COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8168, 26 June 1906, Page 7

COMMERCIAL.

LONDON MARKET ADVICES. Dalgety and Company, Limited, Wellington, received the following cables from London, underrate of the 21st instant: — Hatter—Market firm. The Copenhagen quotation is higher by one kroner (about la per ewt sinoe oar cable of the 14th instant The total imports of butter into the United Kingdom for the week ending the 16th instant amounted to 104,000 cwt, as compared with 72,000 cwt for the corresponding week of 1905. Frozen M» at—New Zealand frozen crossbred mutton, unchanged. North Island, difficult of sale. Frozen lamb, at par to Hd Jbigher sinoe our telegram of the 7th instant. Tallow—Market unchanged, any obange ia values is in favour of buyers. Sheepsßins—Crossbred skins lower by par to combing Merino lower by clothing Merino skins lower by to %d.

WELLINGTON WOOL AND SKIN SALES. ' Messrs Levin and Co., Limited, report:—We offered on Friday 60 bales wool*, 2,500 skins, 300 hides, and a quantity of tallow and horsehair. Prices for wool remained steady and there is no ohange to record. We quote:—Coarse crossbreds to 10% d; inferior and logstained to 9J£d; pieaes and bellies, 7d to 7%d; orutchings, superior, to orutchings, good, 7d to BJ^d; orutchings, seedy and inferior, s)£d to 6%d. Skins —Sold at recent rates. We quote: Merinos 9d to fine crossbreds, 9a to 10% d; coarse, 9d to dead skins, 8d to B%d; shore wools, B}£d to 9>£d; woolly skins, green 7s"to 8s 9d; woolly lambs ekine, green, 5s 6d to 6s; lambs, pelts 3s to 4s 2d. Tallow —Casks 225; tins i7s 3d; sacks, 13s 9d. Horsehairla 6d to 2s per jib. Horns—7s to 19s 3d per lOtf. Hides—Good demand at steady prices. Ox hides, s>£d to 5%d per lb; cow hides, to sJad*, oat slippy hides 4d tosd; calfskins, 5d to 6%d. The next sale will be held on the_6th July, 1906. Dalgety and Company. Limited, Wellington, held their usual fortnightly sale of wool, skins, hides and tallow on Friday afternoon. They report:— Wool— Crutchings were the principal entries under this head. Prices for all elapses were on a parwitb last sale rates. We quote as follows: — Medium crossbred' fleece, 9itolod; crutchings, medium quality, 8d to B)r>d; inferior, 6}»d to Pieces. to6%d; dead, B*4d; lambs, 8d to 9 Sheop skins—Prices are also ou a par with last sale. Medium crossbred, 9%d to inferior orossbred, B}£d tu 9%d; hoggets B%d; Merino, 9Kd; dead and broken, 7%d to B}£d; shorts 9d to 9%; medium green skin, 7s 2d to 8a Id. Hides —The market showed a Blight advance. Medium ox,'s%d to 5%d; cows, 5%d to inferior cows, 5%d to 5%d; bulls, 3%d to 4%d, slippy cows, 4%d; yearlings to 5%d; dry, hides, calf-skins, 5%d cut and slippy sd. Tallow—lßs 9d to 22s 6d; rough fat, 14s 9d.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agenoy Company, Limited, report:—At Friday's said we submitted a catalogue of about 1,300 skins, 55 bales wool, 100 hides and a quantity of tallow. Bayers were well represented, and prices obtained were well up to last sale rates. We quote—Wool—Stragglers, ooarse crossbred, good clean orutchings, eeedy 6}£d to 8d; locks and pieces, 5d to Sheepskins—Merino, 9d to lOd; fine orossbred, 9%d to ooarse crossbred, 9d to lOd; shorty woolled crossbreds to 9d; broken and dead, 6d to B%d; lambskins, from BJ<jd to per lb; green skins from 6s 6d to 9s 2d; green lambs 5a 6d to 6s 6d each. Hides —ln good demand for sound ox and cow, to 5%d; out and slippy 4d to sd; calf, sound, from 5%d to 6>ad; out and damaged, 3d to 5d per lb. Tallow— In tins, from 17s to ]Bs 6d; in casks, to 22s 3d per owt. i HIGH COMMISSIONER'S REPORT. > By Telegraph—tress Association. WELLINGTON, June 25. The Department of Industries and Commerce has received the following cablegram from the High Commissioner, dated London, June 23rd, * 1906:—The mntton market is not quite aa firm as last week. There is no change in prices to report. There is a general active demand for lhtnb, and the market is firm at 4%d for Canterbury brands; brands Other than Canterbury are quoted at 4 %d. The weather lately has been unfavourable for the sale of beef. The market is dull at 3%d and 2%d for bind and fore-quarters, respectively. The butter market is firm, There are only small supplies on hand, the choicest New Zealand brands selling at 105s, Danish 113s, Siberian 97s per owt. There is good demand for white cheese at 655, coloured 62a per owt. The hemp market is firm. The cocksfoot market is doll, there being little business doing. The average price for 171b bright, clean, dressed seed is 47s per owt.