N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co.

Bush Advocate, Volume XVI, Issue 582, 5 December 1904, Page 5

N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co.

During the week we have held sales at Himatangi, Apiti, and Palmerston North, and> a, .^clearing sale .*>of . dairy stock bri apeburit of Mrs Lyons;'

At Palmerston North tbere was a fair entry of sheep and a good yarding of cattle, including several pens of beef. Sheep sqktTjfcell /and there was a better demand for all classes of cattle, practically a total clearance being effected. ,

.. Sheep : fat ewes, 20s ; ewes witb 100 per cent, lambs, 26s IOd; cull ewes and lambs, 20s 6d. Cattle : weaners, 255 ; yearling beifers, 35s 6d to £2^7s;: yearling steers, £2 to £2 8s; 18-month-steers, £2: 14s 6d to r £2 16s; 2|-year steers, £3. 18s to £4. 2s 6d ; store cows, £211s to £3; forward cows, £3 ,25-- 63 to £3, 95 ; ; ; empty 2-year beifers, £3 ; beifers in calf, £3-9s 6d ; fat cowsi £5 2s 6d ; fat bullocks, £6 15s to £7 ; bulls, £2to£3los. ; '.- iv

[ The : New Zealand Loan and'Mejrcantile Agency Company, Limited, have ceived the following cable frprii „tbeir Xondon House, dated Ist:— "We quote present ispot . values- -for following descriptions- of 'tallbw : Fine mutton, 28s, ,6*d.;rgb°4 beef, 265; mixed, >255 ; market quiet."- ' ;.■ L"