Commercial.

Manawatu Herald, 14 June 1904, Page 2

Commercial.

Messrs Levin & Go’s Report.

We offered 65 bales wool, 3000 skins, 200 hides and a quantity of tallow to-day. There was an excellent attendance of buyers, the sales appearing to attract more attention from outside buyers at each successive sale. Wool sold at full current rates. Crutchings which comprise the main offerings at this period, selling at record prices. The best crutchings realised 6d per lb, good crutchings 5d to 5-£d, inferior 3|d to 4|d. Skins. —There was excellent demand, prices were if anything better than recent quotations. We quote : Merino, 6-Jd to 7d ; halfbreds, 6Jd to 6fd ; fine crossbreds, 6d to 6£d ; coarse, s£d to 6£d ; short wools, 5d to 5Jd ; deid, 4d to 5d ; butchers’ skins, 4s 4d to 5s each. Hides.—There was a good entry of hides, a large proportion being good well saved bu chers’ hides. Prices were on a level hitherto unknown in Wellington. These hide auctions are now well established, and-vendors are feeling the advantage of this means of disposing of their hides. Some of the realisations to-day were : Cow, 401bs, 13s to 15s ; 501bs, 16s to 17s; 601bs. 16s 6d to 18s 3d ; 701bs to 801bs, 18s to 20s. Ox, 651bs, 235; 701hs, 26s 6d ; 751bs, 28s ; 801bs, 275, 29s and 30s 9d ; 90lbs, 295; HOlbs, 32s 6d. Tallow.—Rather dull of sale owing to fall in London. Wellington, 10th June, 1904. Messrs Abraham & Williams, Ltd,, Stock Report. At Palmerston we had a good muster of both sheep and cattle. The class of sheep offered was not very, good, and in some cases the prices expected were too high considering the quality. Ewes in lamb sold freely. We disposed of the whole of the sheep offered with the exception of one pen. In cattle, weaners and female stock were at lower values, but steers maintained recent rates. We quote— Sheep.—Store wethers, 14s 7d to 15s 3d; 2- f h do. (small) 13s; fat and forward ewes, 16s 8d ; ewes in lamb, 13s 7d to 15s lOd ; fat and forward lambs, 11s 6d to 12s Gd ; empty ewes, 14s 2d ; heavy fat sheep, 20s Gd. Cattle. —Fat cows, £4 15s, £5, £6 2s Gd, £5 7s to £5 9s ; cows in calf, £3 15s to £4 15s ; forward cows, £4 2s 6d to £4 18s; heifers, springing to caff, £4 10s 6d to £5 15s ; 18-mos do. £8 ; yearling steers, £2 7s to £2 16s; weaners, 19s to 31s; store cows, £2 to £4 6s.