COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16583, 5 July 1917, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

—♦> LONDON MARKETS. Australian, and N.Z. Cable Association. (Beceived 10.50 p.m.) LONDON. July 3. WHEAT. Wheat is unchanged. TALLOW. Tallow statistics are: Stock, 6396 casks; imports, 2204 casks, deliveries 2189 casks. METALS. - Copper, £130 ss; three months. £129 15s; electrolytic. £138, three months £140. Lead. £30 10s; three months. £29 10s. Spelter, £54; three months. £50. Tin. £243 103; three months, £237 ss. Silver, 39|d per oz. STOCK SALES. AUCKLAND. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co.. Ltd., repoTts: — _, At the Westfield store sale last Thursday and at Coromandel on Tuesday* we had aver, age yardines. which sold at late rates. Best dairy cows and heifers £12 to £15 15s, others £8 to £11 15s; bulls. £7 to £12; empty cows and heifers. £6 10s to £3 ss: steer calves, £3 15s to £5 7s 6d; heifer calves. £2 12b 6d to £4 158: yearling to 18-month steers, £6 53 to £8 15s: yearling to 18-months heifers. £5 5s to £7 2s 6d. At Papakura on Monday, dairy cows and heifers were penned in large numbers. Competition was not so Is'.ct- *or backward sorts-; closs-tc-profit cows rnd heifers sold well. Best dairy cows ar.'U heifers, close to profit, £12 to £16 15s, others £10 to £11 15s: backward sorts. £8 to £10 10s; bulls, £7 to £12. On Friday we held a clearing sale at Patu. mahoe on account of Mr. A. J. Moore. There was a large attendance, and we report a most successful sale. Heifers, from £7 to £13 10s; horses. £10 to £28. At Albert Yards on Friday, horses were yarded in average numbers, and sold at late rates. Heavy draughts. £22 to £35: medium ■ draughts. £16 10s to £26; hacks, £8 to £14; light harness sorts. £9 to £16; ponies. £4 I to £8; weeds, 15s upwards. | On Tuesday, at Papakura, we held our monthly sale. Taere was an average yarding for the time of the year. Competition was keen, and prices were fully maintained. Prices for all classes of young stock advancing. No grown steers yarded; 2i to threeyear steers, £10 10s to £12 16s; 18-months to two-year steers. £8 5s to £10 7s 6d; yearling steers. £6 10s to £8 2s 6d; steer calves to yearlings. £4 8s to £6 15s; heifer ditto. £ 3 ! I3 J? £5 12a 6 <*: 18-months heifers, £5 las to £8 10s: yearling bulls. £7 to £10 10s; empty cows and heifers, £6 5b to £8 12s 6d; aged bulls. £8 10s to £13 15s. Beef, in smaller numbers than usual, sold at fu"V Westfield prices. At Westfield Yards, on Wednesday, beef was penned m average numbers, the quality being better, although no extra heavy-weights W€I ?o/^ ded ; Steers sold at from £12 10a j& * iff , 6d: c O " 3 . and heifers sold at from T™n° £ M 15s -„„ p r"ne ox sold to £2 9s per 1001b, others £2 2s to £2 7s 6d per 1001b; cow and heifer beef, £2 to £2 ss. Some of the averages were:— 20 steers from Messrs. a. and J. Goodfellow, Panmure. £19 3s 6d; £« cj "from Mr. J. Gordon. Dargaville, £17 mall , 8 H from Mr, Jas. Given. £fi3•■m £l7: ,?4 steers, from Kawhia. £17 8 iSi,. 11 £ ma ", steers, from Karaka. £16 ss; £17 7J 'J 101 ?* Mr - if" 9- Massey. Manure. ill 1. 6d: r 1 ? Bmall Bteers - from Manure, iID , ls - ' halves were penned in average numbers and sold at late rates. Bunnell £5 to J?"?-* 6 5S J? £9 28 6d: heavy vealers! • • if „ 5 loß ' medium, £3 17s 6d to £4 ISalight, £2 to 10 5aV 15s; small and weedy* smTIW ™™f 48 -«, Sheep ™re penned in bSSS^xft^v' 6 ™ than usual - competition plf Ltd n*\ PMces advancing 3s to 4s yarded line heavy wethers or ewes were {;„&„' • tl ? e i a mar being mad up mostly of light-weights. Best wethers. £1 18s to £2 da ?4s € to £1 l$?