TRADE AND FINANCE

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12279, 28 October 1902, Page 3

TRADE AND FINANCE

LONDON QUOTATIONS. London, October 26. Hemp.—Dull. At the sales fair Wellington sold at £23 10s.

Copper. ffpot £52 12s 6d, three months £52 17s 6d.

Frozen Meat Market.—Sheep: Canterbury, light 4|d, median 4 3-16 d, heavy 4 11-16 d; Dunedin and Southland, none offering; North Island, 4Jd. Lambs: Canterbury, light Sid, heavy 6ld. Dunedin and Southland, none offering. North Island 5Jd. New Zealand beet, ISO to 2201b Fair average quality, ox fores 4Jd, ox hinds 6d. Biver Plats: Sheep, heavy and light 4 7-16 i; beef, unchanged. DALGSTY AND CO., LIMITED. London, October 26. Daigsty and Co.’s report for the half year ended Jane shows profits £121,880. A dividend at the rats of 6 per cent has been declared, and £51,880 carried forward, SYDNEY STOCK SALES. Bsctirod Ootobtr 27, 9.45 p.K. Sidney, Monday. At the ebeep sales values all round declined. Weclied sheep especially were cheaper. One New Zealand wether sold for 395. Others ranged from 18s to 34s fid. Cattle were firm. Fiftynine New Zealand bullocks sold to £22 sb, averaging £l9. TICTOBIAN WHEAT YIELD. Melbourne, Monday. The Agt estimates the State’s wheat yield at 7,200,000 bushels, hardly sufficient lor food and seed requirements. LIVE STOCK MAEKET. Messrs Lowes and lorns. Ltd, report as follows regarding their Pahiatna stock sale on Friday:—We submitted an unusually large yarding of sheep, fully 2000 more than the advertised number coming forward; 800 head of cattle were also penned; the quality of these was not good, being chiefly badly fared sorts and low in condition. Competition for sheep was mainly good, although inferior sorts were neglected. Good wethers sold freely under the hammer; good hoggets also sold well. All the ewee and lambs yarded alio changed hands, bat prices were not high. With cattle bidding was lifeless, and very little bidding was done, except tor young cattle and heifers. Medium young cattle and 3-year-olds were neglected. Bwes with lambs made from 9s to 10s 3d, good wethers from 11s 3d to 13s 4d, hoggets from 7s 7d to 9i fid, fat ewes to 14s 3d; yearlings 34, to £2 10s, 18-mouth to 2-year steers £2 18i to £4, empty heifers £3 7e fid to £4 2s, springing heifers £4los to £7, cows in milk, a special line, from £4 12s fid to £7 12s fid.