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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 319, 8 July 1912, Page 3

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LONDON MARKETS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. c London, July 5. Butter. —Flat; cofqpial is quite neglected; prices are nominally unchanged. Siberian is plentiful at 100s to ]o2s. Cheese. —Dull; New Zealand white G9s, colored 70s. Copper, £77 12s fid to £77 16s 3d; electrolytic, £BO ss. Tin.—Spot £2Ol, three months £205. Lead, £lB 10s. Spelter. £2O '2s (id. Iron, 50s to 58s. Sugar.—German lis Ud, first mark* 14s !)d. Bradford wool.—Firm. Business is limited owing to the higher prices ruling; G4's, •20 , /! id; super, 25% d; common (iO's, 25%t1; s(i's, 21'/.d; 50's, l&y 4 d; 46's, 14% d. Wheat.—Dull and inactive; there is no demand for cargoes oil the market, in spite of the smallness of reserves in Britain and the Continent; 41s 9d is being asked for near South Australian an<l 40s for a May-June shipment; 40s for New South Wales March shipment; 37s to 37s fid for New Zealand JulyAugust; 38s 9d to 3fls 3d for Australian parcels afloat; 41s to 41s 6d is being paid for Australian spot; New Zealand spot is exhausted. Flour.—Flat; Australian nominally 27s 9d; June-July," 27s 3d. Oats. —Easier; A grade Cartons July 235; La Plata June-July IBs. Peas. —Quiet. New Zealand Maple Partridge June-July 3Gs Gd. Beans.—June 35s 6d; the old crop is exhausted.

AVool.—The following are the. prices realised for the fleece portions of the clips named: Acliuid, top 12d, average 10% d; Gear, 13d and. 10% d; Avondale, lid and lOd. .

LOAN AND MERCANTILE REPORT. The New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, Stratford branch, report as follows: On Friday, June 2€, we held a clearing sale- on account of' Mr: Edward Row on the Brookes road. Although -the day was wet and cold, there .were a large number of people present, and sundries and stock sold under keen competition, the cows averaging 'about £lO. Milk cans realised 27s each; fowls'2s Gd each; hand chaffcutter 5Gs; S.F. plough £6 7s Gd; Planet Junior drill £1 Is; jack £3 8s; and the usual farm -sundries realised very good prices. Spring dray £ls 10s, harness 50s, gig £l2, harness 40s, one horse rising seven years £2O 10s; mare in foal £l4; 18 months' fillv £6 15s. A good many of the cows, showed age, but anything young and showing quality was very keenly competed for. Prices realised were as .follows: For first-grade £8 10s to £l6 ss, and second grade £4 10s to £7 l-7s Gs. Store cows, £3 10s; Jersey bull, £6. A nice line of six Jersey-Holstein weaners realised £4 2s to £5.

I On Monday, lst'inst., we held a elear- ! ingr sale on account of Mr. Harry RickI ard, of Monmouth-road. The cows, which J were rather: old, \Ve're all fh splendid condition, and realised remarkably, good prices. Sundries were sold under very keen competition. Prices realised were as follows: —Milk cans, lis each; pig net, 12s; lawn mower, 225; timber jack ( £4 7s fid; stumpjng ja<?k, £2 7s fid; breech-loading gun, £2 2s fid; grainoj phono and records, £3 10s; drawingroom suite of fiv,e pieces, £4 15s; iron bedsteads, IDs to 3fis fid; tables, 27s eacli; 'settee* • ;, limu f fencing posts realised 56s to GOs Gd.per-'IOO. . A s-pring milk cart brought £7 'ssi and a heavier type of spring dray £10; harness £3, aged mare' £s' M3s. 'The. cows'realised: Ist grade £7 to £l4 7s 6d; second grade, £3 15s to £6 15s; two-year old heifers in calf, £4 2s to £8; one stack oaten hay, £18; and a nice line of yearling heifere made 575. : We held our usual fortnightly Stratford sale, in conjunction with Messrs. W. H. 11. Young and Co., on the 2nd inst;; when there was a fair yarding of 550, cattle/ Prices realised were as follows: Store cows, 50s to £3 3s; forward cows, £4 10s to £5,15(5; 20' months steers, £3 3s to £3 15s; two-year-old heifers in calf, £3 14s to : £5 ss; empty lieifers, £3 14s (k} to, £4;. yearling steers, poor, 34s to 455; yearling heifers,. £2 to £3 Is for Jersey Shorthorn heifers. A line of Jersey and Jersey-Holstein heifers, rising two year's o?d, realised £7 4s fid. During the week we disposed of several lines of stbek, privately", at the following —Lambs; Jo§, 10s 3d. and 1,1s; yearling steers, 355, 365, 38s fid, 40s, 42s fid, 47s fid; yearling heifers, 30s, 40s, 45s and 575; two-year empty heifers, 05s, 755, 77s Gd; Yearling Jersey heifers, 60s, 70s and 80s; four and ewes, 15s; two, four, and six-tooth ewes, 14s and 14s Gd; two, four.and six-tooth' wethers, 12s Gd to 14s; f.f.m. and f.m. ewes, 8s 9d, 10s, 10s Od and Us fid; dairy cows, 100s to 110s, 120s, 1265, 1475, 168s, 195s and 200s.

The Xew Zealand Loan anil Mercantile Agency Company have Teceived the following cablegram front their London house under date July 3:—Wheat: We quote 40s c.i.f., Australian cargo. There is very little demand, and the outlook is discouraging, Oats: We quote Cartons 22s fid, Sparrowbills 21s 6d. The market is steady, hut the outlook is uncertain. Messrs. Dalgety and, Co., Wellington, have received the following cablegram from their London office under date July 4: —Wool salves: Merinors are 5 per cent, higher, and crosshreds are very firm. Messrs. Andrew, Clement and Sons (R. I W. 1). Robertson, local agent) -have received the following cablegram from London, under (late July 4: —Butter: Salted 114s; unsalted, very scare, clears on arrival; market firm. Cheese. White, 70s; colored, 70s; market linn.