COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8215, 20 August 1906, Page 7

COMMERCIAL.

iLQNDON MARKET ADVICES.

Dalgety and Company, Limited, 'Wellington, have received the following cables from tbeir London house, dated the 10th instant:--Butter: -Market Arm. The Copenhagen official quotation is higher by 3 Kroner tabout 3s 4d) per owt. We expect higher prices. The total mports of butter into the United •Kingdom for the week ending the 11th instant amounted to 77,000 owt, as compared with 90,000 cwt for the corresponding period of 1905. Fruzen Meat:—New Zeulandcrossbred frozen lamb, lower by Frozen beef in general, prices are iiimer, but the market is weak for New Zealand beef, in anticipation of large supplies. Tallo«v:—Prices unchanged for prime mutton, mixed, soft and low sorts. Other descriptions are higher fcy 3d to 9d per owt. The demand is chiefly for good to pri~a beef and mixed tallbw of high titres.

UPPER HUTT STOCK SALE,

Da'.gety and Company, Limited, Wellington, report having held their usual stook sale in Upper Hutt yards on the 16th instant when a full yarding ot cattle was offered, and almost every lot was disposed of. Representatives from the Freezing Companies and most of the town batchers were present. The following were prices realised:— Fat bullocks, £8 12s 6d to £8 15s; fat £6 *lQs; fat cows, £5 to £6 ss; 3-year old'steers, £4 2s 6d to £5 12s 6d; springing heifers, £3 10s to £1 Is 6d; cows (spring oalrers) £3 10s to £4 10s; aged; cows, 30s to £2 12s 6d; bull, 29s to 32s 6d; 18-month heifers, 37s 6d; Pigs, flows, 375, slips 16s to £1; bay mare, £6 10s; milk cans, Bs.

WOOL, SHEEPSKINS, HIDES AND TALLOW SALES.

The New Zealand Loan and Meroanfcile Agenoy Company, Limited, Wellington, report:— We brought forward a large catalogue of skins and a fait quantity of wool, hides and tallow at oar sale k. on Friday. Bidding lacked auiaaand inferior pelted skins suffer*ed a further deoline of about 2 'd per lb, and orutohings of inferior quality also may be quoted %d per lb down. We quote Wool— Orutohings medium 6>£d to 6%d, inferior (seedy) &)£d to 6d, dead wool to B%d. Sheepskins—Crossbred light conditioned b%d to coarse 8d to lambskins 8d to 9d; broken and inferior pelted from 4d to 6%d, dead ekins from to 7d per lb. Qreen skins from 6s to 8s Id eaob. Hides - Most of the lots offered were in a very 9loppy state; there was a fair demand at ftom 5d 10 5%d for sound ox and cow, damaged from 3}£d to 4%d. Oalf from 5d to for sound, 2>£d to 4}£d for damaged and cut. Tallow—Good mixed up to 23s 9d , for snipping lots, for medium from Vs 20s to 22a 6d, inferior lots 35s to . 16s, in tins to 18s 6rt.

Messra Dalgety and Company, Limited, Wellington, report having held their usual fortnightly sale of wool, skins, bides and tallow on Friday afternoon, when they submitted a fair catalogue to a number of buyers. They quote:—• Wool—The offering waß composed of inferior quality. No ohange was noricable as compared with rates luling at last sale and we quote: Half-bred fleeoe, crossbred, 8d; crutchings, medium, to6%d, inferior 5%d to6d; locus and pieces, 4}£d to 4%d. Skins—No really good lines offering and the market again receded to the extent of to %d per lb. We qucte: Crossbred, full woolled, B%d to, 9d; crossbred, shorts, 7%d to merino, half-bred, 9J£d; lambs, 7d to 7%d; dead and inferior, to 7J£d; green, good, 7g 8d to 9s 3d;medium, 6s 2d to 7s 4d. Hides—Those exhibited were of good quality and were eagerly competed for, there being more buyers operating than ia the past. Prices were on a par with those ruling at last sale. We quote: Prime ox, s)£d to 5%d; medium, sJ£d to s}£d; prime cows, 5%d to 5%d; medium, 5%d to s>£d; yearlings, 4%d to 5%d; prime calf, to 5%d. Horns, 14s per hundred. Tallow, in casks 22s 9d, tins 17s 6d to 18s 3d.