COMMERCIAL.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2405, 10 March 1915, Page 8

COMMERCIAL.

LIVE STOCK SALES

The New Zealand Loan ft&d Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd.. report:—At Hintyuigi on Monday we had a- fair entry of both 6heep and cattlc. The continued dry weather cau6ed a lack of competition and several lines went out unsold. We, quote:—Woolly ewe lambs, 9s. 3d. to Us.; fat woolly lambt*. 135.; fair -weaners, !ios. to 235. 6d.; forward empty cows, £4 Is., £4 lfie. 6d., £5 3s. 6d.; fat .cows, £5 18s. to £6 135.; bulls, £5 ss.

Messrs. Dftlg«ty and Co., Ltd., report haVinff lield • their fortnightly sales at Wauganui on Wednesday last and at Wayerley" on Friday. At Wanganui there was e. smaller yarding of Bheep and cattlo than usual, .a total clearance being effected. The tone of the market woo keener than at the previous sale. At Wavcrley there was a good yarding of sheep and a email yarding of cattle, and a total clearance was made, prices realised being at late ratee. Quotations j—At Wangamii: Twotooth wethers, lfc., 15s. 5d., to 17s. 7d.; four and five-year ewes, poor, 11a. lOd. to 12a. 3d.; olhers, 13s. 10d., 13fl. lid., 145., to 155.; cull ewes, se. 6d„ 6a. 6d., to 7e„ to lie. id.; fair lambs, Bs.; two-tooth Border Leicester rams, 2 guineas; 6-t6otlrßoniney rams, 265. Cattle: Fat cows, to £7 55.; light fat heifere, £4 17e. 6d.; four and a half-year bullocks, £10 25.; three and a half-year do., poor quality, £7; store cow# (poor), £4 35.; weaners, Ife. to' £1 9s, 6d.; dairy heifers, £6. £6 lOe., to A 6 12s.'fid.; bulls, £2 to £3. Waverlcy—Forward ewes, Us. 4d. to 14s. 9d.; f.m. ewes, lis., lis. 9d., 12s. Id.; cull ewes, 7s. 9d. to Bs. 3d.; forward wethers, 20s. id.; good woolly lambs, 13s. 3d.; fourjtooth. Border Leicester rams, 2i. guineas; two-tooth Southdown rams, 41i guineas; Cattle: Fat cow 6, £6 4s. to £8; forward cows, £5 to £5 2f1.; calves, 7«„ 10s., to 175.; bulls,.'to £5.'