COMMERCIAL.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 275, 6 November 1916, Page 7

COMMERCIAL.

LONDON WOOL SALES. London, Nov. 4. There was an excited wool market. Crossbreds and greasies were 2j to 5 per cent, dearer. Scoureds and slipes showed a strong upward tendency. Merinos were exceedingly firm. The AVaiau clip fetched top 19d, average 18gd, Awarua 24|d and 22>, Kaiapoi 43fd and 43jd, ENGLISH MARKETS. London, Nov. 4. Wheat.—Steady, no sellers of cargoes. Sellers asking 76/- for midOctober parcels. The price of the quartern loaf will be raised to lOJdon Monday. Hemp.—October-December £57. Copra.—October-December £35 15/-. Rubber.—Para 3/5, plantation 2/6f, smoked 2/6}. Rabbits.—Steady at unchanged rates. Frozen Meat.—Mutton, New Zealand B}d to B§d, Australian B}d to B}d, South American B}d to Bfd; lamb, New Zealand and Australian 9|d to lOd, South American B}d to 9}a. HASTINGS SATURDAY MARKET. Hoadley, Son and Stewart, Ltd., report the usual attendance at the mart sale on Saturday. We quote as follows: 1 aged gelding £2 10/-, 1 cow and calf £7 JO/-. Pigs: There was a good entry most of which were disposed of at late current prices: 2 weaners at 16/-, 4 do 19/-, 1 at 17/6, 10 do at 18/-, 2 do 15/6, 1 do 13/-, 2 slips at 26/6, 4 do 20/-, 7 do 25/-, 3 baconers £2, 2 do £2 8/-, 3 do £2, 2 do £2 1/-, 6 do £1 19/6, 3 do £2 17-. Poultry: 6 young roosters at 1/t, 6 do 1/1, hen and 12 chicks 12/-, hen and 13 chicks 13/-, 4 hens at 2/9, hen and 14 chicks 12/-, 5 hens at 2/11, 3 do 2/9, 3 at 4/1, sittings of I.R. ducks at 2/6. Beard, Bullen and Co. report having offered h very large yarding of dairy stock at their market sale on Saturday last, sales being effected as follows; — Jersey heifer (recent calver) £lO 7/6, ditto £ll 4/-, cow in profit £8 17/-, Holstein-Jersey heifer (recent cal ver) £ls'!/-, Shorthorn heifer (recent calver) £l4 10/-, Jersey ditto £lO 15/-, Holstein ditto £ll 15/-. Jersey heifer {springing) £9 17/6, Shorthorn-Jersey cow in profit £l3 5/-, Holstein cow (close to’ calving) £l2 10/-, Jersey heifer in profit £9, Holstein-Jersey heifer (springing) £l2 7/6, cow (close to calving £9 15/-, Jersey-Shorthorn cow in profit £9 2/6, cow (close to calving) £lO 12/6, bull calf 17/-, ditto 14/-, vealer £l, bull calf 9/6, ditto 10/6, heifer calf £l, bay mare £6, grey ditto jf4, light porker £1 15/-. We sold over 300 head of poultry of all kinds, fat table hens making 5/- to 7/-, cockerels 5/4 to 11/8, purebred hens and pullets 6/4 to 9/10, light hens 5/to 6/6, ducks 5/- to 8/-, young cockerels 2/- to 2/10, all per pair; hens with broods 7/- to 18/6. Table potatoes up to 24/- per sack for prime, medium 12/6'to 18/-, seed up tp 15/-, pig potatoes 2/6 to 2/9 per sack; pollard 16/6, bran 8/6, barley 14/-, mpize equal to 6/- per : bushel. Good sales were’ made for outside sundries. Vehicles and harness and a quantity of household furniture and effects sold at satisfactory prices, Beard, Bujlen and Co. also report holding a most successful clegring sale of household, .furnjtuja 'and .