COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10015, 11 April 1910, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

WELLINGTON WOOL AND SKIN SALES. Messrs Levin and flu. report:—Wo held our fortnightly sale on Friday, when we offered 30 hales wool, 6,500 skins, 2,000 hides and calfskins, and a quantity of tallow and horsehair. There was a good attendance of buyers. Wool. — Notwithstanding the drop recorded in London, at the March sales, we had must spirited competition for the wool offering which consisted mainly of odd bales of heavy conditioned crossbreds, and these bales realised 7Jd to 9d per !b. A line of seven bale fleece wool of light condition brought IOJd. We quote: —Fine crossbreds, 9d to 10Jd; coarse crossbreds, 7£d to B|d; iambs wool, 7&dtoߣd; pieces and bellies, 4£d to 6d; locks, 2Jd to 4£d. Skins. —Very few worchy skins were offering, but we had a large catalogue of half wools and short wools which met with strong demand at. full pricas. We quote.—Fine crossbreds, 8d to 9d; medium crossbreds, ?d to B£d; coarsa crossbreds, 7d to SJd; hogerefc skins, 6dto6£d;dead skins, 4d to 6|d; dead hoggets, 5d tu 6d; lamb skins, 6d to 7fd; quarter to half wools, 4dto6£d; dry 2£d to 6£d; green pelts, 3s to 4s 4d: lamb pelts, la 6d to 2s 3d. Tallow.—Very firm. Parcels in shipping order £27 15s; tins, £2O to £23 ss; rough fat, £lO to £1?. Horsehair.—ls to Is 4d per lb. Herns—ss to 15s per hundred, o'owtails—ls 5i dozen. Hides.—We brought forward a good catalogue. All lots were eagerly competed for, but th-i hi ill prices ruling at last sale were not maintained, and prices receded g:l all round. Calfskins were a penny easier. We quote.—Ox hides, heavy 7d to 7sd; ox hides, medium 7d to 7|d; ox hides, light 6|d to 7&d: cow hides, GJd to cut and slippy hides, 4d to 62d; siag hides, id to 5§3; bull hides, 4d to s£d; yearlings, 5:1 to (jg-d; calf besi, 7d to BJd; c.»lf medium, 6d to 7d; calf cue and slippy, 5d to 6d. Our next sale will be held on Fi lay, April 22nd, 1910.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report aa follows:—At to-day's sale we offered a large catalogue of wool, skins and hides to a fair attendance of buyers. Bids for skins and hides were quite up to recent sales, and practically everything was soid, but was a shade easier for coarse wool. We quote:— Wool. —Merino medium to 9d per lb; crossbred coarse, 6|d to 8d; lambs medium, 7d to Sd; lambs seedy, 4|d tosd; locks and pieces, 2d to 4£d; crutchings. 4£d to 5Jd. Sheepskins. —Merino inferior, 6|d to 7Jd;' halfbred and fine crossbred, B£d to 9£d; crossbred coarse and medium, 7d to B£d; dead shins, s|d to 6£d; short wool, 4Jd to G&d: damaged pelted skins, 4d to 62d;, lambs woolly, to 7£d; laaobs shorn. s§d to 6d; green skins, 2s to as 7d each; green lambs, 2s to 2s lOd. Hides.—Cow and ox light, 16idto'7id; faulty and dry hides 3|d to 6£d; calf best, Bid to Bfd; calf damaged, id to 6|d. Tallow.—ln tins 22s 3d to 22s 6d per cwt.; rough fat, to 16s per cwt.

