COMMERCIAL.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 348, 29 March 1911, Page 5

COMMERCIAL.

Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Auckland, report having held their usual weekly sale of hides, skins, tallow, etc., on Tuesday 21st iust., Mearing a large catalogue. Hides: Market continues firm, with good demand; we quote extra stout ox to Xc\, stout Td to 7.; d, medium o'Ml to to, 1 , light (!.; to iiMl, cow best lines to h'.. good to dd, inferior -IMI to fC , stags 4MI to od, kips tk! to li-Mi, calf best !Kl, god Ttl to TM cut and damaged hides ;;;■ to od. Sheepskins: Market brisk; best butchers' lambs and pelts 2s to 2s lul, seconds Is ;"d to Is U>d, drv skins large to (is (id, medium 3s iul' to -!s (id. Talhew: Market tirm; best mixed 2Ps dd good 2Ss. medium 23s (id to 2->s. Rough fat Isd to l;d nor ih; cow tails is Sd per do::: horse hair Is Id to Is Td, bones, good dry c i las per to 1 !. Messrs Fidgety and Co., Ltd., have received the following cable from their London Office under date 23rd inst. : -Frozen meat:— Quote, New Zealand prime ox beef fores 3id; demand for New Zealand lamb poor— Now Zealand prime crossbred Canterbury lamb heavy r,\, light sid. North Island heavy -IVd, light 4£d, demand for New Zealand mutton poor —New Zealand prime crossbred mutton North Island heavy :!id, light 3MI; demand for Now Zealand beef limited-—market firmer; market for New Zealand lamb and mutton weak; demand for Australian lamb limited- Australian good average quality crossbred heavy -Id, light -Id; Australian prime crossbred mutton heavy 2;-: d, light 2 : , ! beef reaction probable, chilled supplies will he larger next week ; tallow, mutton in general unchanged, other descriptions 3d to lid lower.

Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., are in receipt of the following cable from their London office under date 23rd inst:- -Butter, market steady at present imports into th? United Kingdom for week' ending Saturday laac DS.OOOcwt., as compared with 77,ii0Ucwt. for corresponding period hist year. We quote: New Zealand butter luii, Danish 1 -Is, finest Australian salted 100s, iinest Australian unsalted 10 Is; many brands inferior qualities diilietilt of sale. Cheese, steady, o'J jilt cwt higher. It may interest you to learn that the shipments of Australian butter to London, season PJIO-11, to loth March are: Victoria 18,115 tons, New South Wales 10,507 tons Queensland 5,934 tons, South Australian 1,744 tons; aggregate, 30,30'J tons. Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report a3 follows:—We held our usual monthly sale at Pio Pio on Wednesday 22nd inst., when 1000 sheep came forward, also 300 head of cattle consisting mostly of IS-month steers and heifers. Bidding for all classes of cattle was spirited up to late values. The vendors had high reserves in anticipation of rains in the near future. We, however, cleared the whole yarding directly after the sale. Sheep were very dull of sale, owing to one or two vendors accepting ridiculous prices for stock; it was a very hard matter to sell sheep at all, and few changed hands. We quote: Steers 3 year old £5 10s, IS-month steers £3 lis (id to £3 12s 6d, 2 year old steers £4 ss, yearling steers £3. Or, Thursday, 23rd inst, we held our usual Hamilton sale, when a fair yarding of sheep and a good yarding of cattle came forward. There was very little demand for fat sheep or bullock's, but fat and store cows, iieshy bulls and pigs sold briskly. We quota : Fat bullocks L'S 1 os, fat cows £5 15s to £•"■ 17s lid; forward heifers £4 10s to £1 li's, store cows £•"> 5s to £3 15s, calves £1 5s to £1 12s, fat wethers 15s 3d, porkers £1 2s Del to £1 83 (id, slips 10s Od, weaners 53 Ski to 7s.

In the Cambridge yards on Friday, 21th inst., we hold our usual monthly sale, when o 1 '" 1 bead of cattle and a tew sheep came forward. There was a good attendance and bidding was verv brisk throughout the sale, and satisfactory prices were realised. We quote : Fmpty cows and heifers ,SM to c 1 lis, heifers in calf up to X"> 49, steers IS month to 2 year £:> to £o 10s, yearlings £2 Ids, calves from 20s to oh;, .springers £o. The Farmers' Auctioneering Co., Ltd., report:- At Ohaupo on Tuesday the entry consisted of oIK) sheep and hUo cattle. Store lambs made O's and 200 ewes from :'-tooth to fresh fulltiuuith lis. The. cattle consisted chicliy of calves, and these were dull of sale and only a few' were disposed of. Two pens of forward steers made £i; IDs and 117 Ts (Id, and ;>.'! fresh 2 to 'F.-year steers A-t 7s (id. A few choice springing heifers made .£-1 lGs to XI lis l">d, la-month steers X-'> os, good calves ."2s (id to d'.ls. At !'io Pio, on Wednesday, the combined stock sale took place at the Sale Yards Company's property. The entry was a very large one, and t'ns : accommodation was inadequate, consequently a large number of stock had to be held on roads by owners, and were offered there; notwithstanding this, a great deal of business was done; cattle sold at full Waikato rates, but sheep! were very low, and some very good bargains were to be had. Cur yarding comprised 1)00 head of cattle and 0000 sheep, and of these, were sold -122 head of cattle and FF2 sheep; fresh 2 to 2.';-year steers c 1 17s well bred and forward d.Cyear -steers £<> Os to £0 12s, 18 to 2u-month steers £"> Pi's Od to £1 os, fresh empty cows X'-'> F"»s to £-1 os, fat cows and heifers £;"> os and £o Fks, springing heifers A I 7s (id, weancr calves 2Gs to ;!!),:), hut most of them were small, and young good Komney ewes (all fat) lis 2d, sound mouth ewes in low condition (is to os, cull ewes 2s to ;is, small 2-lootli ewes lis Oil, fresh 2tooth wethers 12s (id, fair lambs 0s to 7s, cull lambs ;is (id to Gs, 17 -1-tooth Komney rams £i Is each. At, Malamafa on Wednesday, our yarding totalled 2300 sheep and S-iG head of cattle —more than half of the latter being weaner calves which were lower in price than at sale of a couple in weeks ago. Fat ewes lis lOd to