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Taranaki Daily News, 9 October 1920, Page 2

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PRICE OF GOLD. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright' London, Oct. 0. Tho official price of gold is £5 17s Id,— Aus.-N.Z. Cabio Assn. LONDON METAL MARKETS. London, Oct. 6. Copper—Spot £99 12s 6d; three months £97 2s 6d; electrolytic, £ll2 and £lls. lead, £34 10s and £34 12s 6d. Spelter, £4O 12s 6d and £4l 15s. Tin, £209 15s and £274 7s 6d. Silver, 56%d.—Aus.-N.Z, Cable Assn. AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. Sydney, Oct. 7. Oats.—Algerians, feeding, 3s Bd to 3s 9d; milling, 4s to 4s 3d; white, 5a lid to 6s. Maize, 7s 6d to 7s Od. Potatoes.—Tasmanian, £l7 to £18; Victorian £l2 to £l4, Oi.lons.—Victorian, £25 to £SO. Adelaide, Oct. 7. Oats, 3s to 3s Cd. ' Melbourne, Oct. 8. Barley.—English, 7s to 7s 3d; Cape, Cs to Cs 3d. Oats, 3s ltd to 3s sd. Potntoes, £lO to £lO 10s. Onions, £24 to £25 Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. MUTTON FALLS AT HOMEBUSH. Sydney, Oct. 8. Mutton fell from 3s to 5s at Homebush. Largo supplies are forward,, totalling over 35,000 carcases, averaging from syd to C<l per lb.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. SYDNEY WOOL SALES. Sydney, Oct. 7. With the exception of a spirited American demand for best classes, the week's wool sales closed at about par with previous days. Lit/..* longwool jvas offered, end it was not sold.— Aus.-X.Z. Cable Assn. ADDINGTON STOCK MARKET. Clirlstctureh, October 0. Fat cattle was the only section in which tliero was a decreased yarding at Addington to-day. Values all round showed an advance. particularly for beef, which sold In some cases at about £4 per 100lb. Store Sheep.—An Improved yarding, both in quality and numbers. There was at. l advance in values, particularly for finer-wooled sheep allowing quality and condition, and for ewe hoggets. Two and four-tooth wethers 3<ls; ordinary 4 ai.d 6-tooth wethers, 35s to 30s 2d; good 4, 0, 8-tooth wethers, 3us 7d to 37s lOd; agod low-conditioned ewes and lambs (all counted). Ids 3d; sound and failingmouthed ewes and lambs (all counted) 24s Id; failing-mouthed ewes, 20s 7d; superior 2tooth ewes in." lamb, 30s; good three-ouarcer-bred ewe hoggets, 34s 2d to 35s 2d; ordinary halfbred ewo hoggets, 29s Od to 33s Od; superior halfbred ewe hoggets, 32s to 255; fairly good crossbred ewe hoggets, 30s; culi wether hoggets, 21s to 235; good halfbred wether hoggets, 30s; ordinary halfbred wether toggets, 2Ss 9d; ordinary crossbred wether hoggets, 20s to 28s.

Fat Sheep.—An overage yarding, which was of particularly good quality. The scarcity of beef caused a rise equal to abdut 2s 6d per head. Extra prime wethers, 50s to 90s; prime wethers, 47s 6d to 55s fid; medium wethers, 43s to 475; light and unfinished wethers, 33s to 41s 9d; shorn wethers. Ills 6d to 35s 6d;; extra prime ewes, 41s 6d to 465; medium ewes, 32s fld to 40s Od; light, inferior ewes, 32s 9d to 40s Od; light, Inferior owes, 2Ss to 31s 6d; hoggets, 2fls 6d to 445; spring lambs (20 forward), 30s 6d to 445. Fat Cattle—A yarding of some 180 lead, tho smallest for some time, and much lielow butchers' weekly requirements. Values jumped substantially as a result, and prime beef was quito 60s to 70s in advance of last week's rates, Extra prime steers, £35 15s to £4O; prime steers, £2S 10s to £35; medium steers, £23 10s to £27; light and unfinished steers, £l7 to £22 10s; prime lie 1fers, £l9 to £23; ordinary heifers, £ls to £l7 10s; light and unfinished, £lO 12s 6d to .£l4; extra prime cows, £25 7s 6d; prime cows £l9 15s to £23; ordinary cows, £ls 15s to £l9; light and unfinished, £lO 10s to £l4 10s. Vealers.—Runners brought to £9 10s, good vealers to £7 15s, medium calves to £4 2s 6d. Store, Cattle.—A poor quality yarding, which met with a weak demand. Three-year-old steers to £l2 10a; two-year-old steers, £9; empty heifers, £4 ss. Dairy Cows.—Good quality eoiva and heifers «i/vu in profit, sold well, SDilrrino

to £l9; ordinary springers, to £ls 10s; medium cows, £l4. ' Fat Pig3—Choppers, £ll 7s Gd; baconers, £0 5s to £7; heavy baconers, £8 15s to £lO ins (average price per Jb 13 2£d to Is 3d); porkers, £4 7s 6d to £5 2s 6d; heavy porkers, £5 5s to ££ 2s Gd (average price per lb, Is 4d to Is sd). Store Plrs. —A romarkablv good sale was experienced, there being a keen demand for practically all sorts. The entry was a large one. Best stores to £5 ss; medium stores, £3 10s to £4 10s; very small stores, £2 10s to £3 ss; weaners, £2 2s to £3 6s; sows in pig, £l4.