& £ K 178 6d": beitlewei? ft a 4 „ , £1 19 ?, d - others £1 7s to £1 13s 9d A truck of wethers from Mr N K TavW' Taupin. averaged £2 3s_ 3 " 93 wethers 7rom Tf «• traham Otahuhu, £2 Is 3d- a t-rrTnlr £2 15s to £■* q« ™„j; s „ : „ iarKe '"<" « eisTtiMa? to £ 3 19s: }ar Ke Porkers. small to £2"ls "sfc if 9 2 |f t to & ¥/< weaners. 7s to 16»Ts<K Vw6°is M ' Choice 3 pfifS co|Y d p^b^ e 43 U s P toVs° 8 P " late r«+ a r m r ed l 1 " m , yarding, which sold at to £a- vL,, Extra , heavy runners made up ditto V. to y « uck ?? a i. up to £6 10 *: smafi ."ft^.* 0 . 49s - n Others, 16 to 28s. Mut.oa: A-small yarding, and prices were on a par with last week's rates Very heavv prime wethers made up to 896 d; ortinaly prune E? theM up *? 33s 9d *° 35s 6d; extra aittof 28, to e9 29s t0 338 6d: ffi6dium ™*** wewfirm A ld£&2!& yarding, and prices w ® x ! I™'1 ™' Be *t h€a T. prime, woolly made «L « 9; - i? 6 ? 1 ?? weight. 24s to 265; light to «S n^ lsh r\ + 18s K? 3a heavy shorn up to 26s 6d; light-weight shorn. 18s to 19s. « + V; i An average yarding, which sold at nigh rates. Choppers made up to £5 15s: baconers. £3 to £4 15s : porkers. £2 5s to £3 os; stores. 18s to 28s; weaners, small., OS to lis. Messrs. Alfred Buckland and Sons, Ltd., report:— ' ' held our weekly sale of dairy and store stock at Westfield on Thursday, and Had an average yarding. Best dairy cows ", ,„ l ? m „£ 14 „ to 16 5s - second grade £9 10s to £13 lOn, others £6 to £9; best springing heifers £9 103 to £14, others £6 10s to £9; empty cows, £6 10s to £9 10syearlings, £5 5s to £6 16s; eight-months heifers, £5 to £7 10s; good calves £4 10s to £5 143, smaller £3 to £4 3s, small and weedy £1 10s to £2 10s; aged store ewes £1 to £1 4s. We held a successful sale of Mrs. Palmer's dairy cows at Manurewa on Saturday. Prices ranged from £14 to £16 for best, others £10 10s to £13, aged £6 to £9. . On Monday, at Bazorback, we held clearing sales on account of Mr. A. D. Malins and Mr. J. Blair. There was a large attenance, and most satisfactory prices were obtained. Dairy cows brought from £9 10s to £14 ; calves. £4 Is:» horses. £9 15s to £14 ss. At Helensville, Wellsford and Rumen yards we had good yardings for the time of the year. Springers were in good demand, and sold at high values. Those close to profit brought £14 10s to £22 10s, for the best, more backward and aged £8 2s 6d to £13 2s 6d: empty cows £7 7s 6d to £9 10s; fat cows. £8 12s 6d to 511 17s 6d; fat steers, to £14 17s 6d; yearling steers, £5 to £6 ss; heifers, same age, £5 to £5 12s 6d; calves. £2 to £5 Is; fat ewes £1 Bs. The. pedigree Jersey cows at Helensville realised from 19gns to 21gns; the, bull, 14gns. On Wednesday at our weekly Westfield fat stock market we penned fat cattle to the number of 250 head, comprising 143 steers, 106 cows and heifers, and 1 bull. The steer department included several lines of prime cattle. Competition was keener than at late sales, with a further advance in values. Choice ox sold to £2 103 per 1001b, prime £2 7s to £2 9s, plain and rough £1 18s to £2 os; cows and heifers, £2 3s to £2 7s per XOOlb; steers ranged in price from £13 10s to £25. for a nice quality steer from Lyons Estate, Maungatawhiri Valley; cows and heifers. £8 15s to £19 7a 6d. This latter figure was also realised by Lyons Estate. The highest averages for steers were Four from Lyons Estate, Maungatawhiri. £21 143 4d; three extra good cows, from