COMMERCIAL.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 25 October 1917, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

LEVIN STOCK SALE. The N. Z. L. & M. A. Co. report.—At Levin yards on Tuesday we offered a ! small entry of sheep and a fair yarding of ! cattle. Several pens of sheep failed to j reach vendors' reserves, but the balance ! of our yarding was disposed of at the fol- ] lowing prices:—Fat ewes 375, fat cows ! £10 to £14, store cows £7 13s, 12 months 1 Jersey cross heifers £4 17s to £5 12s, oth- ; ers £4 10s to £5 10s, 12 month steers £4 ■ los to £6 Bs, dairy cows £7 19s 6d, Jsrsey j bull £7 10s. | Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report: At Levin on Tuesday we had fair yardings of both sheep and cattle. Spirited competition prevailed for all classes except fat sheep. Quotations : Slieep—4-tooth wethers 38s, woolly hoggo ts 31s 3d, cull hoggets 20s, shorn hoggets 21s lid, cull ewes 15s 6d. Cattle— Fat cows £11 10s, £12 12s Gd, £13, £14 5s to £15 2s 6d ; store cows, £7 17s 6d to £8 TnGd ; cows and calves,'low condition, £0 18s to £8 6s ; 4-year bullocks, £17 2s 6d ; yearling steers, £7 2s ; yearling heifers, £(i 15s to £7 18a ; mixed yearlings, £5 6s 6d ; 2 year empty heifers, £8 10s ; S.H. bull, £17 ss; yearling Holstein bull. £8. Pigs—Weaners, 10s 6d to 22s ; sow in pig, £3 10s; porkers, 33s to £2 (is.

HIGH COMMISSIONER'S CABLE. [Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, Last Night. The High Commissioner's cabled market report, under date London, 20th inst., states that quotations, unless otherwise specified, are the average market prices on the spot. Meat: Home killed mutton and beef in fair supply, all descriptions of frozen meat very scarce; New Zealand mutton, per lb, 8 7-Bd, ewe Sid; Argentine 11 3-8 d; N.Z. lamb lOd; Argentine Hid; Patagonion, lOd. Argentine beef in fair supply, chilled hinds 113 d, fores 9|d. Butter: No official quotations, with the exception of Paris, 230s to 2355, and Irsh creamery 2245. New Zealand, Australian, and Argentine, no supplies available; Danish, no supplies available. At the Tooley Street market small sales had taken place for the provincial markets as high as 4505. The chccsc market remains as last reported. New Zealand makes and Australian at the Government price. English Cheddar 1375.

Hemp: Manila and N.Z. markets show no changc. The wheat market is quiet, but firm. Moderate business has been done in No. 2, Manitoba, Northern, at 745; No. 1, white Canadian 74s Gd, Australian 82s.