COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144859, 10 December 1915, Page 7

COMMERCIAL.

AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. —COPYMBF.I. (Received Dec. 9, 9.33 p.m.) SYDNEY, Dec. 9. Oats. —American, 3s to 3s 6d; Tasmanian, white 3s 6d. Barley.—Malting, 3s to 4s. Maize. —South African, spot 5$ 9d to Ss lid, arriving 6s 4d to 5s 6d. Potatoes.—Tasmanian, old £lO to £l4, new £l7 10s: others, £l4 to £l6. Onions. —New, £4 to £5 10s. ADELAIDE, Dec. 9. Wheat. —The official price is 5s 3Jrl. Flour, £l2 to £l2 10s. Bran, £ll. Pollard, Is 4d. Oats, 2s. MELBOURNE, Ddc. 9. Hides.—Good supplies and active competition. Catalogues wero cleared in sellers’ favour. MELBOURNE, Dec. 10. Wheat.—Unchanged. Flour, £l3. Oats.—Algerian 2s to 2s 2d. Maize, 4s Bd. Bran, £3 17s to £4 2s. Pollard, £7 10s.' Potatoes, £ll 10s to £l2s 10s. Onions, £3 15s to £4. SYDNEY WOOL SALES. ■ (Received Dec. 10, 10.20 a.m.) SYDNEY, Doe. 9. The week’s wool sales closed strong at the best rates of the season. WELLINGTON WOOL SALES. AN UNEXPECTED DROP. PEE PRESS ASSOCIATION. WELLINGTON, Dec. 10. At the wool sale about 23,600 bales were offered. The demand for America was comparatively slack, and prices for finer wools were fully a penny to threefarthings down. Bradford wools were a penny better than last November. The position of prices caused some little surprise. A feature of the sale was the large quantity of wool passed in, showing that growers had an opinion of values which the market did not sustain. The wool sold for patriotic purposes brought £774 and £ll6 was subscribed in the, room for the Mayor’s Christmas Dinner to Soldiers’ Fund. AUCKLAND SHARE MARKET. ariXIAL TO UK&AI.D AUCKLAND, Dee. 10. Messrs. Hendry and Hay (E. X J . Webster local agent) report the followtag Stock Exchange quotations and sales:— Quotations. —Talisman, sellers 15s Od, buyers 16s; Waihi, 37s 6d and 37s;' Junction, 21S 6d and 19s 6d. The Waihi .Grand Junction mine’s return for the four weeks ended November 27 was £16,016 from 10,010 tons of ore treated. LOAN AND MERCANTILE. AUCKLAND, Deo. 9. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report:— At Westfield last Thursday best dairy cows and heifers sold at from £8 10s to £ll 17s 6d; others £5 os to £7 los; cmpty co'.vs, £5 17s 6d to £8,165; aged and inferior cows, £2 10s to £4 10s; bulls, £5 to £9; hoggets, £1 0s 3d. At Albert Yards last Friday heavy draughts made £25 to £34 15?> medium £l7 10s to £27; light harness horses, £9 to £l6; hacks, £8 to £lB 10s; ponies, £4 to £B. On Monday at Papakura best dairy cows and heifers brought £8 15s to £l4 10s; others, £5 10s to £7 los; aged and inferior cows, £3 to £4 ss; bulls, £6 6s to £l4 14s. At ■ Papakura on Tuesday grown steers sold.at from £ll os to £l2 7s 6d, no extra big cattle being yarded ; 2 to 3-ycar steers, £7 17s 6d to £lO 17s Gd; yearlings to 18-months steers, £3 17s 6d to £6; empty cows and heifers, £5 10s to £8 2s 6d; yearling to 18-month heifers, £2 los to £o 5s ; calves, £1 3s to £2 10s; bulls', £6 to £l4 10s. Beef, in extra large numbers, sold at Westfifcld rates. Cows, £6 los to £l3 10s; steers to £l4 10s.

At Westfield oxen sold to £2 6s per 1001 b.; cows and'heifers, £1 15s to .£2 So; steers sold at from £ll 10s to £2l 15s; cows, £1! 5s to £ls. Calves were panned in large numbers, and sold at improved rates Runners sold at "from £6 12s 6d to £S 7s 6d; heavy suckers, £4 to £4 17s 6d, medium £2 Is to £3 7s 6d, light £1 2s to £1 17s; small and fresh dropped, 4s to 16s. Sheep wine yarded in average numbers, and showed no improvement in prices. Best wethers sold at from £1 6s to £1 Bs, others £1 Is to £1 4s 9d. A six-tooth wether shorn in the autumn, the property of Mr. T. J. B. Stewart, realised £3, being bought by Mr. T. Baster. Ewes, 18s 6d to; £1 3s 6d; hoggets, £1 to £1 3s. Lambs, best £1 to £1 2s 3d, others 17s 6d to 13s 3d. Pigs were penned in full numbers and showed a small improvement in prices. Heavy baconors £4 5s to £5 ss„5 s„ medium £3 15s to £4 2s, light £3 3s to £3 12s 6d; heavy porkers £3 7s to £3 16s, medium £3 14s to £3 os, light £1 18s to £2 10s; weaners, 12s to 18s; slips, £1 2s to £1 13s. *