COMMERCE AND MINING

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10210, 21 February 1919, Page 2

COMMERCE AND MINING

WELLINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE. YESTERDAY'S QUOTATIONS.

QUOTATIONS ELSEWHEBE. AUCKLAND. February 20. —Sales on 'ChanKe: 8.N.Z., 277 s Cd. Sale reported, N.Z. Refrigerating, 555. DUNE-DIN. February 20. Stock Exchange sales:— HuddartPaarker. SBs 9d. 38s 7d, 38s 6d, Westport Coal. 31s 6d, 31s 7d. 31s Bd. Sis ?d- ;x , | Sales reported:— ' I Milburn Lime. 34s 9d. Paper Mill 22s 6d. AUSTRALIAN PBODUCE. (Received February 20, 9.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, February 20. Oats, Algerian feeding and milling 5s to 5s 2d per bushel; Tasmanian 6s; Cape barley, 5s to 5s 3d per bushel, malting 5s 9d -to 6s 3d; maize, 7s 3d to 7s 9d per bushel; potatoes, Tasmanian, jBI4 to per ton;' onions, .£lB per ton. 1 ADELAIDE, February 20. Oats, 4s 6d per bushel. THE HEMP MARKET. The Department of Agriculture, Industries and Commerce, has received the followtns cablegr-.m, dated February 15th. from the HiEh ; Commissioner for New Zealand. London:—"Hemp, market quiet and small business doing. Manila Belling slowly. Government price. Refer to mv telegram of January 10th (published January 18th) Government have decided to allow revised price apply to allotment made on! or after November Ist. New Zealand, small business has been done, highpoint fair, .£55, t 866. but demand is limited. Sisal stocks in Mexioan 380.000. Bast Afnca, stocks large." LIVE STOCK SALES. AUCTIONEERS' REPORTS. Dalgety and Co., Ltd. ~ <■ Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report having held their, weekly sale at Levin on Tuesday, wheia they offered a fair yarding of sheep and cattle. The following aie the principal ■ quotations : Fat ewes to 275, cull lambs 5s 2d to 7s fld, medium lambs 10s 4d to 10s 3d, m.s. woolly lambs lis "6d to 12s 3d, potter rams 18s to 20s, forward cows to £9 2s 6d, store cows to .£6, 20-month heifers r.w.b. £5 5s to £& 7s 6d, ms. weaner 6 £2 15s to 7s 6d, bulls £5 to £8 10s. Abraham and Williams, Ltd. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on their Johnsonville sale as follows: We had a record entry, with a yarding of .about 5500 sheep. There was a fair demand for all classes, and nearly everything was disposed of at prices ruling at other centres. We quote: Fat wethers 29s lOd to 31s 9d, i and 6-tooths 30s 4d, 4-tooths 29s 6d to 31s 7d, 2-tooths 21s to 27s 7d; fat ewes 29s Id, f.m. ewes 225, 2tooths 235, store ewes 12s, prime fat lambs 235, store lambs 3s 6d, wether lambs lis, culls Ss fid to 8s 7d. N.Z.L. and Mi, Co., Ltd. The Loan and Mercantile Agenoy Co., Ltd., report:—' At our Himatangi sal© on, Monday, February 10th, we had a fair yarding of both sheep and cattle. The attendance was small, and, although we managed to practically clear the yard, prices were decidedly in favour of purchasers. Fouryear ewes 23s 7d, fat and forward ewes 245, oull lambs 3s 6d, fat -cows -60,- J 8 5s to £6 15s, cows and oalves £7 15s, 16month steers £2 4s, £2 10s to .