SYDNEY STOCK SALES.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11751, 27 November 1903, Page 6

SYDNEY STOCK SALES.

(Received November 26th, 10.10 p.m.) SYDNEY, November 26. At the Homebush sales sheep were unchanged and cattle ea-sier. Best wethers 18s, good 16s to 17s, best ewes 17s, extra 18s, good 14s 6d to 15s 6d. Best bullocks £10 10s, extra, to £14 10s, good £9 15s, best cows £8, extra £8 10s, good £6 15s. Best beef, 25a 6d.

Messrs Dalgety and Company have received the following cable message from their London office, dated November 25th: —" Since our last telegram prime mutton . tallow is lower by 6d per cwt, and other descriptions by 3d."

Messrs Dalgety and Company, Limited, have received the following cable message from their London office, und<ir "date November 25th: —"Since our last telegram prime mutton tallow is lower by 6d per cwt, and other descriptions by 3d."

(rHES3 ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.) NAPIER, November 26. The C.C. and D. Company have received the following cable from London: —"The frozen meat market is weaker, with a tendency downwards, and there Ls an allround fall in values, while the demand is very poor. Quotations are: Canterbury mutton, 4 8 d; Napier, Wellington, and North Wand, 3sd. Lamb, first quality, 4|d; second, 4£d. Beef, hinds, 3gd; fores, 2gd." WELLINGTON, 'November 26. The Department of Industries and Uommerco has received the following cable from the Agent-General, dated London, 25th: — "The wool sales opened with a full attendance of the trade, but competition was only fair. Thirty thousand bales of New Zealand wool were catalogued, mostly as eliped. Compared with the closing rates of the lost series, fine and medium greasy crossbred wool is from £d to jd, and the coarse Id per lb lower. Sliped has fallen to a lesser extent, and merinos are mostly unchanged." At the first local wool sale to-day, 2375 bales were offered. The sales effected show an advance, us compared with the November sales of lid per lb fine crossbreds, lid to ljd medium crossbred, and 2d coarse crossbred. A feature of the sale ia the comparatively high prices paid for inferior wools.