Commercial.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXII, Issue 3823, 12 January 1906, Page 4

Commercial.

STOCK SALES. Messrs Abraham and Williams reports as follows: —At Woodville on Monday we had a full yarding of cattle, which (met a dragging sale, notwithstanding a large attendance of the public. Sheep were represented by one small pen of ewes and wethers. A line of “200 2-toofhs failed to put in an appearance. ulthongh buyers were present from a dist nee, who came specially for them. Quotations :—Four year bullocks in good condition, £5 2s ; yearling steers (good), £2 10s; empty cows, 35s to ±2 8s; forward ewes and wethers, lls 8J ; store pigs, 20s G.l to 22a 6d. Messrs Abraham & Williams, Ltd., report;—At Palmerston on Thursday only asm-ill yarding of cattle came forward. Bidding was dull at auction, but most of the stock change 1 hands privately at prices rather in ftvonr of the purchasers. We quote : Fat lambs lls 2d, fat ewes 13s 2d, weaners 12s to 14s 01, Lsmos to 18 nos cattle 34s to 375, forward cows £2 12s to £2 15a, fat cows £3 5-. 2? r year steers £3 0-, yearlings Ml Os 0 ",

THE MEAT MARKET. Napier, Jan. 11. The C. 0. and D. Company cable par iculars of the frozen meat market as follows: Caiverbury mutton 4-Jd; Napbr, Wellinyt) ■, North I-land, 3JJ. Beef—hinds 3j, ! I, fo es 3-1. ■SOUTHERN MARKETS. ADDINGTON. Steve eherp—299 four- oot i we heis 15- 9J to 15s I Id, 34 ) at 15i lid. 00 at 15s, 122 iwo t o;hs 15s, 148 nt 14; il)d ; 05 lam s 12s lid, 42 at IB 81, 2(J4 at IB 4 1 to IB 7d, 100 at, 11 , 100 at 9s; 207 ewes mixrd ages 14 r O’; 63 eWcS and 1 nubs 8 ■ Bd. F t ,-iiifp —hieb/.ini: limbs made 13s 01 to 15 , tegs to 10; od, unfinished lls 8! u 1-147 were tik"ti by i xoo t n.ers, 744 by butchers, and ihe.b dance were parsed in or went no gn zn r . Eat she- p 20; 3d, nth; n!i] 10- 41 to ids ; prune ew;s 17s 0 , ; . ’it ,3.1. oihers 13 < t, > 17 ; prime in-in 0.. liior 14s 41 lo 10s (jd, oth *rs 8s to 14 '. Fat cattle.— Medium and inferior was somewhat easier. Four et ers from Mr A , McFarl-n u (Iv li a nroi) mad- M\) 17s to 440 10s; tw i holers .£8 ss, uth r -t-ers sold nt i / r, ■ £|l) 17s; Iwofers 05 15s to 4*B lls 0 I. c 'WK £4 los io £7 15-, equal to 22s tu 24s for prim-' and 17-0 i to 21s for iiied.mu aid inferior per 100 b. Veal Calves sol 1 nl 7s Od to 31s 01. S’; re and dairy caßlo—ls to 18 ra nlhsoOs to 31s, 2-year stairs £2 0to t'2 102 yea> ii ifer,-- 37s 0 ; to .£2 ss, 3-iem steers 4.4 7s 0 1 to £ I 10s, 3-yinr he.!' rs £3 IBs 4 I, 5-ycar steers passed at MO 17s 01. Hairy cows also met with del demand at i'3 10s io £7. I’i s Baconeis in ulo 82s lo lls CM, ((jin,l io 3,1 to 3,| I 'per ib; porlo rs 22to 30s. cijii il to -td per lb; largo stores 15s to 20s; malium, 10s to lls; weaners, 4s Od to Bs.

BURNSIDE. Fat Cattle.—Best bullocks £8 10s to £lO 10s, some extra heavy weights up to £l3, prime heifers £0 10s to £7 10s. Fat sheep—Fat wethers 19s to 21s, a few extra prime up to 245, good wethers 17s Od to 18s 6d. best ewes 17s to 19s, extra good to 21s 9d, others 14s 6d to 16s. Fat lambs—Best lambs 12s 6d to 14s, extra 14s Od to 14s 9d, medium 10s to lls Od. Pigs—Suckers 6s 0d to 10s, slips lls to 12s, stores 18s Od to 24-;. Porkers 2os to 38s, light haconers 40s to 465, heavy 47s to 52--, choppers up to 60s. WELLINGTON WOOL SALES. Wellington, Jan. 11. At to-day’s wool sales 9400 bales were catalogued. Bidding was extremely spirited, and there was an advance of about a penny all round. Lambs’ wool sold up to for good qualities. The range of prices for half-bred was lOd to ium crossbred 9.J-d to lOld; coarse crossbred 9d to Odd; inferior and log stained B£d to 94 ; pieces and bellies Od to 8kl; locks 3d to 4 ; Jd ; good lambs’ 94d to IOAd ; medium 8.4 d to9-kl.