COMMERCIAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1621, 8 December 1905, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

WOOL SALES,

By telegraph, Press Aes’n, Copyrigh London, Dec. 6.

At the wool saloi there is an animated market for a’l Merinos, Thore is a slight easiness in coarso crossbreds.

Sydney, Dec. G,

At tho wool sales there is brisk competition for fino groasies, which touched 13jd ; scoured 21|J.

MATAWHERO SALES,

Tho conjoint stock sales were hold e Matawhero yesteiday, wkou there was | good attendance of buyer?, and brisk com petit’on throughout tho sale. I Sheep : About 1500 wore yarded, i large percentage being young slook, Mos of tho lines offered wore off the shears. Tin prices were os follows Messrs William and Kettle and N Z. Lcau and Morcantili I Company : Two hundred and twenty sovon 2 tooth ewes (shorn), in good oondi lion, 5d ; 278 2 tooth wothers (shorn' (12s 6d, 41 owes and 3 rams (shorn), in poor condition, 4s, 36 fat wothers (in wool) 21?, 16 fat lambs 12 j , 8 fat owes I (shorn) 10s 61, 58 shorn ewes 83 Id, 269 2-tooth ewes and wothers (shorn) 12$, 94 2 tooth ewes and wethers (woolly) 16s, 36 woolly hoggots 12s 7d, 18 fat sheep (shorn) 12s 91. Cattle : There was a good ontry oi ca'.tlo of first-olass quality. Tho salo was rather slow. Tho following were tho pticeesMessrs Dalgety aid Co, and Common, Shelton and Co. : Twenty cows with 14 calves £4 19s, 10 cows with 10 calves £4 6*, 13 2 yoar o’d heifors <£3, 5 heifers £3 14s, 3 cows £3 Is. A choice line of 18 fat bullock?, heavy weight®, passed in at £6. Messrs Williams and Kettle and N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Co. : One dairy cow £5, 1 heifer £2 15s, 1 calf 295, 1 old cow £2 2s 6d, 1 beef oow £4 7s 6d, 1 cow and oalf £4 17s 61, 2 oalvts 38s, 1 cow £2 13s 6d, 1 cow with calf, £4 s’, 2 young heifers £2 10s, 2 young steers 365, 1 dry cow £5, 1 young cow £3, 1 oow in full noi,k £3 7s 61, 1 youDg cow £3 10s. 5 f oef cows £5 2s 6d, £4 17s Gd 1 £4 ss, 2 £4 10s, 1 Jersey springer £4 ss, 4 calves 19s, 1 steer calf £1 6>, 1 springing heifer £5 15s, 20 station hoifevs £4, 11 cows with 11 ca’ves £5 Is, 18 young steers £2 17s, 11 station heifers £3 17s 61. Pigs: Thoro was a small entry of baconers, whioh woro all sold as fo'loivs : Three bacon pigs 30s, 2 smaller ones 235, 4 baconers 295, 4 ditto, 29s 61, 5 weanors 9s 61.