Commercial.

Opunake Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 530, 24 March 1903, Page 4

Commercial.

■"'.'-v S ■■ * i ~~ 'i ■> Fnunan R. Jackson and Go’s § ; S J Stook Eeport.

~i / > Wangosji, March 18. Waverley.— Cattle: Cows and calves £5,18-month to 2-year steers £8 12s to £3 18s, weaners 80s to 82s 63, Sheep: Forward wethers 12s 6d, wethers 11s 8d to 11s 6d, fat and,forward ewes 10a to 10s 9dy breed - ewes 9s 6d to 10s 9d, others 10s,

y 2-tooth ewes 9s lid to 10s Bd, small 2-tooths Bs, good store ewes 7s 6d to § ;8s Id, others 6s to 6s lOd, cull ewes 4s 9d, shorn lambs 4s 7d to 5s Bd, poor lambs 8s 9d to 4s 2d. At Wanganni.— Cattle: Light fat heifers £5 7s 6d, forward cows £4 7s, j., fat and forward bullocks £7 12s 6d, .16 to 18-month heifers £3 5s 6d, weaners 85s, Sheep : 2-tooth wethers 11s, fat ewes 16s |6d, store ewes 7s lOd, 2-tooth ewes 7s 9d to 105.6 d, cull ewes 8s lOd. Pigs: Light baconers £2 2s, porkers 83s, small n stores 11s to l4s. i

Mesara Nolan, Tonks, and Co.’s Stock Report. Cattle. —Owing to Tuesday being St. Patrick’s Day, and the counter attractions of Stratford races and Okato sports, I held my usual Waiwakaiho sale on Wednesday. Postponed sales are seldom a success, and Wednesday’s sale was no exception to the ‘ rale/’there being a small muster of stock ard few buyers. Calves made 24s to 82a.6d, yearlings 39s to 49s 6d, 15 months Holstein heifers £2 15s, fat cows £5, cows in calf £4 to £5, 2 to 8 year steers £4 11s to £5 14s. At; Stratford,; on Thursday, I held a clearing sale on account of Mr E. Ellis. There was a good attendance, and, the cows, being a good lot, were all well competed for. Cows in milk made £6 to £lO, the whole herd aver : aging £7 15s Bd, a very satisfactory figure, considering the time of the year. Springers £9 ss, one bull £2, spring-trap mare and foal £BS 10s, heifer calves 88s, steer do. 88s 6d, sows in farrow £4 6s, 2 to 2£ year heifers £5 2s 6d to £6. 5 Land.—On Thursday I held a sale ar of the unsold portion of the Whiteley township. Most of the Sections fronting the South Road, and one of the large sites at the corner of Devon and Calvert roads met with fair competition, prices in several cases being considerably in excess of the upsets. P o!| the ; bkqfc; sections, however (a good many which were more or less broken), were not so much sought after, and several of these were passed in, but eventually were nearly all disposed of at upset prices. At the close of the sale only two sections were unsold, and it is expected that these will be , disposed of almost The * following were jr ,i r <i.i rs of the various lots: fckiwi.ou 115, T. P. Lister, £8 ; section section 16, 0. EL Bolstad, £5 5s ; sections 117, 138, 184, and 135, J. T. White, £3 each ; sections 118, 136, E. W. Neal, £8 ; section 120, £6 5s ; section 138, £3; section 121, £5 ; section ,189, £2, R. H. George; section 122, £6 15s, section 140, £2 .. . 10s, A. Davidson ;. .jeotion 128, £6, section 141, £2, section 181, £3, section *l3O £3, section £129, £2, 'section 148,.£2, section 139, £2, R. H. George ; section 122/ £2, sections 155, 156, 157, and 168, £7 Jeach, W. Barnard ; section 182, £4, section 150, £2, R. Hart; section 159, £l2, Phillip Wells. I have also to report having negotiated the sale of Mr W. D. Tindall’s fine farm of 442 acres, at Tariki to Mr David Gibson,

WELLINGTON PRODUCE MARKET. Wheat 4s lOd to 5s per bushel ; oats 2s 2d to 2s 9d, maize ss, flour £l2 per ton. Onions, prime £6; cheese sfd per lb, bacon B|d for sides, for rolls, hams 9Jd, butter 7d to 8d; fowls 3s per pair, ducks 4s per hens 8s to 9s, gobblers 18s to 103, eggs Is 4d dozen. New potatoes*7ss to 80a ; cockfoot, undressed 3d to 4d per lb, machine tlceased i, sfd tb sfd, ryegrass 4s to 5s 3d per busfrel, oatsheaf chaff 75s per ton.