LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3189, 13 September 1917, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

• The New Zealand Lonji and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report that at their weekly stock sale, held at Levin yards on Tuesday, they offered a small entry « sheep and cattle. Competition was good, and a clearance /made. Quotations: Medium hoggets, 225.: cull hoggets, 125., aged slot! ewes, 205.; springing heifers. £10 to £10 10s.; mixed yearlings (Jersei sorts), £4; aged.store cows, £4 to £5; good Bt-oTO cows, £6 19s. ■ ,_ ... Tho Now Zealand Loan and Mercantilo Agency Co., Ltd., report having held their •weekly sale at Pahiatiia on Tuesday when they offered a f*ir yarding of sheen ana. cattlo to a good attendance of buyors. Bidding -was spirited throughout the sale and a good clearance was made as follows :-Fat hoggets, 395. 3d.; sma 1 lioggcts, 2ls. 3d.; owes with lambs at foot. 375. Zd.; light fat cows, £11; store cows. 15f.; spfThging heifers, £9 17s. 6d. to £10 5b.; yearling heifers, £4 ss. Mossrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, Palmerton North, report having a fair yarding of Ghccp at their Marton sale on September 10. Quotations: Sheep—Fair mixed hoggots. 275.; good mixed hoggets, 325.; good woolly wether hoggots, 345.; good woolly ewo hoggets, 345. 2d. , Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, report having offered a good yarding of sheep and a fair entry of caf.tlo at their Levin sale on Tuesday. There was a keen demand for stock of good quality, tho following prices being realised:—Light fat ewes, 325.; fat .hoggets, to 335.; forward hoggets, to 275.; small hoggots, to 20s. 3d.; owes with lambs, to 345. 10d.; store cows, £7 10s. to £8; springing heifers, £10 7s. 6d., £12 6s„ to £12 12s. Messrs. Abraham and Williams. Ltd., report:—At Levin, on Tuesday, we had good yardings of both sheep and cattle, and all lines met -with spirited competition, a total clearance being effected ns t.iitK.r. Quotations :-Sheop: Light fat wethers, £2 Os. 4d., £2 Is. Id., £2 Is. 4d.; fat ewes, 335. 6d., 355. 6d.; fat rams. 355. 6d.: fat hoggets, 305.. 335. (small); forward ewes, 295. 7d.; store ewes, 245. 2d.: s.m. ewes, with lam,bs at foot, 345. 3d., 365.; small hoggets, 21s. 6d., 235. 4d.; cujl hoggots, 14s. Cattlo: Light fat, cows, £10 7s. 6d.; forward cows, £8 2s. 6d. to £9 145.; forward empty heifers, £8 55.; store cows, £7 Is.; two-year steers, £9 Bs., £9 125.; yearling and fifteen-month steers, £7 25., £7 175.; hKeen-month empty heifers, £4 165.; bulls, £8, £10; heifers, closo to profit, £9 10s., £9 155., £10 55.. £11; ono cow, close to profit. £14. Pigs: Light pollers £2, £2 Is.; Btores, 155., 165., 18s.; sow and litter, £8. . The Wairarapa Farmers Co-operative Association, Ltd., report on their Pahiatiia sale hold in tho Farmers' yards on Tuesday, as follows:—Wo yarded a good entry of all classes of stock for tho t>me of tho year, to a good attendance of buyers. Hoggets wero again in good demand, and realised good pricos. In cattle wo offered a fair • number of yearling steers, but these faiKri to reach vendors' reserves, and were turned out unsold. Thero was .i good inquiry for forward empty cows. TVo effected the following 6ales:—ls7 me'dium ewe hoggets. 255. I<L; 125 m.s. hoggets (small), 235, 9d.; 32 owes and lambs (aged), 295. 6d.; 40 fat and forward wethers. 40s. 6d.; rams, 9s. 6d. to 12s. 6d.; sir cull ewes, 65.; 11 three-year bullocks, £15 10s • 20 springing hoifers (various lots), £7, £7 10s.. £7 155., £8 25./ 6d., to £8 7s. 6d.; six good springing heifers, £9, £9 19s. 6d., £10, to £10 12s. 6d.; two good springing dairy cows, £12 2s. 6d., and £13 12s. 6d.; two small springing heifers, £6; one small yearling steer, £2 155.; one small store cow, £7 10s.; one good-conditioned empty cow, £10: 11 Holstem cross yearling heifers,' £4 15s.

COMMERCIAL ITEMS INVESTMENT SHARES. Yesterday's quotations lor investment, shares were as follow:— Buyers. Sellers. £ s. A. £ s. d. -N.Z..Loan and. Mercan- , ■ ' tile (old stock) — £ 9 J ? Well. Investment — 011, J Well. Trust and Loan... 5 5 0 510 0 Well. Deposit 0 6 3 — National Insuranco 219 0 — N.Z. Insuranco — -iln S.B. Insurance — o 15 0 Standard Insuranco 2 0 9 — Auckland Trams - } 1 J Huddart-Parker (ord.) ... — 1« ; Well. Woollen (ord.) ... - 615 U Westport Coal 18 3 - Waipa Colliery 018 0 - Golden Bay Cement 0 19 6 — N.Z. Paper Mills J lB 6 - Ward and Co 5 0 0 515 0 Well. City Council, 4 per cent. Debentures — 88 0 0 Colonial Sugar (Aus.) ... 22 12 6 - Customs duties collected at the Port of Wellington yesterday amounted to £2173 12s. 9d. MINING NEWS WELLINGTON SHARE MARKET. In the mining market yesterday only one quotation was recorded as under :— Buyers. Sellers. £ s. d. £ s. d. Waihi 115 0 — STOCK EXCHANGE. By TeloEraph—Press Association. Auckland, September 12. Sale:—Talisman, Us. 6d. Sale reported-.— Farmers' Co-op. Auctioneering, £5 55.; Waihi, 355. 3d.

LONDON SHARE MARKET. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. (Pec. September 12, 8 p.m.) London, September 12. Bank of Australasia. £118 10s.; National Bank of Now Zealand, £4 155.; Bank of New Zealand, £78 IDs., £11 12s. 6d:; New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency debentures, £71. Other stocks unchanged.

MUItItAX CHEEK COMPANY. During tho month ol August the .Murray Creek Gold-mining Company, Limited, crushed 1550 tons of ore for an approximate rotum of £3530. The mino manager telegraphed yesterday to say that he had intersected tho reef in a crosscut oft' No. 4 leVcl. Gold is plainly visible, and the reef is making a considerable amount of water.

Many of the men who are fighting for tho .TCuipiro are carrying heavy burdens caused by anxieties regarding home, wife, and children or mother; sickness or circumstances unforeseen. A notice now exhibited in the Salvation Army hostels and huts, asking any who arp anxious to communicate with the officer in charge, or with the Salvation Army headquarters in Boulogne, has brought, communications which have set the whole Salvation Army machinery at work in an endeavour to Tolievo.