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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8770, 23 March 1907, Page 2

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Stock Market. New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., report:—At Palmerston on Thursday wo had a full yarding of cattle,* and an average entry of sheep. 'Cattle met with a somewhat dragging sale, but most Hues were quitted by the end of the day. There was a good demand for sheep, and with the exception of one line all lots were sold. There was a fair inquiry for rams, and a good a number were sold. Quotations : Sheep: Store lambs 7s 4.1 to 9s, aged ewes 10s 7d to 11s, sorrnd mouth ewes 15s 9d, forward wethers liis Bd. Romney rams 3,1 < to aged rams Ito l?',gus, ~ Shropshire ran;a 18s to 33s Gd, Southdown rams 3 to Lincoln rams 4 to Cattle: Weauers 9s to 16s, small yearling steers 2os to 38s, 18 months steers £2 to £2 Gs Gd, store cows 2os to 355, 3 year steers £3 2s Gd to £3 16s, 3 year steers £4 15s to £5, forward cows £3 10s to £3 7s, forward heifers £.3 15s.

Messrs Dalgety and Company, Ltd., report on their usual weekly sale at Palmerston as follows: —There was a smaller atte fiance of buyers than usual at the ales to-day. We had a very good entry of sheep, principally ewes, also a fair yarding of cattle. Bidding for both cattle and was very slack, a number of linos being passed in. Wo, however, disposed of a number of Hues immediately after the sale. We quote : Good s.m. ewes 11s lid to 13s 3d, aged ewes Bs, 8s lOd, 9s, Stootb Lincoln rams 4>4 to £4 17s 6d, 3 % year forward steers £5 7s Cd. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., Feilding, report for week ending 33nd as follows: —Apiti: Owing to the rough weather only a small entry of stock came forward for this sale. Sheep sold well under good competition. Sheep; Cull ewes 7s 2d, 7s, s.m. ewes 12s 4d, 2 tooth wethers 12s, mixed lambs 7s 6d to 10s Id. Cattle l Weanors 18s yearling heifers 17s, heifers in calf £3 2s Gd, 15 months stores £2 8s 6d, forward cows £3 9s, cows and calves £2 10s, store cows £3 10s. | Feilding: An average entry of sheep and cattle came forward. Sheep generally were of somewhat poor quality, and met with rather a dragging sale. Good sorts were, however, in good demand, a pen of 4,6, and f.f.m. ewes ’making 25s Sheep; Cull lambs 5s lid, store lambs 7s Gd to 8s 6d, cull ewes 6s Gd, f.m. ewes 10s 4d to 12s, 2 tooth ewes 18s Gd, 4,6, and f.f.m. ewes 255, Romney rami 2% Jto 2% guineas. Cattle: Weauers 10s, 18 months heifers 38s Gd to 335., 2 year ’heifers £3 Is Gd, cows and calves 3os, Torard cows £3 3s.

Woo! Skin and Hide Sale

s, Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on their monthly sale : —We had a fair catalogue :to offer buyem, conxprising 7 bales and 70 - sacks wool, 1300 skins, 500 hides, 3 casks and 30 tins ‘tallow, and the usual quantities of bones, horsehair, , etc. Competition was spirited * tliroughont, and satisfactory prices

g were realised. Quotations : Wool; . Rough crossbred Sd to '■)}.<<}, good lambs Gd to G%d, inferior to dead 7%d to 9d, pieces' and locks 4%d to 6%d, locks 4%d to od. Skin : Crossbred full wool lamb !)d to 9,hfd, shorn lambs dead i Mto 7%d,baro pelts 7%d., butchers’ ’ half dry and green quarter to half wooled pelts 4s to 5s 7d, butchers’ short wuool pelts 3s Gd to 3s 9d, iambs Os Id to 7s, full woollecl 10s Id. Wool Sales. Messrs Murray, Roberts & Co. have received the following wool market cablegram from their London Rouse, Messrs Sanderson, Murray & Co., dated March 20th : —Market very firm. Compared with the closing rates of January sales, greasy crossbred, excepting the finer sorts, has advanced 5 to 7i per cent. Coarse greasy crossbred of good lustre and breed shows the greatest advance. Grain anti Seed, Messrs Kaye & Carter, Christchurch report under date March 20th : Wheat : Milling Tuscan 3s 4Jd to 3s fid, Pearl 3s 4Jd to 3s fid, Hunters’ 3s 4d to 3s 4£d, fowl 3s 3d to 3s 4d, f.0.h.5.e., Lyttelton. Milling wheat market still rulgs firm, and the demand 1 for pear? continues. Fowl wheat is dearer and in short supply, , Oats ; A Garton 2s JOd to 2s 10id, B 2s 9d to 2s 91 d, Sparrowbills 2s 9d to 2s 9id, Danish 2s Bid to 2s 9Jd, Duns 2s 10d to 2s lid, f.0.b.5.i., Lyttelton. Demand not so keen. Offerings , are still very small. Potatoes.—-Table £4los to £5, f.0.b., i s.i. Market well supplied. i