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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15138, 31 October 1912, Page 5

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'< J * PRICE OF SILVER. •;L leJesrPPh.-Pres3 Association-Copyright London", October 29. fva 29 5-16 d; STOCK SALES, • -, . AUCKLAND. ' -«. vow Zealand Loan and Mercantile \^ CJ -&«y. Suited and Reduced, re:OLZ WAsificld Yards on Thursday last dairy * H ItSre cattle caino forward in average ■-•'* ,,d 'i,t« and sold at late quotations: Best S cowf and heifers close to profit, sold %&%,& £7 159, to £10 10s. others £5 to £6 -~tk 11 1 calved cows £4 10s to £8 las, empty V? 7 lf mfe to £4 18s, heifers £3 12s to £4 3&Uve¥2o3 to 353. bulls £5 to £9 10s. Albert Yards on Friday horses came Ward in good numbers, and sold at late SS" Heavy draught horses sold at from iSfti " £33, medium draught. £18 to £30, : $Li hi irnos? horses £8 to £14: hacks £5 • I*-. 10s The advertised Shetland pomes «wi at from £6 10s to £14 ss. ■ , ■At the Henderson Yards on Monday there '%&£< ft srood yarding of stock, which sold I T* Inlly'late rates. Dairy cows sold at from "$4 «s to £3 10s, empty cows £3 to £4 10s, on Wednesday, fat j tn-tle came forward in full numbers, and Si of excellent quality, and declined fishily in price: Best oxen sold to 30s per Sash others 26s to 28s, cows and heifers IS to 255: steers sold at from £7 10s to : -f»lss; cows and heifers. £5 to £8 17s 6d: a draft of 30 steers from Messrs. Eeid Bros.. Waerenga, averaged £13. Veal pens were *ell filled, and prices were on a par with iuk week's rates. No heavy venters yarded, Vet'Jnm-'B-eight sold at from £1 12s to £2 18s. others 23s to 335, lighter sorts "15s to 20s. smaller and fresh-dropped 3s to 10s. Sheep Same forward in full numbers, and were •wireely up to last weelci's quality. Best Others in wool sold to 25s 9d, others 19s 245: heavy ewes in wool K*s to. 24s 9d. others 17s to 15s; shorn wethers 18s 3d to 215, shorn ewes 12s 6d to 16s 6d; hoggets In wool 14s 6d to 17s 9d. shorn lis 9c£ to 123 6d. La-rubs -were yarded in very large numbers, ami receded in value from 33 to is : per head. Best quality sold at from 15a -to 17s 9d. others 9s to 14s. Pigs ware ritined in large numbers, and sold at late fates- Large baconers sold at from £4 tOs to "'£■ 5 5s - baconers £3 3s to £3 18s, large pwiers £2 10s to £2 17s, porkers £1 15s to m, -slips £1 53 to £1 10s. weaners 13s to 20s. ' Jfessrs. Balgety and Co., Ltd., report havlag held their usual weekly fat stork sale at Westfield on Wednesday, October 30, as under:— . • ■ Beef-.An average yarding. Extra prim* ax sold at late rates, but all other qualities were about 10s per head lower than ast sale. Choice pens of extra prime ox sold at from 27s to 30s per 1001b; ordinary prime ix sold at equal to 26s per 1001b; cow and heifer beef sold at equal to 22s to 25s per iCfllb. Included in our sales we sold a iraft of 16 extra prime bullocks on ac:ount of Messrs. R. and W. Gollan, Pannirre, at an average of £13 12s 6d per lead. Veal: An average yarding, which sold it late rates. Banners sold at £3 15s. to ;4 18s; choice suckers, up to £3 lis; small ackers, 27s to 38s; others, 3s to 225. Mutton: A large yarding. Woolly sheep rero.ls 6<l per head lower than last week; born sheep, about is per- head lower; best seavy woolly wethers made up to 23s 6d; ledium, ISs 6d to 21s; fat, woolly hoggets, 3s to 235: woolly ewes, 18s to 21s; shorn rethers, 18s to 20s 9d; unfinished, 15s to ?s 6d. Lamb: A very large yarding. Much in icess of requirements; consequently prices roro 3s to 4s per head lower than l&at reek. Heavy fetched' 13s. 6d to 17s fid; :cod,,lis to 12s 6d; small, 6s 6d to 9a 6d. Pork: "A small■' yarding, .. selling at late lies. .Choppers