COMMERCIAL

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8293, 23 September 1903, Page 1

COMMERCIAL

[Br Electric Telegraph.—CorriticnT.]

HOME MARKETS,

Pr.lt I'RKSS ASSOCIATION'.

Received September 22,' at 10.43 p.m. Londun, September 22. Copper—Spot, £56 12s 6d; three months, £66 ss.

Tin—Spot, £ll9 15s; three months,

Victorian 4's 1034, South Wales 4's 107, 3£'s 96, 3's 86£; Queensland 4's JOSJ, 3£'s 95, 3's 8?i; South Australian 3£'s 99, 3's 88; Western Australian 3£'s 98, 3's 87. At the wool sales the Elderslic clip realised 21gd.

JUNCTION STOCK SISLE

The auctioneers report- having lutd a large entry yesterday of all classes of stock, and there was a very good attendance of farmers and -others. The- entry consisted of 60 dairy cows, of which a good fewwere passed, but anything like good cowts coming to calf realised good prkv.j, £lO 2s 6d being the top price. 393 store cattle, came forward; 1500 sheep arid cattle came forward, 1500 sheep, and 50 pigs. The following are the prices obtained: .Sheep,—Pat wethers -and maid-en ewes, medium, 17s 4d to 18s lid ; store hoggete, 14s to 15s Id; a- lino of 918 huggefeTweie passed at 16s. Cattle.—Dairy cows, springing, £6 5s to £lO 2s 6d; back calvers, £5 to £6; heifers coming to first calf, £5 to £6 2s 6d; fat steers, £7 17s 6d to £9 1&; cows, £6 to £8 12s 6d; stores, yearlings, 37s 6d to £2 lis; 18 months to 2 years, £3 Eg to £3 18s 6d; 2A to e> years, £5 12s 6d to £7 7s 6d.

Pigs. —Porkers, 38s; weaners, ljij 6(1 to 235; sow, £3 7s 6d.

GRAIN SALE

The New Zealand Loan and .Mercantile Agency Company, 'Limited, held a, grain sale on Monday in Christchurch, when a good catalogue of grain and general produce was offered. Nearly every lot was sold under fair competition. Wheat was in belter demand, especially good whole fowl feed and clean seconds. Feed oats sold readily at from Is 6d to Is 7d. The range of prices was Wheat : Good 3s 8d to 3s 9d, medium and inferior fowl wheat 3s to 3s 6d, seconds 2s 7d to- os 3d. Oats : Heavy Is 7d to Is Bd, lighter sorts Is 5d to Is 6d. Seed potatoes 3s to 4s per sack. Oatsheaf chaff sos per ton, sacks in. SALES OF STOCK. About 1000 sheep and 40 cattle were entered at the Tinwald (Ashburton) yard-; yesterday. Cattle were- dull of .vile," and many lots were passed in. Store sheep were not in demand, ;uid prices deelinxi. Sales were ina<4e as follows :—Si-ore cattle, dairy cows £4 15s, £5 10s, to £6; fat ca-Ule, cows £7. £B, £8 15s. to £9: heifers £7, £7 ss, £7 lCs, £7 17s 6d'. £lO ss, to £lO 12s 6d ; «te;rs, £2 5s to £9 10s. Fat sheep, crossbred wefhsrs 16s 6d, 18s, 18s 9d, 19s 3d. 19s 6d. 20s. 20s 3d, 21s 3d, 21s ICd, 22s 3d, 22s 6d. 2Si 9d, 25s 3d, to 25s 9d, crossbred ewi's 12:< Bd, merino wetlurs 17s 9d to 18s 5;1, -.st -

rino ewes 9a; store sheep, hoiravts 12* 3d, 14s Id, 14s 1-ld, 14s ICd in'l7,; 9d ; crossbred ewes in lamb 18s, crc:- brwi ewe.; with lambs (all counted) lis 2:1 to 12s-. At Temuka yc-skrdar there \v:,s a w.y heavy entry of cattle, all tin )vi:s liein;; full. Prices were a little oasi-.-:- than ; fat lines selling at. 30s per hundred. Tii.r was a medium yarding of sluep, the raid., being approximately half full: the ~a!e v.\r; a very healthy one throughout, Prie.-s ran as follows Sheep : Halfbiv-d leie.' t-. le sd; thre£--quait:rbrcd hnjrjrets, 15s. 15s 6:1 : fat ewes, 13s 3d, 15s 7d, 15s 2d ; 4. 6, n'M 8-tooth threo-qii-i-rtcibred ewvs in !:• tub. 2C-, 21s; forward three-quarterbi\d wethers .2 and 4-toot-h) 18s, 18s lid, 19s 6d, 20s, 20s 3:1; ditto, fat, 225, 22s lid. Cattle: Springing heifers, £5 5s to £6 fat steers, £9 7s 6d to- £9 15s; fat- heifers, £9 to £9 ss; forward 3-year-old sieors, £7 10s to i£B ; 18-months-old cattle, £3 10s to £4 ; yearlings, £2 10s to £2 15s; calves. 25s to 355; young cows near calving, £7 to £8 10s; old cows, £5 to £6.