COMMERCIAL.

Waikato Times, Volume LVII, Issue 7003, 7 May 1906, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

WOOL AND SHEEPSKIN SALE AT GI BORNE. ke;ord priced. GISBORNE, Friday. The of wool and sheepskins to-day is claimed to be a record for the district, and tin) pricos weru the highest realised locally, bidding was spirited. Ordinary crossbred station wool brought up to lOd, lighter BJI to '.ld. Lamb?' wool whs in strong demand at IOJd for clean lots ; H i to SJd. Excellent samples of this season's crutch ings reali-ed to 8} d. Locks made up tc ;>£. The otlerings of skins were heavy and competition active lip to I,d per lb for well saved, clean parcels. Ordinary station skins averaged !td. Green and salted sold at Is to lis each. CHRISI'CHURCH PRODUCE MARKET. CHRISTCHURCH. Friday. There is very little business passing between farmers and merchants in either wheat or oals. Offerings are very limited and the prices asked for oats are beyond buyers' limits. A number of sales of oats have taken place between merchant and merchant to till orders in hand, and this business has been done on a basis of prices below what growers are asking. No first sales of either wheat or oats are repoitsd. It is reported that some sales of chaff have been made in the country up to .£3 per ton, but merchants state thai £2 los is the highest price they are giving for prime, and that supplies at that figure are equal to requirements. Potatoes are without change in price. There is less inquiry on the part of merchants, and there is such a large proportion of rejections among recent purchases that they would rather buy Liter on after the potatoes have been pitted. The cocksfoot harvest from Banks Peninsula this year produced 108,000 sacks, yielding 8(>,000 sacks of dressed seed, which, with 20,000 sacks in merchants' hands from last year, makes 10(5,000 sacks. The local consumption requirements total 15,0J0 sacks, which leaves 5)1,000 sacks available for export, an increase from last year's quantity of 14,000 sacks. LONDON CABLE. LONDON, May 1, There is a steady trade in butter. Danish 105s; colonial unchanged. Choicest is scarce and is readily cleared, and there is an improving demand for secondaries. At the sheepskins sales there is an average attendance, with fair competition. Two thousand eight hundred bales of Australian have been offered and practically all sold. Good combing merinos and best New Zealand crossbred combings are fully a farthing above March rates; others unchanged. The Bradford wool market is very strong. Common sixties, 27} d to2Bd; forty-sixes, 19$ d; forties, 18id.