Messrs ' braham and Wiliiam3, Ltd., Wellington, report on thensale held on the Bth inst. as follows: —We offered a catalogue of 35 bales of wool and a goo.! assortment of skins and hide?. Buyers attended in good f,orce and, bidding for everything offered, was keen at late rates. We quote:—Wool.—Rough crossbred, 7£dtoßd; lambs medium, B|d to 3i-cl; infarior, 7d to 7£d; dead, 7£d to 7£d; pieces, 5d to s|d to 6Jd; locus, to 3gd. bkins.—Halfwools, 6&d to lid; quarterwcols, 6d to 6id; lambs, 7Jd to 7Jd; shorn lambs, s£d to sgd; lambs pelts, 4d; dead, 6Jd; inlenor and shorts, ."d to 4d: butchers damp quarterwools, 3s 3d to 3s sd; half wools damp, 4s to 4s 4d to 4a 8d to 5s 3d; shorn lambs, Is 8d to 2s to 23 3d; lam'.s, 3s 7d to 4s. Hides.- Heavy ox, none offering; mtdiurn ox, 7§d to 72*1; light tn medium cows. 6|d to 6'5-f; flippy cows, sj*d; stags, s|d to sgd; yearlings, Gfjd; calf medium, B|d; cut, 6£d; eowtails, Is 5d per dozen, Tallow.—ln strong request; in shipping order, £27 15s per ton; tins, 225. I _

LONDON MAKKETS. MvJssr3 Dalgety and Co., Ltd , report having received the following cable messages from their London housd under date oi' tne 7th instant : —Frozen Mear.—Tiu Jcinasitl for ;i)i

j dercriptions"of frozen meat is less, having been affected by the unfavourable weather. Pricei for fozen mutton, of which stocks are small, are from £0 to id lower, but recovery is possible. Prices for lamb, which looks a3 if it hns touched top, are this week Jd lower. For beef, any change in prices u in favour of buyers. There are heavier supplies of chilled coming forward. Buyers generally are holding back, expecting to do better later on. Tallow. — Since our last wire present prices, which are about at the parity of recent c.i.f. sales, are Is 6d f.jgher.

SIOCK MAKKET.

Mesrss Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report:—At our Pongaroa sale on Friday we submitted a fair yarding of both sheep and cattle to a good attendance of farmers. Wo quitted all the sheep at good values, but vendors' anticipations with regard to some of the cattle were too high, and we onlv sold a few pens. Quotations —Fat and lorwara wethers, J2s tid; sound mouth ewes, in iamb 7s 6d to 8s 6d;dry ev/ea, 7s 3d; shorn lambs, 6s 7d; 2 tooch Lincoln rams, £3 Is; store cows, £3 Is; heifers i;i calf, £2 13s; weaner steers, 30s tu Cls bull, £3.

WEEKLY MARKET REPORT.

The New Zealand Farmers' Coopertive Distributing Co , Ltd., report:—Potatoes, medium £4 10s to £5 10a; others, £3 per ton; onions, £4 to £4 10s per ton; butter, best separator printed wrappers 9d,separator bulk BJd to 9d; dairy pat?, B£d to 9d; cheese, best fuciory mediums, i s£rt to 5Jd per lb; loaf, 6Ad per lb; < dressed pork, 7.o'h to 90'* 3fd. 90's to 100's 3d. baconers Sd, chopjeri heavy 2d; eggs, Is 9d per doien, scarce; bacon, factory sides 7d, roils 7£d, hams 8d per lb; Poultry.— Cocktrels 5s 6d for good bird, small ! 3s to 3s 6d; table roosters, 4s; table hens, 3s 6d; small,2s to 2s 6d; ducks, largess; small 3s to 3s 6d per pair; turkey gobblers, 9d per lb; hens, Sd per lb, live weight. Alaize, 4s per bushel; wheat, 4s to 4s 3d per bushel; barley, feed 3s 3d per bushel; barley, Cape 3s fid per bushel; horse beans, 4s 6d to 4s 9d per bushel; partridge peas, 5s par bushel; Prussian Blue peas, 5s 6d per bushel; barley meal, special quality £5 10s per ton; sharps, £5 15s per ton; pollard, £s' 10? per ton; bran, £4 tu £4 103 per ton; chaff, prime oaten sheaf £5 to £5 5s per ton; hay, prime £3 15s to £4 per ton; sucrosine £6 10s per ton; straw, wheaten £2 10s per ton; straw, oaten £2 7s per ton; oats, feed 2s 4d to 2s 7d per bushel; uats, seed, Algerians, Sparrowbills, Gartons, Duns, 2s 9d per bushel; oats, crushed 2s 8d per bushel; machine dressed cocksfoot, 6Jd to 7d per lb; farmers' dressed cocksfout, 6d per lb; perennial ryegrass, 4s 6d to 5s per bushel; Italian ryegrass, 4s 3d to 4s 9d.