£3, 15month heifers £3 Ift, £8 16s, M 13s to .£5 Bs, weaners 30s, £3 2s to JB3 10s, bulls At Apiti on Tuesday, February 11th, we had a heavy yarding of cattle. Competition was not keen, but we made a. fair clearance after the sale. Yearling heifers £i ss, £4, 15s. yearling steers (small) £3 10s, fair yearling steers £4 10s, £5 10s, £5 lis, ,£5 18s, good shorthorn yearling steers £6 2s, £7 2s, 2-year heifers £Q 15s, £6 17s Od, store cows £5. £6 10s, forward cows £T7 ss, .£7 13s, £7 15s, £8 10a, fat cows £lO 10s, .£ll. .£l2 10s, forward bullocks £V2 12a, £l2 19s, £l3, .£l3 2s 6d. At Feilding onJPriday we had on average yarding of both sheop and cattle, which, sold readily at recent prices. We sold the whole of our entry. Two-tooth ewes (small) 225, small lambs 5s 10d, 7« 7d, fair lambs 10s 3d, flOs 6d, 10s 7d, rape shorn lambs 15s, store cows .£5, £8 17s 6d, £S 3s. forward cows £8 10s, £9, fat cows £lO, 2s 9d, .£l4 15s, 18month Jersey heifers (good) .£6 se, cows with calves £9, 20-month P.A. steers £9 Is, 3-year discoloured steers £9 10s, i(J9 15s, .£lO 10s, 3-year steers (fair) .£ll, £ll 2s 6d, heavy bulls from £9 15s to £lB. Dalgety and Co., Ltd. Dalgoty and Co., Ltd., report having held their monthly sale at Te Horo on Wednesday, when they offered a good yarding of both sheep and cattle. Quotations are as follow:—Four-tooth wethers to 27s 9d, 4-tooth ewes to 26s 4d, f.m. ewes 14a 6d to 19s lOd cull lambs 5s to 6s 3d, m.s. woolly lambs to Us 6d, 2-tdoth Bomney rams £2 12s 6d to £i 4s, potter rams lis 6d to 18s 6d, fat heifers £9 2s 6d to ,£l2 '2s 6d, 3-year heifers to .£B, 2-year heifers £h 10s to £6 Is, 2-ysSr Bteers to £0 12s, yearling heifers ,£3 15s to £i 6s, weaner steers £2. 2s to £3 ss, bulls M Is to £B 10s. Abrahams and Williams. Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on Mar ton. sale held yesterday:— Good yardings of sheep and cattle camo to hand and were disposed of at the followlog rates:—Four and 5-yoar owes 25s Od, cull ewes lis 6d, 2-tooth ewes 25s 6d, 26s 3d, small do. 20s .6d, 21s 6d, m.s. woolly lambs 19s, b.f. do. 13s 9d, m.s. shorn lambs 13s 9d to 14-s Bd,••small do. 10s, 10s 6d, cull 5s to 7s Bd, fat lambs 22s 6d. fat b.f. 2-tooths 21s 9d,. 225, fat ewes 27s 6d, 28s, fair do. 23s 3d 24s 3d, fat wethers 33s 6d, 2i-yoar ste'ers £7 18s, £9 10s, 15-month, do. .£5, jjs, 2-year heifers \£6 ss, m.s. weanors 23» to 80s, fat heiferi to £8 17s 6d. We also offered the property at Mount Curl, known as "Landswood," in two sootions, each of which realised .£3l 10s. After tho sale a number of soctions in the Kotiata Domain were offered several of which were sold at prices from .£1 to 255. Mr H. Ernest Leighton reports that on Wednesday he conducted one of jthe

