COMMERCIAL.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8896, 16 August 1907, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Stock Market.

Messrs Bulgety aud Co., Ltd., report ou their Palmerston North sale as follows: —There was a good yaruiug of sheep, which sold at- prices as ■below : Ewos in lamb 8s 4d, woolly hoggets 11s Bd. There was a fair yarding of cattle; fat cows £3 15s to £6 6s. Messrs Abraham and Williams report At Palmerston ou Thursday competition for sheep was not as keen as usual. All classes of cattle sold well, and a total clearance was made Store wethers made 17s lid, p:i'w,l vm ewes in lamb to Romney Irani- his l)d, ewo hoggets 15s, mixed hosgets 13s to 13s 2d, aged ewes in Imnb 8-1. Fat bullocks made £i) Bs, fat cows £-1 to £6, fat heifers £3 -Od to £4. yearling steers £2 ;.'s Oil, 3 Tear steers £4 18? >‘d. 2 y £; 4s, springing seo>ve £3 ■ £5, store cows 25a to £2. I Nov*' Zealand Loan an-- u ’ Aqcncr Co., Ltd., jvpwt. — ■' - Maxwell’s sale at ImmiyrY,.,po on Tuesday buyers were pn-tem., a.iu tlio cows won; well >,ompf -..d £i> 50s being the highest price pain. The whole herd of di cows, including backward, aged aud those Wi!h thioc teats, made the satisfactory average iof £5 ss. At Palmerston ou Tlmrsdav we had a fair yarding of boll sheep and cattle. CmupotlHuu wagood throughout and very little _ war turned out unsold. Sheep’. -o-o-k hoggots ids, medium ids 2d, fat owe; iSs to Ills 2d, store owes IDs Id. aged owes with 300 per cent lambs 23s ‘ad. Cattle : Yearling heifers (p-v-nJ U : yearling heifers 335, maxed yearling; C.r to 355, store cov.- -.’Os to (id, forward cows -!3s to •»-.<. c-v.; in calf £2 10s to £3 .:3s, dairy cows close to profit £3 as to £i, spnngin; heifers £3 12s (id to £i 3s fid.

Grain and Seed.

Messrs Kayo aud Carter, iifel. Christchurch', report as follows Wheat: Milling Tuscan 4s 6>£d to 4; Pearl 4s 7d to 4s Bd, Hunters 4 sjyd to 4s fowl wheat 4a 3d t( 4s sd, f.0.h., Lyttelton, sacks extra Milling wheat,‘the market is stil very quiet, with little or no busi ness doing. Fowl wheat scarce stocks nearly all exhausted. Oats A Garton 3s 2d to 3s 3d, B Gartoi 3s Id to 8s 2d, Sparrowbills 3s 1< to 3s 2d, Danish 3s to 8s 3d, Dun 3s 2d to 3s 4d f.o.b. Lyttelton, sack included, practically only local trad doing. Potatoes ; Table sorts £3 15 to £4 ss, dull: soo:l lots £4 5s to £ f.o.b. sacks included; markets easio for both'tablo and seed sorts. _iuixmrrn —- -g-=p»gu«.