National Bank of New Zealand £l3l 3s, Bank of New Zealand £B6 and £l4, New Zealand Loan and Mercantile £7l and £lls.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. AUCKLAND STOCK MARKET. The New Zealand L*an and MercartMte Agency Company, Ltd., report:— At Westheld store sale on Thursday dairy cows and heifers, penned In average numbers, sold at late rates: —Best dairy cowa and heifers £l3 to £lB 10s, others £8 10s to £l2 10s. The demand for store cattle was better, practically everything penend being sold at Improved prices. Empty cows and hellers £5 10s to £8 12s ltd; heifer calves £2 5s to £3 ss; steer calves £2 10s to £3 18s; Inferior calves £1 5s to £2 2s; yearling steers £4 5s to £5 sa. Xwes with lambs at foot sold under keen competition at from £1 13s to £2 6d. On Friday, at Papakua, best dairy cows £l4 to £2O. others £9 to £l3 10s; aged and inferior cows £5 to £8 15s; best dairy heifers £ll 10s to £l6 ss, others £7 to £lO 15s. At our monthly Tuakau sale on Thursday, good dairy cows sold for £lO 15s to £l2 ss, others £7 10s to £lO ss; best heifers to £l6 ss, others £8 upwards; empty cows £6 to £6 12s Bd; yearling to 18-month steers £4 to £6 £s 6d; calves, best £2 to £3 ss, others £1 5s to £1 17s 6d; weaner pigs, under brisk competition, £2 10s. On Tuesday, at Papaku'ra, cattle of all descriptions were yarded In large numbers, and nlthough competition was scarcely as brisk as tho previous month, we repcrt n good sale. Grown steers sold at from £l2 10s to £l6 15s for a pen of forward steer 3 from Mr. R. H. Parker, Moumoukai, 3to 3%-year steers £lO to £l2 7s 6d, 2-yoar to 3-year steers £7 15s to £9 17s 6d, yearling to 18-month steers £4 15s to £7 12s Bd, ditto heifers. £4 Ha to £ 7 ss; heifer calves £ 2 2s; Inferior calves 15a to £1 17s,«d; empty cows and heifers £5 to £9; bulls, £7 to £l3 5s Beof, In average numbers, sold at late rates. At Westfleld fat stock market on Wednesday beef was penend In average numbers, and although no extra heavy weights were yarded, most of the consignments were prime. Competlton was extra keen, and prices again advanced. Choice ox sold to £3 10s per 1001b; prime ox sold at from £3 4s to £3 8b per 1001b.; rough and Inferior ox, £2 17s to £3 3s per 1001b.; 'cow and heifer beef sold at from £3 to £3 Gs per 1001b.; steers sold at from £ls 10s to £26 15s for a pen of steers fatted by Mr. R. A. Bent, Wnlpa Estate, Putaniru; cows and heifers sold at from £9 10s to £22 for a cow fatted by Mr. J. T. GUI, Howlck. Calves were penned ,In larger numbers and In keeping with besf improved for all butchers' calves. Fresh dropped were also In better demand, making from Ss to 15s. Runners sold at from £6 to £8 ss: heavy vealers £4 10s to £5 18s, mid'uiii £3 13s to £4 9s, light £2 10s to £3 14s, medium £3 15s to £4 9s. light £2 10s to £3 14s, lighter fat calves £1 to £2 Bs. Sheen were penned In average numbers and sold under keen competition at, Improved prices. Extra hwy prime wethers, £2 16s to £3 6s, for a snv.ll pen fatted by Mr. E. D. Paul, Mangere; heavy prime wethers, £2 10s to £2 15s 9d; medium prime wethers, £2 5s to £2 9s 8d; light and unfinished wethers £2 0s 6d to £2 4s 9d; extra heavy prime ewes, £2 10s to £2 17s; heavy prime ewes, £2 4s to £2 9s 9d; medium prime ewes, £1 19s 6d to £2 3s 9d; light prime ewes. £1 13s to £1 ISs 3d; unfinished and Inferior ewes, £1 2s to £1 12s 9d. Hoggets penned in average numbers and sold at Improved prices. Best £1 14s 6d to £2 Is, medium £1 9s to £1 14s, small £1 5s lo £1 8s 6d, Inferior and unfinished hoggets, 18s to £1 3s Od; 50 wether 3 from Mr. Wilfred lohnstone, Fapatoetoe, averaged £2 17s 9(1; one pen of ewes from Mr. Fred Mulllns, Ardmore, realised £2 17s; wethers from Mr. W. Vosper, Cambridge, realised £2 19s 6d. Pigs were penned In small numbers and again Improved, heavy baconers making to £7 7s, medium £5 15s to £6 18s; heavy porkers £4 12s to £5 I 13s, medium £3 15s to £4 10s, light £2 15s to £3 12s.