COMMERCIAL.

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2580, 30 September 1915, Page 8

COMMERCIAL.

LIVE STOCK SALES • llossra.- Daigety , and 00., Ltd., PalmerGton Xorth . report having a fair yarding of sheep at; their Martoa eale on Monday, which cut prices as follow:— 414 mlited. hoggets, 21s'.' 2d.;. 246 mixed liogGetii, 235.. 7d.; 56 mixed hoggets, 235. ■' The iS?w Zealand Loan and Mercantile 'Agency Oo;', Irtd., report having held their usual weekly solo at Kketahuhft on Friday; when they offered a. largo. yarding of. cattle.- " Competition' ;w&3. ■: by -no • means animated, buVa good .clearance ; was mado at the following ratosrr—Backward' two and' Jtoee-year'steers,'£6 .10s.; yearling ditto, £3; mixed .yearlings, £3 5a.; two-year empty heifers, £3 Is. to £3 7s. 6d.; empty cows, £3 7s. to £4 12s. 6d.; backward cows, in calf. £3; dairy cows, £4 2s. 6d. to £7; springing, heifers, £6 17s. 6d. to £7 lte.; ■yearling bulls, £2 15s. '■ The New Zealand .Ijoan: and .Mercantile 'Agency Co., Ltd., report:—At Eangiotu, on Monday, we had only a. email: entry, which sold at late rates' as: follows:—Store cows, £3 23.. 65., £3 ss. 6d.,' £3.65. "6d.; springing' cows, £5 55., £5. 10s., £6'.123.-'6d.,-'£6'lso.i springing heifers,- £6; two-year ; bulls, £5 Es. The Hew Zealand ; Loan'..and-Mercahtile Agency Co., -Ltd:, report :—At ■ Pahiatua on Tuesday we had a., good ,entry of cattle.. Competition for fat-and'"store' cow 6 'was fairly - keen,.'.bat. bther,' sorts".jvere rather; dull of sale. ' :Light fat cows, made .' £610s:;. forward cows, £5 to £5 10s. ;"• fair ditto, .£4 -to £4. 7s. ' 6d.; backward .ditto; £3 6s;, to £3'155.; ,twb-*year. empty, heifers,- £3 ,55.; 'springing, heifers,- £3 '10s. to : £5; 'bulls, £4 ios. t0,£5,75.-6d.' . .vw:;

• Abraham -.arid-' Williams, Ltd., report on r their ;Johnsonvilio'«tle es i lows:—A-good-yarding.-of cattle and sheep came forward, and sold readily at lato rates. ' An.'extra prime truck' of: bullocks, on account- of --Mr. P. : A. - Gillies,'; sold ,at record :prices.' • "We quote:—Prime "heavy bullocks,; £24: tO'£2s 125..6 d..: and £19M5s; to £20 155.;.-light plain bullocks, £12 10s. to £13 2s/6d.vto-£l4' prime vealers, 395. to Y r 46s;; slighter*,V23s.'. to. 315.; prime wethers, 34s.vt'o ■ 355.; prime heavy ewes, 335. 64.- to"34s. : ;''extra' prime lambs,- 17s, 6d. to, £l.''i"--^' l ;-;\V- ; .-. .vI.T-'' -i■

