COMMERCIAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 10164, 1 September 1915, Page 6

COMMERCIAL.

AUCTION SALES. '>™

Mounsey and Co insert particulars of furniture, etc, to be offered by them at their rooms to-morrow. These goods have been seized under distress, and the auctioneers must quit to the highest bidder. There are numerous lines of good and useful household effects, which should well repay anyone about to furnish, to attend the sale. The M.A.C. will hold a great clearing sale of household furniture, prime table potatoes, and vegetables, hams and bacon, harness, saddlery, horse and cow covers, and a very large lot of sundries. Every line will be offered without reserve to-morrow at their Exchange looms, Cuba street. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., will hold an important subdivisional sale on account of Mr M. H. E. Garringe, Levin, about the last week of this month. Six sections ranging from 40 to 80 acres will be offered, and there should be a keen demand for this property. See page 8 for particulars. Gorton and Son, Ltd., and Abraham and Williams, Ltd., have been instructed by Mr P. A. McHardy to hold an unre-' served clearing sale at "Beaulieu" on Wednesday next, commencing at noon. The stock to be offered is a particularly good lot arid should be in keen demand. See page 8 for particulars. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., advertise that they will sell on account of Mr Alfred Coy his choice dairy and fattening farm of 110 acres, situated on the Feilding-. Awahuri road, about 2 miles from Feeding. The sale will take place on the 22nd inst. Further particulars may be obtained from the auctioneers. Harry Palmer and Co. will hold their regular mart sale to-morrow at 1 p.m., when they will sell fresh fish from Foxton, fruit, vegetables, garden shrubs, roses, etc. Good lines of furniture will be dffered at 2 o'clock.

MARKET REPORT. Messrs Mounsey and Co. report having conducted some very successful sales during the»past month and have already booked for September. Their clearing sales have turned out satisfactorily to their clients. Ottring the past week they conducted a sale on behalf of Mr G. J. Bennett, with good results. On Thursday, on account of a military officer removed to Trentham, they were again successful. Quotations: Oak suite £2B. leather do. £9 15s, chesterfield £l3, piano £2B, do. £lO. cash register £lO, oak duchess £6 10s, sideboard £33, besides other numerous lines. On Friday at Rongotea on behalf of .Mr Lazenby the firm bad a sale which gave pleasing results to the vendor. Dairy cows £4 10s to £lO. heifers £4 2s 6d to £5 15s. aged mare £23 10s. aged pony £7 ss. set harness £3, do. £2 12s 6d, gig £l6, governess cart £5 10s, copper £3 Is, Singer machine £9, dresser £6. fowls 3s each, other lines at equally good rates. On Saturday last the linii practically cleared everything. Singer ina chine £9, do. £8 ss, suites £8 7s 6d, £5 15s. £4 4s. carpet squares £6 5s to £9, chesterfield £4 15s. pianos £3B, oak bedstead £5, all sundries at satisfactory prices. The report concludes: "Our land department has been besieged with eager sellers and buyers, but not many sales are reported, although we have been successful in quitting several town properties, besides a small farm. The tendency is for a further demand for small holdings, and we should be pleased to receive particulars from sellers." STOCK MARKET. Abraham and Williams. Ltd., Pahiatua branch, report on the Woodvilie sale, held on Monday last, as follows:—There was a fair attendance of buyers, but a small vardmg• of sheep and cattle. The sheep" sold well whilst dairy heifers met with no demand at all. The following sales were made by them: 56 prime fat wethers 395. 29 eraptv ewes 19s lid. 23 m.s. hoggets (medium) 18', dairy cows £9 10s, empty cow s £4 10s to £4 13s 6 empty heifers £4 15s, 6 heifers in calf £4. HIDE AND SKIN REPORT. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report:—We held our usual monthly sale on Friday, together wit i cur special crutching sale.' We submitted a tair size catalogue, which met with, excellent, competition, and all lines of crutclungs free of seed sold at prices fullv equal to last sale's rates. Seedy and inferior lines were somewhat lower and difficult to sell. Best sheepskins sold at about equal to last sale's rates, while short and inferior descriptions showed a drop of £d to Id per lb in sympathy with other markets. Ox hides advanced in price id to £d per lb. Cow and light hides were a little easier, best lines of cows making id per lb less than last sale Quotations:— Crutchings: Best lines 12d, 12-Jd to 12Jd. medium to 11-Jd short, and heavy Bid to 9|d, seedy 5d to 7id. dead wool lOd to 10Jd, locks and pieces 6d to rough fleece and lambs lid to lljd. Sheepskins: Full wool (best lines) 10id to IQJd. medium to good 9£d to lOd. half-wcols Bd. short* to quarter-wools to 7ki, lambs 9ijd short and shorn 5d to 7Jd dead hoggets 7£d to 7|d, do. broken an.l damaged 5d to 6jd, pelts (inferior) Id to 2ad, butchers' damp, green and salted (each) light lines from 5s to 6s bd, medium 7s. 7s 6d to 3s 3d. extra heavy from 10s 6d to 15s 3d each. Hides: Ox medium and hcavv lOin, light 9id to 9Jd. cow hides (best lines) Bed. medium 8?d to 03d, inferior and rough 7id to Bd, do. cut and slippy 7id to 7£d, yearlings 7£d to 3£d, do. slippy and cut 5d to 7Jd, stags and bulls 6d, horse hides (sound) 7s 6d to 9s each, cut and damaged from 3s 6d to 5s 9d. Sundries: Tallow in tins 21s. horsehair Is 3d. rabbit skins 3d per ll>

LONDON MARKET. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., have received the following cablegram from their London house, under date of the 26th inst. : Rabbit Skins: There is an improved demand for all descriptions. Prices increased 2d per lb for everything except light summers, which are per lb dearer: 1116 bales were offered and 1015 bales sold. THE WOOL TRADE. (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Per Press Association.) LONDON. Aug. 31. The Government is considering further relaxation of the embargo on the export of wool. The Board of Trade, at a conference in London with the selling woolbrokeiv Association asked them to estimate the amount available for export beyond the demand in Britain for crossbreds for military cloths, and the probable Australian and New Zealand shipment. The Association replied, 50,000 bales can be exported to the Allies and the United States.