made £3 15s to £4 18s; orkers, 28s to 535. Messrs. Alfred Buckland and Sons report; At the Haymarket on Friday last we- had full yardins of horses- Aged draughts 18 102 !to £33, express cart sorts *al to 35, bakers' and grocers' cart classes £22 » ; £3O. farm mares £25 to £27, -light harass classes £9 to £17 10s, buggy horses ad good hacks £15 to £23, Jfig ponies £4 15s > £13 10s, weeds all prices; gigs. £18 10s ad £21; dray, £11. The trotter sold. as illows:— F., 65gns.; ■ Moorish Chief, gng. At our weekly Westfield fat stock market i Wednesday, October 30, our beef pens mtained 265 head. There was a fallingF in the demand, and values declined from, a to 15s per head. Choice ox sold to I 10s, prim© £1 6s to £1 8s; cow and • jifers, £1 to £1 63 per 1001b; steers ranged ■price from £7 153 to £15 2s 6d; cows and ; lifers. £5 to £9 103. There was an average. ipply of fat and young calves, which sold adiiy- ; Heavy suckers £3 to £4 3s, choice edium suckers £1 14s to £2 10», light £1 i £1 12s. ' small and fresh-dropped 6s to a. weedy is to 5s (66 sold). The sheep pens ere moderately filled. Competition was >t keen, and values were on the downward adency. Heavy woolly wethere £1 3s 6d 1 £1 5s 6d, shorn 19s to £1 Is, medium to iav.T woolly £1 to £1 3s, shorn 16s to. 18s :, unfinished woolly 17s to 19s 9d.' best oolly ewes to £1 3a 3d, shorn to 17s 6d, hers, woolly Ife to 18s 6d, shorn JOs 6d to 14a 578 sold). Spring lambs were in excess of requirements, and there was a drop of from'ss >6s per head. Beet 13s 6d to 15s 3d, good 3 M to 15s, others 8s to lis (240 sold). igs penned in usual numbers. Light choice >rkers and stores maintained late extreme dues, and other descriptions were lower, tiopperg' £4 ss; to £5 7s. heavy baconers i 5s to £4; lighter £2 15s to £3 3s, large >rkers £2 63 to £2 12b. smaller £1,16s to i ss, slip 3 to £1 13s, weaners £1 Is to £1 i 6d (114 sold). At Westfield on Thursday, October 24, liry and store stock came forward in sua! numbers, and sold at ruling prices. est dairy cows brought from £10 to £13, hers £7 to £9 10s, aged and inferior cows i to £6 106, empty young cows £4 to £5 ss, ora cows .£2 15s to £3 14s, yearling to •months.heifers £3 10s to £5 ss, yearling eers to £3 7?. calves £1 15s to £2 lis, ewes ith lambs 18s, hoggets 16s 6d. We held a- special sale of dairy ; cattle >d bulls at. Pukekohe on Saturday, Octo•r 26. Fully the advertised number were limed, and good cows and heifers conQnc to lie sought after. Best cows at •ofit sold at from. £11 to £14, more baokird sort?' £8 10s to £10 10s, eecond quality >ws £5 10s to £8, aged £3 to £6, young ilia Jto to £13 lis, heavy balls £6 to £9 10s. w*> held our usual monthly sale in the ik\.'kohe Yards on Monday, October 28, and id a large yarding in i'll repartments. icre was a larse attendance of buyers, id a strong demand, almost everything langing owner;?. Dairy cows and heifers ■ouftht £5 to £9 10s. empty cows in fresh ndition £4 7s to £5 10s,- store cows £3 £4 ..ss, grown steers in very forward conard condition £8 19s to £10, three and naif to four-year-old steers £7 12s to £8 s 6d. three-year-olds £6 12s to £7 10s, two . three-year-olds £5 7s to £6 10s, yearlings ,13-months £3 10.5 to £4 18s. calves £2 5s £2 14s, small £1 103 to £2 3s, yearling • 18-month heifers £3 10s to £6 according ; br»ed and quality, fat steers £8 10s to 1 r> c 92 s £5 10s to £8 15s. bulls £4 to 9--lte. The bullocks from To Akau were i exceptionally good draft, and averaged

