Commercial.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXV, Issue 6153, 14 February 1914, Page 1

Commercial.

Finance and Trade. [United Press Assooiation] [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] LONDON, February 11 Tallow—At the sales 825 casks were offered and 605 sold. Prices were unchanged, SYDNEY, Thured.y Wheat-, 3s 7d to 3s 7Jd; flour, £8 10s; cats, Algerian feeding 2s 2d to 2s 3d, milling 2s 4d to 2s sd, New Zealand A Gartons 4s 2d; barley, Cape malting 2s 7d to 2s 9d; maize, 4s 6d to 4s 7d; bran and pollard, £i 15s; Tasmanian, £6 16s; onions, Victorian £10; butter, selected 107 s, secondary 104 s ; cheese, 6£d ; bacon, lOd to 10id. ADELAIDE, Thursday Wheat, 3s 6d to 3s 7d; flour, £7 15s to £8; bran and pollard, lljd. MELBOURNE, Thursday Hides, average catalogue, very brisk competition, prices firm. Wool Sales. SYDNEY, Thursday Tbe wool sales closed strong at the highest rates of the season. The demand was emphatically keen for best lines, but faulties were still irregular. Greasies fetched up to 14jd, and scoured to 24d, equal to the record of the season.

Potato Market.

[Per Press Association] Wellington, Thursday A cablegram received by the Department of Agriculture, dated Buenos Ayres, 11th February, contains information that there is no market for potatoes from New Zealand in the Argentine.

Christchurch Wool Sale.

Chbistchukoh, Thursday The third wool sale of this season’s series was held to-day, when there were 16,142 bales, including a large number of North Canterbury, Banks Peninsula and Chatham Island clips. The wool was in remarkably good condition for this late period of the season, though some of the late-shorn clips were naturally burry. 2 here was a large representative attendance of buyers, and in view of the rise in prices at the last Wellington sale, it was expected that competition would be very keen. This expectation was fully realised, the sale not only being the briskest of the season, but the prices being on the highest level Bradford buyers had evidently increased their limits, but they were followed up very closely by Continental buyers, who bid freely for the stronger wools, such as the Bradford buyers were after. Some business was also done on American account. Not only were crossbred wools much firmer, but fine wools also showed a slight advance. Some of the reserves on the best clips were, however, beyond the buyers’ limits, and there were more passings of super halfbred wools in some of the large clips than in any description. The passings, however, were not very large in proportion to the size of the catalogues. Merino wool, of which there was a fairly large quantity offered, sold well, and was mostly taken by Dunedin and Wellington mills. Scouring lots came in for good competition, and local fellmongers secured a fair Bhare.