most successful auction sales ever held in the Hutt Valley, when Mr Georgo Windrum's well known dairy herd was submitted for unreserved sale. There was a very large attendance. The stock came forward in the pink of condition, and were keenly, competed for, nine cows making the fine average of .£2l 5s lid per head, whilst the whole milking herd including heifers averaged 7d por headT Choice 20 months empty heifers averaged ten guineas, upstanding ngeo. trap horses .£22, spring trap .£2l, spring l trap jBU. Machinery and farm plant all brought full market value. WEST COAST BAM FAIE.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. reports : We held the annual West Coast Bam Fair at Feildinir on Thursday and Friday, February 6th and 7th. There was a heavy catalogue, and bidding was very erratic. Some of the better class of Bomneys sold well, but a great many of the inferior sort went unsold. Lincolns met with onlv a moderate demand, .but Southdowns sold freely. Following are prices secured by us:— Flook Romneys.—On acoount: W. Beid and Son, Feilding, 5 rams at 6 g-uineas; ,T. Batchelor. Linton. 20, from 3J to 51 gns, averaged 43gng; J. Wingate, Longburn, 4 rams, from 3 to sgns, averaged 3Jgns; Hon. E. Mitchelson, Auokland, 5 rams 6?Kns; Trustees Rowlands Tiakitahuna 20 rams, from S to Hgns. averaged 9gns; Forlong and Suisted, Bunnythorpe, 1 ram, sgns; Stanley Hutchison, Masterton. 10 rams. 2 and 2Jgns; W. Page, Halcombe, 20 rams, from 2J to 4Jgns, averaged 31' gns;, W. Bayner, Masterton. 4 rams, from 6 to 7tgns, averaged 7gns;. C. E. Corpe, Cunninghams. 16 rams, from 3 to 9gns, averaged sgns: J. Kilgour.Tviwitea, % rams, asms; H. B. Green. Kairanga, 11 rams, from 4 to slgns; J. Hearsey, Longburn, 1 ram, 4gns: W. E. Baker. Makino, 9 rams, 3 and 3iKns; Jos. Corpe, Cunninghams, 10 rams, 3gns. Stud Bomneys. —On account: Jos. Batchelar. Linton. 1 ram. 12gns; Hon. E. Mitchelson. Auckland, 8 rams, from 10 to 20gns, averaged 15gns; Wm. Bayner. Masterton. 5 rams, from 10 to 22 gns, .averaged 16gns; C. E. Corpe, Cunnimrhams, 2 rams, 13s?ns; Jos. Corpe. Cunninghams, 9 rams, from 12 to 86 gns, averaged lfigns; Thos. Gifford, BoiiKotea, 5 rams, from 10 to 23gns, Averaged 17Kns. Flock Lincolns. —Perov Bros., Masterton, 3 rams, from 15 to 26gns, averaged 19«ns; J. HastinKs, Palmerston North, 3 rams, 4«ns; D. W. Speedy, Kelvin Grove, 5 rams, 4«ns. Stud Lincolns,—T. B. Taylor, Kiwitea, 1 ram, Sims. . Flock Southdown.—J. Knight, Feilding, 50 ramsi' from 4 to 81 gns, averaged 4£gns; S. B. Lancaster, Whakaronga, 10 rams, 51 and sjgns; Trustees Senson Estate, Feilding, 12 rams, 3 and 3£i?ns. Stud Southdown.—N. G. Bayner. Mas- ! terton, 1 ram, sgnu. WHOLESALE PBODUCE PEICE3. Laery and Co., Ltd., Allen street, report wholesale prices as follows : —Feed barley, 5s 7d to 6s 6d per bushel, saoks in; oats, feed Algerians 6s to 6s 4d per bushel; oats, feed Gartons 6s 4d to 6s 5d per bushel; oats. Dun 6s 5d per bushel; chaff, oaten sheaf, prime, bright, sweet £9 5s per ton, sacks in, on trucks or f.o.b. Wellington, special quotation for large quantities upon application; flour, in sacks, JBI6 15s per ton; oatmeal, 25's £35 per ton, loose in 2001 b sacks £34 per ton; rice pollard, ton lots cr over £8 2s 6d per ton; potatoes, £7 10s to £8 10s per ton, sacks included; FaTro food, ton lots, £9 5s per ton; linseed oilmeal /Meggits), ton lots, .£l2 7s 6d per ton, smaller quantities £l3 per 100; walnuts (N.Z.), Is Id per lb; onions, 12s owt; fowls, .4s 6d to 5s 6d per pair, extra choice roosters 5s 6d to 6s 6d per pair; duckß, 7s to 9» 6d per pair; geese, 10s 6d to 12s "per pair; turkeys, 9d to 1b 2d per lb, dead-weight; butter, farmers' separator and dairy, in bulk and in pound pats, Is 3d to Is 4c) per lb; eggs, 2s to 2s 4d per dozen; dressed pork, 70*6 to 100's, Did to IOJd per lb; bacon pigs, 8d to 9d lbj chop. pers, 5d to 6£d per lb; suckers, Is r.er lb; beeswax, 2s to 2s 6d per lb; cheese, faotory, medium case lots IOJd, loaf Hid lb; carbide, splendid quality, in 1001 b drums 75s eaoh; blueetone, 75s per cwt; shell grit, 7s cwt; Eoyal Blue peas, sack lots, 15s" 6d bushel, sacks extra; baled straw, oaten prime bright, £5 per ton; salt, lots, Lochiel coarse (12 sacks to ton). £lO 17s 6d, coarse in owt bogs £l2, fine in cwt bags d 615 per ton, smaller quantities 10s per ton extra. WELLINGTON CUSTOMS. The Customs revenue collected at Wellington yesterday totalled £4645 Ss 4d.

Bayers. Seller*. Mining- . 0 10 0 *0 10 6 ... 2 5 0 2 5 4 Investment— Bk. of Australasia ... 128 0 0 _. — 7 0 0 Bk. N.Z. (o£3 6s 8d pd.) 13 16 0 14 0 0 Bk.. N.Z. (£6 13s 4d).. . 18 0 0 18 10 0 Union Fractions . 2 0 0 — Metropolitan Perm. .. . 11 6 0 — National Mortgage .. . 4 10 0 — Loan and Mercantil< 3 . 65 0 0 — — 0 s 6 . 11 10 0 . ■ — National Insurance .. . 8 10 G — . 12 4 0 — South Brit. Insurance 7 7 0 8 0 0 Wn. Meat (£2 12s 6d . 2 11 0 — Huddart-Parker . 1 18 9 1 19 9 390 0 0 — Wn Wool, (ord.) ...... . 7 8 0 — Golden Bay Cement .. . 1 -7 9 — . 0 18 9 — . 1 2 ¥ ■— I 3 — Wilson's N.Z. Portland . 0 15 0 — — 97 0 0 War Bonds <1938) . 96 10 0 — *Cum div.