ADDINOTON. [BT TIXBGRAPB'. WIBSS ASSOCIATION.] CnßiSTcntjßcir, Wednesday. , : At Aldington to-day there were fairly targe entries of stock on account, of its Being a double market, there being no sale next week in consequence of the show and races. There was a good attendance. The Jew (store sheep offered sold well. Fat •azabs were offered in large numbers, and consequently prices were much lower than w late, though the sale was considered a sood one. The fat sheep sale opened well, and prices wore firmer by Is to 2s per •Bead. Pat pigs brought late rates. In *Q? earlier part of the fat cattle sale there "as a. harp rise in prices, but the market eased ■ towards the close. .There was another small entry of store ppeep, about half of which were shorn lines the balance being wethers and a couple of pens of hoggets in wool. The attendance of buyers, as usual, was fairly gooo. Those present were evidently keen ;Ptt huiiiness, and the various lines we're cleared under good competition. Prices were up to the late high rates. Quotations Qr cut follows:—Four to six tooth shorn tethers 15s M to 16s 9d; shorn hoggets, 14s to l.s 4d; lour to six tooth wethers in wool, iss 6d to 20s 6d; wether hoggets in wool, *'* -lid; ewe hoggets, 20s 3d; merino aethers in wool (medium class), lis fid: a lew cull merino ewes with iambs (all counted), 63. There was an entry of 450 fat "libs, which was by far the largest of the wason. The lambs weri: , well grown, but * number of lots showed the effects of the recent rough weather, and were not in |ach. prime condition as the offerings at .{ate markets. Baying was confined to 'but•Miera, who required good supplies for next •fcek's trade, and though prices were much ,;?Wo?f those lately ruling, the sale, on the s '■> -°'e, wa '•' satisfactory, and but. few lots •s?*s.• s)W.s«d in. Best lambs were making '4&\* tc 325, and lighter 13s to 17s. There ~ ; T%f ''■ larger yarding of fat sheep than at Wi.t i:a'i'v. and owing to broken weather the shearing there were not *s many shorn sheep as otherwise would 'ffte been the case. Following is the range i;W. prices:—Bstra woolly wethers to 30s, l .'*«aJß 26s to 293 9(1, others 22s to 2i>s 6d, sf-Otte shorn wethers 20s to 24s 3d, others S? to lg s 10d; woolly merino wethers 18s |? to 25s 9d; extra prime ewes 29s 3d, prime *»! & Ms. others 20s to 223 6d: shorn ewes, file* Sd to 235; woolly hoggets 20s Id; shorn fiffir£r s > iss to 19s lid; woolly merino owes, f.,T ffo hundred and eighty-three head of ;«t cattle, eight less than the total last £*s3i were yarded, the entry including a t'tv? 6 of fine lines. At the opening of ig*. sale, Prices rose at least Is 6d per S' bnt at the last pens they fell back Sfgp, to the price ruling at the previous 3 Steers made £7 12s 6>d to £12, extra pSE-lmes reaching £19 10s. Heifers brought J5 0 ® a 5a to £11 'ss; cows. £6 2s 6d to £10 |§Egs*r& good, £13 17s 6d. The yarding of H^?/cattle was small, the entries coms&£rs".Principal! 15 months to two-year-ims and drx-cowsc The demand was fairly

good, but the prices were slightly lower j than for the last sale. Fifteen to eighteen.! months sorts realised from £2 17s to £3 10s; two-year-old steers, £4 10s to £4 16s: two-' year-old heifers £4 10s, extra good £5; dry cows. £1 to £3 18s; dairy cows mode £6 to £10 12s 60. . There was a good entry of pigs, and the demand for them was keen. Choppers realised from £3 10s to £5 10s, one especially pood lino reaching £7. Baconers ran from ■ 52s 6d to 60s; heavy pigs, 65s to 72s 6d and to 80s. The trices were equal to from 5d to s}d per lb, about the same as last week's figures. Porkers brought from 36s to 445, and better sorts from 46s to 50s, the prices equalling from s}d to s?d per lb, a slight advance on previous sales. There were few sows In, bringing prices up to £5 ss. The entry of stores was good, and the demand brisk. Largo stores brought from 42s to 50s. medium from 34s to 40s, small from 22s to 325. Weaners ranged from 15s for small to 25s for extra good sorts. One pen, the best offered, realised 265.

