COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 September 1918, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

6HARE MARKET. Auckland, Last Night. Auckland Gas, ordinary 27s 9d, contitenting 19s 3d; Auckland Tramways, 19s; Waihi, 40s; Rising Sun, 3s 4d. NZ LOAN AND MERCANTILE REPORT. The N.Z, Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd. (Stratford branch), report as follows: Oil August 30, at Tarata saleyards, we lmd n fair yarding, mostly cattle,tond t'vo pens of sheep. Four-tooth wethers 3os, hoggets 2ls 6d, empty heifers (small and low in condition) £4 3s, £4 12s to 2s, store cows (small) £4 18s, yearling heifers £3 to £3 14s fid, in-calf heifers (small and-backward) £6 ss, £0 15s up to £S 5s to £lO 15s. On Hie 13th inst., at Te Wera yards, the yarding was chiefly young cattle, mostly of indifferent quality. Freshj conditioned, empty heifers £7 l'2s 6d, store cows £5 6s to £7 12s, empty heifers £5 16s, £G 2s Gd to £0 (is, yearling heifers £3 10s, dairy cows £lO 17s Gd up to £24, heifer and ealf £9. On the 17th mat., at Stratford, we had a good yarding of young cattle and springing heifers. _ Store cows £5 to £7 12s 6d for big-boned cattle, fresh end forward cows £8 10s to £lO ss, empty heifers £5 ss. £6 17s to £7 7s Od, yearling heifers £2lßs6d, £3 Is, £"3 17s Gd up to £5, yearling steers £3 Ifls, ; ■£■! 4s to £5 17s Od. springing heifers £R 7s Od, G!> ss, £lO 7s S;l : £ll 5s to , £ll 17s (id, dairy cows £lO 10s to £l4. Private Sales.—The backwardness of . the season and the recent severe wea- , ther has retarded the volume of business usually effected during August. Inquiries for most lines of sheep and cattle are now increasing. Dairy cows, £ (l s. .£lO 10s to £l7 10s: store cows, £6 Ins to £9 ss; empty heifers, £5 18s Gd to £G 7s fid; yearling heifers, £3 to I FA 10s; 3 to 4-year bullocks, £l2, £l2 10s up to £l4 3s fid; hoggets, 23s 3d. ' 25=. 2fis: fresh-conditioned ewes, 27s 6d ■ lo 20s fii E .