COMMERCIAL.
WALLACLTOWN STOCK SALE
The fortnifditly'stock sale took at the Wallace!own, salevardis yesterday. Thoro w:'s ;) '.toad attend -intc of buyei« anil the yard-ing of far and siorn >T pwas fairly large. The entry of' fat, e-ai-vtle was one of the smallest experienced lor some months with the result that prices iiarieiiid for anything in i rime , condition. There was a large entry of fat and stoj-e .sheen and anything in good condition sold fri-elv. Primo wethers realised as much as 25s fid, while, others .brought. '2ls fiili and 21s. Prime owes brought '2ls- and 20s. There was an ail-round advance in fat sheep of fully Is (ill to 2s per head -;i,s' compared with Inst sale. Following is a summary <-.f the urices:— ■ Cattle'.—Kat. bullocks, .£l4 10s»£13 12s, £73 7< fid, £l2 10s, £JO 15s, down to £0; f,i eo.i.i, £lO 15s, £l.O os, £!) 7c- 6u, £!» 2, Cd, £S, dovvi:, to £5; fat heifers, £9 17f 6d, £9 10s, £9. 7s fid; 3EO, down, io £6. Dairv t.ws were in demand air.! ;<i!v| at, £'i "10s, £8 10s, £7 os, down to i'A 10s. Store steerst and heTTers sou at £■; 16s, £5 17, s (id, t~> 10.5, £4 '2s fid, dawn to £2 If*. Calves realised IS.-. 'SO:, 37,5, 35s and 30s each. Sheen. —Fat wethers, 25s 6d, 25,5, 24s 6d, 24s- 3d, 24s 2d, 245, lid, *2s «d, down to 20s; fat, ewes, 203 8d 20s, 18s, 17s lid, 17s lOd, down to 14s sd; lafTam'h; 18? 6d and 17s 6d. The sale of store sheep dragged somewhat except for ssod forward-conditioned lines. Two-tooth forward wethers realised 20s 6tf; hoggets, 16s 3d, 16s, 14s Bd, and 12s; fuTl and fa.iling ewes, 14s, 12s 4d, 12s, and lis 7d. ■ CHRISTCHURCH PRODUCE. PBB DOTTED PRESS ASSOCIATION. CHRISTCHURCH, June 30. There ; s a good demand for \ grade oats for shipment, but supplies are somewhat difficult to obtain. Hie Rimutaka is expected iback at' Lyttelton for more cargo for West of England; ports and will probably take' away 12,000, sacks of oats in all. A large quantity of oats and sheaf chaff is offering 'but the demand is limited to loeil consumption. The price is still £2 5s to £2 10s at country stations. There is no change in the rota to msu■ket, £2 15s being offered at country stations for early delivery, '£2 17s lid for delivery later in the month, and £3 y for August delivery. The whole of the crop ho.s not yet been dug, a lew growers still .being at work lifting their potatoes new that the weather has. Ed irp again. LONDON MARKETS. Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Dunedin, report having reieived the following cahlo from their head r-flico, dated London, .June 26:--Butter.—The market is steady hut prices are unchanged. Cheese.—The market is dull. Prices are Is less .per <-»vt. The head office cabled on June 25: The butter market it steady at present prices. The total impcpUi into the United Kingdom, for the week-ended June 20 were 82,000 cwt, and for the corresponding period rf last year 03.000 cwt. Tire Copenhagen official quotation is one kroner higher. We quote Danish! butter llfis per cut; Australian salted 101s. ununited IOSs. Frozen .Meat..— r T':.e market, is> dull atlast quotation!;. Sheepskins.— For Australian merino eomibing skins prices are Jd higher, hut merino clothing prices are unchanged. For crossbred c.-cnbi.ng skin,:, prices are Jd higher; crossbred clothing skins. Jd to |d higher ; New Zealand sound crossbred combing skjns, } ,d higher; inferior crossbred combing skins, k!' higher; occasionally crossbred .clothing skins- id lower. Five thousand seven hundred bales were offered and practically all svere sold. WOOL SALES. LONDON. Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd.. ve-nort having received' the following cable trom their head office, dated tendon, June 27: We. quote Bradford ti.ps, .'ill's to *7O'S, ;is follows:' 3<>\s Ui'.d, 40' B Ki.kl, 44*s 163 d, 4C's 17id; :.<¥-.-, 20ki, 's(i's 2-33 d, 55*. 5 '2ti.Ul. MY a Hcmtmon) 30d, 60V (super) 30Jd, (ll's 31 kl, 70's 32Jd. NEW SOUTH WALES PRODUCE. J3T ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COPYRHSIIT. PKK UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. .Received July 1, 10.40 a.m. SYDNEY, July 1. The esr.oft season'for mt at and butter which ek'ocd yesterday showed marked increase*. Tiie tot.-il'butter exports were ruined at £1.'t6",603, the quarter's increase being, £59,118. The mutton exports totalled" 1,(505,67 4 caresses, an increase of 51(5,127. The improvement is due to the increased' de-mand-in America and England, resulting in higher nricrs. Generally sneaking, the prospects are brighter than ever (before. Not only has the quality improved but the two largest markets in the world ate open for products. The butter exports totalled; 410,378 boxes, an increase of 50,868. THE JUTE MARKET. W aMCWtUfI TPfjWBAPH OOPYBTGHT. PEB UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. Received Julv 1. 11.30 a.m. LONDON. June 30. Jute.—August shipment is quoted at £27 15s.
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Mataura Ensign, 1 July 1914, Page 8
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798COMMERCIAL. Mataura Ensign, 1 July 1914, Page 8
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