LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2387, 17 February 1915, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Vossrs. Dalgefcy and Company, Ltd., report hoving held their usual weekly sale at Ekctahuna on Friday, when there was a good attendance and n, full yarding of both sheep and cattle. Sheep mot with amine tod competition, and cattle were dull of eale. Wo report a good clcaxanco at the following prices:—Sheep—Store ewes. 10s. Id. to 12s. 6d.; b.f, woolly rape lambs, lis.; ditto shorn, 10s. Bd.; w.f. woolly lambs, m.s., lis.; shorn wether lambe, 9s, la., to 10s. 5d.; medium lambs, woolly, 6s. 7d., 7s. Id., 7s. 10d„ to Bs.; small shorn lambs, 45.. lid. to se. 3d. Cattle—Empty 18-mos. heifers, £2'9s. to £2 135.; m.s. weaners, 225. 6(1.; steer .ditto. 435. .Pies-Porkers, 235. 6d.; slips, 9s. 6d. to lis. 6d. The Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agcncy. Company, Ltd., report:—At Feild-' .n& on t'rid «6 had small cnuy of sheep and a good yarding of oattle. which sold as under. We quote:—Sheep—Small lambs, 6s. 3d.; forward lambs, 9s. 7A.\ Southdown rams, 3gns. to 4gns. Cattle— Weaners, 21s. to 255. 6d.; 18-mos. heifers, 31s, to £2; light store, cows, £3 2s. 6d.; forward oowe, £4 10s. to £5 76.; fat and forward cows, - £5 108. to £6 25.; 18-mos. steers, £3 165.; bulls, £5 12s. 6d. to £6 t7s. 6d. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., report:—On Wednesday, at Peep-o'-Day we offered a Rood entry of sheep at Messrs. Watt Bros.' yards. Bidding at auction was slock, and most lines were passed in, but some found buyers, end practically the whole yarding was quitted by the end of the day. Quotations:—Sheep—Cull lambs, 3s. 4d. to 4s. Id.; Bmall lambs, 6s. 3d., 6a. 6d., 60. 7d., 75.. and 7s. 3d.; good fiomney-lambs, 10s. 6d.; f.m. ewe 6, 14s. 6d.'to 165.; 2rtooth wethore, 16s. 6d.; f.m. rams, 1J to 2gne. FALL IN YAHTES. (By: Telegraph.—Press A»&oc(at!oo.1 Ashburton, February 16. At the Ashburton weekly stock market, held at/the Tinwald Tends to-day, the price of fat sheep fell from 4s. to ss. on last week's rates. AJI the-freering buyers were present, but took no part in the sale, and the larger part of the-yarding was passed in at auction. For a small entry of store sheep thero woe little demand, even at the low prices asked by the vendors. COMMERCIAL ITEMS INVESTMENT SHARES. In the investment market ft da,le of Union Steam ordinary shares at- 245, was recorded yesterday. The quotations were as follow:— _ _ „ Buyers. Sellers. £a. d. ' £ s d. National Bank 5 8 0 — Bank N.Z. (old) ..10 5 0 - Bank N.Z. (new) 16 11 0 — Well. Trust Loan, Ltd. ... 7 6 0 — Auckland Gas (paid) 1 I 0 — Clhch. Gas (£sl 7 7 0 - '•Meet Export (£4) ............ 4 12 e Meat Export (£2 12s. 6d.) 2li t) 217 6 N.Z. Shipping (praf.) ...... 10 5 0 — Union Steam (ord.) 1 0 10 — Kaiapoi Woollen (ord.) ... 5 0 0 — Well. Woollen (ord.) ...... 4 8 0 -f Westport 111 6 112 3 Westport-Stocktou 0 5 0 — N.Z. Portland Cement ... — B'/ « Ward and Co 5 14 0' — Taranaki Oil — ,040 STANDARD INSUBANOB...■ The report of the directors ol the Standard Insurance Company for,the past year states that the net income amounted to £122.136 Bs. 7d„ and the expenditure to £102,214 12s. 9d., leaving a balance of £19,924 15b. 10d.. to which lias to be added JESI76 Es. Sd., the balance brought forward from the previous year, making a total of £28,101 Is. 3d., which the directors have doa.lt with as follows :-To reserve fund, £2500; to reinsurance reserve fund. £5000; .guarantee and provident fund, £500; .wrlt-!-n off office stationery and furniture, £500; donation to Patriotic Fund, £500; dividend, £9750. and to carry forward, £8351 Is. 3d. Tho fire, marine,, guarantee, and accident premiums, less reinsurances and returns, totalled £112,055 13s. Ud., interest on investments yielded £10,075 12s. 2d„ and transfer fees £5 2s. 6d., making tho total income for the year, £122,136 Bs. 7d.