same vendor, £18 0s lOd; 21 from Mr. T. B. Tindall, Awhitu, £20 5s Id; 7 from Mr. Wenzl Scholium. Eureka. £19 10s 4d ; 13 from Mr. A. S. Carpenter, -Karaka, £18 16s 4d : 16 from Mr. James McNiccol, Waiorongomai. Te Aroha. £18 3s 6d; 8 from Mr. G. G. Hull. Otaua, Waiuku, £18 2s 6d: 8 from Mr. Jan. Muir. Waerpnga, ' £18 2s 2d: 12 from Mr. Geo. Hastie, Papa- , toe toe. £17 12s lid; 18 from South Head, Kaipara, £16 14s: 50 choice speyed cows and heifers from the North. £13 5s lOd. j There was scarcely an average yarding of sheep, and, as in tie case of beef, there was an improved demand for all classes, and generally values were from 2s to 3s a head higher than last week's sale. Heavy prime wethers, £2 2s to £2 —no extra heavy prime penned medium to heavy prime, £1 17s to £2 Is, light and unfinished £1 12s 6d to £1 16s 6d: best heavy prime ewes £1 16s to £1 19s 3d. good £1 10s to £1 14s 6d, . others 17s 9d to £1 Bs. 1288 sold. The 207 lambs which came forward were required, and sold freely, prices being considerably firmer for all sorts. Extra heavy prime, £1 13s 6d to £1 16s. Fifty-one from Mr. Isaac Gray's farm. Papatoetoe, averaged £1 13b 9d. Good prime lambs £1 6s to £1 10s, light and unfinished 17s to £1 ss. There was a full market of fat and young calves, which sold at late rates. Runners made from £6 15s to £8 2s 6d, heavy vealers £5 to £5 17s 6d. medium £4 la to £4 19s light £2 Is to £3 16s, small and fresh dropped 3a to £1 15s. 96 sold. Pigs came ' forward in full numbers, but many were ! unfinished and of poor quality. Corapeti--1 tion was keen, especially for baconers and , porkers, and these met with a further rise. Choppers sold from £4 to £6 2s 6d: heavy ! Sm. £4 10s to £5 2s Jd: others i 3 medium* * II 4VU S It & * ?2 ed £?\lipsf 8 18s to £l-8s: weaners and ackers. Ss to 17s; weak. 4s. 287 sold. ADDINGTON. [BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHKISTCHUKCH. Wednesday. At the Addington stock market to-day, the following prices were realised: — StTrfsheep: Four and six-tooth ewes, 27s 6d- six and eight-tooth ewes, to 333: aged Southdown ewes, to 40s; sound-mouth ewes, to °7s lid: two and four-tooth wethers, to 29s 3d- four and six-tooth wethers. 30s 9d to 34s 3d; six and eight-tooth ewes. 29s 2d; ewe lambs. 26b 3d to 29s 3d; wether lambs, 19s 6d to 263 lOd; mixed sex lambs, 16s to 263 4d. Fat Lambs: Prime. 28s to 30s. medium 25s to 27s 6d, lighter 19s 6d to 24s 6d. Fat Sheep: Extra prime wethers, to 49s 3d: prime wethers. 35s 6d to 45s 6d. lighter 30s 3d to 355: Merino wethers. 27s 4d to 33s • prime ewes, 34s to 40s 3d; medium ewes. 30s to 3% 6d, lighter 24s 4d to 29s 6d; Merino ewes, 91s lOd. Fat Cattle: Extra prime steers, to £23 10s • prune steers, £13 10s to £20; ordinary steers'. £u los to £13 es; extra jrcjme cows, to £13

17a 6d: prime cows. £10 ISs to £13 15s ordinary cows, £8 to £10 7b 6d; extra prima heifers, £15 17s 6d: prime heifers. £10 15a to £14 ordinary heifers. £9 to £10 ss. Store Cattle: Fifteen to 18-months, £4 193. two-year steers, £5 ss : two-year heifers. £5 si three-year steers, £9 15s to £11 17a 6d: threeyear heifers. £8 7s 6d to £9 7s 6d; dry cows, 45 to £11 ss; dairy cows. £5 103 to £17. */ 4 Srs v,-, hot>pera ' £4 10 to £7 = baconers. £4 to £6 (eaual to, B<l per lb); porkers, S3a to 70s (equal to lOd lb); large stores. 46a to we 3 a : ne?s e . d l4?-to 0 18s 0 iss Bm,D * 248 to 34s * ' BURNSHIE. t»T TELEGRAPH. PRESS ASSOCIATION.] a* «. » • D ™EMN. Wednesday. 4 P^egw^real^L* *"" fol^ cl? Jm* }%'• bullocks. £17 10s to £19.