COMMERCIAL.
WHEAT. New York, Oct. 21. Chicago wheat, December to 169 J, May I7l£ to 168 J, the highest prices with one exception since the Civil War. It is predicted that prices will soon reach two dollars a bushel and possibly three unless the Government imposes an embargo or regulates prices. ENGLISH MARKETS. London, Oct. 21. Copra.—October-December £34 5/-. Hemp. — Quiet. October-December £5l. Rubber.—Para 3/11, plantation 2/42, smoked 2/41. Rabbits. —Firm at unchanged rates. Frozen Meat.—Mutton, New Zealand Bsd to SJd, Australian 81d to 81d, South American BJd to B|d; lamb, New Zealand and Australian 9|d to lOd, South American Bid to 9d. STOCK SALES. DANNEVIRKE YARDS. The Hawke’s Bay Farmers’ report on their weekly sale at Dannevirke yards on Friday as follows:—We offered a fair yarding of cattle but no sheep. There was keen competition tor all classes of stock and we report a very good clearance at the following prices:—7 springing heifers from £l2 10/- to £B, 1 springing cow £l2* 1 do £9 10/-, 7 heifers and cows with calves £l2 to £6 19/-. 16 yearling heifers £4 13/-, 5 yearling steers £5 16/-, 5 yearling do £6 15/-, 5 store cows £9 1/-, 3 2J-year steers £ll 13, 6. 7 15-month steers £7 11/-, weauer pigs 21/6 to 18/6.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HBTRIB19161023.2.60
Bibliographic details
Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 263, 23 October 1916, Page 7
Word Count
213COMMERCIAL. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 263, 23 October 1916, Page 7
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Hawke's Bay Tribune. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.