Commercial.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7613, 9 December 1886, Page 2

Commercial.

V". . ■-'.' ~ ■■»' — : „■ ' ".'" ' IIERAT.D Office, . ; . '. Wednesday ovoning. '»' MESSRS' O. B. IIOADLEY AND CO.'S BEPORT. r 'Wo hold our sale of skins, hides, tallow, and . oddments of wool at our Spit stores this ' morninsc. There was tho usual attendance of tho "Sib, but owing to.tlie quantity of wool now infollmongers' hands for working up, ■ . and tho late advices from London prices realised were -all round quite a halfpenny lower thanatprovious sales. Our catalogue - ■ consisted of 1871 skins. 32 oddments of wool, ' 7 parcels of tallow.and 68 hides, all of which wo cleared at tho following prices :-Good : crossbred, Sd to Gid; medium, 3Jd to 45d: ' roerino, according to quality, up to 6kl. Odd lote of wool, full values. Tallow, station lots, Id to lid. Hides, 2id told. Calfskins, i id. Wool is now coming to hand freely for pur next sale on tho 22nd iiist, when wo expect to '. have ft good quantity catalogued. . NEW ZEALAND LOAN ANDMEKCANTILEAGENOV COMPANY'S REPORT. " ■ Wo hold o\ir usual sale of sheepskins, Sec., ' at our Spit sale-rooms this morning, llio ■ • attendance of buyers was not quite so good as '" usual, arid prices showed a downward tendenov in sympathy with tho drop in the Homo • marliot. , However, good heavy skins excited , . good competition, realising G'd nor lb. Our catalogue consisted of 1157 shcopskms and 2i " liidos. A largo number of skins arriving tins morning were unavoidably shut out, and will be offored at our uoxt skin sale to bo hold ' early, in January. The following are the prices obtained : — Sheepskins — Crossbred, fight to-medium, 3gd tood; good, 5d to OJd; - half-bred, light to medium, 4{d to sd ; good, ■5d to Oid J merino, inferior, 3>d to id ; medium togoXld to old; crossbred hoggets, 3Jd to it£ Hidos— Heavy, 2Jd to id : medium, 3Jd to Sidelight. 2fd to Sid ; dry, 2d to Hd : calfskins,'3i|d to 3Jcl ; all according to condition. Wo would remind ouv clients that our noxt wool salo will bo held on tho 22nd instant. . when a good catalogue will cc ouerod. All . wool to be offered must bo in by Monday, the 20th hist..