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Taranaki Daily News, 4 September 1915, Page 2

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LONDON MARKETS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright London, September 2> Tin—Spot £153 10s to £154; three months £155 to £155 10s. Share quotations—Talisman, 18s 3d and 21s 3d. Copper—Spot £6S 5s to £6S 10s; three months, £S9 lpa to £69 15s. Lead £22 12s 6d to £22 15s. Silver, 23 5-lfld. Butter—Very firm; supplies are short in the absence q£ Siberian arrivals. Cheeses-Firm; New Zealand, 72s to 755. Sugar—Quiet and unchanged. Bradford wool—Tops are quiot, but the market Is cherful and unchanged. Wheat—Quiet and unchanged. Flour-r-Lifeless. Oats—Very quiet. Bahia Blanca August-September, 24s 6d. Beans—Firm at late rates. IPeas—Steady, New Zealand blues, 50s to 80a. Coin £67,486,000; reserve £54,558,000; proportion of reserve to liabilities 24.15; circulation ! £32,326,000; pubEc deposits £137,935,000; other deposits £44,418,000; other securities £145,105,000. AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. Sydney, September 8. The forage markets. are dull, and only immediate requirements are being fiiied. : . Oats—Algerian and American, 4s 3d. Maize. 5s 3d; South American and Javan, 5s to 5s 2d. Bran, £5. Pollard, £5 10s. Potatoes—Tasmanians £9 10s to £10; Sew Zealand £9 to £9 10s. Onions—Victorian, "£9; New Zealand, £B. Adelaide, September 2. Wheat, Bs. Flour, £lB. Bran, Ib 3d. Pollard, Is 7d. Oats, 3s 6d. Melbourne, September 3. Wheat, 8s Id. Flour, £l7. Oats—Algerian and Chilian, 3s 9d to 4s; Japanese, 23 Bd to 2s 10d Maize, 4s Gd. Bran, £3. Pollard, £6. Potatoes, £8 to '£B 10s. Onions, '£6 10s. AUCKLAND. On Wednesday last, at Ngatea, best dairy cows made £8 to '£ll 10s, best dairy heifers £6 to £9, other cows £5 to £7, other heifers £4 to £5 10s, 2</ 3 to 3-year steers £5 19s to £8 10s, yearling to 18-months steers £2 16s to £4 lis, empty cows £3 10s to £7 10s, bulls £o to £9, beef at fully Westfield prices. At Westfield yards last Thursday best dairy cows sold at from £8 15s to £l2, best dairy heifers £7 to £lO ss, other cows £5 to £7 ss, other heifers £4 10a to £6, aged and inferior cows £1 15s to £4 10s, empty cows £4 5s to £6 lis, yearling steers 2 18s to £3 17s, yearling heifers £1 lis to £2 Bs, calves 15s to £ll4s. At Albert yards, oil Friday heavy draughts made £24 to £35, medium £ls ]osj to £25, light harness £ll to £ls 15s, hacks £7 to £l4 10s, spring cart £li 10a, dray £B, harness and all produce at'ruling price 3. Ou Monday at Henderson best dairy cows and heifers sold at from £6 10s to itliO 10s, others £i 5s to £(>, empty cows £4 10s to £6 ss, 3-year steers £7 os to £9 Us 6d, yearling to 18-months steers £2 15e to £4 10s, 2-yca.r ateera £5 Is to £6 15s, yearlings to 18-months •hedfsrs £1 has to £3 15s, calves 17s to "£1 15s. At Westfield calves were penned in large numbers and sold at improved rates. Runners sold at from £7 to £9, heavy suckers £3 IDs to £5 10s, medium £2 10s to £3 16s, lighter £1 18s £2 (fs, light £1 2s to £t 17s, small and fresh-dropped 4s to Ufa. ; Sheep were yarded iu average numbers, and the market showed a firmer tone. Beat wetli-si's.-sold at from ±1 lot to £2 3s, others £1 iOs Gd to £1 14s 3d, ewes (best quality) £1 14s to £2, others £1 5s to £1 13s, hoggets 18s 9d to £1 .Bs. Riga were penned in average numbers and sold at improved prices. Choppers sold at from £5 7s Od to £6 10s for a pig sold on account of Messrs Hawthorn and Munro, Clevedon, which is a record for tho yards. Heavy baconers £4 2s to £4 18s, medium baconers £3 8s to £3 17s Od, light ditto £2 19s to £3 os, heavy porkers £2 l«s to £3 Os, medium £2 53 to £2 13s, light £1 lfls to £2 3s, slips £1 to £1 lis, weaners 14s to 19s. On Wednesday at Arapohue we had a record yarding of store cattle. Grown steers in forward condition sold at from £9 15s to £l2. three to four-year steers £7 15a to £lO 10s. two to three-year-olds £"> 15s to £7 10s. yearling to" 18month, £3 15s to £5 2s Od, calves £1 lis to £2 14s, empty cows £4 10s to £tt 15s, 18-months heifers £3 2s 6d to £3 17s 6(1. BURXSIDE. ■ ... There was a very large yarding of fat