■ Customs duty collected at the port of Wellington, yesterday amounted to £2431 16. 4d. : .

BISE IN: HODS. ; fßy Ei' ■ r AF ■ offiatl on. 1 Auckland, February la. Tho Northern. Killing Company ha« advanced. fiour to £16 106. net, with the usual advance for email sizes. > SOUTHERN MAEKBT6. \ Chrlstchurch, February 18. There is e considerable quantity of wheat mow offering, as'the weather hee been bo favourable for stook- threshing.; A norwest gate on Sunday knockcd the staclca <tnd stocks about, but as moat of tho crops oil the Plains have been cut there woe not the lose there would have "been had the groin been standing. ' Although millers ere not such keen buyers as they were there is no weakening .of prices; which' ' remain very firm. The general'■ run: of. values is•> 6s. 6d.'to' 6s. 7a. at country stations, and up to 6a. Bd. ha« been paid for prime" pearl. • Oats are etill 'in keen demand, and buyers'are following up threshing mills _in order to secure grain as it is threshed; The range of price 6 is 3e. 4d. to 3s. 6d. and up to 3s. 7d. at handy stations, "A grade Gartons being mo6t in demand, Oatsheaf chaff.ls still .soaTce, and Arm at £4 lEe, at country staione. Maltsters are not now giving high prices for barley, so that prime samples opened 06 prime malting are now worth se. Id. to ss. 4d., _and medium 4s, 9d. to ss. at country stations, moet of .the businees being done recently at se. Id. to 56. 3d.. The 'cocksfoot market has not opened vot; growers ale'asking high prioes and buyers are not prepared to give them, as ■the seed is not expected to dress out well, and in view of the short crop thie_6e«eon Importations of 6eed have been made. Rye,Erass is scarce, and up to 4s. 6d. has been paid for good, heavy seed. Buyers are still holding off white clover, though it Is reported that some sales have been mode at 16. to Is. 3d. per lb.

DT7KEDIS WOOIi SALE, i Dunedln, February M. ' The third of the Dunedin series orwool «iles • was held to-day, -when, a catalogue Of 8347 bales waa offered for auction. Although this was a small offering compared •with the 14,015 bales of January, 1914, the total to date Is well up to that of the first three EtJo3 of lest; 6eason. Hot eo many buyers were operating, a« ;at the previous sale,: most of tho wool going ,to a few of the'bigger men. . . . . , .. There .was -a further advance of Id. to 2<L por lb., 6ome claesee showing as much as 3d. The demand waa principally for superhalfbred end eupor-croeabred in light condition. AH pieces were in exceptionally strong demand, at. prices which also five.raged Id. to 2d. above those ruling at last One contributing faotor in the rise ta priccs this morning is said to be tho presence of two or three buyoTs who were apparently buying practically without limits. Merino and come-backs showed little or no change, and. though there irn.s a slightly bitter demand for a few'good lots of merino, tho market for this claes cajinot be quoted as showing any change. Tho highest pricc 60 far in tho Dominion this season was 15Jd. for a tonbale lot of super-half bred ewe; first combing half bred fetched 143 d.; first combing quarter-bred 14Jd.; first combing halfbred ewe, 14d.; first combing hogget. 14) d. A whole clip (154 bales) sold on "behalf of Mr. Acton Adame, of . Wilden Station, Heriot, averaged 14d.; this included fleece, bellies, pieces, and seedy piecos, and the reunit is said to bo easily a rccord for the Diminion. .

LONDON WOOL SALES. Messrs. Murray, Boberta, and Co., Lt«l., yesterday morning received a, cablegram from their London friends, Messrs. Sanderson, Murray, and 00., under date LoAdon, February 15. as follows'"Wool Merchants' Committee decided to close list for second scries on February 2. Third eerics commences on March 16. List closes March 2 at the latest, subject to a limit of fifty thousand, hales of new arrivals, making a total of one hundred n.nd twenty thousand bales."'

MELBOURNE WOOL SALE . By Telegraph—Pr'w Association--Copyright Melbourne, February 16. On the rcGUmptlon of tho wool sales, although tho embargo on American export remains in force, Americans were buying heavily. Most of the better class merinoe were eagerly snapped np for that destinar tion. Six thousand six hundred bales •were catalogued for competition, and there were exceedingly strong and satisfactory clearances. Prices for hotter class merinos were unchanged; medium merinos and crossbreds generally showed a further Improvement on tho extreme rates ruling a tortnight ago.

METAL MARKETS. (Bcc. February 16. 8.50 p.m.l London, February 16. Tin, on spot—£l7B,per ton; three months', £155. Lead, soft, foreign—£lß 18s. 9d. to £1? per Silver—Bar silver is quoted, at 22Jd. per ounco standard. WHEAT Tho wheat majket is steady.