EURNSIDE. fBT TK.EGRArr.I. —press association.] c Kl')lX, Wednesday. At Burnside to-day ,'yi fat cattle were yarded, the majority' oeing good quality bullocks. At the beginning of the sale prices were on a par with last week's rates, but they cased about 10s per head towards the finish. Best bullocks brought .£l2 to £13 10s, estra heavy to £16 17s 6d, good £10 10s to £11 10s, light £8 10s to £10; best cows and heifers £9 10s to £11, extra to £13 12s 6d, medium to good £7 10a to £8 15s, light £4 15s to £6 10s. Fat sheep: 2500 were penned. Tlmro was a fair percentage of heavy-weight wethers in the yarding, and these sold well, the prices being about Is better than those ruling last week. Medium sheep hardly hold their own with last week's rates. There i>'ere very few ewes forward. Best wethers brought 25s to 26s 6d, extra heavy to 345, medium to good 22s to 23s 9d, light 19s to 2b'; shorn wethers. 18s 6d to 20s; best ewes, 20s to 235, extra to 28* 6d, medium to good 18s to ISs. Fat Lambs: 80 were penned, about double last week's yarding. At this time of the year only a certain number are required, and prices showed a drop of Is 6d to 2a ■ per head. Best brought 19a to 20s 3d, others 14s 6d to 17s 6d. Pigs: Sixty-three fat nigs and 78 stores were penned. Stores realised about the same prices as last week, but fat were easier. Suckers brought 16s to 235;- slips, to 26s 6d; stores?, to 325: porkers. 42s to 50s; light baconcr'f,' to 58s; heavy do., to 70s. .■••;....

MARKET REPORTS. The New Zealand lOoan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited and Seduced, reports as follows:—We submitted and sold average catalogues of hides, skins, and tallow on Tuesday, competition being again brisk for all lines offetinK. Hides: Market advancing;. We quote: Extra stoat".ox.73d. to S|-d, stout Tid to 7§d, medium 6Jd to 6Jd. interior, sgd to bid special lines 7d to 7id. good 6£d to 6Jd, medium 6d to 6}d, inferior s§d to 6M, staffs sid to 53d; calfskins, best to 9*d, good 7id. to Bid. cut and damaged 4d to 6Jd; damaeed hides 2d to 5Jd; horse hides 6s 6d to i»s 9d. Sheepskins; Market active. Best butchers' skins, picked lis 6d to 9s Bd, good lines 7s to 7e 9d, niediuin 5s 6d to 6s Id, small 5s 9d to 4s 3d; lambs and pelt* la 4d to Is 7d; country, dry and woolly skins,, large to Bs, medium 4s 6d to 6? 6d, small Is 6d to 53 2d. Tallow: Market firm. Best mixed to 28s, good 25e 6d to 26s 6d, inferior 2&i to 24s 3d; ronuh fat ljd to 2d per lb. Bones. £5. Cowtails. is 8d per dozen; Horsehair. Is Bid to Is lid per lb. Wool in bass and dumps selling freely. Crossbred 6?d to Bid, crutchingrs 4J« to6id, '< dead 5Jd to 7d, locks and pieces 3|d to 4Jd Oats: In good demand at 33 lid ex store. Wheat: Sales steady, and pending arrivals in rather short supply; 4s 6d ex store. Bran: Sales firm at 5s 5s ex store. ;-■ Pollard: ;In good demand at £6 6s ex store,' iTarket shows a slight advance. Chaff: Arrivals during the past week have been smaller, and for good lines, up to £4 15s has been paid on trucks at Auckland. Stutbern is steady at late rates. Butter: Choice lid, first-grade IOJd -■ to 103 d. second-grade lOd to IQW. milling lines 93d to 10d. -• . !