The Stock Market.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 101, 26 October 1895, Page 2

The Stock Market.

Messrs Abraham and Williams report : The market for both cattle and, sheep during the past week has been of a dull nature and a good deal of stock has gone back unsold - especially with sheep hoggets more particularly at Colyton last Tuesday, where there was a full muster. Cattle were in usual supply. Consequent upon the show falling on Thursday our sale at Palmerston was held yesterday. We yarded up snndry lots of shorn fat sheep that had been exhibited with more or less success at the show. An attempt to sell stud rams ended in a failure. A few youug shorthorn bulls found purchasers. Sheep were in smaller supply ; of store cattle there were was a moderate entry, but no fats came forward. The bulk was disposed of but most of tbe business was done privately, the decline in young cattle being decidedly marked. Colyton — Sheep : Shorn ewes' and wethers, 6s Id ; fat wethers in wool, 12s to 13s 3d ; hoggets, 8s 4d to 8s 9d ; forward ewes and wethers, 10s Bd. Cattle — Weaners 21s; heifers, £2 to £3 ss; springers, £3 16s to £4. 7s ; 3-yr steers, £8 16s. Palmerston— Sheep : Prime shorn fat wethers, 8s 7d to 9s 2d ; do. ewes, 7s 7d ; ewes and wethers, 10s ; fat wethers in wool 12s 6d ; ewes and lambs, 8s ; mixed hoggets, 7s 9d. Cattle — Pure bred yearling shorthorn bulls, £lls to £15 15s ; 8&-yr steers, £4 10s ; 2to 2|-yr do., £2 12s 6d to £3 6s ; weaners 235. Levin — Sheep : Mixed hoggets 7s to 9s 7d ; forward wethers, Us lid. Cattle : 2-yr steers, £2 8s ; 2J-yr do. £3 7s ; empty cows, £2 18s ; empty heifers £2 12s 6d.

MONTHLY FURNIT,URE REPORT. Messrs Sooullar & Chisholm, Wellington, report : — The furniture trade, like most Colonial industries, is beginning to feel the beneficial effect of the present rise in the price of wool. Buyers are operating more freely, and those in the trade look for great things in the near future. Cash buyers are the life and and soul of shopkeepers, and can always secure the best value for ready money. Ruling prices for last month are as follows:—Full size feather beds, 60s; feather pillows, 4s 6d ; kapoc beds, 15s ; kapoc pillows, 2s 6d ; well made chest of drawers, 80s; Duohesse washstapd and dressing table, with bevelled glass, 84s ; best Austrian cane obairs, 5s sd ; carpets, seven feet six inches by nine feet 28s. Japanese goods are a new feature iv the furniture trade, and some wonderfully oheap lines can be had in fire screens, vasea, oabinets, and other useful and ornamental goods.