Commercial Notes

Southern Cross, Volume 13, Issue 13, 24 June 1905, Page 12

Commercial Notes

The N.Z. Loan and M.A. Go., Ltd., have sold Mr Thos. Bachelor’s butchery business, at Balfour, to Mr D. W. McDonald. Mr Baohekr goes to Invercargill, *** The same company also report having leased Mr Robert Barclay’s farm at Waimumu to Mr John Owen, of Parrawa. * * The Otago Farmers’ Co-operative Association have sold, on account of Mr D. McDonald, Nenfchorn, his pure Clydesdale mare Lady Fanny to Mr J. Cox, of Woodside, Harringtons, Southland, who is to be complimented on becoming the owner of one of the highest class and most fashionably bred mares in this colony at the price of 150 guineas. Lady Fanny has taken 23 first and champion prizes. * * * Messrs Dalgety and Go. have sold Dunrobiu Station, Mossburn, 3,100 acres freehold and 14,500 Otago School Commissioners’ leasehold, together with 8,180 sheep, 100 head cattle, and six horses, with working plant, etc., to a Canterbury syndicate, for immediate possession. * * * Selected seed oats have been selling in Dunedin at 2s to 2s 3d, ordinary Is lOd to 2s,v best milling Is 8-|d to la 9d, best, feed Is to Is 81, inferior (o medium feed Is 6d to Is 7d. * * * At Burnside on Wednesday best bullocks brought £8 5s to £9 15 s—two ar £ll 12s fid, bast heifers £6 2s fid to £7, good £4 15 s to £6 ; good cows £4 to £5 10s, aged to about £3l. In fat sheep, best wethers realised 22s fid to 23s 3d —extra heavy 28s 3d, good 21s to 225, others to 20s ; best ewes 18s to 20s 31— extra prime 30s, o'hers 14s fid to 17s, * * * Reports from the Addington sale states that prime wethers were disposed of at 22s to 26s—extra to 28s 61, lighter and unfinished 18s 8d to 21s 6J, prime ewes 19s to 2ls 3d, medium 17s to 18s fid, others 14s to 16s fid. # * , * The demand for fat cattle was slack. Prime steers £lO 2s fid to £ll ss, and £7 10s to £9 6s, heifers £5 12s fid to £7, other steers £5 7s fid to £9 ss, heifers £5 5s to £7, and cows £4 5s to £7 5 s ; equal to 19s to 21s for prime and 16s to 18s for cow and inferior beef per 1001 b, # ■# * At Wanganui Mr Johnston, manager of the Aramoho Meat Freezing Works, has been fined £2O and costs for a breach of the Factories Act in not paying a boy under 18 for Good Friday and Easter Monday. * # * The Australasian wool exports for May, according to Messrs Dalgety & Co.’s figures, show no material alteration on those of the previous month. The Australian increase stands at 212,070 bales, the Australasian increase by 222,476 bales. As it was anticipated, the increase Lom New Zealand is very much reduced. Fur April it stood at 18,007 biles, and for May it is only 10,406 bales. * * # There can be little doubt, remarks the Melbourne Leader, that a further reduction can be looked for, as the flocks in that colony, according to the latest figures, have dropped from 20,230,829 to 18,280,806, which fact must reflect itself on the wool exports. The only stite showing expansion in the increase is Quee Bland, the early lota of new clip having this effect. The statistical year closes on the 30th inst., and it seems now fairly certain that the ; final results will be in the neighbourhood of 220,000 bales increase.