COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 December 1919, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

LONDON MARKETS. j By Telegraph.—Press Asas.—Oopyrtgbt. ' London, Dec 11. Waihi Shar».—Buyers 48s 9d, sellers 61b 3d ex dividend P and O—Buyers £570, sellers £SBO ex dividend.' Queensland loan la repayable 1930-50, instalment thirty per cent, payable at the beginning of February, final fifty per cent, at the beginning of March. The half-year's interest 1* payable on August Ist At the wool sates competition wag well maintained. Continental buyers were more active owing to the Improved rates.of exchange. All sorts were firm, except for some irragularjty in short faulty lots (In Bradford tops. The market for merinos 'and fine crossbreds was firm; medium and low qualities rather irregular. Wheat.—Steady, fair sales In Australian on passage, cargoes and steamer parcels Including erfuts' tea thousand tons at «ls per quarter. Flour—ln good demand. Fair allocations of Australian made, selling at 46s 3d. Oate—Quiet and steady. Pass.—Firm. New Zealand maples 145s to IBOr Beans.—Steady. Sugar.—Unchanged. LONDON MARKETS. London, Dec. 12. Copper £lO2 7s 6d, £lO3 12s 6d. Lead, £4O ss, and £4O 7a 6d. Spelter £53 to £54. Tin, £BOB 17s 6d to £3lO 12s 6d. Silver, 78% d. AUCKLAND STOCK MARKETS. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, ltd, report:— At Westfield store sale last Thursday best dairy cows and heifers made £ll 10s to £ls Us, others £8 to £ll ss; Inferior and small heifers £5 to £7 10s,'aged cows £4 to £7 15a. Store cattle: Empty cows and heifers £5 to £7 17s 6d, bulls £4 to £l2, yearling to 18-month steers £3 to £5 10s, heifers £2 10s to £4 15s, heifers suitable for dairying purposes £5 to £7, calves £1 upwards. On Tuesday at Pukekohe, with a few «x----l ceplßons, everything chanced hands. Grown steers £ll Its to £l3 10s, 3 to 3%-year steers £8 16a to £ll, 2 to 2%-year steers £6 lis to £8 10s, yearling to 18-month steers £S to £5 10s, steer calves £1 10s to £2 15s, inferior and small 8s upwards, heifer calves £1 to £2 10s, inferior and small 8s upwards, yearling to 18-month heifers £2 12s to £5 • 10a, heifers suitable for dairying purposes £5 15a to £7 10s, empty cows and heifers £4 10s to £7, bulls £6 to £l4. Dairy corn and heifers In large numbers were dull dT sale. Best £l2 to £lB, others £8 to £ll 10s, Inferior cows and heifers £5 to £7 15s Best in large numbers sold at fully Westfield prices. At the Westßeld fat stock market competition was keen, beit OXen selling to £2 13s- per 1001b, others £2 8a to £2 12s per 1001b, rough and Inferior ox £2 4s to £2 7s per 1001b. Cow and heifer beef from £2 2s to £2 9s per 1001b. steers, first quality, £lB to £23 17a 6d, others £lO 10s to £l7 16s. coirs and heifers from £8 to £l6 10s. There Was an extra largo yarding of calves. Bunfiers from £4 to fill 17s 6d, heavy vealers £3 to £3 19s, medium £2 28 8d to £2 16s, lighter £1 5s to £2 Is, smaller fat calves 10» to £1 4s, fresh dropped 6S to 9s. Pig*: Heavy baeohers and choppers £5 15s to £8 16s, light to medium £5 to £5 14s, heavy porkers £4 to £4 19s, medium £3 10s to £3 19s, light £3 W £3 9s, Weanere and slips £1 16s to £2 Ss. Sheep: Heavy shorn wethers £1 14s to £1 17a 9d, medium £1 lis to £1 13s 9d, light shorn wethers £1 7s to £1 10s 9d, heavy shorn ewes £1 9s 6d to £1 12s 9d, medium shorn ewes £1 6s to £1 8s Bd. light shorn ewes £l 2s 9d to £1 5s 9d, best shorn hoggets £l 10s to £1 14s 9d, others £1 6s to £1 9s 6d, store hoggets 18a to £1 5s 9d, woolly hoggets to £2 14s 9d. Lambs: Best £l 7s to £l 9s 6d, medium £l 3s to Is 6d 9d, light 18s to £1 2s 9d.