LATE COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 7 August 1913, Page 5

LATE COMMERCIAL.

■■ WOOL, SKIN AND HIDE gALES. Messrs Dalgety and Co., v Ltd., report:—We offered a fair-sized catalogue of wool-skins, hides, etc., to tjie. usual buyers, and realised satisfactory prices, several of the lots of skins being of particularly- good quality. There was a yery evident decline from last sal© rates, but prices [ realised yesterday ware in keeping I with the present market. We topped the market with a line of super larabs which brought BJd, and the following is our • range of prices.Wool: Cutohings, JX 7d, JPL conjoined 7|d, Waipupa 7|d, sundry 5d to 7Jd, dead wool to Bid, pieoes 7Jd, locks 4id. Skins: Crossbred sid to 7|d, lambe ojd to "Bid, aborts 6id .$0 7Jd*; Hides: Steer 6 6-8 d to 7 6-Bd, oow 7, 9-8 d to 7-&8 d, yearling 10; to Bd, , calfskins to 9f d, horse hide <Tall6w » 22s 3d. • Rabbit" skins: 5Jd. Horse hair: Is 4d to Is 7d. Dur next sale will be held on September 17tih, when we hope to make a spej cial feature of calfskins which, At present, axe oonraianding high prioes. Messrs Levin and Co. report: —'We held our usual wool, skin and hide sale to-day, when we submitted a catalogue of 20 bales and 60 bags of wool, 2100 sheepskins, 200 hides and calfskins, [and a quantity of horsehair, rabbit skins and tallow. There was a good attendance of buyers, and j competition was keen; in fade of' a | drop in London markets, at slightly lower rates than last sale for wool and sheepskins. We quote -.—Wool: Coarse crossbred 7Jd to Bid, dead 7|d ! to BJd, lambs 7d to 7Jd, pieces 6d to 7id, looks to 4Jd, crutchings (best) 7fd, inferior 4|d to 6|d. Sheep skins: Best crossbred 7|d to Bd, inferior crossbred 6|d to 7£d, half-wools * sjd to 7fd, quarter-wools 4id to 6fd, shorts 43d to 6d, deads. 6d to 6Jd, pelts 3d to sfd, hoggets 4Jd to 6|d, la*Hbs (besrt) to Bd, inferior 42d to 6|d, damp crossbreds' 5a lOd to 7s. Hides : Ox 7d to 7fd, cows (good) 7Jd to 7|d, cut and slippy 6fd to 7d, calf (gpod) B£d to lOjd, cut and slippy 7d tt> Bd. Tallow: Casks 26s 9d, tins 21a 9d to 23s 3d, rough fat 12s 6d to 16s 6d. 'Horse hair: Is to Is Bd. i Rabbit skins: 7d to l6|d per lb. Our next sale will be held on Wednesday, Sept amber 17th, 1913. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Cc>., Ltd., report as followsWe held our periodical wool, skin, hide, and , tallow sale yesterday before the usual attendance of, buyers. Skins showed a decline of about |d per lb, and whole hides were in strong demand. We quote :—Wool: In bags Bd, x-bred:to BJd, crutchings 6sd to 7Jd, dead Bd. Skins: Coarse 7jd, to 73d, fine 7£d to BJd, hoggets 7Jd to Bd, dead to 6Jd, green 4s 7d, 4s lOd, 6s 4d. Hides: Cow to 7fd; cow slippy to 6fd, ox to 7fd, bull SJd: Tallow: In tins to 23s per cwt. Our. next sale will be held on 17th September. W.F.C.A. We held our usual sale of wool, skins, and hides yesterday. There was a good attendance of buyers, and prices realised were well lip to the ruling market rates. We offered a very large catalogue, everything being cleared, comprising 40 bales and 60 bags of wool, 2000 sheepskins, 180 hides, 100 calfskins, 70 tins of tallow, and a quantity of rabbitskins and horsehair. We quote:—Wool: Curchings 6fd to 7sd, do seedy 5Jd to 6d, locks 4|d,.fleece seedy 7|d. Sheepskins: Hoggete fine Bjd, medium 7£d, seedy 6d, broken 6Jd, Jwools 7§d, do seedy 6£d, do broken sfd, crossbreds 7fd, do broken ssd, J-wools 6fd, do seedy ssd, dead 6|d, ■shorts 6Jd, do seedy 4|d, pelts ojd., Hides: Ox sound 7fd, do slippy 6fd, cow sound 7£d, do slippy 7d, do dead j 7£d, do dead and cut 6£d, yearling 7fd, do slippy 6fd, do dead "7d, bull slippy ssd, horse hides 8s 3d to 16s each, calfskins good 10|d, do 2nd B£d,, do cut Bd, do meaty B|d, do slippy 5d.. Tallow: 21s 6d to 26s 9d per cwt. Habbitskins: Is 4d. Horsehair: Is 6.} d.

LONDON WOOL MARKETS. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Wellington, have received advice from their London office by cable dated August Ist, as follows: —The Bradford tops quotations to the end of July are as follows, and in parenthesis are shown those ruling at June 27th:—36's, 15* d (16d); 40's, 15fd (16jd); '44's, 16d (16* d); 46's, 16|d (17^d); 50's, 19fd (21 d) ; 56's, 22£ d (23* d); 58's, (28|d); 60'fi, siuper, 28Jd (29d); 64's, 29d (30d); 70's, 292d<31d).