COMMERCIAL.

Southland Times, Issue 18845, 10 June 1920, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

BURNSIDE MARKET. (Per United Press Association.) DUNEDIN, June 9. There were large entries of stock in all departments at Burnside tu-day, and the I prices realised were well up to late quota- | lions, especially so in the case of pigs.. ! Eat Cattle: The yarding consisted of 181 j head, the quality being fair. The sale ! opened at an advance of 20/- to 25/- per . head on last week’s rates, but towards the ! finish prices eased hack fully 20/- per head. . Prime bullocks made from £l9 to £22 10/-; extra prime to £2O 10/-; medium, £1.5 to £l7 10/-; light from £l2; prime heifers, £lB 12/0; medium cows and heifers, £l2 to £l4 10/-; light from £S 10/-. ; Store, Cattle.—A large yarding and all lines showing breeding and in forward coni dition were sold at pricc.s on a par with ; the rates riding last week, while for young , and inferior cattle competition wits not very I brisk. i Sheep.—There was a large yarding of : fair quality, numbering 2-119 head. A I number of pens contained well-grown sheep ,in good condition. The demand was brisk ; and prices were a shade firmer on last week’s improved rates. Prime wethers sold 'from 47/0 to .57/0; medium, 39/- to 40/-; light and unfinished kinds from 30/- upwards; extra prime heavy-weight ewes sold j up to .5.5/0; prime, -10/- to 47/0; medium, CTO/- to 3S/-; light and aged from 24/- upwards. | Eat Lambs. —There was a large yarding !of medium quality. The number offered for 1 sale was 1507 head. All lines suitable for | freezing purposes were disposed of at prices I equal to last week's rates, while for inferior 1 lambs slightly reduced values had to be ac- ‘ cepted. Prices ranged from 17/0 to 35/0 ; per head. 1 Pigs. -A small yarding, and as a much larger number could, have been disposed of, higher prices to the extent, of 7/0 to 10/per head were obtained. The best baconers realised from 10.1 to lid per lb, and best potkers from ID’Jd to il;|d per lb. j ADDINGTON MARKET. j CHRISTCHURCH, June 9. I At the Addington market to-day there ; was a big yarding of fat slock, and tin averi age one of stores. There was tin improvement in the store sheep market, the mutton market being very linn, whilst an overflow yarding of fat beef met with a much 1 easier stile. i Store Sheep.- Lambs, 17/1 to 21/10; in- | ferior, 12/7 to 15/0; good two-tooth ewes ( (in lambi, 27/11 to 3(1/1 ; cull two-tooth 1 ewes (in lambi, 1.5/.5; good empty two- ; tooth ewes to 27/1; low-conditioned soundi mouthed ewes, 24/10; four and six-tooth i wethers, 20/4 to 29/9; two and four-tooth I wethers, 2-1/0 to 27/11; two-tooth wethers, ‘24/1 to 29/6. 1 Eat Lambs.—There was a yarding of 2000 of indifferent quality, anti an average demand, freezing buyers securing the bulk. Extra prime lambs sold to 3S/-; prime, 27/0 to 32/1; medium, 24/9 to I 20/9 ; lighter, 20/- to 24/5. ’ Eat Sheep.-- There was a big yarding, with many Tines of very prime, both ewes and wethers. A linn tone was displayed throughout. Freezing buyers secured about half the yarding, operating more freely than usual. Extra prime wethers sold to 4S/0; prime, 39/- to 44/-; medium, 34/0 to 3S/0; lighter, 29/- to 34/-; extra prime ewes, 4.5/- to 49/7; prime, 3S/- to 42/-; medium, 32/- to 30/-; lighter, 2.5/- to 31/0. Eat Cattle.—The penning being much more titan butchers' requirements. and freezers not operating, there was a drop in prices particularly for secondary stuff, which chietly comprised the entry. Extra prime steers soid to £29; prime, £l9 to £24 1.5/-; medium, £1.5 to £IS; lighter, £8 15/- to £l4 12/6; prime heifers, £l3 to £lO 12/0; ordinary. £8 10/- to £l2 17/ li; extra prime cows, £lB 15/-; prime, £l2 15/- to £1.5; ordinary, £S to £l2 10/-. Dairy Cattle. —There was a good demand j for decently conditioned cows and heifers '■dose to profit. Springing heifers, £IS; j second and third culvers (good) to £l7 I 10/-; backward cows and heifers to £l2. Store Cattle.--A dragging sale, lines being ! difficult to quit. Two and a-half year | steers sold to £6 15/-; two-year spring culvers to £7 2/0 : forward cows to £S ()/-. Pigs, - Choppers sold to £9 10/ ; light baconers £•* 15/-, and heavy to £S ; average price per lb, !0d to l(Ud; heavy porkers to £5 5/-; average (mice per lb, 1/- to 1/11. LONDON WOOL SALES. LONDON, June *. (Received June 9. 7310 p.m.i At the wind salts Merinos and fine crossbreds were unchanged. There were heavy : withdrawals in inf' r’-or quality offerings, j “Gear” wool made 4fid per pound. | A KOVAL >ll LLJ \ Li? j : WORLD'S .MOST ECCENTRIC WOMAN. i . I Princess Olga Eristoff. a famous artist, 1 regarded as the most eccentric, woman in ; tin; world, has opened a millinery shop i in Paris, not so much to recoup iter own | fortunes as to gh e employment to all the i Russian women of noble birth who lost, j their money and estates in the Russian i revolution, and who were gaining a pre- | carious living as “hangers-on'’ of society in j the French capital. | Paris first heard of the Princess when j she arrived in the gay city bearing a mahogany coffin with a perforated lid roitI lulling the body of Iter father, former court physician in the Tsar, who had died four months previously. During the four i months the Princes'-, stricken with grief, I refused to believe her father was dead. I and refused to have the body buried, earj tying it with her over all Europe, The 1 next sensation came when the Grand Duke | Boris arrived to pay court to the Princess. One day announcement of the Royal ! engagement was given out, anil the next I day the Princess disappeared. Months I later she was discovered living incognito jin Petrograd. The Grand Duke mean- ! while had married someone else. Rcturn--1 big to Paris, the Princess Kristoff opened I an elaborate studio in the Avenue de Saxe, l in which she gave dinners and supper ' parties (.hat became noted for their eccentric- , by. A feature of the studio was that rt. conI tained no chairs, (he guests silting Turkishwise about the floor. Coffee flavoured with essence of sunllower was an invention of the hostess. Russian dances at these receptions were the lalk of Paris. Above all the Princess’s oddities of manner mid dress—-she invariably wore a monk's costume of sackcloth—-her brilliant genius as a painter was recognised by all the art I authorities of ' Europe, and a painting by her recently fetched £16,000 at Christie’s London. This latest idea is the most original of all, according to a verdict of Paris. For it the Princess has routed a dilapidated studio in a tumble-down building in a back street, and has installed her “Matson dcs Modes,’' which, by the way, is frequented by the highest Parisian society. To set aii example, the Princess had a sofa installed in the workroom, on which she sleeps every night, although she pays £4OO a month rent for a magnificent apartment just off the Bois de Boulogne. The employees, who include the Countess Tschnowsky, sleep on thick rugs on the floor. The j studio is heated by charcoal braziers similar to those found in Russian peasant huts Every Tuesday and Friday afternoon studio teas are given, at which the latest creations of the house are displayed, while the Princess who is a wonderful musician, plays Tschaikowsky melodies on a piano.