cattle at Bumside to-day, 270 being penned. The entry consisted chiefly of good quality bullocks and heifers. The, supply was_much in excess of local re--quircments, and prices were 10s to 15sbelow last-week's rates-, and -several pens were passed out unsold. Best bullocks £ls to £l6 los. extra prime to £lO 17s Od, medium £l3 10s to £l4 10s, others £lO to £l2 10s, best cows £lO to £l2 lOs, extra'prime to £l3 5., medium to £lO, others £7 ids to £9. There wa,s a large yarding of fat sheep, the entry totalling 3600. The quality was good to fair. The market opened with prices about on a par with last rales, but as the sale advanced values were slightly easier. . Extra heavy wethers to 44s (id, prime 33s 6d to 38s, medium to good 28s to 325, others 21s to 265, prime ewes 27s 6d to 32s 6d, extra prime to 355, medium to good 22s to 255, others lfls to 21s 6d. Fat laxnbs—llSl wore penned, a large •proportion being only good stores, and on account"'of'this freezing buyers were operating very cautiously. Prime lambs sold about equal to last week's rates, but others allowed e, decline of about Is to Is 6d per head. There was not much competition among grazier*. Prime heavy 26s to 28s, extra prime to 535, .good 21a to 245, others 14s to 18b. JOHNSONVTLIA (Prime heavy bullocks £l7 5 8 to £lB, prime bullocks £l6 to £l6 12a {id, lighter '£l6' 5a to '£l6' 7* tid, light £H 7a 6rt to £l4 10s, prime .heavy wethers 37s od, prime, wethers SCs to 3Ss \C ssd &s to 349 Gd, light Cls to Sis 9<l, wiw.e

11ATTSEWS, GAMLTN- 4 OO.'S j' ~"" ' """ SPORT." On Wednesday last wc held out usual weekly sale in our Inglewood yards and had a fair yarding of stock, most o) which was disposed of at the hammer at very satisfactory prices, store and forward cows being particularly in good demand, whilst yearling heifers were hard to qiut at recent prices. We quote: Dairy cows £5 7s-<;a to £lO 15s, springins heite £fi to £7 lfls, forward cows £3 9s to" £G 10s, fat cows £7 13s to £lO 12s fld, store cows £3 Us to £5 17s, empty heifers £3 2s to £3 18s 6d, yearling steers £2 to £2 17s Gd, heifers £1 8s to £2 3s Gd, bulls £3 to £6 Gs. On Monday last we held a clearing sale on account of Mr. H. O'Connor at Waiongona. The cowa were mostly low-conditioned. We quote: Dairy cows £5 5s to £H, old and thin £3 15s to £5, stoTe cows £4 4s to £5 ss, 30month steers £4 15s, yearling steers 475, heifera 265, bulls £8 15s and £9 7s Cd, spring cart horses £lO and £22. IPigs, implements and sundries sold at very satisfactory prices. ADDINGTON. At the Addington live stock market there were rather larger entries of fat stock and a small yarding of store sheep. Rain during the night firmed the store sheep market, and prices rose about 2s 2d per head. Store sheep—Good hoggets 15s 9d to I 7«, fair hoggets 12s'3(l;tel5s 8d; inferior shorn hoggets 4s 103 to 8s 3d; sis' and eight-tooth wethers to 22s Id, two and four-tooth wethers 17s 6d to 21s Id, merino wethers to 7s 2d, six and eight-tooth ewes, to 215s !)d, cull six and eight-tooth ewes Ws 3d, two-tooth, ewes IPs i)i to 20s 8d. y , •.- . '. . '. . .' Fat sheep—.Extra prime wethers' to 42s Gd, prime wctheri 2Gs to 38s, ordinary wethers 20b to 25s Gd, m.erino wethers lGs 3d to 2tis, extra prime ewes to 37n, prime ewes 24s to 345, medium ewes lfls to 23s Gd, light and inferior 13s 8d to 18s Od, best hoggets Ms to 24s 9d, others 14s Gd to 18s Gd. Fnt cattle —Kxtra prime steers to £22 2j Gd, ordinary steers £7 5s to £ 12, extra prime heifers to £IG 15s, ordinary heifers £5 2s 6d to £lO, extra prime cows to £lB ss, ordinary cows £6 to £9 ss; price of beef per 1001b, 33s to 525. Store cattle Fifteen to eighteenmonfchs, £2 to £2 lfls, two-year steers £3 17s 6d and £4 15s, two-year heifera £3 10s to £3 17s 6d, two and a-half-year steers £5 to £5 15s, three-year steers passed at £7 los, three-year heifers £5 Gs, dry cows 303 to £5 15s, dairy cows £3 to £9 los. Pigs—Choppers GOs to 119s Gd, extra heavy baconers 72s Gd to 775, liglft baconers <>os to 70s (price per lb, to o%d). Heavy porkers 45s to 60s, light porkers '3ss to 42s (price per lb ««/ 2 d to 7d). Store pigs—Medium stores 22s to 28s, small stores 163 to 21s, weaners 10s to 17s.