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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1133, 14 March 1910, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

ENGLISH MARKET PRICES. BY ELECTEIC TELEGBAPH —00PYBIGH1 PER PBESS ASSOCIATION. London, March 12. Wheat.—l3,ooo quarters of Australian March shipment sold at 38s 7£d, and three cargoes 38s, 38s 3d, 38s 9d' respectively. At the wool sales, the Puketoi clip brought the highest price, averaging 12fd. Hemp is inactive and prices unchanged. Cotton .80d. Silver, 23 11-16 d. Antimony, £8 10s. Copper, three months, £59 16s 3 !\ ; electrolytic, £62 ss. Tin, spot, £146 10s; three months, £14"8 15s. WELLINGTON WOOL SALES. Messrs Dalgety and Co. report: >ome of our most notable sales were: ±. W. Olliver, Ashhurst, 3 bales anibs, 10d; A. Thomas, Marten, 3 at .Id; J. W. McLeay, Martinborough, ! at 10d; Wm. Hall, Pabiatua, 3 at -O'hd; R. L. Gibson, Bonny Glen, 3 at Lid; Gifford Bros., Blenheim, 3 at LOf d; P. Ryan, Kumara, 2 bales merino, 7 bales crossbred, IOd; J. J. Bryce, Hinau, 2 Southdown .ambs, lOJd; G. Hart, Blenheim, 2 oales lambs lOJd; W. Halliday, Blenheim, 4 bales merino A, 10d; 16 merino B, 11 merino C, BJd, 9 bales pieces, BJd, 5 bales, 8d; R,. B. Young, Feilding, 2 Southdown lambs, J. McD. Hill, Blenheim, 9 bales halfbred hoggets, 10id; G. A. Lewk, Mangamahau, 4 bales crossbred 10|d, 7 bales crossbred lOd, 11 bales medium 9Jd, 21 strong crossbred 9d. R. Ren all, Carterton, 4 bales lambs, lO^d; Gore Bros., Newbury, 3 bales lambs, 10£ d; W. Jacques, Blenheim, 2 bales, lOid; G. E. Laidley, Taihape, 3 bales fine crossbred, lOJd; Department of Agriculture, Motuara Island reserve, halfbred lljd; M. Shipeie, Martinborough, IOJd. Messrs Abraham and Williams report: Our catalogue comprised a total of 320 bales and as k usual at this time of year consisted of very rough back country, wool and late shorn lambs. Prices: Romney 10|d, fine crossbred (logstained) 9£d to 9Jd, niedium crossbred 9d to 9|d, coarse 8&d to B|d, inferior crossbred 7sd to Bd, medium 9Jd to lOd, medium lambs (logstained) B£d to inferior and seedy 7§d to B£d; slipe lambs 10|d, seconds 7£d, halfbred pieces euper. 9d to 9Jd, crossbred pieces euper. 7|d to Bd, first pieces to 7d, ordinary 4£d to 6Jd, locks 3£d to 4d, dead 7d to 7Jd, black 7sd. The following were tome of the prices realised by Messrs Levin and' Co.: Lambs.—XXX lljd, Marehlands lid, B 103 d, Pakohe MP 10kl, JiW/Z IOJd, HC lOid, EB/K ■Mfid, GB 10|d. jOrosstreds.—lWP lOd, AJP 9|d, G B*d, F 9d. SKIN AND HIDE SALE. Messrs Abraham and Williams report: We offered a fair catalogue of skins and hides to a good attendance of buyers, prices being on a par with last sale. Skins: Crossbred BJd, coarse 7fd, half wools 6jd, dead 6£d, shorts and inferior 3d to sd, lambe 3s 6d, pelts 3s to 3s 4d, lambe pelts ;Is 9d. Hidee: Light cow 6fd to 6fd, light ox 7d to 7Jd, calf 6Jd to B|d. AUCKLAND STOCK SALES. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. send us the following weekly report from Auckland: — At the Durham yards horses were yarded in scarcely average numbers, ileav ydraughts sold at from £24 10s to £31 10s, medium £17 to £23, light harness horses and hacks £8 15s to £18, ponies £2 10s to £5 10s, waggon £30, buggy £22 10s. At the Pukekohe: yards we held our monthly sale, when there was a large yarding oi cattle of all descriptions. Dairy cows sold at £5 5s to £8 2s 6d, heifers £3 12s 6d to £6 12s 6d, empty cows £2 2s to £3 12s 6d. two to three-year-old steers £3 10s to £4 14s, 18-month-old steers £2 to £3 4s, yearlings £1 18s to £2 Bs. calves 15s to £1 7s, .beef at Westfield rates. At Westfield we had a good yarding of fat stock, which sold at late rates, ox beef selling up to 22s and cow 18s to 20s per. 1001b. Steers sold at from £o 7s 6d to £9 10s, cows £4 10s to £6 17s 6d, calves 2s to £2 Is. Sheep were yarded in scarcely average numbers. 'Wethers sold at. 9s to 16s 6d, ewes 8s 9d to 14s 9d.. Lambs, penn'ed_ in average numbers", "soLcT af'late rates. Well fatted 9s 3d to 15s 6d, other sorts 6s 9d to 8s 9d. Pigs.—Porkers sold at 14s 6d to £1 9s, bacouers £1 12s to £2 19s, weanere 4s 6d to 10s 63. STRATFORD STOCK SALES. Mr Newton King reports: Weanere made 22s to 325, 15 to 18-month steers £2 12s to £2 18s 6d, 18-months to 2year s.teers £3 4s, heifers in calf £2 17s 6d to £4.1e, springing heifers £4 os to £4 10s, store eoS's £2 8s to £2 13s, forward do. £3 10s to £4, fat do. £4. 3s to £4 13s 6d, cows just calved £6, 3 to 4-year bullocks £4 11s to £ 4195, bulls 30s to £2 15s. Shorn ewe lambs 8s 7d, wether lambs 7e 3d, mixed smal llambs 4s 6d, forward wethers 13e 3d.