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Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144051, 22 March 1913, Page 4

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LONDON MARKETS. By Electric Telegraph..—Copyright. LONDON, March 20. Share quotations.—Waihi 30s and 31s 3d, Waihi Orimd Junction 20s Gd and 21s Gd, Talisman 35s and 40s. Wool sales.—Pnkonui, top IO.Jd, average 10Jd; Racby. lid and 101 d. There were sold for Home consumption, 84,000 halos: for the Continent, 33.000; for the United States, 3000; and held over, 15,000 bales. Compared with the January sales, greasy merino combings generally advanced live per cent., and other sorts wore unchanged. Scon reds advanced live per cent. Choicest crossbreds Inched American support, and are unchanged. Average parcels of finer grade were firm. Coarser advanced five per cent. Merino lambs generally advanced ten per cent., and crossbreds fully n penny. Copper.—£64 ,2s Gd to £64 7s 6d ; electrolytic. £O9 2s 6d. •Tin.—£2o9 15s to £206 ss. Lead. —£15 12s Gd. Wheat is in steadier demand, chiefly for the Continent. . AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. Td ELBOURNE, March 21. Flour.—£S 15s. Oats.—Algerian feeding 2s 2d to 2s 4d. seed 2s Gd. Barley.—English, 3s 9d to 4s 3(1; Cape, 3s to 3s 3d. Maize.—3s lOd. Bran and pollard.—£s 15s. Rotators. £7 15s. Onions.—£7 7s. ADELAIDE, March 21. Wheat. —3s 7d to 3s 71 d. Flour.—£B 12s Gd to £8 15s. Bran and pollard.—ls 2d per bushed. Oats.—2s 2d. BUCKLAND AND SONS. (Special to Herald.) AUCKLAND. March 20. ! Messrs. Bnclcland and Sons report:— 1 At Westfield on Thursday there was a small yarding of stock, and prices were similar to those at late sales. On Wednesday, March 19, the fat cattle yarded numbered 403. There was steady demand. Choice ox brought up to £1 Bs, prime £1 5s Gd to £l. 6s 6d, rows and heifers £1 to £1 5s per 100 Jb. Steers brought £6 15s to £l2 10s, cows and heifers £4 to £lO 2s Gd. Twenty-four steers from D."M‘Crackon, Tcpnke, brought an average of £lO 17s. Calves,: Runners sold to £5 3s, heavy suckers £3 to £3 16s, medium £2 5s to £2 18s. lighter £1 10s to £2 .‘2s,. small and light 18s to £l. Bs, fresh dropped 3s to 14s; 71 wore sold. Sheep; There was a heavy yarding of mutton •f improved quality and good competition for heavy and extra'heavy.'Prime 'Tethers brought £1 2s Od to £1 4s 3d, heavy £1 to £1 2s, medium to heavy 18s to 19s 9d. unfinished 1,4 s to 17s, extra heavy owes £1 to £1 2s 3d, heavy (prime 17s Gd to 19s, good 15s to 17s, others 10s to 13s 6d; 2478 were sold. There were 335 lambs penned, and prices were firmer. Fat brought 18s to £1 Is, good 13s to 15s Gd, unfinished 9s $0 12s. Pigs: Baconers brought £2 12s to £3 7s, largo porkers £2 5s to £2 11s, lighter £1 15s to £2 3s, small £1 os to £1 13s, well-bred wcanors 10s Gd to 14s, others 8s to 10s, suckers 5s to 7s Gd; 201 wore sold. NEWTON KINCUS MEEKLY REPORT. On Friday. 14th inst.; at my Wai,wakaiho yards, I had a good entry and attendance. The majority of the yarding was cleared at the'following rates: Jersey woaner heifers £2 Is Gn to £2 7s Gd. grade heifers £1 13s Od to £1 17s Gd. coloured steers £1 2s to £1 10s, bulls £2 17. sto £4 7s Od, springing heifers £5 10s to £7 10s, store cows up to £4 15s, fat cows £5 ss, heifers in calf £4 3s to £4 12s Gd. dairy cows £6 15s to .£7 I.os, 20-month steers £3 15s Cd, lambs 7s lOd, f.f.ra. ewes 10s .Gd, aged ewes 5s 3d. At Kaponga on the same day I bad a fair yarding and attendance. The inauirv was much quieter that at recent sales, but a good proportion of the stock was sold., Best wcanors sold at irom £L IGs Gii to £1 18s Gd, fair lino £1 10s to £1 13s Gd, poor sorts £1 2s to £1 4s Gd, heifers in calf £5, aged cows £1 9s to £1 13s, store cows £2 11s to £3 7s, forward fat cows £4 3s to £5 9s, forward bullocks £G IGs, bulls £1 15s to £3 Is.

