ONETARY & COMMERCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 29 June 1911, Page 6

ONETARY & COMMERCIAL.

LIVE STOCK REPORT. Messrs Bi&ley Bros, and Co. report on the live stock market as follows : Since our last review we have held sales at our various yards, when values have been* wall maintained. Within the last ten days, our advertised fixtures at Upper Moutere, Tapawera, and Richmond were carried out, and in each case the yarding was gcod : and the attendance 'large, and there was good competition for almost evei-y lir.e offering. At these fixtures oiM- entries' comprised oven- o\_il!0 sheep and 400 head of cattle. Mcst of the lots were cleared bv auction, and those parsed in by private treaty. The prices realised were the full current marKet values. Cattle: Fat cows, light weight, £5 10s to i) 6 ss; store steers, 2A to 3 yeairs old. in- forward condition, i 4, £*4 10s, ,to £5 £>s ■; steers, to years, forward condition to £5 7s 6d ,- Jersey -grade cows, October ca'vers. £5 to £5; J-sr.-ey Cows, £7 to £10; Shorthorn cows, Soptexnbttr and October calvers, mixe dages, £4 10s to £6 ss; caJ'vea, mixed sexes. £1 £s to £1 9- ; extra g.;od, to £1 12s &d ; yearlings, small, £1 Cs to £1 17s 6d ; heifers, ' 2 years, £3 14s to £4. 3 years, coming into profit, to £5 5«. All classes of fat cattle are very scarce, and the market now has. a hardening tendency. Sheep.—Fat wethers. 14s to 16s 6d : ewes, 12s to 13s 6d ; fat hoggets, lis to 13s. according to finish; ewes in lamb, aged. 3s to 10s 6d ; ewes, 2 to 8-tooth, are selling readily at- Us 6d to 14s ; store wethers are wanted, values ruling from lis to 13b 6d ; store lambs, small are slow to sell, prices ranging from 5s to 7s ; store lambs, medium, from 7s to 8s; good, with 'Larger proportion of ewes, to 10i 6:1. (All fats are beintr inquired for, and we look for advanced prices. Horses.—The market for the last month has improved a little. There is a ■gord- demand' for hacks and l harness horses; also a demand for all. draughts, but at low values. H:;cks are worth, aceerdincr to age. from £8 to £l2 ; harness hoiv"e« from, to £l6 ; young draughts are selling well, and considerable j.hipnic,ii i !s have been made. Prices for yea rings are ruitnin"- from' £8 to £l3. two vein- old. A numb.?.r have changed hands af L-om. £l2 to £ls; 3 and 4 ear old l , handled, and broken to chains, have, b.en solng at from £l6 to £2O. We have n»:V sales privately of yotme mares and geldi Hers broken to al-l work, with a <niara.n.fee, at £2O to £2B; extra good to £3O.

Pigs.—Values, have not been ruling high, -although the demand ha,s been fairly good. Suckers to 6 months old have been .selling from 7s 6d to 12s 6d ; good stores from 14s to 15-. The demand now is fair for porkers and bacon pigs.