COMMERCIAL.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2275, 8 October 1914, Page 8

COMMERCIAL.

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Messrs. Abraham anil Williams, Ltd., report on'their JohnsonviUe sale as follows: A good entry of bullocks «uno forward, also an extra fmo lot of sheep. There was a good demand, and everything 6old at full value. Prime heavy bnllocke, .£ls ss. to £16 7s. 6i1.; prime bulloclie. £12 15s. to £13; lighter, £12 55.; prime heifers, £9.15 a.; vcoJers, 325. to 355:; extra heavy woolly owes, 31s. Id.; heavy woolly ewes, 2Bs. Id. lo 283. 6d.; prime heavy store wethers, 255. to 253. 6d.; prime shorn wethers, 24«. to 245. 2d.; light wethers, 21s. 9d. ;prirae ewes, 225.; lighter owes, 20a. Id.; plain, 18s.; prime lambs, 17a to 18s.; good lambs, 15a. to 16s. 6d. Mojira. Abraham aid Williams, Ltd., ro'port as follows on their Woodville stock sale:—We offered, a good yarding of cattle and a moderate yarding of sheep. All the 6hccp were sold at good values, and a largo portion of tho cattle at late- rates. Quotations:—Fat owes, 216. to 225. 6d.; fat sheep, 245. 6d. to 24a 9d.; forward empty ewes, 18s.; 2-year springing heifers, £4 ss. to £5 2s. 6d.; empty heifer 3. £3 to £4; yearling heifers, £2 ss. to £3; empty cows, £3 Is,, to £4; 3-year steers, £7'105.; 2*-year eteenj.y 65 12s; 6d.; yearling steers, £2 19s. 6d\ •' Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., icport on their Pahiatua stock sale as follow/:—We offered a large yarding of cattle and only one pen of sheep, a few fat ewes which made 245. All classes of cattle sold well, and we made practically a total clearance at satisfactory prices. Quotations :-Fat ewes, 245.; good springing heifers, £6 to £7 155.; medium springing heifere, £5 to £6; backward heifers, £4 2s. 6d. to £5 7s. 6d.; empty cows, £3 4s. to £4; empty two-yeaT heifers, £3 la. 6d. to £3 Eα; yearling heifers, £2 Wβ. to £2 155.; yearling Btoers, £2 to £2 os.-6d.; weaHers. 255.; cows in calf, £4 2s. 6a. to £4 12s. 6d. ADDINGTON IIABKEIS. (By Telegraph.-Press Association.) . Chrlstchurch, Ootober 7. At the Addington yards to-day there were larger entries of store 'and fat sheep and fat cattle: There was a good attendance. The entry of fat cattle showed much improvement in quality over last . week's. Competition wee good, an export buyer operating in prize cattle, but. prices wero hardly as frrm. ' There was' a better salo for fat lambs, though prices were not qmto equal to those of laet week for prime lambs. Fat sheep were par to Is. easier. Store sheep quotations are:—Beet hoggets, 155.-to 16s. 3d.; fair to medium, 14s. to 14s. 6d.; very medium, 12s. to 12s. 6d.; small and inferior, lO3.; best owe ■ hoggets, 18s. 6d. to 205. Id.;, fair ewe hoggets, to. 17s.j small and inferior, 13a. 7d.; good conditioned ewes with forward lambs, 13s. 6d. (all counted); fairly good ewes with lambs, 11s. 9d. (all.counted); aged ewes .with lambs, Es. 9d. (all counted); aged merino ewes with lambs, ss: 3d. (all counted); forward four- . tooth wethers. 19s. t)o 205.; forward two and four-tooth wethers, to 19s. ;four and six-tooth wethers, 183. 5d.; two-tooth wethers, 17s, 6d. . Fat Lambs-Best made 18s. 6d. to 21s. 9d.; and lighter 16s. 9d. to 18s. Fat Sheep.—Extoa prime wethers, to 395.; prime, 275. to 345. 6d.; others. 225. to 265. 6d.; prime owes. 255. to 345. 3d.; others, 19s. 3d. to'24s. 6d.; shorn ewes, 245. to 265. 3d.; hoggets. i4s.' to 255.; merino -wethers, 20fl 10d. to 275. 6d. Fat Cattle—Ordinary steers, £7 17a. 6d. to .€l2; extra to £20 55.; ordinary heifers, £6 10s. to £8 10s.; extra to £14; ordinary cows, £6 to £8: extra, to £14 17s. 6d. Price of beef per 1001b. 355. to 455. Store Cattle—Yearlings. 30s. to £2 (the latter good); 15 to 18-months. sorts, £2 10s. to iSS; two-year 6tcers, £2 10s. (good); twoyear heifers, £3 12s. to £4; three-year heifers, £4 19s. 64.; dry cows, 355. to £6; dairy cows, £3 10s. to £10.

■ Fat Pigs.—Choppers. 60s. to 100s.; extra' heavy BaconCTS. to 80s.; heavy baco'ners, 675. to 755.; lighter, 52e. 6d. to 675.-;. prioo per 11)., 6(1.; heavy porker 3, 425. to. <ts.; lighter, 365. to 405.; price per lb. 6d. to Wd. ■ 'Store Pics— Lorirc stores, 33e. to 395.; medium, 255. to-325.; :small, 18s.-to 245.;wcanere. 12s. to 17a. 6d: ■.■■.. '~ . : . BURNSIDE , MARKETS. ' , Dunedin, Ootober 7. At Burnside ■ to-day 220 fat cattle wero yarded) Tho quality was not so good as that offered at the last two- ot three £alee. A large number of cattle were not quito primo enouch for exporters, and the- falo was- a little dragging in consequence. Prices showed a drop of about ICs. per licad, end eaecii oven a little further towards the finish. Prime beef wae selling from 40s. to 425. net 1001b., and cow and heifer beef- from 38s. to 4Cs. Primo heavy bullocks. £17 to £18 10s.; good. £13 10s. to £14 10a: light. £10 10s. to £12: best cows nnd .heifers, £10 to' £11 156.; extra, to £14 fe. 6d.; medium to good, £8 to £9 10s.; lie Tit. £5 to £6 ICe. Fat Sheep.—32so penned, the majority of which were prime duality wetlicrs. Owin?. to the large yarding, prices were a littlo' easier ell ronnd. Freezing buyers were not operating po keenly as of late. Bert wethnrs, 275. to 305.; extra good to 355.; med-iunn 235. 6d. to 26a.; light, 20e. to 225. 6d..; best ewes, 21s. to 2-!s.: extra, to 31s. 9d.; medium .to ?ood, 18s. to 20s. The first, shorn sheep of tho season were forward from South Canterbury, and the ■ tons of realised 235. 3d. Lambß.-rTwenty-two of the new season's lambs were penned, and thwe broncht up to 285., occording to size and quality - Pigs.—There was a very larw. yarding of store piw, which were slightly easier, in •value. Fat pies were in medium supply, and realiwd late valuei. Suckers, lfla. to 15?. 6d.: slipe. 17s. to 215.: stores, to 325. 6d.'; porkers, 425. 6d. to 505.: light baconers 525. to 58s.'; heavy baconers, to 725. 6d.