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Taranaki Daily News, 13 November 1915, Page 2

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LONDON MARKETS. By Cable.—Press Association —Copyright London, Nov. 10. Wheat: Quiet and easier, owinjr to war demands for tonnage. AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. Sydney, Nov. 11. Oats: American 3s.to 3s (Id, Tasmanian white .'is Gd,. Maize: Javan 4s 9d to sa, South African 4s Ud to os Cd. Potatoes: Tasmanians £l4 to £l6, New Zealand £ls to £ls 10s. Onions: Old £4, new £0 10s. Adelaide. Nov. 11, Wheat: Prompt delivery 4s (id. Flour: New £l4. Bran: Is Id. Pollard: Is 6d to Is 7d. Oats: New Is 6d to Is Sd. Melbourne, Nov. 11. Hides: There are small supplies, but there is a good demand and prices are very firm. Wheat: Nominal. Flour: £l7. Oats: Quiet; Japanese 2< <i,i ;;> 2s IOSd, Chilian 3s 3d, Maize: Firm at 4s 9d to 5s 2d. Bran: £4. Pollard: £6. Potatoes: Firm; £l3 10s to £H 10s. Onions.- £2 15s to £3.

SYDNEY WOOL SALES. Sydney, Nov. 11. The week's wool sales closed active for finer classes at full late rates. Inferiors were neglected. MINING RETURNS. Melbourne, Nov. 12., The Mount Lyell profits for the half year were £139,071 and a dividend of Is 3d per share has been declared. NEWTON KING'S REPORT. At Waiwakaiho Yards on Friday, November 5, I had a full yarding with a representative attendance of buyers, who kept things moving right through, prices obtained being right up to outside markets es follows:—Choice 15-month heifers £3 3s to £3 lis, good £2 17s and £2 IDs, fair £2 5s Cd to £2 10s, 15-month steers £4 6d to £4 ss, yearling steers £3 10s to £3 15s, weedy £1 15s to £2 Ills, 15, month to 2-year heifers (empty) £3 10s, empty 2 to'2'/ayear heifers £4 5s to £4 12s Od, 2j-ycar steers £5 15s to £7 3s, small cows with calves at foot (calves inoculated) £5 17s, Jersey dairy bulls £5 10s to £9, Hoistein bulls £7 10s to £8 15s, Shorthorn bulls £!) to £ll 15s, 15-month bulls £2 17s (Id to £4 15*, heavy bulls for boning £ll to £l2, smaller £7 ss, springing cows £8 15s to £9 ss, good | springing heifers £7 10s to £9, fair £5 10s to £0 ss, hoggets £l, fat wethers 3us, fit cows £!) us to £9 10s, forward cows £7 to £8 10s, good storo cois £5 10s to £6 15s, medium stores X' 4 15s to £5 13s fid, very small store cows £3 12s (id to £4 4s.

At Douglas on Monday, Bth, I had a lull yarding with keen competition throughout, practically everything yarded being cleared at tho following prices:— Good 15-month steers £4 Is, to £4 ss, fair size but rough £3 6s 6d to £3 12s Od, small £2 18s to £3, good 15-month heifers well grown £3 to £3 lis, others £2 to £2 15s, 2J-year empty heifers £4 10s to £5 ss, 2J to 3-year steers £8 Is, fat and forward eows £8 to £9 Is,, forward cows £7 as to £7 13s, store cows £5 to £5 15s, spring heifers £6 5s to £7 7s 6d, light bulls £0 15s, ewes and lambs 30s.

