COMMERCIAL.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8892, 12 August 1907, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Feilding Market Report.

Messrs A. H. Atkinson and Co., Ltd., report! :—On Friday we had the largest entry of pigs winch have been penned this season, and which met with prices satisfactory to the vendors. Produce and poultry also came to hand in fair quantities. Potatoes are dull of sale, ancLpoultry met with keen demand. Quatations : Horses : Aged £2 13s 6d, to £3 10s. Pigs: Slips 9s 3d to 12s Gd, stores 18s to 20s, good porkers 31s, sows 655. Poultry: Roosters Is 4d to 2s, hens Is .3d to 3s Id, turkeys ss, ducks 2s to 2s lOd. Produce : Pig potatoes 4s, eatiug 8s 3d to 9s (id, bacon, home cured, factory sides •(}£&, hams 7%d.

Wool, Skin, and Hides.

Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report having held their usual monthly wool, skin and hides sale at. Palmerstou on Friday. There was a large attendance of buyers and bidding was brisk, especially for skins and wool. Wool: We offered a medium consisting mostly of crutchings of medium and inferior quality. Prices were on a par witli last sale. Rough crossbred 7J£d, dead wool to ? :! ; fd. inferior crutchings 4d to 3d, medium to 5%f1» We did not offer any crutchings of good quality. Skins: We offered some very good lines, a large number being in damp condition. Prices were higher than at last sale, and for all good conditioned skins thero was keen competition. Crossbred f''.l wool Sd to half to three--; - u-rer wool 7 : ; ; (d, pelts and i short v, ,iol sh<d to 7d, dead hoggets to to 6%d~, shorn lambs butchers' part dry and green 5s Gd to 6s 9d for medium and 7s 3d to 7s lid for cood heavy skins. Hides: In sympathy with cable advices from Australia, reporting further decline there was again a slight drop in prices here. Our ottering only consisted of light ox and cow hides. Calf skins were eagerly competed for. Medium ox 4Jrfd, cows 4u ( 'd to 4%d, sloopy and wet conditioned cows 4d! yearlings to 4Jjjd, sound calfsfdus Gd to CJgd. Tallow and all sundries sold at full market rates.

Stock Report

Messrs Balgety and Co., Ltd., report, on their Feilding sale on Friday n* follows:—We had a very good yarding of sheep, and a good entry "of cattle. Below are prices realised : (i tooth to f.m. ewes in lamb JOs Sd, backward empty ewes 8s 4d, 24£ to. 3 yen- steers £3 His 6d, mixed yearlings 28s Gel to' 25s fid, fat and forward heifers £3 10s. Messrs Freeman E. Jackson and 00. report:—On 7th instant, at our Wauganui sale, 2150 sheep, 280 cattle and 40 pigs came forward. Sheep! maintained late values, and practic- j ally the lot changed hands during] the day. A somewhat better tone in the cattle market, and all yarded found purchasers. Pigs met a ready sale. We quote: Good ewes lfis 9d to 17s, medium ditto 15s to 15s 7d, fat wethers 21s, fat and forward ewes lis lid, wethers and ewes mixed 13s fid to 14s, hoggets good 14b to 14s Cd, medium ditto 13s to 13s (id. small ditto Bs, full-mouth ewes in lamb lfis to 13s Bd, cull ewes 8s 3d to 10s 3d, fat cows £~> lis to £<! os, empty heifers 34s to £2, forward speyed heifers £3 7s fid to £3 8s Cd, I empty cows £2 5s to £2 12s 6d, 3year steers £4 ss, 18-month to 2-year] steers £3 Is 6d, empty cows old 345, J

' Grain and Seed

Messrs Kayo and Carter, Ltd., Ohristchurch, report as follows: Wheat: Milling Tuscan 4s 6d to 4s 7d, Poarl 4s 7d to 4s Bd, Hunters 4s Cd to 4s 7d, fowl wheat 4s 3d to 4s od f.o.b. Lyttelton, sacks extra. Milling wheat: The market remains very quiet, but holders are mostly still firm and confident. Fowl wheat scarco, stocks nearly all exhausted. Oats : A Gar ton 3s 2d to 3s 3d, B Gar ton 3s Id to 3s 2d, Sparrowbills 3s Id to 3s 2d, Danish 3s to 8s 2d, Duns 3s 2d to 3s 4d, f.o.b. Lyttelton, sacks included, market quiet, nothing but local trade'doing. Potatoes: Table sorts £4 to £4 10s, m good demand; seed lots £4 5s to £O, f.o.b. sacks included; market easier tor both table and seed sorts.

High Commissioner's Report

Per Press Association. Wellington, August 12. The Department of Industries and Commerce received the following from the High Commissioner, dated London 10th August:— Mutton is quiet; there is a dull sale for all quality. Canterbury brands North Island 3%d. Lamb is firm and there is better demand, especially for light weights. Canterbury other than Canterbury n%d. Beef is steady, although arrivals are very heavy. New Zealand hindquarters 3Jsjd, fores 2%d. Butter firm ; choicest brands continue in active demand, only small enquiry for second class quality. Choicest New Zealand 103 s, Danish 112 s, Siberian 955, Irish 105 s perewt. Only a small supply of Canadian is coming forward. Cheese steady; New Zealand brands COs for white, 01s coloured ; Canadian white 5Gs, coloured 575. The hemp market has a quiet tendency and is iu favour of buyers. Good fair Wellington grade on spot £34 10s, fair grade same position £29 15s; fair current Manila on spot £35 10s. „ , . Coekfsoot qu'et, only small business doing, prices unaltered.