COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 122, 19 November 1914, Page 6

COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL

TALLOW. (By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright.) (Received November 19, 9 a.m.) LONDON, 18th November. ' At the tallow sales 1013 casks were offored, and 801 sold. Prices realised : Mutton, fine 37s 6d, medium 325; beef, fine 36a 6d, medium 30s. METALS. (Received November 19, 11 a.m.) LONDON, 18th November. Copper, £53 10s to £53 15s, and £53 15s io £53 17s 6d. Electrolytic, £55 10s to £56. Tin, £137 10s to £137 15s, and £136 15s to £137 ss. Spelter, £25. Bar silver is quoted at 22 15-16 d per ounce standard. ADDINGTON STOCK SALE. (IT TELEGRAPH.— PtnSS ASSOCIATION.) CHRISTCHURCH, 18fch^Nov. At tho Aldington yards to-day there were fairly large entries of fat stock and a good attendance. Fat cattle were rather easier towards the end of the sale. Fat lambs sold well, and fully up to last sale rates. Store shoep showed little change. Store Sheep (shorn). — Two-tooth ewes to 16s 3d, fair 2-tooth wethers 12s 9d, medium 2-tooth wethers lls 10d, medium 2-tooth wethers 15s 9d, 4 and 6-tooth dry owes 15s lid, medium 4 and 6-tooth wethers 15s 4d» good forward 4-tooth wethers to 17s Id, full-mouth ewes with lambs 10s lOd (all counted). Woolly ewes in lamb to 20s, good woolly 6 and 8-tooth ewes with lambs 14s. fair-mouthed ewes with lambs lls to 12s 3d. inferior ewes with lambs 9s 4d to 10s 3d. Fat Lambs — Beßt lambs 19s to 21s 6d, lighter 16s 6d to 18s 6d. Fat Sheep. — Woolly wethers 22s 5d to 26s 6d, 'extra prime shorn wothers to 335, prime shorn wethers 21s 6d to 27s 2d, others 15s to 21s, shorn merino wethers 14s 9d to 22s 6d, woolly ewes 22s to 25a 6d, prime shorn ewes 20s to 255, others .15s to 19s 6d, woolly hoggets 20s to 22s 4d, shorn hoggets to 24s 6d. Fat Cattle. — Extra good steers to £16. 7s 6d, ordinary steers £9 to £12, heifers £5 12s 6d to £9 15s, extra \good cows to £18, ordinary cows £5 7s 6d to £9;' price of beef per 1001b, 34s to 445. Store Cattle. — Yearlings 32s 6d, 15 to 18-month sorts £2 lls to £3 12s 6d, 2yeaf steers £4 7s 6d, 2-year heifers £4 ss, 2^-year heifers £4 17s, d-yea. steers £6 17s 6d (passed), 3-year heifers £4 17s 6d to £5 ss, dry cows 30s to £4 15s. Dairy Cows. — There was a fair yarding, mainly of rough sorts, and poor classes were not in demand, but useful animals sold freely. Prices ranged from £3 10s to £10. Pigs. — Choppers 60s to 100s, extra heavy baconers to 725, heavy ' baconers 58s to 655, lighter baeoners 50s to 555; price per lb, 6d to s£d. Heavy porkers 40s to 445, lighter porkers 35s to 38s; price per lb, 5d to s^d.