At Stratford, on Tuesday, 9th inst., notwithstanding the boisterous weather, I had a good yarding of all classes, lor which, in reasonable weather, I would •have had spirited competition, but the hailstorms during the day kept a good number of buyers under cover. However, irrespective of this, I had a very fair .sale, a good proportion of the yarding being cleared at following prices:— Choice 13-inonlh heifers (farmers lines) £3 Lis Od to £3 17s, good £3 to

£3 7s (id, fair £2 10s to £2 15s, small £1 18s to £2 Os Od, yearling steers, all rough, £2 19s to £3 lis, thin store cows £4 Is, good store cows £5 os to £6 lis, forward cows £6 12s to £7 19s, fat cows £8 15s to £ll 10s, empty 2-ycnr heifers £3 19s to £4 Bs, bulls £6 5s to £9 10s, empty ewes 23s 3d to 25s Od, aged ewes and lambs (small line) 20s 2d, good hoggets 22s 3d, culls 17s 9d. At the springing heifer yards on the same day 1 had a smaller entry of dairy cuttle than usual, the size and quality of which was second grade. Bidding was fairly good, best heifers selling up to £8 10s, the 35 head sold averaging £5 15s.

At Stony River, on Wednesday 10, I had a fair entry for which there was good enquiry, all lines being sold at the hammer as follows: Holstein 15-month heifers, good £4 2s, good grades £3 2s to £3 7s, smaller £2 to £2 7s, 15month steers from £3 10s to £3 Ids, for fair cattle, small £2 7s Od to £2 15s, empty 2-ycar heifers £4 2s Od, 3-year bullocks '£B 14s, fat cows £8 lis to £lO lis, forward eow3 £(! 2s to £7 4s, store cows £4 10s to £5 17s, small and thin £3 2s to £3 18s, yearling Shorthorn bull £4 15s, yearling Holstein bull £4 10s, pedigree .Jersey yearling bull 7gns., dairv bulls £fi 7s (id to £lO 10s. bulls for boning £7 is fid to £lO 7s lid, dairy cowa £i> to £lO 10s, springing heifers all small £3 15s to £0 10s, weaner pigs 18s to 195., Private sales for the week, 15-month steers £3 15s Gd, to £4, small £3 8s end ,01 Ss lid, 15-month to 2-year steers £5, fat bullous Cl 4 14s, 'Shorthorn dairy bulls Clli, boners £9, forward cows £7 ss, light fat cows £9 2s Cd to £9 15s, empty ewes 245, ewes and lambs 25 s to 32s Od, hoggets 19s to 20s Od, fat wethers £1 15s.

MATTHEWS, GAMLTN, AND CO'S. REPORT. On Wednesday last we held our usual v..ckiy ::alc in our Inglewood yards and liml :i full yarding of stouk," most of witioli wore disposed of at the hammer at very satisfactory prices. We quotesSpringing heifers £1" to £7, backward springers £3 3s to £4 12s Od, dairy cow.-. .GS 5s to £B, fat cows £7 10s to £ll, forward cows £5 10s to £7, slo'v cows £3 !) s to £5 ss, empty heifers o 3* to £S 17s Od. Yearling heifer.; £1 13s to ,c:i lis uM, yearling steers CI lis to £3 I.ls, bulls .£.} lis to US Ids, ewes and lambs 20s 7d.

WAIKANAE. At Waikanae on Tuesday there was a small yarding of cattle, which sold at the following prices:—Yearling heifers 35s to 30s, store cows £4 17s to £3 7s, heifers in milk £4 2s 3d to £3 10s, heifer and calf £5 ss, cow in milk £3 10s bulls £7 17s 6d to £B.

