Commercial.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3432, 11 February 1890, Page 2

Commercial.

London, February 8. At the wool sales merinos generally realised S to 7$ per cent below the December prioes. Short faulty showed most decline. Lambs' aud orpssbreds were firm at Deoember rates, foreign buyers taking 00 per cent. : Leathers slightly firmer: basils steady; hides, B|d to Bsd. . Tho English wheat market is firmer the Continental stead}, and the American changing a little for tho worse.

Tallow—Medium mutton, 23s Gd; ditto beef, 225, The New Zealand Loan and Mer. cantile Agency Company (Limited) have received the following adviceby cable from their London office, dated the 7th inatWool—Since opening the sales there has been an average decline of about 5 per cent on last sales' closing rates on merino, For superior merino and orossbrod lambs the market is very firm. .The total quantity catalogued to date is 99,000 bales, and total quantity withdrawn to date is 16,000 bales. Tallow —The .market has a downward tendency. Good beofis worth 23s 3d per cwt; mutton tallow unchanged Frozen meat-For frozen beef there' is rather better demand. New Zealand hemp—For common quality thore is a fair trade demand. Medium quality is worth £26, and common £24 10s per ton. The Carterton Ram and Ewo Fair, under the auspioes of Wairarapa and East Coast Pastoral and Agricultural fiooiety, takes place to-morrow commencing at 11.80 a.m. sharp. Mr F. H, Wood publishes a long list, in his usual column, of entries for that day with the names of the vendors. The catalogue includes puro bred Linoolns, Boutbdowns, Romney Marsh, Border' Leicesters, and Shropshire Downs, Earns and Ewes. Farmers desirious of improving the breed of their flocks, would do well to take advantage of the opportunity here offered of scouring BOino of these stud sheep,