COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10043, 18 July 1910, Page 7

COMMERCIAL.

LONDON MAKKET. Messrs Dalgeiy and Company, Liffl-' ited, report having received tae following cable advices from their Louden house, dated 14th lnst:Sheepskins.—Since our last wire Merino combing skins, prices are lower by a farthing to a halfpenny; crossbred line combing skins, price lower by a farthing; crossbred coarse and medium combing skins, a farthing to a halfpenny lower; whilst prices for clothing skins are unchanged.

Mutton.—There is o limited demand, prices having weakened. Lamb.—Prices are £d per lh lower owing to increased supply and rather lass demand. Beef.—Prices are nominally a farthing lower" owing to lower prices being asked for chilled beef. Tallow.—Low and inferior descr ptions 65 higher, mixed beef and mutton Is to Is 3d higher.

WELLINGTON WOOL AND SKIN SALES.

Messrs Levin and Co., Dalgety and Co., Abraham and Williams, and the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile

Agency Company, report as follows: Wool. —Competition was good;

; crutcbirigfl were fully a halfpenny per lb lower than the extreme prices that have been paid. They quote:— Fine crossbred, 8d to 9d; coarse crossbred, bid to7£d; lam Da' wool, bid to 8d; pfeces and bellies', 4d to J sd; locks. 2Jd to 4£d; crutchings, I 4lto6|d. Skins. —Dry skins were steady at current prices, but. gretn Ekina were slightly easier. "Jhty quote:—Fine croisbreds, 8d to B£d; vmedium crossbreds, 7d to 8d; coatse crossbreds, 6.1 to 7*d; hogget bkina, 6d to 6J.1: dead ski.ss, 4i to 6|3; dead hoggets, sdto6d; lambskins, sfdto7£d; quarter and half wo Is, 4d to 6id; dry pelts, 2Jd to sd; green skins, 4s to 7s 7d; lamb skina, 2» 6d to 4.3 <Bd. Tallow. —Was distinctly firmer. Parcels in shipping order £27 15s; tins, £2O to £24; rough fat, £lO to £l7. Horsehair.—ls.lo la 4J per lb. Horns.—s3 to 15s per hundred. Cowtails. —ls 6dperriczn. Hides.—Hides were again firm at the lower basis of prices row ruling. Calfskins also showed a firmness which is encouraging. Weq'iote:— Ox hides, heavy 6£d to 6|d; ox hides, medium 6§d to bid: ox hides, light Sd to 6£d; cow hides, s£d to 6d; cut and slippy hides, 3d to sd; stag hides, 4d to s£d; bull hides, 4d to s£d; yearlings, 5d to 6d; calf best, 9dto9£d; calf, medium 7£d to BJd; calf cut and slippy, 5d to s|d. Our next sale will be held on Friday, 29th July, 1910. '

WEEKLY MAKKET-KEPORT. The New Zealand Farmers' Co-op-erative Distributing Company. Ltd., report as follows:-Potatoes, prime Up-to-Datea £7103 per ton; potatoes, seed, specially selected Canterbury Up-to-dates £7 103 to £7 15a per ton; onions, £5 per ton; pickling onions, 7a 6d per cwt; butter, separator lOd, dairy 9£d per lb;' cheese, best tactory mediums 6d per lb, loaf 7d per lb; dressed pork, 70's to 90's iif 3, 90's to_loo's 4Jd, baconers 4|d, choppers heavy 3d; eggs, fret?h Is 6d; preserved Is per dozen; bacon, factory sides 7d, nils 7£d, hams B|d per lb; boney, 4d to 4£d per lb; beeswax, la 4i to Is 6d per lb; fungus, keen demard at sj|d per lb; tallow, tins 22s per cwt; Maize, 3s 6d per bushel; wheat, 3s 9d; special 4s per bUMhel; wheat, seconds 3s 4d to 33 6d per bushel; barley feed, 3s 3d per bushel; barley, Cape 3s 6d per bushel; horse beans, 4s 6d to 4s 9d per bushel; partridge peas, 4s 3d to 5s per bushel;. Prussian Blue peas, 5s 6d per bushel; pollard, £6 15s per ton; Dran, £4 10s to £4 15s per ton; chaff, oaten sheaf £5 to £5 10s per ton; oaten sheaf chaff, £3 15s per ton; hay, prime £3 15s to £5 ton; sucroaihe, £6 10s per ton; straw, wheaten, £2 10s per ton; straw, oaten £2 7s 6d per ton; linseed oil cake, genuine £l3 per ton; cocoanut oil cake, 8s per cwt; oats, feed 2s 4d to 2a 8d per bushel; oats, seed.'?] Sparrowhills, Gartons, Duns, 2s 9d, Algerians 3s 3d per bushel; oats, crushed 2s Ed per bushel.