COMMERCIAL.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 273, 3 November 1916, Page 7

COMMERCIAL.

LONDON WOOL MARKET. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., have received the following cablegram from their London house: —Wool sales active. As compared with 22nd September, bred greasy, medium and coarse 7/ per cent, higher, scoured and fine slips 5 per cent, higher, medium and coarse | slipe par to 5 per cent, higher, greasy merino and medium inferior scoured 5 per cent, higher, superior and lambs par to 5 per cent, higher. Murray, Roberts and Co., Ltd., are in receipt of the following cable from their London house:—“Market strong. Merino all descriptions, and crossbredj greasy par to 3 per cent, advance.” I AUSTRALIAN WOOL SALES. Sydney, Nov. 2. There was a keen demand. Good merino improved per cent. Crossbreds fetched 24Jd, a record. Melbourne, Nov. 2. Better class merino and crossbreds were distinctly dearer. The demand for inferior improved. AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE. Sydney, Nov. 2. Oats, Algerian feeding 2/4 to 2/5, milling 2/7, Tasmanian white 2/6 to 2/8. Barley 3/- to 3/6. Maize 3/9 to 3/10. Potatoes, Tasmafiian £6 10/- to, £0 10/-. ' Onions, £4 10/- to £5. Adelaide, Nov. 2. Oats. 1/9 to 1/11. 11 IDES. Melbourne, Nov. 2. Hides, fair supplies, better competition, prices practically unchanged. LONGLANDS STOCK SALE. Messrs. Hoadley, Son and Stewart, Ltd., report having held their fortnightly Longlands sale yesterday, when "they offered a good yarding of cattle and a fair yarding of sheep to a good attendance of the public. One springing cow £lO 2/-, 1_ Hol. cow £9, 1 springing cow £ll 15/-, 1 cow £8 1 springing heifer £9 10/-, 1 cow £9 12/6, 1 cow’ £9 9/-, 1 heifer £ll 1/-, 2 2-year heifers £ll 7/6, 1 yearling heifer £9 7/6. 1 yearling heifer £5 11/-; 1 fat heifer £lO IJ-, 1 fat cow £l5 1/-, 1 heifer £8 6/-, 1 empty heifer £7 15/-, 1 steer £7 10/-, 2 steers £l2, 1 18-nionths steer £lO, 1 Jersey steer £3, 1 fat cow £l3 15/-, 1 fat cow £l5 7/6. 1 fat bullock £ll 15/-, 1 Jersey bull £4 2/6, 1 cow £7 2/6, 45 4-year bullocks £l7 5/-, 1 heifer springing £8 2/6, 15 2-year steers £9, 1 cow £9 2/6, 15 2-year steers £9, 1 cow £3 13/-, 1 yearling heifer "£5 16/-, 20 2-year steers £ll 5/-, 1 fat cow £l2, 4 weaner steers £l2, 7 2-year steers £ll 4/-, 1 springing cow £B, 1 cow and 2 calves £11 ? 1 empty cow £9 7/'-, 2 18nionths heifers £5 7/-, 1 fat cow £l2, 1 Jersey bull £l2, 1 heifer £5, 2 heifers £4 10/-, 1 bull £lO 5/-, 143 m.s. hoggets 33/5, 5 fat ewes 31/-, 8 fat ewes 32/6, 25 fat ewes 36/-, 43 hoggets 24/6, 87 m.s. hoggets'24/6, 28 fat ewes 34/7, 18 fat ewes 30/2, 23 shorn ewes with 100 per cent, lambs 35/6.

STORTFORI) LODGE STOCK SALE. De Pelichet, McLeod and Co., Ltd., report having sold at Stortford Lodge on Wednesday:-—1 cow £ll 15/-, 1 cow £ll, 1 cow £8 17/6, 1 cow £8 8/6, 1 cow £8 1/-. 1 heifer £8 9/-, 6 heifers £5 4/-, 2 wethers £2 10/-, 15 ewes and lambs £2 8/3, 52 wethers £1 19/6, 16 ewes £1 13/7. WAIPUKURAU STOCK SALE. De Pelichet, McLeod and Co., Ltd., report having sold at Waipukurau on Tuesday 3 steers £l4 10/-, 16 heifers £7 2/-. 16 heifers £7, 12 heifers £6 11/6, 18 steers £6 10/-, 11 steers £6 2/6, 6 steers £5 19/-.