LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 606, 8 September 1909, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Messrs. Dalgoty and Company, Ltd., had a good yarding of sheep at their Pahiatua sale yesterday, the hogget market showing> an improvement. ' Quotations:—Ewe ■ hoggets, 12s. 2d. to 12s. 3d.; wether;hoggets, 9a. 9d. to 9s. lid.;,owes with lambs at foot, 13s. to 15s. 3d.; fat wethers, 15s. 7d.j yearling steers, £2 155.; mixed yearlings, £2 6s. • 6d.; empty heifers, £2 155.; dairy cows, £3 2s. 6d.'to £4 55.; springing heifers, £5 ss. to £5 17s. 6d.. Messrs. Freeman R. Jackson and Company's stock report for tho week is as follows :-On Tuesday, v August 30, wo had a horse sale at Waverloy, when we submitted" over 160 horses of all classes. The attendance was good, and we Bold the greater portion of tho entry. Good unbroken draughts were well competed for. Wo report a good sale. On. Wednesday, September 1, at our Wanganul stock sale, wo.had a fair yarding, viz.., 440 cattle; 1360 Gheep, aud 164 pigs. Tho attendance was not so large as usual, no doubt owing to the rough weather. ■ However, bidding was good for most lines of cattle offered, and the bulk sold at satisfactory values. Bidding for sheep was slow at auction, several pens' being passed, however, most ..lines were 'quitted, after tho sale.' Fat sheep cold well, 'tigs maintained late values. At Wavorley saio on September 3, 'we yarded 250' cattle, 550 sheep, and 50 pigs, besides' sundries. The attendance'was good, and most,of tho cattle were sold at ruling. rates. Good springing hoifors close to calving sold readily. All the sheep yarded were sold. Pig 3 made good values. Wo quote :-At Wavorley horse • fair, medium .draughts (broken), £24 to £27; others, £15 to £20; aged do., £10 to £12; unbroken medium draughts, :good sorts, £18 to. £21; others, £14 to £15; halfidraughts, £9 to £12; unbroken hacks, £4 10s. to ■ £7 10s.;' yearling and two-year-old do., £1 2a. 6d. to £4 65,; best harness horses, £10 to £18; others, £6 to £9; hacks, £6 .to £8; others, £2 10s. Ho £4 10s. At Watfganui salo:-Fat cows, £5; fat bullocks, £8; two and four-year store bullocks, £4 12s. 6d.; forward do., £5,95.; forward cows,, •. £2 18s. .to £3 25.; store cowa and heifers, £2 Bs. to £2 125.; ompty two-year heifers (quiet), £2 13s. to £2 155.; two-year steers, £3 25.; yearling do., 375. to £2 ,2s. 6d.; yearling heifers, 335. to 38s. 6d.; mixed yearlings, 245. to 325.; dairy cows, at profit, £5 ss. to £6;, later calvers, £3 to £4 7s. 6d.; aged cows, £2105.; mixed hoggets, small do., 78. 6d.; cull .hoggets, 4s. 6d.; storo wethers, 12s. 3d.; storo ewes, Bs. 4d.; fat ewes, 12s. Bd.; fat wethers, 15s. .Id.; baconers, £2 to £2 10s.; best pork, 385.; medium porkers, 28s. to 305.; small do., 21s. to 24s.;'.medium stores, 14s. to 18b. 6d.; good weancrs, 10s. to 135.; small do., 6s. 6d. At Waverloy sale :-Frcsh three-year steers, £4 10s.; two ,to two and a half-year steers, £3'4s. 6d.j mixed yearlings, 325. 6d.j yearling steers, 38s. 6d.; forward cows.; and heifers, £J 65.; good springing heifors, £5 to £6 17s. 6d.j medium, do., £4 10s. to ,£4 ,12s. ,6d.; small do., £2 15s. to £3 55.; springing'cows, "£5 2a. 6d. to £6 15a.; 'first-class mixed hoggets, 125.; others, 9s 2d.; forward ewes, Bs, 7d.; .mixed sheep, lis. 4d.'-, porkers, 255.; good stores, 14s. Cd. to £1; small stores, 13a. to 15s. , ; ',' Messrs. Abraham and Williams,. Limited, report on their JohnsonvlUo sale, hold yesterday, as follows ;-We offered a large entry of extra prime bullocks and good sheep, . which sold readily. Extra prime quality: bullocks, £10 ss. to £10 7s. 6d..'ond £9 15s. to.£9 17s. 6d.j lighter bullocks, £8 7s. 6d. to £8 7s.;.'prime wethers, 17s. 6d„ 17s. 8d.,..t0 17s.' 7d.; Downs. 17s. 7d.; good wethers, 16s. 4d.; medium ewca, 14s. Gd.to 14s, Bd.; good ewes, 15s. 2d. •'.'•■ : '■•• . Regarding their Btock sales held at Pahiatua yesterday, the New Zealand, Loan and Mercantile Agonoy Company report as follows :-Thero was a good;entry, and cattle sold well, at late rates. Yearling steers, £2 145.; empty three-year heifers,'£2 16s. to £3 55.; dairy hoifers. £5 ss. to £6; dairy cows, £3 to £5 7s. 6d,; bulls, 21b. to 445.: . ' ■.' ' ■~'■■■'• Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Limited, report on their Pahiatua sale, held yesterday, aB I follows r-There was a good yarding at sheep

and cattle, and an increased demand for sheen. Prices :—Ewc\ hoßgets, 12a. 3d.; wetlior hoggets, 9s. lid.; mixed hoggets, Ss. 7d. to 10s. 5d.; othoi's, Bs. 4d. to Bs. 6d.; forward springing heifers, £5 10s. to £6 155.; others, £4 10s. to £5; empty heifers, £2 6s. 6d. to £2 10s.; springing cowb, to £5. Messrs. Dalgety nnd Company, Ltd., report;— At our Jlarton sale yesterday-thero was a good entry of sheep, principally hoggets, which mot with a good demand, at the following quota-' tions':—Wothor hoggets, 9s. to 9s. lid.; mixed sex hoggets. 10s. 6d., 10s. 7d., to 10s. lid.; small ditto, Bs. Bd.; owe hoggets, 10s.-Id. -to'.lZs. 2d.; fat ewes, to 12s: lid.; forward wethers, to 12s. Bd.; empty ewes, Bs. 3d. to 9s. 5d.; maiden ewes, to 10s. 9d. LONDON WOOL MARKET. Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited; report having received the following cable message from their London house, under date of September 6:—"Wool: Market very firm and tending upwards. At the fifth (September) series- of sales. in London, we expect a general rise in prices of from par to 5 per cent."