COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 107, 13 August 1910, Page 7

COMMERCIAL.

AUSTRALIAN' MARKETS. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Sydney, August 11. •Wheat, 3s Tl%d to 4s. Flour, £9 10s. Oats—Tasmanian, 2s 6d to 2s 7d; Algerian feeding 2s 2d to 2s 4d, milling 2s «d. Barley—Cape, feeding 3s, seeding 3s 2d. •Maize, 2s Bd. Bran and pollard, £4. • Potatoes—Circulars £B, others £6 to £7 10s. Onions, £4 to £4 10s. Butter, M2s. Cheese, 6d. Bacon, 6%d.

Melbourne, August 11. Hides—Competition dull. All classes one-eighth to a farthing lower. Wheat-4s 4%d. Flour, £9 10s. Oats—Feeding, Is 9d. Baa-ley—Prime English malting, 4s 3d; Cape 2s 6d. y Maize, 2s sd. Bran and pollard, £4 10s. Potatoes, £6 ss. Onions, £3 10s to £4. Adelaide, August 11. Wheat, 3s l'l%d. Flour, £8 15s. Bran, liy 4 d. Pollard, lid. • NEWTON RING'S WEEKLY REPORT.

At Mr. S. M. Porritt's clearing sale at Midhirst on the 4th inst. there was a good attendance of buyers, and anything closely up and showing quality was keenly competed for, and everything sold at satisfactory prices. Early calvers made £7 10s to £';l<3 ss, later do. £5 15s to £7 r very-late and empty £3 to £4 10s, pedigree Jersey bull 20y 2 gns., heifer (calved) £8 los, springing heifers up to £7 10s, in-calf heifers £4 7s Gel to £4,155, yearling heifers £3 to £3 ss, sows £3 2s 6d to £5 ss, boar £2, aged draught mare £lB 10s, dray £l2 ss, spring; trap £l3 ss>, harness £4 ss, roller £3 10s, jacks £4 5s to £5 10s. Sundries at usual rates.

On Friday, sth inst., I held a clearing sale at Waihi on account of Mr. W. J. Rose. There was a large attendance of buyers, and the cattle, which were in good condition, met with keen competition. Early calvers made £8 5s to £l2 ss, do. Holstein £ls, later do. £6 10s to £7 10s, 18-months heifers £3 10s, sows in farrow £2 5s to £3 15s, young sows 30s to 32s 6d, boar £3, stores 21s,' d.f. plough £ls, dray £l3 10s, halfdraught mare £lB 10s. Sundries sold as usual.

At Urenui on Monday, despite the [wet weather, there was a full yarding land good attendance. Yearling steers made £2 lis, extra quality £3 2s, yearling 'heifers £2 to £2 13s, forward do. £3 Ws Gd to £4 Gs, fat'do. £5 Gs, 18months to 2-year steers £3 9s to £3 12s 6d, 3-year steers (good condition) £5 9s, springing heifers £5 5s to £6 17s 6d, springing cows to £7, 2-tooth to f.m. ewes 14s Bd, hoggets Lis 3d. On the same day I sold a portion of Messrs Skinner and Son's dairy. Early calvers made frpm ,£G 10s to £7 15s, ■ later do £4 5s to £6 ss.

Oh the same day at a sale on account of Mr. W. Greenwell, ,at Mahoe, there was keen competition for the cattle, which were in excellent condition. Early calvers made £8 5s to £lO 15s, later £6 15s to £7 10s, very late and empty £3 10s to £5, yearling heifers £2 14s to £3 12s, draught mare £l9 10s, light mare £l2 15s, sows £2 2s 6d to £3 10s, sow and litter £3 17s Cd, brake £3O 10s, disc 'harrow £8 2s ;i 6d, trap £ls 10s. ( On the same day at a sale on the Frarikley road on account of Mr.' A. Swales, the cows, being in poor condition and rather late, did not reach late market prices. (Early calvers made £7 5s to £9 ss, later £5 to £6 15s, very late £3 to £4 16s, draught mares £l2 to £l9 ss, dray £ls, harness £5 17s 6d.

At Stratford on Tuesday there was only a small yarding of' store cattle. Mixed weaners made 33s to 42s Gd, yearling heifers £2 5s to £2 17s, empty heifers £3 13s to £4 4s, store cows £2 7s to £3 10s, forward do. to £4 17s; fat do. £6 2s Gd, bull £4.

