COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 313, 12 February 1910, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

110M1E MARKETS.

By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright London, February 10.

Wheat.—The American visible supply is 53,022,000 quarters. Copper—Spot 50s sd, three months £OO 2s Od. Tin —Spot £l4B, three months £149 10s'. ~ '

THE BUTTER MARKET. London, February 11. The butter market is quiet and easier. Owing to the weakness of the northern markets colonial butter declined about 2s all round. Danish is unchanged.

AUSTRALIAN MARKETS,

Sydney, Friday. Wheat—Buyers, 4s Id to 4s 1 } Flour, £.lO 10s. "i Oats Algerian feeding 2s, seeding 2s 2d, Tartarian 2s lid. . Barley, Cape, 3s to 3s 3d. Maize, 4s Id to 4s 2d; South African,' 3s lOd. ' Bran, £4 ss. Pollard, £4 10s. • Potatoes, Tasmanians, £5 to £7 10s." Onions—Globe £5, Spanish £6 10s. I Butter, 100s. 1 Cheese, Gd. • ' Bacon, BV!>d.

Melbourne, Friday. Hides Strong demand at Is 8d dearer for all classes. Wheat, 4s Id. Flour, £lO ss. Oats—Feeding 2s, seeding 2s 5d to 2s 7y 2 d.

Barley—English prime malting 4s 3d, Cape 2s Bd. Maize, 3s sd. Bran, £4 12s Gd. Pollard, £5. Potatoes, £3 10s' to £4 ss. Onions, £4 10s.

Adelaide, Friday. Wheat, 4.s to 4s 0 1 / 2 d. Hour, £lO. Bran, 12y 2 d. Pollard, 13M>d.

LIVE STOCK MARKETS,

VICKERS AND STEVENS' REPORT.

Messrs. Vickers and Stevens' report that there was a fair muster of cattle in their Inglewood yards on Wednesday last, and bidding was good for all classes. Weaners made from £1 to £1 7e, yearlings £1 14s 1 6d to £1 18s 6d, in calf heifers £2 10s to £3 18s, store cows £2 5s to £3 12s 6d, fat cows £4 to £4 10s, springers £3 12s 6d to £5 7s Od, bulls £2 to £3. At the opening fair at Matau about 4000 sheep were yarded, nearly all of which were sold. There was a good attendance of buyers and bidding was' good for all lines. Shorn lambs made from 6s 5d to 7s lid, 2-tooth wetliors 10s to lis Od, 2-tooth ewes 14s, 4- and 6-tooth ewes 10s to lis Od, f.m. ewes 7s fid to Os 7d, cull ewes 2s to Cs 6d, rams 12s 1 6d to £1 18s. ADDLNGTON.

At. Addington on Wednesday .best rape lambs sold at 8s lOd to lOs lOd, small 0s od to 8s; forward wethers to 14s od, medium 10s Od to 12s 6d, lighter 9s' Gd to lis; 2-tooth. ewes to 13s 9d, and 24 Sltooth ewes to 12sl0d.

Fat Lambs: One-fourth of the yarding, approximately, sold at 14s to 15s, about one-half'at 13s to 13s lid, and the balance at 10s 4d to 12b lid, the bulk thus making over 13s. There were G035 taken for export, the demand being keen, and 580 were bougnu by butchers.

Fat Sheep: Prime wetheys 15s to lGs Set, others 12s 3d lo 'l4ls Gd-, prime ewes lib' Gd to 14s 9d, others to Us; merino wethers 8s to t)s 2d 1 . ;* " Fat Cattle: The sale was irregular, but prices showied (practically no change, prime beef being equal to 20s to 22s,'"medium 18s Gd to 19s 6d, and cow and inferior 17s to 18s per 1001b. Steers brought £G as to £9 17s Gd, heifers £5 to £7 17s Gd, and cows £4 7s Gd to £7 7s' 'Gd'.

Veal calves formed, a small yarding, and sold at 4s <3d to 51s. A small yarding of sfcbre cattle sold at late rates, yearlings making 26s to 335, 15 to 18-months £2 4s to £2 Gs, 2-year steers £3 17s fid. 2-year heifera £3 2.-,' Gd, 2Va-year steecs £4 10s, 3year steers £5 ss" to' *£6 '-ss, 3-year heifers £4 4s to -£4 15s, and dry cows £2 10s to £4 lis.

Dairy cows were in good demand, and realised £3 10s to £lO.

There was a. small' yarding of pigs and a dull sale for both fat and stores. Large baconers made 42= to 495, and lighter 34s to 40s (equal to 4y 3 d to 4%d per lb); large stores 23s to 325, medium 17s to 20s, and weavers 8s fid to 12s. . '

