LONDON COMMERCIAL NEWS. (HERALD CORRESPONDENT.)

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2251, 11 December 1886, Page 2

LONDON COMMERCIAL NEWS. (HERALD CORRESPONDENT.)

Lon'DOX, October 22.— The wool market remains quiet, no private sales of importance hay ing been effected. Tt is anticipitted that the November series will be somewhat larger than usual, and that the total quantity of Australasian and Cape wool will ieauh 12.~>,000 bales. The arrivals to date ot the fifth &eiies :— New Zealand, 3G75 bales ; New South Wales, 7JW4 ; ( )ueonsland, 3058 ; South Australia, 22(»0 ; Victoiia, SS3">; Western Australia, 47 ; Tasmania, 751; Cape of Good Hope, 12,008. — The frozen meat market continues flat. Peihap& the nio&t noticeable feature ot the last fortnight has been that tho cargo of 30,000 sheep from the Falkland Isles, which has been on the market since July 6, has at last been disposed of at prices ranging from 3d to s^d. The Tainui, from Wellington, with 17,413 .sheep. 1420 lambs, aud 212 pieces of beef, has sold 15,500 sheep at 4d to sid ; all the lambs at 5d to (s.^d ; all the beef at 5.Jd to 6d. The Runpehu, from Lyttelton, with 14,128 sheep, 502 lambs, and 120 pieces of beef, has sold 13,700 sheep at 3.W to 5d ; 400 lambs at 4^d to GW ; and all the beef at 2 ' s d to 4.W. The Invercargill, from Port Chalmers; with 9419 sheep and 2200 lambs, has cleared the sheep at 4d to 4id, and sold GOO lambs at 4hd to s£d. The Doric, from Lyttelton, with 22,302 sheep, 197 lambs, and 118 pieces of beef, has sold 20,G00 sheep at 3^d to sd, all the lambs at 5d to 6d, and all the beef at 4£d to s^d. The Kaikoura, from Lyttleton, with 16,497 sheep, 224 lambs, and 122 pieces of beef, has cleared the sheep at 3fcd to 4}d, the beef at 4|d to 5Ad, and sold 100 lambs at 5d to 6d. The Northumberland's Napier cargo of 15,453 sh«ep, has not yet been placed on the market. The Arawa, from Auckland, with 20,286 sheep, 70 lambs, and 2838 pieces of beef, has sold 11,000 sheep at 3.W to 4^d, all the lambs at 4d to sc', and all" the beef at 3hd to sid. The Ludy Jocelyn's " unsatisfactory " Port Chalmers cargo goes off slowly, 8600 out of the 10,799 sheep and lambs having been sold at 2d to 4^d. The Tongariro, from Lyttelton, with an "irregular" cargo of 10,908 sheep, 375 lambs, and 3856 pieces of beef, has practically cleared the sheep at 3\d to 4W, and the lambs at 4d to G.^d, and sold 1500 pieces of beef at 3d to s.}d. The lonic, from Lyttelton, with 22,644 sheep and 173 pieces of beef, has sold 7500 sheep at 3kl to 4^d, and all the lambs at 4id to sd. The cargo of the Aorangi, from Wellington, consisting of 14,777 sheep, 82 lambs, and 247 pieces of beef, has only just been placed on the market ; 1000 sheep have been sold at 3^d to 4^d. The Oamaru'B Lyttelton cargo of 10,115 sheep, has not yet broken bulk.