LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2290, 26 October 1914, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES.

' ' Dal-oly'cnd Co.. Mtf..; Mmerston North, report on their FeildmgV. sale '•••' laot:—Small yearling;,steers, £2 10s., ,£Z lis' to £2 155.; good.yearling steers, to £3 - 17s'.': yearling to/£2 lis.; for\vard empty cows,.to £5,65.; UeM tet cowr ' to £9; low condition. bullocks, bad . ' colours,- £7 163.;; evrw, Be, 6d.;_ - empty shorn cwea/.to 155.4 d..: slif*rn.2 and 4- ■ . tooths, '15s. 10d;;- empty.- woolly ewes, 17s. .; 6d.; falr:Snixed';hogge't6, 16s. 6d.; good ewo hoggets, .'to lte.\'<6d. : .,.-. v .' ; Tho New VMercantilo ' 'Agency. Company,-.-, I/td„ Feilding, .report:— l. At the Friday, last we yarded-550 head ol cattle. Quotations: \ Inferior yearling'.steers, £2 _45., £145., £2 '■' 17s. £2 198. 6d.; yearling'heifers, £2, £2 3a., £2 4s. 6d.,-£2 6s„ £2 7s. 6d., ?£2 lCs.; yearling ; S.H. heifers,-i:£2 ••■los:' 6d.; yearling. Jersey V cross,heifers;: £2 6s„ £2 Bs.; yearling Hol- . stein, crow heifere, £2.116.'; 15-montli Jersey - cross heifers,* £2.195.: heifera, £2 '175., £2 195., £3'115.;"!2-yeaa* heifers,- £3 195., ■:' £4 Is., £4 6Sm .!£4"6&'i2empty cows/. £4 35.; springing heifere, -£5 -155., .££ . ■ 18-month : vsteers, £4 4s:;'2-year steers,'£4 195.-, £5 75.. £5 9s„ £5 Ss',i'6d.;-..2i, and- 3-year, steers, £6 lis., £7; 3-year 6tcors;. £7 19a., £8 145., and £8 165., for a good line ,of 50. on account •'"'of.. Mr. WV:E/-L. Banks, of • Colyton. ■- . Tho New Zdala'na 'Loan: and'. Mercantile tgency Company, Levin, report _ on their fortnightly' sale at.'the.'Leyin.yards.ton, Friday:—.Mixed yearlings';(low .condition), £2 ■ . Is., better' £2 -lis.:,-12-month Jersey steers, ■ £1 10s. ;• 18-month 45.. £3, 55.; 2J- ■: : year steel's to. £7 35.; cows.with.„calves, to . .£5 10s.; store'cows,-to* £-5'75.; fat cows, £7 : 4s. 6d. to £7'155.; forward ..heifers;"to £4 ." 17a.; vcalers, £l-ss. to £1 Bs.j bulls, £2 55., /£2 10s.i £3 3S: 6d„. t0.£8.25..6d.