I " ;Vj ADDINCTON MAEKET. ,-\ -, , , By A£S<io!ation." -* : > ; Christchurch, September 29. lAt the Addingtdii' live stock -'market there, •was' a larger entry ;of . fat cattle, and. a' smaller yarding' of fat sheep., - .A large entry of new. season's* fat lembs came-for-ward, and "there was 'a ' moderate yarding of store sheep'.,; - Fat .cattle- were - easiei", and there was a; considerable drop,'in, new lambs,' owing, t'oithe numbers. . . Store'sheep sold irregularly,; were generally easier, 'and the fat sheep market maintciined!lost .Week's rates. . ' ". 'vStore sheep: Good ,ewo hoggets,;':,2os. ldr to 20s. 4d:; inferior ewo hoggeta, 156. 3d.; good wether hoggets, -17s. to 18s. 6d,; -faii'ly good hoggets, 14s. to.lfe. &!.; inferior liogcets, 12s. Id. to 135.-6 d.; ■ cuil' hoggets; Bs. ;to-Bs.' to.; two-tooth .. wethers', (late shorn),; ,13s. lid. to - 14s. Id.;'two' and. wethers,' to-.165. 6d.; good sound-mouthed eives,. to 21s. 7d.; moderate, I sound, .and failing-mouthed ewes, 14s. Id. to ■ 15s, Id.; eged,shorn ewes, 105..7 d. - v : Fat lambs: Best,lambs, 19s. t0,,225.'; and lighter, 15s. 6d. to 18s. 6d. : Fat sheep: Extra prime wethers, to -525.; prime wethers, 275. to 365. 6d.; others, 20s. 2d. to 265. .-.merino-wethers, ,225.; to. 30s/ 3d.; extra-prime ewes,^ ■'• tQ:34s:; iprime- ewes,255. -to medium .ewes;' 19s.' 4d. to 245. .6d.j -merino ewes, 17s. lOd. to 19s. ftd.; 3ioggets, 14s. lid. t0,27a. 3d. Fat cattle: Extra prime steers, to £20; ordinary steers,' £7 : 2s. 6d. to £12; extra prime heifers, to 1 £14 :155.; ordinary heifers, £7 to £8 155.; extra prime cows, to £17 10s.; ordinary com £15 155. 1 to. £8.. Price of beef, per 1001b., 345. 6d.'to, 525. 6d.; extra, 565. ; -6d. \- - .- ■' : -- , Store 13s:j .to eighteen-month, .30s. to 455. - two-year s'foere, £3 19s. to £4; threeryear. steers, .£6 2a. 6d. to £7 2s. 6[1.; four-year heifers, £6 7s. 6d.; dry cows, ,385.-to £7 Bs.. 6d.; -dairy oowe, £2 to £11 ss. ; • Pigs; Choppers,-60s. to. 118s.; eitra heavy liaconers;. -to > 955.; heavy baconere, 70s. to 765.; light baebners, 555. to 675. Price per lb., 6id. Heavy porkers, ; 425: to 475.; light porkers, ,355. to 40s. Price per lb., (d. to ,7d. Best, stores. 325. .to 38s. , 6d,; medium stores, 265. to 305.; small store, 12s.'(id. to :165.: wcan.ers, ,Bs.; to, 2Cs.; ; sows, with litters, to 60s.

BURSSIDE MARKET. ! . I Dunedin, September* 29. At Burnside to-day ,148 fat.cattleof fair quality were .penned, and 'owing to tlie email' yarding' prices were-Very firm at an advance of 16s. per head on lost week's rates, and in'odd cases : more. Best bmllooks, £16 to £17 10s.; extra, to £20 2s. 6d.; medium, £12 10s.'to ; £14;.. inferior, £10 19s. to £11 10's'.'; best «ows and heifers, £11'15s. to £14; extra, £17; medium, £9,105. to £10 10s.; inferior. £B 10s. to £9. Pat sheep:' 2137' penned; .a. number of' which were of exceptional quality. Prices for all clauses were-.very.,firm: at", last Week's rates. Best wethers, 38s. to 405.; extra. 505.. 3d.; 1 medium, 28s. to 325.; 'inferior, 21s. .to. 245.; best ewes,..34s. t0,365.";' extra, 435. : ; medium, 275. to 295.; inferior, 235.. to 255. ... ' Lambs: Spring lambs sold up to 235.-6 d: There wn6 a small yarding of hoggets, and competition for prime quality was good, ■but inferior, sorts were neglected.' Pigs: There was ;,a .medium, yarding of. fats, but a' small,entry of 'stores: : :'/Prices for. fats, were a shade easier. • but stores were firmer> than, at last: week's sale. .