LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 74, 20 December 1917, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report that at ]>vln yards on Tucßday they offered a snail entry of sheep and a. good yarding of cattle to a good attendanco. Competition was good, and they have to report a cood sstle. Quotations:—Good-condition withers,. 295.; m.a. shorn hoggets, 265.; medium fat cows, £10 14s to £10 175.; forward condition cows, £8 14s. to £9 lis.; good stcre cows, £6 10s. to £3; aeod cows, £5 to a 5 55.; aged cows with calves, £5 10s.; crv>ty heifers, £4 10s. to £6; small yearling heifers, £2 10s.; ditto steers, £J 165.; g<od yearling steera, £7 4b. to £7 165.; mixed-sex weaners, 375.; prime heavy vealers, £5; two-yoar Jcrsoy bull, £8 155.; Jersey bulls (potters), £10 7s. fid. to £13 ss.

COMMERCIAL ITEMS INVESTMENT SEAEES Yesterday's quotations for investment shares were aB follow:— Buyers. Sellers. £ s. d £ e. d. National Bank 5 3 0 5 7 6 Bank N.Z. (old) 13 1 6 - Bank N.Z. (new) 17 0 0 — N.Z. and River Plate 117 0 — Well. Investment -- 0 11 6 Well. Trust and Loan ... 515-0 — Well. Deposit ...... 0 6 4 — Auckland Gas (paid) ..!... 16? — Ohristchurch Gas (£5) ... — 6 2 5 Gear Meat (£1) 4 15 0 - Meat Export (£4) — 5 0 0 Auckland Trams (0rd.1... 10 0 110 Well. Woollen (ord.) 6 15 0 — Well. Woollen (prcf.) ... 4 2 0 Westport Coal 19 0 — Westport-Stockton — 0 9 3 Waipa Colliery — 018 3 Leyland-O'Brien — ' 17 6 Ward and Co — 5 10 0 Customs duty collected at the rort of Wellington yesterday amounted to £3339 18s. LEAD. Australian-.New Zealand Cable Association. (Eeo, December 20, 0.30 a.m.). London# December 18. Local imports, 13,153 tons; exports, 767 tonß. MINING NEWS WELLINGTON SHAKE MARKET. Tcsterday's quotations for mining shares were as under:— ' Buyers. Sellers. £ a. d £ f.d. Murray Creek — 115 0 Talisman 0 9 6 — Grand Junction 015 7 — STOCK EXCHANGE. By Telegraph—Press Association, Christohurch, December 19, Salo reported:—Westport-Stockton Coal (preference), Bb. Ud., 9s.