•". Ftui&ns: Firm at 4Jd per lb. - Messrs. Dalge-ty and Company, Limited, report having held their usual weekly sale of hides, skins, tallow,,.etc, on Wednesday, October M. when a fair catalogue -was cleared, , nill lines meeting with spirited competition. Hides: Market very firm. Butchere' hides, •well flayed and conditioned, extra stout or, B{jd, stout 73d to Bd, medium 7Jd to 7Jd, light 63d to 7d; cow, well flayed and conditioned to 7}d; wet condition, 6id to 7d; dirty, scored, or sloppy, 6d to 6Jd; damaged and cut, 5d to 6d; stags, 4d to sd; kip, 5Jd to 6j|d; calf, best to 93d. good 7|d to B£d, cut, damaged, and meaty aid to 7jd. Sheepskins: Sarket very firm. Good competition for all lines. Dry woolly skins, largo 7s 6d to 9s; medium 6s to 7s 6d, small 3s. 6d to 5s 6d; : torn pelts, weevil-eaten and ■weather-stained-, at lower rates;- salted skins, largo -7s 6d--to 9s,- ■ medium '6s tot 7s -93. Knall'- & 6d to' S«V shorn pelts and lambs. Is to Is (d. . Tallow; Market vers- firm- Best, in shipment casks, to 28s 6d: it: 4cwt casks. 25s 9d to 27s 6d; inferior, 22s to 243 6d; tins, 18s to 265, according to quality. llourix fat. l}tl to 2d. Cowtails, Is 8d per dozen. Horsehair: Tails. Is 6d to Is lOd; mixed, la 3d to In sd; -mane. 9d to Is. Hones: Good dry. £5 per ton. Babbitskins: Market firm; good mixed lots to Is 3d per lb. *

Messrs. A. Bnckland and Sons report:— • Hides: Ox 6|d to 7id. cow 6Jd to 7id, calf 6id to 9id. kip 6?d to 75d. Horsehair, Is 7d to Is 9d. Tallow, 20s to 2iss 9d. ■•'.'"■ Skins: Best butcher's, 7s to 8s 6d, others 5s ild to 6s 8d; dry and country, large 6s 2d to 7s lOd, good 5s 2d to 6s. medium 3s 4d to 4s, Bd, small and damaged Is 2d to 3s; lambs and pelts, Is 3d to Is 6d, damaged lOd to Is Id.

PROPERTY SALES. Messrs. D. Gumming and Sons report that at an auction sale held yesterday they disposed of the following lots of the Golfers" Home Estate, Otahuhu:—Lot 22, 2 acres 3 roods 13 poles, at £105 per acre; lot 23, 2 acres 1 rood 12 poles, at £105 per acre; and lot 25, 1 acre 1 rood, at £100 per acre. -,-•■•

BUNEDTN GRAIN MARKET. [Br TELEGRAM.— JRESS .ASbOCIiTIOS.] DinrEMS. "Wednesday. In the grain market very few oats have been coming to hand, but all consignments of prime Gartons and Sparrowbills meet with ready sale at late rates. Medium and inferior lines are not inquired for, and are very hard tc place. Prime milling realises 2s 2d to 2s 2d; good to best feed, 2s to 2s Id, medium Is 6d to Is lOd. There is practically no change to report as regards wheat. Very few prime samples are coming- to hand, and business is restricted. Good fowl wheat is inquired for. Prime milling is bringing 3s 9d to 3s lOd, medium to good 3b 6d to 3s fid: best whole fowl feed, 03 3d to 3s sd, medium to good ■5s to 3s 2d.