.Abraham and- Williams,■ Ltd.; report on "their Feilding sale last Friday:—Fat shorn ewes. 18s: .10d.,'195. 6d„ to 20s. Id.; forward 4-year bullocks, £12 145.-63,; forward 3-year bullocks,-'£9 195.; 3-year steers, £7; 2-year steers,,£s 3s. 6d„ £6 75., £6 95., to £6 lis.; well bred Hereford Shorthorn yearling teteors, £4 13s. 6d. to £4 155.; cull yearlings, 505.; empty heifers, £4 65.; fat cows, £9 45.; bulls, £5, to £6. ■ Messrs/'W. and G. Turnbull and Co., Ltd., report on their Carterton' sole on Friday :— P.M. ewes, with, lambs, 17s. 6d.; forward •woolly ecv.-s, 17s. 3d.; backward store ewes, 7s. 6d.; woolly hoggets, 14?. 6d. Pigs: Weaners, 10s. 3d.; slips, 14s, 9d„ 175., to 18s.; porlvors, 30s. to 325. Cattle :■ 2-year-old 6t-eers, £5. Us.; yearling steers, £2 13s. to £3; spring•ing heifers, £4.-£5, to £5 2s. 6d.; springing cows, £5 to, £5 fe.; empty 2-j*ea-r heifers, £3 10s. to £3 125.; cows and calves, £4 Is. to £4 Bs.; fat and forward cows, £4 16e., £5 ,6s„ to £5 17s. 6d.; yearling Jersey, heifers, £3 6s. to'. £3 7s. 6d.; ycswling heifers, £2 7s„ £2 10s., to £2 13s. 6d.;-. weaner calves, 145., ?(>3., .to 220. 6d.; 2-year Jersoy bull, £5; 2--jeax Holstein.'bull, £5; 2-year S.H. bull, £7 fe. Cti.; yearling Jersey bulls, £4 ss. to £5 :4s. : Pony, gelding, 2 years, £6 65.; pony mare, aged, £3 10s. A., H. Atkinson and Co., Ltd., report on their weekly sale on Friday:—Pigs: Suckers, 7s. 6dV Bs., 10s., 13s. 6d.; r weaners, 15s. 6d., 16s„ 16s. 3d., 16a: 6d„'l7s., 17s. 6d„. 16s; slips, 19s;, 245., 215., 21s. 6d:; stores, 275., 285., 303.; baooners, 38s. 6d„ 405., 435„ 445. 6d. Poultry, at per pair;: Drakes, 55.'.3d.; 6a'.; ducks, ss. 9d.; hens, 45.,' ss„ ss;-3d., ss. 6d.i-rooeteTß, ; <3., 55.; qhioks, Is. l 3d., Ik. 6d.; guinea pijrs, :Is. pair. -Spring dray, £4; potatoes, table, Js, 6d„ 45., ,ss; 6d., 65., to Bs. per sack; seed, fe, 6d., 7s.', lOi; sack,:2s. 3d., 3a. 6d.,-per half<jwt. box; .rhubarb, 3d. and 6d. per bundle; spring .onions, Id., per bundle;- cabbage plants, 6d. per bundle; tomato do., Is. bun-' die. • At the clearing sole held during the week on account of Mrs. Cummingsill/Jersey: cow, in milk, sold at £10 7s. 6d.; 1 due ■ to. calve next month. £7 53.; autumn calverp .£5 7s.i 6d:; springing heifers, "£4-105.,' £4 ;2e. 6d.; 15-month heifers, £5 55., £3 45.; heifer calf,. ,176. .Next Frido,y. a spccial effortis'to. be'.made.in Feilding for the Distress Funds. Gifts of all classes of stock, .poultry, and -goods of any description are specially asked for, . These will bo auction- . Ed 'free of; eommisaon.

.. 'A ;; large and ..'.striking building has lately been erected for Messrs. Ellis and Mariton at tho corner. of ■ Old Custom-' house Street and Lombard Street—a point in-' the heart of the old business centre of Wellington/ . It is the fitting mark of 'the progress of this firm, which lias grown remarkably _ sinco it'was established fifteen* years.ago. jllr. Ellis .canio to Wellington . twenty-years back, as. representa-tive'-of Machonochie Bros., Ltd., the big Scottish preserved fish firm. Five years '.lates Mr. Manton joined him as partner, and'-'business was started' in a. cellar of the 'Colonial 'Mutual Buildings in Har-bour-Street. -Later they took the basement of the J. E. Butler, Ltd., building, in Stout Street, antl, as the business crew, opened a tea'department in Prouso's Building, Taranaki -Street Tho Stout Street lease has.just run out, and it finds the 'firm with so. great a business that they require a largo and up-to-dato warehouse. They supply an enormous quantity of general groceries, and especially of to the trade, and thqir fine new premises are tho local headquarters of a great number of important British | agencies. ." '' - ; ' ' ■ Tho new building stands on an area of fi'Bft. to each street, and consists of five'stories and a basement, connected Ijy an electric goods lift. The structure is of brick, and the basement floor and roof': are of concrete and Neuchatel as. phalt. . Tho ground floor is, of course, largely occupied by. offices; and there is here a storo for duty-paid tobaccos. On ono 'front there is a bulk store and loadin" ; dock. The first floor comprises a storeroom, ullage-room and large sample room, wherein is displayed a great variety of toilet goods, confectionery, tea, and general groceries. Above it are teapacking rooms, bulk store for tea and other goods, and a number of departments for tho handling of the gieat ninety of commodities handled by a wholesale, grocery supply business, which neglects hardly any branch of imported goods. . . . ' Tho Tea Department is a very important branch of the firm's business, and is .under