COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10039, 9 May 1910, Page 6

COMMERCIAL.

WELLINGTON SKIN AND HIDE SALES.

Messrs Lavin and Co. Abraham and J Williams, Dalgeiy and Co., and the J New Zealand Loan and Mercantile! Agency Co., Ltd., report on tbeirjj Wellington Skin and Hide Sales Friday, as follow: || Wool. —Notwithstanding the drop! reported from London prices werei| well sustained; competition beingj| good for the wool offeriner, whichst consisted mainly of odd bales of heavyp | conditioned crossbred, and a sbales of this season's crutchings.|| IWe quote:—Fine crosabreds, 9d to® lOJd; coarse crosabreds, 7J to Bsd;|| lambs' woolly. 7£d to yd; pieces and,',)! 4|d to 6d; locks. 2|d to 4.-!(i;l|j crutohings, 4d to 6d. Skins.—Very|| few woolly skins were offering, but|| we had a fair catalogue of half woolsp and short wools which met vnthll strong demand at full prices. We|| fquote:—Fine croasbreds, 8d to 9d;||

medium crossbreds 7d to Bjd; coarse

|crossbreds, 6d to 7£d; dead skins, 4d|| jj to 6d; dead hoggets, 5d to 6d: lamb|| jj skins, to 7|i; quarter and half-|l | wools, 4dto7d; dry pelts, 2£d to|| 15£ d; green skins, 3s 6d to 6s sd;|| Ilamb pelts, Is 6d to 2s 6d. Tallow. —Very firm. Parcels in order, £2B ss; tins, £2O to £23 5a rougn fat, £lO to £l7. Horsehair.—M Is to Is 4d per lb; horns, 5s to 15s|| per hundred. Cowtails.—l& 6d per® Idozen. Hides.—We brought ka good catalogue. Bidding was very|| lirregular, especially for meditsmP Iweights. Calfskins were firm at re-1 Icent values. Wequiote:—Ox hides,Kj iheavy 7d to 7§d; ox hides, medium! |i7d to 7§d; ox hides, light 6£d to 7Jd M jlcow hides, 6Jdto old; cut an slippyi Ihides, 4dto6d; stag hides, 4d toi ||s!d; bull hides, 4d to s£d; yearlings,! isd to 6|d; calf beat, 7d to 101d;| ||calf medium, 6d to 8d; calf cut a n dl raslippy, 5d to 6d. The next sales willl sbe held on Friday, 20th May, 1910. |

LONDON MARKETS.

Messrs Dalgety and Company, Lim-1 jited, report having .received the following cable message from their Lon-1 •don House under date of the sth in-1 stant: —Frozen Meat. —Prices fori mutton which is weak, and in pcorl demand, are irom |d to gd lower.l The market for lamb is weak, , but? prices are not quotably changed. The? jjconEumptive demand is good, but asj llarge quantities are arriving and! jjafloat, a decline seems probables [shortly. Beef is in rather alow de-f Imand with firiu prices. Very little Ibusines3 is being done forward. Talllow. —Prices are 6d lower. Buyers are holding off. Wool. The following further realisations of wool onaccount of our clients have been made in the May series:—C over M, 9Jd; B and C, 10.8 d.