COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8302, 4 December 1906, Page 6

COMMERCIAL.

LONDON WOOL MARKET. By Telegraph—Preaa Association. Received December 3, 7.8 a.m. LONDON, December 2. Prices are fally maintained to date. 44,865 bales have been catalogued, and 43,566 have been eold. Ibb sales included fleeoe portions of the following clips:—Mangawhare, 3.l>£d; Poreoraj Gore, 14d,- Kyuuna, 23% d. FROZEN MEAT MARKET. Received December 3, 7.8 a.m. LONDON, December 2. Sheep are unaltered. Lamb—None offering. Now Zealand beef—Forequarters, hindquarters unchanged. River Plate sheep and beef are unchanged.

Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on their Palmerston North wool, skin, and hide sale, on Friday—We offered a catalogue of 17 bales and 70 bags of wool, 1,800 skins, 1,150 calfskins, 350 hides, and also fair quant ilea of tallow, bones, etc. Wool, skins, aud hides sold at ruling rates. We quote:— Wool—Crossbred fleece, ooaree, 8)46 to 9%d; medium fcto fine, 9%d to dead, 5%d to 6%d, to 7%d toß%d; pieces, to sd, to Gd to 7}£d; looks ; to 4d, to 4>£d to bellies,. 5d to 6 SkinsCrossbred, to B%d; pelts, short wool By a a -.lambs, BJ£d;dead hoggets and lambs, to 7d; hate pelts, botohers' half-dry and green, 5s to 7a 4d, to 7s lOd to 8s '6d, to9«8d; butchers' lambs, 2s to 2a 3d; butchers' pplts, bare, 2s to 2s 6d. Hides—Ox, heavy, 35s to 39s 6d ; to 41s; medium, 29a to 31s 6d, to 335; light, 17s to 22e, to 24s 6d to 28s 6d; cow, heavy, 9s 6d to 32s 6d: medium, 23s 6d to 25s to 26s 6d; ligiit, 15s to 16s 6d, ti 18s to 21s 6d; yearlings, 5a to 7s 2d; calves, sound, 2s 7d to 3s Id, to 3s 8d; damaged, Is 8d to 2s 3d. Tallow—Cask, inferior, 14s; tins, 18s ,6d per cwt; bones, 3s 8d per owt. Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on the clearing sale held on account of Mr C. Wagland, at Maunoeville, yesterday, as follows: —Notwithstanding the boisterous state of the weather, buyers were in good attendance, and we bad no difficulty in quitting the whole of the stook at very satisfactory figures. The hoggets made 19s lOd, which is the best price we have realised so far this season. Ewes and lambs made 25s 6d to 26s 6d, Linooln rams %gn to l%gns, fat shorn ewes 14s 3d, oowb in milk £3 16s to £5, heifers to £2 6s to £3, yearlings £2 to £2 ss, 2 year steers £2 10s to £2 15s, _ 3 year steers £3 10s, and a host of furniture and sundries at full values.