COMMERCIAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1018, 10 November 1917, Page 6

COMMERCIAL.

AUCTION SALES. Particulars of a sale of furniture to be ■field on Wednesday next, at 1.30,- at. No. 24; Colombo .street R announced by the Lmoire Auctioneering" Company, mi page 8. The linn intimates that, as the vendor (Mr J. E. (.Inlllths) is about to leave the district, the goods will be disposed of to the bestadvantage. The list includes a 4-piece bedroom suite, malt.ra.sses, piano, sewing machine,- gramaphone, children's toys, crockery, groceries, kerosene, etc. SUCCESSFUL LAND SALE AT SHANNON. On Friday, at Ciil.mdia, Hall, Shannon, there wins ft largo attendance :»f farmers, when the properties in the Estate of Arthur May Richardson (deceased) were submitted to auction. Mr J. 11. Hankins read the conditions of sale, after which. Mr Porritt, of Abraham and Williams, Ltd., auctioned the various lots. The demand was not brisk at the sale, only lot 2 being sold, but the three remaining lots were sold after the auction. The prices and buyers were us follows : Lot. 1, i-acre, township of Shannon, to A. E. Tromewan, at £IOO. Lot 2, 20 acres. Thompson street. Shannon, to Mrs W. I. Richardson, at £72 per iiX.‘ I . Lot 3. .93 acres 1 rood 16 perches, Kara road. Shannon, to Mr T; F. Jamieson, at £39 per aero. f Lot 4, 98 acres 1 rood 16 perches (near lot 5), to Mr T. 11. A. Tromewan, at- £2B per acre. . Four 4-acre sections, on account of Mr Four (j-acre sections on account ol M: O. N. Stephenson wen.* also ottered. Inti vvr-re passed in. STOCK MARKET. Dalgrty and Co.. Ltd., Palmerston North, report having a fair yarding of both eatile and sheep at. the Palmerston North stile, on ’Thursday, November fith. when practically everything changed hands at satisfactory prices. Following are the, quotation';: HheFp: Eat woolly hoggets £2, Cattle: Good forward cows £lO. light cows £7 10s. ■early mixed weaneiq £3 3s, small yearling heifers £3 7s. cows and calves Jill), 11) month Shorthorn cross bulls £3 2s 6d, 2-year Jersey Bulls Sgns. Haig ety and Co., Ltd., Masterion, report having hold their annual spring cattle fair at Paniatua on Wednesday, 7th hist. There was- a fair attendance, buyers being present from Mariawatu. Dannevirke and Waira-i-apa districts. The yarding was slightly in excess of advertised numbers, and I lie cat tle were of splendid quality and in good condition. Competition was very erratic. A good clearance- was made at the following prices; Forward bullocks £l6 4s. 3-yr steers £ls, 24-yr Hereford steers £ls, 3-yr coloured steers £l2 15w, £ls 5s to £l4 los 6d, 15-mos Hereford steer.-, £l2 Is. yearling l’;A steers £lO 19s, yearling S.H. steers £9 10s, yearling steers £6. £6 ss, £7 17s to £8 Bs,’ N.S. yearlings £5, £5 10s to £5 12.i 6d, store cows £8 10s.

Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report: At Palmerston North on the Bth hist, wo had a rather moderate yarding ot stock, which sold at the following rates: Aged, ewes and lambs lids Id to 355, forward owes and wethers 3ls Id to 335, store owes 275. fat hoggets 295, fat. cow's £l3 os. dairy cows £8 10s to £l3 2s Gd, springing heifers £8 to £lO 10s, ‘heifers in milk £7 10s to £8 15s, yearling steers £8 -Is to £8 11s, 2-yr heifers £O, mixed yearlings to 18s, small yearling heifers £1 Is, 2-yr hulls £ll 10s, yearling bulls £0 17s to £8 15s. —At Feilding on the 91 hj inst. we had a good yarding of both sheep and cattle, including several linos of breeding cows nnd heifers, which sold at advantage. Sheep on the whole were rather dull, but most lines changed hands. Shorthorn breeding cows (ordinary quality) brought £lO 5s to £ll 12s Gd, 2-yr Shorthorn heifers £ll 17s Gd to £l2 ss, forward cows £lO to £ll 12s Gd, store cows £7 15s to £l9 19s, yearling bulls £6 7s Cxi to £l3 10s, small yearling steers £ 63s Gd, yearling heifers £1 18s 6d to £5 10s, small ditto £4 to £ 1 12s, cull ditto £2 12s Gd to £3 11s, shorn fat wethers 34s Gd. fat shorn ewes 32s 9d to 33s Gd, fat woolly ewes £2 11s, ewes and lambs £2 3s fld, shorn store owes •ifis 9d. fair mixed hoggets 335, medium lit to 29s to 30s Gd, small ditto 25s to 27s 3d, cull ditto lOs to 20s.