AUCKLAND. On Thursday, at Westlield, k'.-,i dairy cows and heifers made from £S 10a to £l2 15s, others £5 to £7 15s, aged and inferior cows £2 to £4 79 Od, empty cows and heifers £5 3x to £8 4s, bulb £0 to £ll lis, yearling to 18-months steers £3 12s to £6 15s, yearling to IS-months heifers £3 3s to £4 lis, calves £1 17s to £2 17s, woolly ewes and iambs £1 Ss to £1 13s, shorn ewes and lambs 12s 6d (all counted;. At Albert yards on Friday heavy draughts sold from £25 to £37, medium £l7 5s to £2B 10s, light harness horses £lO to £l7, hacks £8 to £l7 10a, j ponies £3 ]&s lo £8 ss. weeds 10s to 50s. On Jlonday, at Pukekohe, best dairy cows sold from £ll to £l7 10s, others £G 17.s Cd to £9 ss, best dairy.heifers £&7 10s to £ll 17a Od, others £5 .to £7, aged and inferior cows £1 15s to £3 15s, bulls £5 0s to £l7 lis, according to quality. At Pukekohe on Tuesday grown steera, hi forward condition, sold at from £l2 10s to £l4 10s, 3 to 4-year steers £lO 15s to £ll 16a, 2 to 3-year steers £8 13s to £lO 12s 6d, yearling to 18-months steers £4 Is to £0 18s, empty cows and.heifers £0 Is to £8 7s Od, yearling to 18-months heifers £3 Is to* £5, calves £1 13s to £2 17s, bulls £5 5s to £l3 13s. Beef, a large yarding, sold at fully Westfield rates. J At Westfield on Wednesday o:;en sold to £2 7s per 1001b, cows and heifers £1 14s to £2 4s; steers fold i-.t from £l2 2s Od to £2O 2s Od, cow* r-nd heifers £C 10s to £l4 flg. Kunn«i calves sold at from £0 17s 6d to £8 17s (id, iieuvy f,unl-:ors £3 14s to £5 4s, medium £2 17s to £ 375, light £1 (ij to £-1 lis, small and fresh-dropped 4s to 17s. Sheep—Wethers, in wool, sold from 27s to 38 3 9d, shorn ditto 23s Od to 30s, ewes in wool 25s 6d to 3Gs, shorn ditto 18s fld to 2(is 6d, shorn hoggets 18s fid to 22s fld. Lambs, in short supply, advanced in prices. Best sold at from 21s to 24s Od, others 19s to 20s Od. Pigs were penned in average numbers and improved in price. Heavy baconers £4 5s to £5 ss, medium £3 15s to £4 4s, light £3 to £3 lis, heavy porkers £3 9? to £4 Is, medium £2 'lss to £3 ss, light £2 to £2 J2s, slips £1 is to £1 lis, weancrs 14s to £1 3s.

BURNSIDE. Tliere was a. good yarding oi fuL tattle at Burnside on Wednesday, 221 being penned, including a lot of nice quality. The yarding was sufficient for trade requirements, and prices were 10s per head below last week's rates. Best bullocks £l7 to £l9, extra to £23 12s, medium to good £l4 10s to £l6, light £l2 to £l3 10s, best cows and heifers £l3 to £l4 10s, extra to £l6 as, medium £lO to £ll ss, light £7 10s to £8 53. Fat sheep—lß3o were penned, the quality on the whole being good. »Oompetition was good, but prices for good quality fell Is Od per head; medium quality sold well at last week's rates. Prime woolly wethers 40s to 435, extra to 50s 9d,, medium to good 32s to 3fls, light 25s to 28s, best shorn wethers 27s to 30s 3d, extra to 33s 9d, good 25s (Id to 20s Od, best woolly ewes 34s to 38s Gd, extra to 40s, medium to good 20s to 30s, light Ifls Od to 225, best shorn ewes 20s to 21s, extra to 29s 3d.

Fat lambs—-lOt were penned, being in excess of trade requirements, and prices fell 2b per head. The quality was good. Best His Od to 21s 9d, medium to good Ms to 18s.

Pigs—so fnts and 45 stores.were penned. All classes met with a good demand, and prices were higher than those ruling lately.

JOHNSONVILLE. At Johnsonville there were fair yardings of bullocks and sheep. Fat bullocks made £ls to £l6 ns, prime ewes 23s 10<1 to 245, lighter 20s 9d to 23s 4d, prime wethers 24s 3d to 2tis, prime lambs 15s 8d to l«s Sd. lighter 12s Id to 14s 2d.