COMMERCIAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 27, 15 January 1912, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

WHEAT AND TALLOW. The :\ew Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, nave received the following cablegram xrom their London nouse, under date lbNi inst: — Wheat. —We have sold an Australian cargo at 3Gs 7Vd c.i.f. Tlie market is linn but inactive, owing to bad weather. The Argentine outlook is uncertain. We quote, per quarter, c.i.f.: Sew Zealand wheat, long-berried, 31s od; kliort-berried, 31s. 'i allow. —We quote present spot value for the following descriptions:— Good mutton 35s per cwt., good beef 33s 3d, mixed 31s 3d. The market is dull. Mewton King’s Weekly Report. At my llahotu yards on Wednesday, 3rd, on account of the proximity ol the holidays, I had only a small entry, and only a fair attendance of the public. Store cows made £3 15s, old cows £1 Gs, yearling steers £1 17s Gd to £2 Is (id, yearling heifers £2 5s Gd, purebred Jersey bull £lO 10s. On Friday, sth, at my Waiwakaiho yards, I had a good yarding of stock and a good attendance. All cattle met with good competition, showing an improvement on former prices. Weaners iss to £1 4s, 2 year heifers £4, 2 year steers £3 2s Gd to £3 10s, cows and calves’ £3 17s to £4 15s, fat cows £4 IGs, forward cows £3 3s to £4 8s Gd, store cows £1 15s to £2 Jss, buds 17s to £3 7s, springing heifers £4 7s Gd to £4 12s Gd, springing cows £3 10s to £6 2s Gd, cows in milk, but old and not sound, 19s Gd to £3 13s Gd, cows in milk £3 2s Gd to £5 ss. On Monday, at Urenui, 1 had a fair yarding, but owing to the very line weather and harvesting, 1 had only a fair attendance. Bidding throughout was brisk for most lines, • especially store and forward cows. A good number of 18 months cattle were sold during the day, at improved rates. A corn-fed big-framed fat cow mot with very keen competition, and realised £7 19s, yearling to 18 months steers realised £2 13s Gd to £3 4s Gd, yearling to 18 months heifers £2 15s Gd to £2 19s, grade Holstcins 15 months heifers £3 7s, 2 year steers poor £3 11s Gd, store cows £2 14s to £3 11s, forward cows £3 17s to £4 ■ Bs, fat cows £4 11s Gd to £5 Is, springing heifers £4 10s, cows in milk £4 10s to £5, bulls £2, wethers, shorn, 10s Bd, mixed shorn ewes Bs.

At Toko yards on Monday I had a fair yarding and attendance. Quotations: 15 month heifers £2 16s, 15 month steers £2 13s, bulls £2 7s Gd to £3 10s, store cows £1 16s to £3 ss, forward cows £3 7s 6d to £4, fat cows £4 to £5 2s 6d, cow in milk £7. On Tuesday, at ray fortnightly sale in the Stratford yards, I had a good yarding, cattle coming forward in excess of advertised numbers. Bidding throughout the day was good, and, with one exception, every line was cleared during the day, mostly under the hammer, at improved rates. The first weaners in these yards for this season were mixed .lots, the better of them, some well grown Jersey heifers, realising £1 12s to £1 17s 6d, other weaners, much poorer cattle, 10s to £1 Is, yearling to 18,months heifers £2 10s 6d to £3 2s Gd, yearling to 18 month steers £1 14s to £2 14s 6d, mixed yearlings £2 10s, bulls £2 10s, to £4 13s Gd, 2 year steers (coloured) ,£3 14,s Cd, others £4 7s. 6d, store cows £3 Ss 6d to £3 ,12s, forward cows £3 15s to £4, 'fat cows £4 5s to £4 11s. ■IS On Wednesday,■ at Stony River, I liad only a small yarding and attend-’ ance, consequently business during the day was not so good as at former sales. I had several pens of weaners yarded,, hut....only, the better and stronger calves were sold. An exceptionally .nice, well-grown line of Shortliorh weaners was yarded, and they were a credit to their owner (Mr W. Green way). ' These met with very good competition, and realised £1 17® Gd for the steers and for the balance, which were really first-class wellgrown and good-conditioned mixed weaners realised £1 11s, 'ordinary weaners were quoted and realised £1 Is, yearling to 18 months heifers £2 5s to £3 5s Gd, 2 year heifers £3 12s, 2 year steers £3 10s to £3 14s Gd, fat cows £4 12s, grade bulls £3 to £6 4s GdA, During the last week and the holidays I have sold a good number of caftle ■ privately at the ’ following prices :—Mixed yearlings to £3, yearling 'to 18 month steers £2 7s Gd to £3 Is Gd, 2 year steers £3 14s to £4 7s Gd, 2 year heifers £4 2s to £4 10s, store cows £3 10s, herd of 41 dairy cows £6, dairy hull £l2, fat cows £4 10s to £6, yearling bulls £2 ss, store hoggets 12s, mixed sheep 12s 9cl. Matthews and B<?nn?tt’s Weekly Report! t Messrs Matthews and Bennett report that there was a fair entry of cattle in their Inglewood yards on Wednesday, 12th. Prices were as follows : —Weaners £1 2s to £1 4s, yearlings £2 10s to £3 2s, stem's £3 to £3 ss, bulls £2 12s Gd to £4 Is, store cows £2 to £3 12s Gd, forward cows £4 to £5, forward bullocks £s' 10s, fat cows £G.