COMMERCIAL.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2135, 29 April 1914, Page 10

COMMERCIAL.

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Messrs. Dalgely and Co., Mel., report, having held tueir fortnightly sale in tho Levin yards on Friday, when tlicy offered a heu-vy yarding of both sheep uml tattle, biwubs uud wetneiy elicited keen competition at prices slightly ahead of lato rates; ewes iu Jamb mot rather a. dragging sole. All classes of cattle good market, priceo, if anything, being in favour of sellers. Principal sales were as under:—. Medium two-tooth wethers, 17=.; good two and four-tooth do., IBs. 5(1. to lU. lCd.; good woolly b.f. Jambe, 12s. Bd.; medium lambs, 10s. 2d. to Us.; cull do., ss. 6d. to Us.; empty ewes, 13=. Id. to 145.; fat eivee, 183. sd. Cattle: Store cows, £3 to £4 10s.; light fat heifers, £5 6s. to £5 165.; light do. bullocks,- £8; 18-month heifers, £3 19s. to £4 35.; three-year ptecrs (medium). £0 55.; springing heifers, £6 to £7; bull* £4 ss. to £5 3s. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company,, Ltd., report:—At Peililing. on Friday, we had a good entry of eueep ami a heavy yarding of cattle. Sheep sold- well, end Jambs were again in etroiig demand. Cattlo were not ciuitc so brisk, but a. good clearance was made at reduced prices. Sheep: Ham'lambs, 9s. 3d. to lls.; cull tombs, 7s. 6d.; medium lambs, ICe. 7d. to lls. Bd.: fair lambs, 12s. Id. to 12s. 9d.; ewe lambs, good, ■ 14s. 9d.; cull ewes, 8s: 5d.; cull wethers, 13s. 6d. Cattle: Woancrg,. small, 16a. to 225.; cull fiftacTimonth steers. £2 35.; «iili fifteen-month heifers, 305.; fifteen-month heifers, £2 ss. to £2 lls.; eighteen-month, eteers, £3 18s.; twenty-month steers. £4 ss. to £4 lls. 6d.; two-year steers, £4 155.; two and a halfyear steers, £5 sa; three-year steers, £6 10s. to £7; forward cows. £4 ss. to,£4 15s. 6d. Tho New Zealand Loan and- Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report:—At Eangiotu, on Monday, we had a. fair entry of cattle, which met with good competition at, lato rates. Quotation!:—Small wcancre, 12s. 6d. to 255.: yearling steers, £2 10s.: r.gett cows. 275.. 365.. £2 ICe., to £3; forwo.Td.eows. £3 ICB., £3 155.. £3 175., £4 3s. to £4" 155.: fat cows, £5 Is., £5 lbs., £5 17e., £6 Ss., £6 75.; heavy hull?, £5 lCs. to £7; young bulls, £2 53. to £3 17s. 6d.'