COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144855, 6 December 1915, Page 7

COMMERCIAL.

LONDON MARKETS. BT ELECTRIC TELEGIiAPII. —COPYRIGHT. LONDON. Dec. 4. Wheat,—Chicago December options 112 J conns to IiOJ cents; MhJ 114 J cents to H2J cents. Cotton. —December-January 7.26 d. Jute.—December-January £26 _X5s. Hemp.—January-March £35 ISs. Copra.—December-January £29 10s. Rubber Para 2s Hid, plantation 3s 51d, smoked 3s sd. Rabbits are quiet, and have an easier tendency. Canterbury lambs. —Light 7|d, seconds, light medium 7Jd, heavy 7d. South American sheep.—Light 61d, heavy GJd, ewes 5Jd. Argentine chilled beef.—Fores 51d, hinds 7id. Other meats are unchanged. LOAN AND MERCANTILE. , The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report as follows: . . At Westfield on Thursday best dairy cows and heifers sold at from £9 to £l2 10s, others £4 15s to £7, aged and inferior cows £2 15s to £4 10s; empty cows, £6 to £7 14s; bulls, £5 to £11; yearling to 18-month steers, £3 12s to £5 2s; yearling to 18-month heifers, £2 12s to £4 ss. At Westfield on Wednesday oxen sold to £2 6s per 1001 b., cows and heifers £1 15s to £2 ss; steers sold at from £ls 10s to £2O 10s; cows, £6 10s to £2l 15s for first prize taker at the Auckland Show. W. Gray, Cambridge, 8 steers, averaged £l6 2s 6d; M. LWatkins, Maungatautau, 8 steers, £l7 gs Sd; a draft of 24 steers from Maungaturoto averaged £l7 ; 73 steers from the north sold at from £l4 15s to £l9, averaging close on £l7 per head. Calves were penned in large numbers, and again declined in prices. Runners, sold at from £6 12s 6d to £7 17s 6d; heavy suckers £3 18s to £4 4s, medium £1 15s to £2 12s, light 15s to £1 12s 6d; small and fresh-dropped, from 3s to 10s. Best wethers sold at from £1 7s to £1 , 9s 6d, a small pen realised £2, others £1 2s to £1 6s 9d; ewes, ISs 9d to £1 3s 6d; hoggets, £1 Is to £1 4s 9d. Lambs sold at from 19s 6d to £1 3s for best, others 17s 6d to 18s 9d. Pigs were penned in large numbers, and sold at slightly improved rates. Heavy haconers £4 5s to £5 Is, medium £3 10s to £4, light £3 to £3 9s; heavy porkers £3 5s to £3 18s, medium £2 13s to £3 ss; weaners, 14s to £1 6s.

AUCKLAND SHARE MARKET. SPECIAL TO II Kill I.D, AUCKLAND, Dec. 6. Messrs. Hendry and Hay (E. P. Webster local agent) report the following Stock Exchange quotations and Quotations. —Talisman, sellers 16s 6d, buyers 15s 9d; Waibi, 36s 6d and 36s 3d; Junction. 20s 9d and 19s 6d. Sales. —Warhi, 36s 3d. The Waihi Gold Mining Company’s return for the four weeks ended November 20 was £27,273 worth of bullion from 15,208 tons of ore treated. This is the best return for tho year.