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Taranaki Daily News, 17 February 1920, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

LONDON MARKETS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright London, Feb. 13. Cotton.—March, 29.96 d. Hemp.—Firm; January-March, nominal £59. Jute.—Moderate business; February-March, £7O. Rubber.—Para Sid, plantation, 33d, smoked 33% d. Linseed oil, 455; turpentine, 2025. The advance in the retail price of imported butter commences on the 23rd, when ttte" wholesale price will be advanced to 2s B%d. THE WOOL SALES. London, Feb. 13. At the wool sales extremo prices were realised. Geelong supers'brought 98% d, a record. Fine and medium crossbreds were unchanged. There were a fow withdrawals of shabby sorts. Antwerp, Feb. 15. At the Australian wool sales there was a full attendance; 12,000 bales, were offered and 11,200 sold under animated competition. Good merinos were 5 per cent above last sab, ordinary scoured and pieces 5 to 10 per cent higher, lambs unchanged.' LONDON TALLOW MARKET. The Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., have received the following i cablegram from their London house under date 11th February, 1920: Tallow.—We quote present spot, values, for the following descriptions of tallow: Fine mutton £5 8s per curt., good beef £0 9s per cwt, mixed £4 18s 6d. Market quiet but steady. Loan and mercantile report. The' New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency report:— On Monday, 9th inst., we held our annual sheep fulr at Waverley, when there was a small yarding and attendance, several advertised lines falling to come forward. Grown sheep' sold slightly In advance of late rates, but lambs were in favor of buyers We quote as follows: Lambs 10s to 15s 4d, poor cull ditto 43 8d to 5s 9d, wethers 30s, ewes 15s 0U to 35s 3d.' At OpUnake on Monday there was a good yarding of cattle, which met with keen dc- 1 mand, ana a'good sale resulted. We quotes Store cows £7 9s to £lO 12s, bulls £8 lOstq £l2'2s (Id,. 18-month heifers, r.w.b., £5 10s to S7 18s, '3-year-old steers £ll. On Tuesday at Manaja there was a small yarding of cattle, which sold at late rates.! On Friday at Palmer road the whole of the advertised cattle did not come forward on ac- ■ count of th> holidays, but those which were, offered met with ready sale. We quote! For- i ward cows £ll to £ll 12s Gd, bulls £7 ss, : lambs 13s 3d. : ! AUCKLAND STOCK MARKET. The New Zealand Loah and Mercantile' Agency Company, Limited, report:—We held t our first sheep fair of the season at Tuokau on Thursday last. Two and ■ 4-toolh wothers made £1 Cs to £1 9s (Id, best f.f.m. ewes £1 7s Cd to £1 9s 9d, smaller and less condl- . ticn, same nge £l 4s to £1 7s 3d, sound- i mouth older owes £1 la to £1 3s 9d, aged and inferior broken-mouth ewes 8s Gd upwards, 2-tooth ewes-(best) £1 6s to £1 8s Cd, smaller £1 2s to £1 5s 9d, 4 and 6-toOth ewes £1 ■ Ss to £1 9s 3d, woolly lambs (best) 12s Cd to 17s Cd, smaller 9s Od to 12s 3d, shorn lambs; best 10s to 14s 3d, others 6s 3d to 9s 9d, Ronmey rams, 2-tooth 2 y, to sgns„ aged ditto lfn upwards, Lincoln rams, 2-tooth 4 to s%gns. At Pukekohe best dairy cows and heifers £l2 to £lB 15s. others £8 to £ll 10b, empty cows and heifers £5 to £7 15s, heifers suitable dairy purposes £5 10s to £7 15s, yearling to IS-montlt empty heifers £3 5s to £5, ditto steers £3 10s to £5 17s Cd; calves, best £1 15s to £2 15s, others £1 Is ta £1 13s; 2 to 3-year steers £0 5s to £9 ss,' ': At the Westflcld fat stock market' bijef 'was penned in average numbers. Choice oxen sold to £2 10s per 1001b, prJme ditto sold at'from £2 lis to £2 15s per 1001b, rough and Inferior oien £2 4s to £2 10s per and heifer beef £2 6s to £2 12s Per 1001b, stecirs sold at from for best'£lß'' 10s to £27; olhers £l2 10s to £IS ss, cows and heifers £9 to £22 ss. Calves: Heavy vealers £4 12s* i Cd to £0 ss, medium £3 to £4 10s! light £2 to £2 18s, lighter fat calves £1 5s to £1 19s, fresh dropped 13s' to 19s, Pigs; Light bacon- ' eis to £5 12s, porkers to £4,Bs, weaners, a good entry, best £1 15s to £2 4s, others £1 4s to £1 14s, sows in pig £0 10s to £7. Sheep: Eitra heavy prime wethers £2 0s 3d to £2 ss, heavy £1 16s 9d to £2, medium i £1 13s to £1 16s Cd, light £1 10s to £1 , 12s 9d,. small 2-tooth £1 Ss to £1 9 S 9d, heavy .prime owes £1 12s to £1 15s (jd, medium ' £1 7s 9d to £1 lis 9d, light- £l'4s to £1 I 7* Cd. Inferior 18s 6d to £l 3s Od. Lambs: , EWra heavy prime lambs £1 iOs to, £1 17s, medium £1 6s to £1 9S 9d, light £l l to £1 ' 5s 9d, small and unfinished 13s to 10s Bd, ' shorn lis to 16s. ,