On the same day I held my opening sale of springing heifers and dairy cows, when there was a good yarding, with a big attendance of buyers. Competition was keen and anything showing quality and well up to calving sold at excellent prices. Springing heifers, close up, made £6 10s to £7 17s 6il, later do. £4 to £S' los, springing cows £6 to £8 10s, later £4 to £5 10s. Messrs Quinton and Haylock's dairy, which was sold at this sale was keenly competed for, prices ranging from £7 10s to £l3 5s for early calvers, later do. £4 10s' to £6 15s. At Stony River on Wednesday there was a good yarding, and everything was sold either 'in the'yards or privately. 1 Weaner steers made 35s 6d to 375, year- ' ling do. £2 7s to £2 lis, yearling hei- | fers £2 <ss to £2 7s 6d. empty heifers £3 7s Cd to £3 17s, store cows £2 to £3 9s 6d, forward £4, fat £5 12s to 1 £7 Is, springing heifers £4 14s to £6 j sb, springing cows £5 5s to £7 10s, 18- \ months to 2-year steers £3 lis to £3 j 14s, hogget 13s 6d. On the same day, at the sale on account of the estate of the late Mr. A. Lealand, the cows were few and baek--1 ward ,and realised: 'Early calvers £6 to I £7 10s, late and empty £3 IBs .to £5. eows and litters £2 to £3 17s 6d, youngsows 27s 6d to £2, dray £ll 10s, tine harrows £2 2e 6d, chain do. £2 10s, s.f. plough £5 ss. 'Sundries sold at usual market rates. MATTHEWS & BENNETT'S REPORT. .Matthews and Bennett report a good yarding of cattle at their Inglewood yards on Wednesday last. There was a good attendance, and, with the exception of yearlings, prices for cattle and sheep were fully maintained. We quote-. Good yearling heifers £2 4s 6d to £2 1(0 3 medium do. 34s to £2, yearling steers £2 2s to £2 3s od, store cows £3 4s to £3 18s, old cows £1 to £1 Is, forward do. £4 7s 6d to £4 15s, springing heifers £5 15s to £7, backward do. £4 6s to £5 ss, springing cows £6 to £7 ss, unsound do. £3 5s to £4 10s, 2-year steers £3 15s, empty heifers £3 «s to £3 17s, hoggets lis 3d, cull ewes ss. ' At the mart on Saturday weaner pigs made 8s to 12s 6d.

OUTSIDE -MARKETS. AODi'NGTON. Ewe hoggets made 14s 3<l to 14s -IW, mixed sexes 12s to 14s, wether hoggets to 12a IW, six and eight-tooth ewes 18s 4d aged ewes 9ft to 10s, forward wethers 16s 9d. There was a very small yarding •f fat sheep, and 'being short of requirements of butchers there was a rise of about 2s 6d to 3s per head. A few pens of fat hoggets sold well. Only two new season's lambs were sent in and they made 21b. The range of prices was: Prime wethers 20s to 26s 3d, extra to 30s, others 16s 8d to 19s M, ewesil& to 18s 6d, merino wethers 20s to 20s 6d, hoggete 18s to 17s lid. ~.„„. . , ffit cattle-Steers realised £8 5s to

to £8 ss, cows £5 17s 6d to £9 10s. Beef made 20s to 28s per 1001b. The yarding of vealers was limited to about 25 head of various sizes and 1 accounts. Representative prices ranged from 4s 6d to £3 15s.

A small yarding of store cattle, mostly of inferior quality, met with weak demand, few of those present being apparently anxious to do business. Yearlings sold up to 30s, 3-year steers £5 10s, 3-year heifers £4 ss, dry cows £2 to £5 2s 6d.

Dairy cows, which were of good quality, met with fair demand, and most lots offered changed hands. The quality was on the whole satisfactory. Prices ranged from £3 10s to £lO 7s 6d. The yarding of all descriptions of pigs was small, and there was fair demand. Baconers realised to 50s, equal to 4d to 4y 2 d per lb. The small sorts of baconers were sold as porkers, and in conse-. quence of the short supply brought good prices, selling up to 5d per lb. The store market opened weakly, but improved, and at the close of the sale prices were 2s fid to 3s above opening rates. Medium stores made 22s to 275. smaller 16s to 20s, weaners 9s fld to 12s. BURNSIRE.

Fat cattle—ls6 head yarded, the quality and size being scarcely as good as last week. The sale opened easier, but prices finned up as the auction advanced, and sales elbsed with prices fully equal to last week's rates. Prime bullocks £lO 15s to £ll 17s 6d, medium do. £9 10s to £lO, light do. £8 5s to £8 15s, best cows and heifers £0 5s to £lO, medium do. £7 15s to £9, light do. £6 to £7 6s.

Fat sheep—267s penned, including a fair proportion of prime ewes and wethers. IPrime heavy wethers held their own at last week's quotations, but medium quality showed a decline of from 6d to Is 6d per head. Prime wethers 18s 6d to 21s, extra do. 22s to 24s 3d, medium to good lfis 6d to 17s 9d, light do. 13s 6d to 15s M, prime ewes 15s 6d to 17s, extra to 20s, medium 13s to 14s 6d, light do. 9s 6d to 12s. Lambs—There was only a -small yarding of 349, consisting of ordinary quality, with a few pens of prime sorts. Competition was confined chiefly to export buyers, and prices were a shade easier. Prime las 6d to Ills (Id, extra 17s to 18s, medium 13s to 14s 6d, small lis to 12s Gd.

Pigs There was a .good yarding. Suckers and slips were easier than last week, but fat pigs, porkers and baconers sold up to late rates,

JOHNISONVILLE. Messrs Abrahams 1 , and Williams, Ltd., report on their Johnsonville.sale as follows:—We offered a good entry of prime sncep and cattle, which sold readily at late rates. Prime heavy ox £9 17s 6d to £lO ss, light £8 2s (Id, prime heifers £7 10s to £7 12s <Sdy extra prime wethers 21s Bd, prime wethers 19s 4d to £ 1, good ewes 12s !)d to 18s 6d. Pigs, sold on >behalf of Mri Monk, realised the following prices:—Breeding sows from 50s to £5, porkers 10s to 23s 6d, slips 7s to 13s 6d; spring-cart mare £25.