COMMERCIAL.
INVERCARGILL STOCK SALE. The Invercargill Btook agents report having held their fortnightly sale on Tuesday, when a considerable number of cattle were penned, but the number of sheep forward was considerably below the average. The sale dragged throughout, and several lots were passed unsold, and vendors who did sell had to accept prices considerably below those lately ruling. Fat Cattle—Prime bullocks £8 10s to £9 17s 6d, medium £7 10s to £8 Ss, light £6 to £6 ISs, prime cows £8 to £9 Ss, medium £7 to £7 10s, light £4 ISs to £S ISs. Store Cattle—Two and 3yr-old steers £S to £6 ss, 2yr-old steers and heifers £3 10s to to £4 ss, yearlings £2 15s to £3 17s 6d, calves 22s 6d to 355.
Fat Sheep—Prime heavy wethers 13s 6d to 14s 9d, prime heavy ewes 13s 6d to 14s 6d, medium lis 6d to 12s, light 8s 6d to 10s. A choice pen of pure Border Leicester ewes brought 17s 3d. Fat lamba lis 3d, lis, 10s 3d and down to 9s 3d.
Store Sheep—Aged ewes 3s to 4s 6d, twotooth wethers and maiden ewes 10s 3d, good store lambs 6s 9d to 7s 6d, small 4s.
AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. Stonev, February 11. Wheat, chick, 5s 6d per bushel; milling 6s 2d to 6s 3d, Californian 5s lOd. Flour £l2 10s per ton, Manitoban £l3 5s to £l3 10s. Oats, N.Z. milling 3s 8d per bushel; prime feeding 3s 7d to 3s Sd, inferior from 3s. Barley, N.Z. prime feeding 4s 6d; malting 4s 9d to ss, Californian 4s 5d to 4s 7d, Maize 5s 6d per bushel, Argentine 4s lOd to 4s lid. Bran Is 4d per bushel. Pollard Is Sd. Potatoes £6 10s to £9 per ton. Onions, Victorian, £4 15s to £5 per ton. Butter Is per lb. Cheese 6Jd to 7d per lb. Bacon lid to is 3d per lb, N.Z. Is Id. Melbourne, Feb, 11.
Wheat, 5s lid to 6s per bushel. Oats, depressed except for seed, which sold at 3s 6d to 3s 9d; milling, Algerian, 3s 3d; feeding, in excess of demand, stout white 2s 8d to 33 id. Barley 5s to 5s 3d. Maize 5s id. Bran is id. Pollard Is lOd. Onions £3 15s to £4 per ton. Potatoes £3 5s to £4 12s 6d. Adelaide, Feb. 11. Wheat 5s 9d. Flour £lllss. Bran Is sd. Pollard Is 9d.
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Mataura Ensign, Issue 1146, 12 February 1903, Page 2
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401COMMERCIAL. Mataura Ensign, Issue 1146, 12 February 1903, Page 2
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