COMMERCIAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 48, 28 October 1913, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

NEW ZEALAND CHEESE. 1 ' By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] 1 * * i ■ [United Press Association'. ] 1 ■' London, October 25. The New Zealand prize cheeseat the Dairy Show fetched fancy prices. Tariki, which gained first prize, brought 90s, Kaupokmuh 85s, and Hawera 80s. There is no New Zealand cheese on the market. The first arrival, on October 30, is expected to realise about 61s, the present value of Canadian cheese, AUSTRALIAN TRADE. Paris, ‘October 25. • The Australia committee of the British Chamber of Commerce in Paris r'eports that' it' visited Lille, Ronbaix, Tourcoing' and 1 Dunkirk, t There is a steadily increasing demand in those towns for Australian wool, also a good market for timber, oilseed and tallow. Dunkirk is especially adapted for handling Australian produce, having extensive sheds, with easy access to the sea and railways, where wool and frozen meat could be stored. It was resolved to send samples to the commercial museums of the towns mentioned.. MATTHEWS) BENNETt AND CO. Messrs Matthews, Bennett and-Co. report thatlthetb was 1 a’full yarding of cattle in their Inglewood yards on Wednesday last, 'bidding was good, and nearly, everything was sold at the following, prices:—Good yearling heifers £2 lariA £2 14 s, yearling eteers £2 to £2 ll^jepipty heifers £3 to £3 15s, store cows £2 10s to I£4 10s, old and backward springers £3 15s to £4 15s, forward do. £5 10» to £8 10«, bulls £3 IDs To t£(l'o. !

NEWTON KING’S WEEKLY REPORT.

At Urenui on Monday, 20th inst., I had a full yarding of cattle and eight pens of sheep. Competition for all lines was improved, the majority of the yarding being cleared at the following prices:—Jersey yearling heifers, well grown, but not too good in color £3 4s;ito £3 Ids,,grade yearling heifers £2 8s fkl.to, £2 18s, small £1 Ids to j£2 2sv mixed yearlings' £2 Ids, yearljpg /deers, £2 ICs 6d to £3' 8s 6d.,. ;to £2, yearling w,cll. hred Shorthorn tyull £6,i J daivy, bulls, £6 to. £7, < nice lines of 2 ; ypa,ij coloured heifers,(empty) i £|l .Ids, 2,,year ; empty. heifers. £3,12s tp, £8 J{Bs, 2; year eteers ■(small). ,£4j 2s ami $3 ills for,,a colou.ml jJine, cows anfj (jaiyes, £4., 12s, store coys, ,£ijl Ids to £4 [l,6s, fpr. good conditioned cyws, small; coys £2 16s 6d to £3, i iOs, aged cows £2, fat cows £6 6s to £6 14s, 3 year bullocks £6, cw.eg and }afpb.s v 2l.s, I ,styre l yethors, 18s 3d, mixed ewes,, and wethers 19s 4d, hoggets 13s 9d, IJs 6d, 13s 4d, pack horses and saddles £3 2s 6d.

In the dairy pens I had an entry ! j 56 spy,ingWß' J heifer and, cows, of fVvjyah . l.jWl‘l -*v>«»/*i.i>r«-i i t ssjss, pfibeys ,483 :J d|o_,£,q7 15s, spv'Nging ,buffers,. £7,.15a,' £7;jl(>s, £<. "ts, qd, £7,; 5 3j .£7, ,£6 m . Gd, ,£6..7s I.os, 15s, 6d, £3. u Eal'jpli), pn, ,Tuesday . 1 had a .fair yarding of cattle, which, sold at satis-, factory, prices.,as follows ;—-Grade yearling, hcif.qrs ,up ,to £3 35,, Jersey yearling nice lino of well grown yearling .heifers with some color, on account of Morrow’s estate ,£3 I ts, .yearling steers £3 2s, 2 year steers £4 to £4 4s Gd, .mixed yearlings (mostly steers, but had colored) £2 Is, 2 year empty heifers £4 2s 6d, yearling bulls £1 15s to £2, store cowi (aged) £2 7s 6d to £2 14s, good store cows £3 14s to £4 12s 6d, fat cowf £5 15s to £6 10s, Holstein dairy bulls £lO, £7, £5, Jersey dairy bulls £l2 10s and £lO, Shorthorn dairy bulls £lO, £6 Jos,. £5, .springing heifers (small) £3 l7s 6d to £5 j.ss. In my springing, heifer yards at Stratford on the, same day 1 had good,, competition for heifers showing quality and close up,

prices being as fallows: —Heifers £l2, CIO, £9 15s, £7 10s, £7 se, £7, £6 lus, £0 10s, £6 7s 6d, £6 ss, £6 2s 6d, £6, £5 16s, £5 12s Gd„ £5 10s, £5 ss, £4 17s 6d, cows £8 15s, £B, £7 ss, £7. % Private sales for the 'veeu ;m* blows:—Nice line of yeaning hritei■ihowing a lot of Jersey, £3 15s, yeaidng steers £3 5s 6d, £3 ss, £3 4s, yearling purebred Shorthorn bulls £B, uul dairy hulls at from £5 os to £ls 15s, choice line of Holatein springing heifers llgns, empty 2 year heifers £4 5», 2 to 2i year steers £4 15s, £4 7s 6d, £4 ss, good lino of 3 and 4 year bullocks £6 17s 6d, fat cows £6 10s, to £7/10s, forward cows £5 7s 6d, store cows £4 12s 6d, £4 ss, £4 4s, £3 Ifis Gd, £3 10s, completing a line of 280 to a client in the North, dairy cows £7 10s, fat wethers 25s to 265, fat ewes 23s and 23s 4d, small hoggets 425.