THE MARKETS.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1445, 25 October 1911, Page 3

THE MARKETS.

STUCK REPORT,

The N.Z.L. and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., Palmerston North, report:—At Hiruataugi on Monday we had an ootry of 1000 sheep and over 700 head of catle. Competition was brisk and all lines of sheep were sold. Cattle came forward in excess of adveitised numbers, and the oapaclty of the yards wore taxed to the utmost, Over 100 different, lots were offered, The tfarbers' yeuilinfig failed to liau buyers although £2los was offered for the heifers and £3 5s for the steers, bat with this exoeption very little was tamed ont unsold. A keeu demand existed for young dairy heifers to go to tue bull, and a very nioe line of well grown, well conditioned yearling heifers-Jersey-Ayrshire oross—offered on account of Mr R. Milligau, of Carnarvon, elicited keen competition, aud were knocked down ti Mr W. Devine at £5 Is, a record for the district. Quotations:—Sheep: Fat ewes 15s to 18s Gi, store ewfis )Os 8:i to lis 2d, inferior hoggets 7s 7d to 10s, medium ewe hoggets !2s 7d, wether hoggets 12s G;l to 12s lOd. Cattle: Cull yearHuge 24s to 30s Cd, small yearlings Bos to 425, vfa.l'ug steero £2 IBs to £3 Is 6d, !Bmos to SOmcs steers £3 7s to £3 15s fid, 2yr stews £3 lta to £4 13s, store bullocks £5 17s to £6 4s yearling lieifeis small £2 2s to £2 lis, yearling heifers good £2 19s ti £3 lis, and up to £5 Is, 2yr emptv ueifsrs inferior £2 lfis to £3 3s, Syr empty lioifeis £3lo* to £3 14s 6d, backward heifers in cult" £3los to £4 spriuigug heifers £4 17s fid ti £G 2s Gd, backward cows in calf £3lss to £4los. spriuging oows £slos to £7, aged cows £2 Is to £2 17s Oil, store cows £3 Is to £b" 15s, forward oows £8 19b to £4 7s. fat cows £sl7s to £G 12s, yearling bulls £2 12s Gd tj £3 (is, Jersey yrarli'ig bulls £4 to £8 /is, Jersefj 2yi bulls £4 15s to £7 7s, Shorthorn bulls £4 to £5 ss. Pigs: Weaners iOs to 14s, stores 20s.

WELLINGTON SHARE MARKETS.

Special to "Times." Wellington, Last Night, Messrs Harcourt and Co. report : SALES.Mctropolitan Permanent £lO, 247s 8(1,

248s Svlvias Is lid, Is lid, Is 10d Waihis, 04s, 04s, (53s 9d, G3s 9d, G3s 9d, G3s9d, G3aGd Junctions, 335, 33 3d QUOTATIONSBauk of New Zealand, buyers 240s Metropolitan Permanent, buyers 247s Wellington Gas, £lO, sellers 377s Gd N.Z. Shipping, buyers 212s Cd ex div, Lcyland-O'Erien Timber Co., 28s 9d,

sellers 303 N.Z. Paper Mills, buyers 20s Sharlands, ordinary, sellers, 24s Gd Consolidated Goldfiolds. sellers 10s Gd Kuranui Caledonian, sellers Is 4d May Queens, buyers 2s 3d, Sylvias, buyers Is 8d Saxons, buyers Is 7d, sellers Is 9d Talismans, buyers 49s Gd, sellers 50s U Waihi, buyers G3s, sellers G3s 9d Junctions, buyers 335, sellers 33s 3d Waotangi, buyers 3s 1(1 Ross, sellers 2s Id