COMMERCIAL

Gisborne Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1706, 23 March 1906, Page 2

COMMERCIAL

LONDON WOOL SALES.

EXCITED COMPETITION.

By telegraph, Press Ass’n, Copyright London, March 21, At tbe wool sales Marrar aod Taoroa clips sold at 13£d, Tauroa 11 J i. At the tallow sales 78-3 oaekt were offered, end 605 casks were sold. Fine qualities are stationary, and tbe rest have advanced sixpenct. At the wool sales there is oxcited competition for crossbreds. Americans are operating heavily. Pricos are the highest of the series.

(Per Presn Association.) Napier, last night. Tee Colonial Consignment and Distributing Company havo reocived the following cabl9 from London ; Canterbury mutton 4£d, Napier, Wellington, aod North Island 4|d ; lamb, first quality 53-d, second 4fd ; beef, hinds 3jd, fores 2-Jd,

SALE AT MATAWHERQ YARDS

The M'atawboro stock-sales W3ro held yesterday, when thero wa3 an average attendance. •

Saeep : About 10,000 woro yarded, the majority being youDg sheep. There was a considerable advance in tho price of lambs on last sale. Tho fjllowiog priors- were realised :

Me.srs Common, Shelton and Co. aod Dalgety and C. . : 8 x hundred and ninelyssvoD wether lambs, early shorn, in fat and forward condition, 10s Id, 309 lambs in ki : iablo cond.t’on 3J, 90 sm-.1l iambs 6s 61, 214 big lambs 9s lid, 20 good ewes 14?, 90 two, four, and six-tooth ewes 12-, 20 o’d ewes 7s.

Messrs Williams and Ket'la and New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency : 22 fat ewes lls 6), 105 four, six and eight- ' tooth ewes 9s 10J, 214 sound-mouth ewes ; 6s 9d, 73 two-tooth wethers 12s 3d, 37 woolly lambs 8) Id, 216 two-tooth wethers 13>, 26 two and four-tooth wethers in forward oondition 13s 6d, 82 two-tooth wethers 12s 61, 15 fat wotbers 163 61 14 two-tcoth wethers 12i, 151-oull ewes 3i 3d, pen fat ewes lls 9J, 103 ewes 6s 3d, pen old ewes 33 Id, 40 two-tcoth ewes 123 7d, 67 fat wethers 16 >, 42 fat and forward ewes 9s, 33 fat ewes 13s, 85 ewes 10?, 73 lambs 7s Id, 82 two, four, aud six tooth wethers 12-s 6d, 22 ewes lie, 65 small lambs 43 7d, 39 two, four, and six tooth wethers 13s 7d, 49 old ewes 3s 2d, 86 two, four, six, and eight tooth ewos 9s 7d, 287 ewes 8s Id, 73 ewes 3s, 81 good iffmbs 8s lOd, 343 wether lambs 10?, 312 two-tooth wethers 12s 4J, 397 pritno fat wethers 16s 61, 52 old ewes 3s, 476 two and four-tooth wethers 15s 6d, 488 fat wethers 16s 6d, 430 ewes 6s 10d, 9 Romnoy rams 63 to 3 do., bred by J. N. Williams, guineas.

A number of oalves wore offered and sold at from 21s up to 275.