DUNEDIN. At Burnside on Wednesday 170 cattle were yarded. They were of good quality, but prices were a little lower. Best fats brought from about £8 2s (id to £!), while" a pen of extras realised' £!) Ills', medium from £7 2s Gd to £8; heifers from £4 10s to £5 10s; a pen of extras brotight £7 2s Gd. , Sheep: 2500 yarded, of fair quality.'! Competition was not keen, there being a number of old ewes. Prime wethers 13s !)d to 15s, heavy 15s to 16s, and' extra special to 18s, medium 12s 9d to 14s' 3d; ewes, extra to 13s, prime lis to 12s !)d, medium to 3d to lis, inferior 7s 3d to 9s 3d. La;mbs: 2000. a big yarding. Top price 15s, prime 13s to 14s, medium lis 9d to 12s Ud. and inferior fls 9d to lis fid. Competition was very keen, the freezing companies running prices up. Pigs: 12® yarded. Prices of young' pigs were easier; porkers and bayonet were si bout the same; suckers (is (id to! Iff. slips lis to 15s, stores 18s to 235, porkers 27.s to 345, light baconers 3os' to 38s, heavy baconers' 40s to 435. AUCKLAND. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., report:— | Horses: On Friday, at the Durham' yards, horses were brought forward in average numbers. We quote: Heavy draught £2l to £3O, medium do. £lB 10s to £25, light harness horses and hacks £8 to £ls, ponies £2 10s to £O, gig £lB, spring «art £l2.

At l'apakura yards on Tuesday dairy cows close to profit s'old at from £5 10s to £.B, others £3 10s to £0; heifers £3 to £5 17s Od, grown steers £5 17s od, 2 to 3-year-old do. £4 17s to £5 ss, yearlings to 2-year-olds £2 3s to £3 12s, empty cows £2 2s to £3 7s, heifers £2 to £3, calves' 19s to £1 las, bull £3 to £5 12s, beef at West field rates.

At Westfield on Wednesday oxen sold at 21s per 1001b, cows 15s to 18s. Steers sold at from £5 12s 0d to £.9 15s, cows £3 15s to £0 10s. Prime wethers s'old to 18s 9d, others 12s to 10s; ewes 9s 3d to 15s; lambs well fatted 13s to 14s 9d, others 5s to 8s 9d. Pigs were yarded in small numbers, and showed no improvement in price; weaners sold at from 4s to 9s 9d, porkers 15s' to £1 ss, baconers £1 10s to £2.

At Westfield on Thursday dairy cows sold at front £4 to £7 17s (id, heifers £3 10s to £5 15s, calves 19s to £1 2s Gd.

We submitted and sold average catalogues of hides skins, and tallow on Tuesday. Hides: Market advanced. We quote: Extra stout ox 8d to B%d,' stout do. 7%d to 7%.d, medium do. 6%d to 7y 4 d, light do. 6y 4 d to 7d. Cows', bost lines 7d to 7y B d, good 6y 2 d to 6%d, inferior 5%d to 6y B d. Stags' 4%d to sd, kips 5%d to 6y 2 d; calfskins, best Sy 2 d to 9d, seconds 7d to 7y 2 d; damaged hides, <?% d to 5y 4 d. Sheepskins: Market brisk. Best butchers' skins', large to 8s 6d, good lines Os to (is 9d, medium 4s to as, small 2s 9d to 3s 3d; country dry skins, large to ss, _ medium 3s Cd to 4s- Id, small Is 6d to 2s 6d. Lambs' and pelts, best 2s' to 2s 9d, seconds Is 6d to 1b lOd. Tallow: Market advanced. Best mixed to 26s 9d, good 23s 6d to 24s 9d, inferior 21s <sd to 22s 9d. WANGANUI. Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report: At our Wanganui sale on Wednesday wo yarded 520u sheep and 580 cattle. The bulk of the sheep yarded consisted of lines of back-country owes of rather rough quality, which met with a good demand at a sharp advance in prices'. Wethers and lambs also sold well, and we quitted the bulk of the sheep at prices in vendors' favor. The bulk of the cattle yarded were 2 to 2y 2 -year steers, which met with a rather dull demand. Other elaisses of cattle sold well. Quotations: 2 and 4-tooth ewes' 12s Cd, C-tooth ewes (rough class) 9s 1 9d to 12s, full-mouth ewes 8s 6d, soundmouth ewes 6s 3d, Cs lid, Bs, 8s 4d, 8s Cd, to 10s 2d, cull ewes 2s 6d, 3s Cd, 4s 4d, to 4s 7d; 2-tooth ewes' and wethers mixed 9s 3d, forward wethers 10s Id, 10s Cd, lis 4d, to "12s; woolly lambs 6s to 8s 9d, shorn ewe. lambs 7s, mixed lambs 7s to 7s 3d, cull do. 3s 4d to 3s 9d; full-mouth Eomney rams', !g> I ViS s > to iy 2 gs. Cattle: Forward 3%-year bullocks £5 15s 6d, 2y 2 -year etcsrs £4 3s to £4 7s Cd, 2-year steers £2 10s to £3 2s 6d, cows and calves £4 10s Cd, 2-year heifers £2 5s to £3 9s Cd, forward cows £3 to £3 19s',' speyed cows (forward) £3 Bs, fat cows £4 4s, weaners (mostly steers) £1 3s 6d to £1 9s, cows in «alf £3 10s to ■£4 2s Cd, heifers in calf .£4 Is, old bulls £2 Gs. JOHNSONVILLE. Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on their Johnsonville sale, held yesterday, as follows:—We offered a good entry of prime bullocks and sheep, which sold readily at late rates. Prime summer bullocks £7 17s Cd to £8 2s 6d, lighter do. £7 12s Od to £7 15s, light do. £7 10s; prime wethers 13s 9d, good ewes lis Od, medium lis', plain 10s; woolly lambs lis 4d, prime shorn 10s to 10s id, good shorn lambs 9s to 9s lOd.