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Taranaki Daily News, 9 January 1922, Page 2

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LONDON MARKETS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Jan. 8, 5.5 p.m. London, Jan. 7. Cotton. —Liverpool quotation, American middling upland, February delivery, 10.86 d per lb. Rubber.—Fine hard para, 13Jd per lb; plantation, first latex crepe, lOJd; smoked ribbed sheet, IOSd. Hemp.—New Zealand January-March shipment,' £37 10s per ton. Jute.—Native first marks, JanuaryFebruary shipment, £27 per ton. Copra.—South Sea bagged, FebruaryApril shipment, £24 5s per ton. Linseed oil.—£3o per ton, equal to 2s 42d gallon. Turpentine.—7ls 6d per cwt. (equal to 5s 4?d per gallon. Wheat.—Cargoes steady and more business doing. Parcels steadily held. Demand quiet. Quotations, January-February cargoes, 51s 6d per quarter; parcels, 50s 6d t One Australian steamer with a parcel for January shipment sold at 51s per quar-ter.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. LONDON MEAT MARKET. Received Jan. 8, 5.5 pjh. London, Jan. 7. Sheep.—Canterbury light, 61d; medium, 5Jd; heavy, std; Southland, s£d; North Island, and sgd; New Zealand ewes, Australian firsts, sd; seconds, 4|d; ewes, none offering; South American light, 52d; heavy, sd; ewes, none offering; Patagonian light, 5Ad; heavy, 4gd; ewes, 4id. Lambs.—Canterbury light, BAd; medium, Bid; heavy, 7id; second, 7£d; Southland, 7Jd; North Island selected, 7'}d; ordinary, 7id: Australian, best 7£d; fair, 7£d; inferior, 7d.

Beef. —Frozen New Zealand, old fores 3£d, hinds 4Ad; new, nominal, fores 3Jd, hinds Australian crops 3Jd, hinds Argentine fores 3Ad, hinds 6d; Uruguayan, nominal, fores 3Jd, hinds chilled Argentine fores 3fd, hinds 7id;Uruguayan, none offering.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

ANTWERP WOOL SALES. Received Jan. 8, 5.5 p.m. Antwerp, Jan. 6. At the wool sales the total for the two days was 20,601 bales offered and 18,366 .sold. Prices were on a parity with those of Thursday, with more animation. LOAN AND MERCANTILE REPORT. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., have received the following cablegram from their London house, under date 4th instant: Tallow.—We quote present spot values for the following descriptions: Fine mutton, £2 3s per cwt; good beef, £2; mixed, £1 14s 9d. The market is quiet. Sale by auction has been resumed. New Zealand Frozen Meat.—Lamb, 7§d per lb; wether and maiden ewe, fight s|d, heavy, 4id; ewe, light 4-Jd, heavy, 3£d; frozen beef, hinds 4’Jd, fores 3id (ox) ; hinds fores 2Jd (cow). WAIKATO MARKETS. The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Co., Ltd., report: At Hamilton on Thursday, January 5, our yarding of all classes of stock was small and bidding generally dull. Beef values were lower somewhat than previous sales, steers making to £7 for the best; lighter weights, £5 to £6 2s 6d. No store cattle were penned. The sheep offering were not well finished, but realised quite up to recent values. Wethers made to 12s 6d, smaller, 9s to 9s 9d; ewes, to 10s 2d; others, 6s to 8s 9d. Store lambs, 5s to 5s 6d. Pigs were somewhat firmer, owing to short supply, no doubt. Baconers made from £2 14s to £3 17s; porkers, 31s to £2; slips, 13s to 225; weaners, 5s to Bs.