SYDNEY STOCK SALES

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 548, 18 October 1902, Page 4

SYDNEY STOCK SALES

The Sydney Morning Herald of Oct, 3, in reporting the sales at Ilomebush yards, says : —Upwards of 19,250 sheep" and lambs wero sold yesterday at the metropolitan fat stock saleeyards, and values were again lower for the medium qualities, especially shorn sheep, The general average quality was moderately good, tl o proportion of inferior sheep was very small, and there was a very fair sprinkling l of prime. But buyers were present from r long distanco centres for extra prime sheep, and all such descriptions were keenly competed for at rather high rates. Last month 133,500 sheep and lambs were sold at the yards, as against 101,710 dur. iug August. The increase was not verygreat, but as frozen mutton has been imported from New Zealand as well as live sheep, values have fallen rather considerably during the month, especially for the class of sheep that have formed the bulk of the supplies going into the metropolitan trade. Lambs were fairly plentiful yesterday, and prime sold well; the medium and very young sucker lambs, however, w'ere quitted at reasonable enough rates. Some very little and young ones were sold as low as Is 6d each. Rather more than COO eattie were sold—not a very heavy supply, by any means, but the frozen beef available from Queensland and New Zealand, in addition, again eased values. Best beef is now worth about 15s per 1001 b. Thus it can be seen that values for stock are gradually falling from boom heights, and bringing meat within the reach of the public at- more reasonable prices. A message from Adelaide of the 3rd says : —There was no animation in wheat to-day Holders are prepared to take -is Sd for parcels, but buyers will not jump. Flour, bran, and pollard are quiet. Local and Tasmanian oats are unobtainable. Several hundred tons of New I Zealand are on tho market, gale? have taken place at 4s. It .is probable that | further importations wilfhe made. Quotations of wheat are: Fenners’lots, 4s 5d < to 4s 6d ; parcels, 4s 7d to 4s Bd. Flour .£9 5s to £9 10s. Bran aid pollard, Is sid to Is tki, ‘ l