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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 243, 27 September 1922, Page 7

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WHEAT CARGOES DULL. London, Sept. 25. Owing to the improved political situation and the weakness of the American market the wheat cargo market^is dull. Quotations are sixpence to a shilling lower. METAL PRICES. London, Sept. 25. Copper: Spot £63 6s 3d, forward £63 16s 3d. Lead: £23 18s 9d and £23 Ila 3d. Spelter: £32 7s 5d and £32 2s 6d. Tin: £l6l Ils 3d and £162 16s flu. Silver: 2s llgd per ounce.—(A. and N.Z.) WAIPUKURAU STOCK SALE. The brokers held their weekly sale at Waipukurau yesterday. There was a- good attendance of the public. There was a large yarding of cattle, but a small yarding of sheep. Cattle sold readily, most of the yarding being quitted under the hammer. Prices were on a par with recent sales. Sheep were down a little except for forward wethers, which were in demand. Prices ruled as follows:—Fat cows £4 10s to £6, fat bullocks £5 to £7 2s 6d, store cows £1 10s to £3 15s, empty heifers to £4 10s, heifers in calf £2 17s 6d to £4 7s, 4-yr bullocks £5 Ils, to £6 12s 6d, yearling steers £2 18s 6d, fat ewes to £1 Is, ewes with lambs at foot to £1 Ils. BUTTER AND CHEESE. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., have received the following cablegram fruni their London house under date 22nd instant:— Butter Now Zealand: 214 s to 218 s per cwt. Cheese: 90s to 96s per cwt. Market firm.