COMMERCIAL.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 285, 17 November 1916, Page 7

COMMERCIAL.

U.S.S. SHARES. London, Nov. 16. Shares. —The. Union Steam Ship Company .£5-5. BUTTER AND TALLOW. London, Nov. 16. Butter. —The Osterley’s first Australian arrival was in strong demand at record prices. Choicest Victorian salted 204/-, unsalted 208./-. Tahow. —1580 casks offered and sold. Mutton fine. 50/6, medium 46/6, beef fine 51. -, medium 46/6. AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. PRODUCE. Sydney, Nov. 16. Oats, Algerian feeding 2/8, milling 2/8 to 2/9. Tasmanian white 2/8 to 2.10. Barley, 3/- to 3/6. Maize, 3/9 to 3/10. Potatoes, Tasmanians nominal. Onions, new £9. Adelaide, Nov. 16. Oats, 18 to 1/10. HIDES. Melbourne, Nov. 16. Hides, moderate catalogue, better competition, prices firm at last week’s rates. WOOL. Melbourne, Nov. 16. At the wool sales there was the keenest competition. Prices for all descriptions continue to advance. Next week’s auctions have been suspended. MT. LYALL MINE. Melbourne, Nov. 16. The Mt. Lyall Mining Co.’s halfyearly report shows a net profit of ! £128,443. The total surplus of liquid ; assets is £443,674. LONGLANDS STOCK SALE. Messrs. Hoadley. Son and Stewart, Ltd., report having held their usual fortnightly sale at Longhands yards yesterday, when they offered a large yarding of cattle and a moderate yarding of sheep to a very large attendance of buyers. Bidding throughout was spirited, and practically the whole yarding changed hands at following prices:—26 P.A. heifers £8 12/6, 6 cows and calves £l4, 7 18 months steers £9, 4forward cows £lO 7/6, 9 3-year steers £l5 5/-, 3 fat cows £l3 10/-, 2 fat bullocks £2l 5/-, 16 3-year steers £l4 15/-, 25 3-year steei-s £l5, 34 do £l5 10/-, 87 f. and f. bullocks £l7 7/-, 63 Shorthorn heifers £8 7/-, 35 3? and 4-year steers £l6 2/6, 3 heifers and calves £ll 12/6, Ss-cows and calves £ll 6/-, 3 forward cows £ll, 3 do £9 7/6, 57 F.-H. heifers £9 11/-, 26 3-year steers £l6 7/-, 23 2-year steers £l4 7/-, 2 fat cows £l3 2/6, 2 f. and f. cows £l2 2/6, 38 forward bullocks £l7 6/-, 2 working bullocks £lB 5/-, £l6 15/-, 9 forward bullocks £l6 7/6, 3 fat cows £l3 14/-, 2 forward cows £8 15/-, 3 weaners £3, 2 fat cotvs £l4 10/-, 3 forward cows £8 17/6, 1 . yearling bull £3 12/6, 1 cow £8 15/-, 4 weaners £4 15/-, 4 weaner steers £4 12/6, 2 weaner heifers £5, 1 fat cow £l3 17/6, 191 woolly hoggets 28/11, 95 fat woolly ewes 38/6, 67 cull woolly ewes with lambs 29/9, 28 cull woollyhoggets 20/3, 100 shorn fat ewes 30/-, 5 woolly fat ewes 37/3, 144 null hoggets 24/-, 10 shorn hoggets 22/-, 41 cull woolly wethers 27/6, 19 m.s. hoggets 31/-, 13 fat woolly ewes 34/-, 29'f. and f. woolly ewes 29/-, 10 ewes and lambs £2 0/6, 195 shorn 4-th ewes 29/9, 10 shorn ewes and lambs 27/-, 57 shorn forward ewes 27/-, 12 woolly ewes and lambs 37/-, 60 forward woolly ewes 29/6.