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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 123, 17 October 1914, Page 2

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LONiDON WOOL SALES. By cable—Press Association.—Copyright London October 14. Arrivals for November wool sales are: 09,000 bales. Of these, ten thousand': had been forwarded, leaving available 07,500. Of theso about 28,000 are on Continental account, detained owing to the war. Also a considerable quantity has bean sold privately. ADELAIDE WOOL SALES. Adelaide, October 15. At the wool sales, Continental types ■ only were offering. Merinos showed a 5 to 10 per cent, decrease, while crosswere corrcspon ingiy. dearer.

AUSTRALIAN- MARKETS. Sydney, October 15. Oats.—Algerian feeding 3s 4d, milling 3s Gd, Tasmanian % 7d to 3s Bd. Barley.—English 3 3 9d, Cape feeding 3s (xl. Maize, 3s l'Od to 4s. Bran and pollard, £O. Potatoes.—Tasmanian £7 10s, good £8 10s to £7 sa, New Zealand £5. Onions.—Victorian £l3 to £l3 10s, pfcOdera £3 10s lo £4. Butter.—Selected 104s seconds 04a to 98s. Cheese, 7d. Bacon, Od. Adelaide, October 15. Wheat, 4s 7d. Flour, £IO 6s to £lft 103. Bran and poilard, Is 6d. Melbourne, October 10. j. Wheat, 3s 9d. Flour, £lO 10s. Oats, 3s 4d to 3s 6d . Barley.—English 4s to 4s Od, Capo 3s 4d. Bran, £0 15s. Pollard, £7. Maize, 4s. Potaitoes, £4 10s to £O. Onions, £9 to £ll 10s. JOIINSONVILLE. Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on their Johnsonvillo sale as follows:—A fair yarding of cattle and sheep came forward and sold at late rates. Prime bullocks £l4 to £l4 17s 6d, lighter £l3 2s 6d to £l3 7s Od, vealers 25s to 30s, prime wethers 24s to 24s 2d, prime heavy wethers 25s sd, lighter 23s 3d, light 21s, prime heavy .ewes 23s Od to 24s 9d; prime ewes 225, light ewes and wethers 19s 4d, primo lambs 15s 8d to 10s 2d, lighter 14s 9d to 15s.

ADDINGTON. At Addington the entry of fat cattle was rather smaller than last week, but there were larger entries of sheep, especially of fats. Fat cattle were rattier easier, fat lambs were firmer, and store sheep were not in such good demand. .Fat sheep declined 3s per head. Fat pigs were rather weaker. Store sheep—Woolly sheep, best hoggets, 14s lid to 15s Cd, fairly good 12s Od, very medium 10s 7d to 11 *Jd, small ,9s to 9a Bd, good ewe hoggets 8s 7d to ,19s, medium to 15s 3d, six and eighttooth ewes, with lambs (unshorn) 13s to J4s 2d, aged ewes with lambs 10s Id (all counted), aged dry ewes 7» to 8s Cd, four and six-tooth wethers 20s 2d, merino wethers (very forward) 14s 6d. Shorn sheep: Good ewe hoggets 14s 9d, mixed cwo hoggets (small) 8s Cd, fourtooth wethers (very forward) 18s 3d, two and four-tooth wethers 11? sd,

Fat lamba ranged from 18s to 235, most of the lambs going OTer 20s. Pat sheep—Extra prime wethers to 365, prime 24s to 30s, others 19s 7d to 23s Od, shorn 18s to 22b, prime ewes 223 [to 30s, others 17s Od to 21s Gd, shorn ewes 17s lid to 20s 3d, hoggets lGs 9d to 23s 3d, merino wethers 18s 6d to 22s Bd, merino ewes 14s.

Fat cattle?— Ordinary steers £7 15s to ,£ll 10s, extra; to £22, ordinary heifers £0 5s to £8 I'Osy extra to £l3 7s Od, ordinary cows £s> 15s to £8 10s, extra to £l3 10s. Price of beef per 1001b, 35s to 455.

Store cattle—Yearlings £1 16s, 15 to 18-monthg sorts £2 10s to £3, two-year steers (very good) £3 10s to £4 10s, two-year heifers £3 15s to £3 17s Od, three-year steers £G ss, three-year heifers £G, dry cows £1 lis to £4 17s Gd, dairy cows £3 15s to £0 10s.

Fat pigs—Choppers 70s to 100s, extra heavy baconers to 775, heavy baconers 05s to 725, ordinary baconers 52s Od to Oils Od (price per i'b sd). Heavy porkers 44s to 475, ordinary porkers 3fls to 42s (price per ll> Od to o'/ 3 d). Large stores 3Ss to 41s, medium stores 27s to 30s, small stores 18s to 255, weaners Os Gd (for small) to 18s.

BUUXSIDII. At Burnside 18ft'fat cuttle were yarded. Competition was keen throughout, and prices were fully up to last week's values. " Extra bullocks to £lO 7s fid. prime £H to £lO, good £l2 to £l3 10s, inferior to medium £9 to £ll 10s, prime heifers and cows £l3 to £ls, good £io to £l3, light to medium £8 to £9 10s, inferior £5 to £7. Fat sheep—2o2B penned. Prices were a shade firmer than those ruling last week. Extra prime heavy wethers to 40s 3d, prime 2Ss to 30s, good 24s (id to 27s Od, inferior to medium ISs to 23 h. extra prime ewes to 31s Od, prime 25s to 28s, good 21s to 235, inferior to medium !7s to 19s Gd, shorn wethers 2!s »d to 21s.

Fat lambs—3l penned. Quality wn? good, and prices were on n par with late rates, at 18s 9<l to 21s Od. I'igs—77 fats and 74 stores were yarded. Fat pigs sold up to late rates; suckers 10s to 14* (id, slips 17s Gd to 2is, stores to 355, porkers 40s to 50s, light baconers 50s to 58s, heavy to 70s.