COMMERCIAL.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 196, 4 October 1909, Page 5

COMMERCIAL.

Messrs Company, Limited, report having held their usual triweekly stock sale in the Hamilton yards, on Thursday last, the 20th September, when they offered over 1150 bead ist and store cattle to a good attendance. Nearly the whole yarding was cleared at ruling prices, the following being realised:—Fat bullocks, £6 3s to £7; fat wethers 15s 6d to 16s 9d; fat cows £5 to £5 15s; store steers £4 lo»: empty heifers 2 years old 46s to £3; mixed yearlings 365; springing heifers from £4 to £8; pigs 10s to 21s 6d.

The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, report as follows:- - At Ohaopo on Tuesday September 28tb. we held our ordinary fortnightly cattle and annual hogget fair. The mtry comprised 2456 hoggets, 345 wethers. 264 lambs, and 1273 head of cattle. Thee was a large attendance. , chiefly buyers requiring sheep ewe' hoggets for preference; dairy cows and heifers close to profit were also in good demand. Store steers, however, were nof selling so well as a few weeks ago. but with a few weeks spring weather the demand and price will likely improve. The hoggets brought forward were a splendid lot, not a weak one in th whole yarding. Ewe hoggets made from 13s 9d to 16s 7d; wethers and mixed hoggets lis to 12s 9d: forward wethers 14s 4d to 14s 8d; fat ewes 13s Id; full mouth ewes with lambs 12s. Dairy cows and heifers of wbich there was an entry of 81 svld as follows: Good sorts close to profit £5 15s to £8; fair torts £4 15s to £5 lOi; backward £4 to£4 10s; choice yearling steers £2 5s to £2 12s fid; smaller and poorer sorts 30s to 335; choice 18 month dairy heifers £3 to £3 ss; store cows £2 5s to £2 15s; fresh empty cows £3 to £3 12s 6d; store steers £4 ss; 2 year store steers £3 4s to £3 12s 6d; 18 month to 2 year store steers £8; fat steers £8 5s equal to about 20s per 1001b. On Wednesday, September 29tb, we held a clearing sale at his residence, on behalf of Mr D. Moloney, of Kiri- | kiriroa. Everything was in the best I of order, furniture expensive and parcI tically new, and consequently compctiI lion was brisk and good prices obtain\ed throughout. Tarpaulin, £4 Ss to j £8; dogcart £25; single seated boggy ; £23; waggonette £SO; piano 45 gns.; I sideboard £10; chest of drawers £4 5s and £10; suite furniture £2l Is; dairy cows and heifers £7 to £9 10s; ! bogey horses £6 to £29; draught gelding £l7; unbroken bones £7; single harness £5 ss; double harness £7.

Some new features are to he introduced in toe forthcoming rifle meeting to be held at Trenlham. The most important of these is the Empire match and the service match for the famous Gordon Highlanders' trophy, presented by the regiment for annual competition by teams of eight representatives of each State of the Commonwealth and New Zealand, and to be Ared for in each State in its tarn. At least once in every six years the match should be Bred in New Zealand, and, as the result of recent negotiations with the Commonwealth Council, the winners for the trophy in the 1909 competition at Randwick range Sydney, next month will be called upon to defend it at Trentham meeting of 1510. The Empire match will be open to teams of eight men selected from the naval and military forces of the United Kingdom, Canada, South Africa. India, New Zealand, Australia and other units of the British Empire, and accredited by the Council of the Rifle Association or Associations of such units respectively.