COMMERCIAL.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 548, 8 March 1913, Page 5

COMMERCIAL.

WELLINGTON WOOL SALE. [BY TELEGBAPH.-~I'KESS ASSOCIATION".] Wellington, Tuesday. The fourth and final wool sale of the season was held to-.lay. The catalogue, comprised 3076 bales, and was for most part comprised of a poor selection of log-stained and seedy lots from the back blocks, with a few parcels of bright fleece and lambs' wool. Buyers were well represented, and competition was keen, the most animated in fact of the series. Prices ruled on average id per lb higher than at the February sale, and in a few cases were up to as much aB £d. Slightly seedy lambs were notably higher than.at last sale, while super lambs were about par. A line of halfbreds bought for the local mill realised 12£ d.

ALL KINDS ADVANCING. Wellington, Thursday

The High Commissioner cables from London under date March 4th:—The second series of colonial wool sales have commenced with a large attendance of buyers, and great demand in the market, Home and Continental buyers operating freely; American buyers being cautious on account of uncertainty regarding tariffs. Consumption is large, and the demand exceeds the supply. The market is strong and all sorts are advancing. Merinos and fine crossbreds ar9 unchanged, and medium crossbreds and coarse crossbreds are a halfpenny per pound higher than at last sale. Some 76,400 bales of New Zealand wools were catalogued. Estimated values at the close of the first series of coloinal wool sales, dated London, January 29th, 1913, were:—Super merino 13£ d to 15£ d, medium lid to 13d, inferor 9d to IOJd, fine crosß breds 13d,t0 15Jd, medum lid to 13Jd, coarse 9£d to 13d.

Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report : We held our monthly sale in the Te Awamutu yards on Ist inst., when we had a full yarding. The total entry was 748 head of cattle, also sheep, pigs, horses, etc. The implements offered on account of Mr A. M. Gorgetti realised full market value. There was a good demand for all classes of stock, excepting calves, which sold about 2s per head lower. We quote:—Fat bullocks £8 12s, fat cows and heifers £5 6s to £6 13s, empty cows £3 16s to £4 12s, two and a half year steers £4 12s, eighteen months steers £3 2a 6d to £4, yearling steers £2 lfis to £3 2s 6d, yearling heifers £2 16s to £3, two year heifers in calf £4 8s to £5 10s, eighteen months do. £3 15s to £4 3s, cows with calves £4 17s to £5 16s, weighty bulls £4 15s to £7, small bulls £3 to £3 10s, good calves 28s 6d to°39s, calves, poor and small 15s to 265, Holstein heifer calves £2 ss, springing heifers £6 10s to £7 10s, sprnging cows £5 10s to £6 10s, fat lambs 14s, fat ewes lis 6d, store lambs 8s 3d, s.m. ewqs 7s 2d, slips 14s to 20s, weaner pigs 8s to 10s, d.f. nlough £5, harrows £6 15s, disc harrows £7 15s, M.H. drill £2O, roller £l4 15s, disc plough £ll, waggon £32 10s. stack cover £5, harness, etc. at full rates. . We held our second fair in the Ngaruawahia yards on sth inst., when more than the advertsed entry came forward. There was good demand for all classes ot stock and all lines offered I changed hands at full market rates. We quote:—four year steers £8 ss, three year steers in forward condition £7 4b to £7 ss, two and a half and three year steers £4 17s to £5 15s, eighteen months to two years £3 lis'to £4 3s, two and a half year fat steers £6 15s, fat cows £5 5s to £6 18s store cows £3 19s to £4 3s, two year heifers in calf £4 12s to £4 17s, yearling heifers in calf £2 19s to £3 4s, calves poor quality 12s to 20s, bulls £3 10s to £4 ss, woolly lambs Bs, shorn lambs 4s lid to 7s 6d, two tooth wethers 12s to 14s 6d, two tooth ewes 12s 9d, four and six tooth ewes 12s 9d to 13s, f.f.m. ewes lis 3d, f m. ewes 8s 6d to 10s 3d, old ewes 4b to Ba, two tooth Romney rams 3gns.