At Stratford yards on Tuesday, 18th, there was a good entry of both sheep and cattle, and the public wore present in good numbers. Bidding opened poorly, but improved during the sale, flood v.-caror steers, .Jersey meaner heifers, host conditioned cows and bulls were in demand. There was no inquiry for weedy or bad coloured weaners. The whole entry of sheen, with' one exception, was cleared. I supply prices obtained; —On account of Mr. IV. D. Colson, six very choice Jersey meaner heifers. £3 13s; on account of a Stratford client, a line pen of 29 Shorthorn meaner steers lit £2 -Is; ami on .account of other vendors, meaner heifers (good lines, with colour) £2 2s lid to £2 Ins, meaner steers £1 Is 8(1, 15 to 20-mouth heifers R.AV.B. £3 7s 6d to £3* 17s. 20-imnith heifers (empty) £3 9s Cd to £3 16s, aged cows £1 10s to £2 ss, store cows £2 ]7s (id to £3 11s, forward and fat cows £4 to £6 He, bulls from £4 2s (id to £6 12s 6d, small 18s to £3 7s fid, springing heifers £6, 20-inoiith coloured steers £2 5s 6d to £3 3s, 2-J-year heifers in calf £o Bs, bad coloured weaners £1 to £1 2s (id, lambs 8s Id to Ss 7d, mixed aged owes 10s, aged ewes (is to 6s Cd, fat ewes 13s, small lambs 3s 6d to (is, 2-tooth rams IGs Gd.

On Wednesday, at Toko, for an off day cattle came forward in good numbers, selling as follows:—Bulls £4 12s 6d to £O, small £2 to £3 12s Gd, mixed woaners £1 Is Gd to £1 14s, bad coloured 15s Gd to 10s Gd, aged cows £1 16s, store cows £2 Is to £3 17s, forward and fat cows £4 2s to £3, 2tooth owes 14s, 2-tooth wethers 12s lid to 13s Bd, small wethers 9s 7d. f.m. ewes 9s lOd, 4-tooth ewes los, lambs 7s, horse, trap and harness £2O 10s. On tho same day at Stony Hirer there was a small entry of 150 head of cattle and 7G sheep. Practically everything was cleared at the following rates: —Empty heifers £3 14s, Jersey woaner heifers £2 10s, good pen of weaner steers £1 19s 6d, mixed weaners £1 10s Gd to £2 Os Cd, small £1 3s to £1 os, 20-month steers £3 7s Gd to £3 10s, 20-month heifers in calf £4 Os 'Gd, store cows £2 4s to £3 Is, forward cows up to £4. 13s, fat cows £5 11s to £G 7s, forward bullocks £7 11s, fat heifers. £5 11s, bulls £6 to £7 ss, small

£3 2s 6d. springing heifers £6 10s to £6 12s lid. good woolly lambs 10s 9d, small woolly lambs 9s Id, mixed forward sheep 10s 6d, spil pigs 8s to 10s. MATTHEWS, BENNETT AND CO. Matthews, Bennett and Co. report a full yarding of stock at their Inglewood yards on Wednesday last. Coloured weanors were in good demand, but all other stock were rather hard to quit at recent prices. Wo quote;—Store cows £2 10s to £3 os, forward cows £4 to £4 17s, coloured heifer (r.w.h.) £4 18s, coloured weaners £3 3s to £3 11s. weaner heifers 32s to 365, mixed heifers 27s 6d to 335, inferior Xos to £1 Is, empty heifers £3 Is to £3 6s, 4 and (i-tooth ewes 12s 2d, f.m. ewes 6s 6d to 7s, culls 4s 3d to ss, lambs 6s Gd to 7s Bd, culls 3s 6d to os 4d, rams (culls) (is to Bs, others £1 Is.