COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8256, 9 October 1906, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

LODON MARKET ADVICES

SEPTEMBER WOOL SALES. !

Dalgety and Company, Limited, Wellington, have received the following cable from their London house, dated the 4th instant:— Wool—Saleß closed firm without farther change. Prices are as high as at any period of this series. Super and good merino wools, prioea are on the average at par to 5 per cent higher than closing rates of July series. Medium and infbr--ior merino wools and flue crossbred, prioea are on a par with last aeries closing rates. Medium and coarse crossbred, and long slipes, 5 per cent lower. Short slipes, 10 per cent lower. The total number of bales offered for Bale (including old stocks) amounted to 102,000. Oat of the net quantity available for sale, some 54,000 bales have been sold for Home consumption, 38,000 bales for the Continent, 2,000 bales for America; leaving 8,000 bales to be carried forward to the next series. Butter—Buyers are operating more freely. Ihe Copenhagen official quotation is higher by i kroner v (about 4a,6d) per owt. ■ The total * imports nf batter into the United Kingdom for the week ending the 29th September amounted to 71,000 cwt. as compared with 63,000 owl for the corresponding week of 1905. Since our advices of the 27th ultimo., prices for tallow and frozen meat are unchanged.

WOOL. AND SKIN SALE,

Abraham and Williams report:—At ont PaJmerston North sale last week we offered a catalogue of 8 bales as well as bag lots of wool, 2,000 skins, 400 hides, 2,200 calfskins, tallow, eto. Competition was keen and pricas for hides advanced, but skins showed a decline on last month's prioes We quote: Wool—J Crossbred, B%d; dead wool, 6%& ■ x to 8d; iambs, B%d; inferior to medium crutobings, 4J£d to 6d; good crutohings, looks and pieces, 3%d to bellies and piooea, 6d. Skins—Crossbred, coarse, 8d ; fine, 834 d to B%d; short, 7d to 7%d; shorn lambs, 7%d; lambs, 7%d; dead and damaged, 5%d to dend, to 7d; pelts, 7%d; dead skihs, 5s 8d to 6s 6d; batchers' half dry and green, 6s, 6s 7d, 7d 9d, 7s lOd, 8s to 8s 6d; one small line, 10s Id; lambs, . -3s to 4s sd; lamb skins, (new season's) Is 2d to ls4d; pelts, (new season's), 2s 2d to 2a 4d. HidesHeavy ox, 33s 6d, 37s 6d, to 40s 6d; medium ox, 275, 29s to 355, light '2os to 23s 6d; cows, heavy 275, 29s to 355, medium, 235, 25s to 26s 6d; light, 18s 6d to 21s 6d; yearlings, 5s 8d to7aßd; calves, 3s, 3a lOd to 4s d: calves damaged, lOd to 2s lOcl. Sundries —Tallow in casks, 19a 6d to 23s 6dperowt; tine, 17s 9d; rough fat, 12s 6d; horsehair, Is 5d to Is 7d oow hair, 9d to 9>4d, rabbit skins, 7%d; bcnes. JE4 4s per ton.