WEDNESDAY'S STOCK REPORT.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9887, 18 November 1897, Page 4

WEDNESDAY'S STOCK REPORT.

(BY OUR COMMERCIAL EDITOR.)

The market was not a very large one, and the attendance was below the average, while business in almost all departments was more or less dull.

The yarding of store sheep was a small one, the bulk being ewes having large percentages of lamb 3. The latter showed want of feed and were smaller and more uneven than is generally the rule. There was practically no demaud, and sales wore effected only at very low rates. Small lots of shorn two-tooths made 5s 3d to 7s, and in the wool 8b Id to 8s 7d, ewes and lambs lis 7d, and shorn ewes and lambs Is 6d lo 3s 2d, all counted.

There was again a large entry of fat lambs, between 500 and 600 being penned, but, with the exception of about 100, they were not in anything tike finished condition. At the opening of the sale competition was somewhat s'acl- and price 3 weaker, but as the market progressed they became much firmer, tho beat sorts selling well. Good to prime lambs made 103 lo lis 6d, extra to 12s 6d ; others 6s 6d to 9s 6d. A pen of Mr W. H. Sfcokea's that took first -prize at j the Rangiora Show topped the market at | 12s 6d, and others of the same breeder made Us 3d. The Cashmere Estate draft j realised lis 9d to lis lOd; Mr T. Dawson's, Hornby, 10s lOd' to 12s ; and Mr F. Campion's, Prebbleton, lis 6d. The entry of fat 6heep was a small one, and was composed principally of crossbred j ewes, and a feature of the market was a number of pens of wethers that were exhibited at the late Show. The sale was a very dull and dragging one, and lower values had to be accepted alt round. After the trade had satisfied requirements sales j were difficult to effect, even at gift prices, j though agents were loth to hold over consignments in grassleas paddocks for another week. Prime shorn crossbred wethers made 8s to 10s, extra to lis 10d, best maiden ewes 8s to 10s 4d, best trade ewes 93 to 108 6d, medium 6s to 8s 6d, inferior 4s to 5s 6d, merino-' wethers 6s 3d to 10s 9d. The following sales of Show sheep were made: —Messrs Dalgety and Co. sold for Mr J. Deans a pen of 9 halfbred wethers in tlie wool, that took one of Messrs Pyne and Co.'s special prizes of £25, at 18s 3d, to Mr R. Dyer. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company sold for Mr J. M. Furze 5 two-tooth wethers in the wool at 15s 6d, to Mr T. Dingle. Messrs Pyne and Co. sold for Mr J. Grigg 20 first and second prize crossbred wethers in the wool at 18s 3d, 11 shorn crossbred wethers at 14s 3d, and 15 at 14s 7d, to Mr H. S. Harris; for Mr G. E. Rhodes 10 prize crossbred wethers in the wool at 18s 3d to Mr H. S. Harris, and 5 shorn do. at 14s to Mr T. Gray. Messrs J. T. Ford and Co. sold for Mr F. J. Millton 10 first prize shorn merino wethers at lis 7d to Mr XV. Jackson. Tho following were among the other principal gales made: —For Mr J. Deans, crossbred I wethers in . the wool 16s 3d to 16s 6d; I Ardross Estate, crossbred wethers 10s 4d, maiden ewes 9s lid; for a client, j 117 crossbred wethers 10s 6d ; for Mr A. Henderson, East Oxford, crossbred wethers 10s 6d to lf.n 6d; for Mr A. R. Inwood, Southbridge, crossbred wethers 10s lid to lis 9d ; for Messrs Cook Bros., Governor's Bay, crossbred ewes 10s Id; for Mr R. Duncan, Loburn, cro.-sbrod wethers in the wool 17s 6d • for Mr T. Richards, Rakaia, crossbred wethers in the wool 15s, ewes do 12s lOd to 13s; for Mr F. J. Millton, Lauriston, shorn merino wethers 10s 9d, halfbred wethers 10s 6d, Down wethers 10s; j for Mr R. Chapman, Fernside, merino wethers 63 3d, halfbred wethers 10s, do in the wool 16s ; for Mr E. Bowes, Hornby, crossbred wethers in the wool 16s 3d, shorn do lis lOd.

The entry of 206 head of fat cattle was much beyond requirements, and only the beat sorts were really saleable. Prime quality made 17s to 19s,' medium 153 to 163 6d, and cow and inferior lis to 13s 6d. Messrs Pyne and Co. sold for Mr G. E. Rhode* 2 prize bullocks at £8 17s 6-1 and £9 5s to tho Christchurch Mea*> Company, aud for Mr J. r"erguson a prize cow at £9 15s to Mr J. Forrester. Ordinary steers made £4 15s to £7 10s, heifers £3 lCs 6d to £6 17s 6d, and cows £3 5s to £6 10s. There wa3 a large entry of rough stores, but a poor demand was manifested at auction, though a fair amount of business was transacted privately at low prices, 100 head being bought for the We3t Coast. At auction two-year-old steers made 50s, eighteen months steers 445, eighteen months heifers 375, mixed yearlings 15s to 203. There was a large entry of dairy cows, and the quality much above the average, but the demand was very limited, and good young springers or newly-calved cows only made from £2 15s to £4, the top price being £5 53. A large yarding of pigs met with keen competition, baconers averaging 3id to 32d, and porkers 3fd to 4d per lb. Messrs Matson and Co. sold for Mr J. Dunlop 7 first prize Tamworth-Berksbire cross baconers at 48s 6d, to Messrs Wardell Bros., and for Mr J. Deans 5 second prize Yorkshire baconers at 49s 6d to Mr Geo. Andrews. Messrs Pyne and Co. sold, for the Sunnyaid* Allium 6 second prize porkers at 31* to

Mr Geo. Andrews. Other baconers brought 30s to 50s 6d, porkers 19s to 31s, stores 12s to 17s, and weanors 6s to Bs.