COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL.

Evening Post, Volume LVI, Issue 75, 26 September 1898, Page 4

COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL.

[press association.] London, 24th Soptembov. At the wool sales 5-1,410 bales were catalogued and 50,230 sold. The Waihira clip sold at Gjcl and the Moeraki at Bd. (Received September 26, 8.55 a.m.) London, 25th September. At yesterday's wool sales only a poor selection was offered — chiefly inferior crossbreds. There were largo withdrawals. The Waitangi and Waipaoa clipn brought O'id, and Sir John Hall's inorino 9sd. The latest quotations for frozen meat are as follows : — Mutton — New Zealand crossbred wethers and maiden ewes : Canterbury, 3fcd per lb ; Dunedin and Southland, 3|d ; North Island, 3 l-16d. Lamb — Prime Canterbury, s^d per lb ; fair average, including Dunedin, Southland, Wellington, and secondary Canterbury, 5d per lb. River Plate crossbred or merino wethers — Heavy, 2|d; h>h L ,, 2id. Hides are in fair demand, but prices are unchanged. Basils are £d dearer, and the prices for leather are unchanged.

Messrs. A. G. Tame and Co.'s report on tlieii' horse sale of Saturday is as follows :—: — We had a fair entry of draught and harness horses. A ged draughts we sold at .£2l, .£l9, and .£ls 10s ; ordinary harness horses at from .£7 to £6 ; and hacks at from to 10s. The market is at present good, and harness horses, young and staunch, are enquired after. Messrs. Abrahafm & Williams, in their stock report for last week, state : —At Shannon we had a full muster of sheep and a fair entry of cattle. There was a good demand for most classes of stock. For one or two pens rather over value was expected, but with these exceptions -we effected a general clearance. At Colyton a good deal of the stock advertised did not come forward, so little business was done, though buyers were present. At Palmerston sheep "were below average numbers. Cattle mustered in good immbers, but wore mostly represented by a line of low^conditioned young cattle from the North, for some of which exceptionally good offers were made and refused. Generally the class of sheep offered was not up to last week, though in many cases sellers wanted the same money. The tone of the market was rather dull all through, and buyers seemed loth to launch out except for stock of really good merit. Quotations : — Shannon — Sheep : Store wethers, 9s to 10s ; woolly hoggets, 5s 9d to 7s 6d ; shorn do., 7s 2d ; culls, 2s Id ; ewes in lamb, 7s 6d_ Cattle : Store bullocks, .£3 10s ; 2£-year d 0.,, £2 10s; 18-month steers, 32s 6d; sound milker, .£4 7s ; heifers in calf, 37s 6d ; mixed weaners, 11s 6d. Colyton— Hogrgets, 7s sd; cows in calf, .£2 to £2 2s 6d. Palmerston — Sheep : Fat ewes (small), 9s ; store wethers, 10s 6d; ewes, 7s 6d to 7s lid ; culls, 4s 7d; woolly hoggets, 8s 3d ; mixed do., 5s to 7s. Cattle : Meaty bullocks, £4< 10s ; fat cows, .£3 16s to £4< 15s ; 3-year steers, £2 18a ; 18-months (low condition), 14s to £1 ; 2-year empty heifers, .£2.