COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 December 1918, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

| UOKBON MABKETSL I (Rec. December 24, 5.5 p.wf London, Dec. 20. Wheat and flour. —Market quiet La , Plata's on spot 62/6. Beans and peas, prices tending to easier—Aus.-N.<£. Cable Assh. LOAN AND MERCANTILE REPORT. The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd. (Stratford branch.), report as follows: Our stock yard sales were resumed oil December 10, after a long spell 'due to the epidemic. On Tuesday, December 10, we bad a full yarding at our Stratford saleyarda. The dairy pens also were well nlled. Everything was cleared at satisfactory prices, dairy stock selling remarkably well. Next sale at Stratford, Tuesday, January 7. At the sale held on December 10, store cows realised £5 15s, £7 to £9 17s; springing cows, £l2 to £l7 10s; cows and calves, '£B to £9; calved heifers, £ll to £l3 10s; empty heifers, £8 5s to £7 ISs; calved cows, £3 to £ss; yearling heifers, £3 18s 6<T to £4 12s 6d; yearling steers, £4 5s to £5 10s; bullocks, £11! 10s; three-year steers, £9 to £9 10s; bulls, £y to £7 ss; springing heifers, £lO 5s to £l4 10s. At the Rtatau yaiads on the I3th December, we had a medium yarding. Most of the stock was quitted under the hammer, or immediately afterwards, at ruling values. Yearling heifers realised £3 16s 6d to £4 12s fid; 2|-year steers, £S 7s to £9 15s; 2-year empty Sellers, £5 15s to £6 7s; store cows, £5 5a to £9; springing heifers, £7 to £8 10s-, bull, £7 10s; fat heifers sold at £9. Our next sale at this poirit will ba held on January H).

At the Kohuratalii yards on Monday) December 16, we held our adjourned sale. We had a full yarding, parties larly of cattle. We quitted evarything except one pen of two-year steers. Yearling heifers realised £4 to £4 16s 6d; •20-months' steers, £i 19s; 3-year empty heifers, £8 lis; 2-year heifers, £4 17s 6d and £6 9s; 3-year bullocks, £8 18s to " £lO 10s; 2i-year steers, £7 10s to £7 Ms 6d; fat cows, £9 14a to £lO lfs; yearling Jersey steers, £3; store cows, £7 10s to £8; old ewes and lambs (in wool), 29s lOd; 2-tooth shorn wethers, 27s 6d; woolly wethers, 345; shorn hoggets, 275. | At the Te Wera yards on Thursday, [ December 19, we had a satisfactory sale, [everything being quitted at satisfactory I values. Store cows brought £8 9s to £9 ss; fat cows, £lO 10s to £ll Is; empty heifers, £5 16s to £6 7s 6d; yearling steers, £4 -2s 6d to £6; springing heifers (backward), £7; 3-year steers,, £9 17s. Next sale, January 24At the Tarata. yards on Friday, -December 20, we had a full yarding, pf cattle, also several lines : of t sheep,. We had a remarkably satisfactory; sale. Nearly every pen sold quite in accord, or even tetter, than previous sales. Eighteen-months' hejf- 1 ers realised £4, Qs.flit to «*j|B4 -jte} 15--months' ; steers, £4 lls-Gd fd 'fS las; 2js- - steers, £8 G3 to £S ISs; store cows, £S 3s Bel to £10; empty heifefs, £5 2s fljj-tp : .£(( ~l7s. ,6d; swing heifejs, £7 10s; bulls, £6 10s to £9 10s; a nice line of fat heifers'jjold at £lO Is; pyear steers, £<i; SS.jlOs; mixjed ewes, 23s 6d; hoggets, 18s to "21s; sli oirn ewe, 22k. Our : next sale will be held on January 17. f .Since our laf.t report we; have, effected a.'number of- private lieSf-. ers, £5 15s::to £fi ,8s; stdiie cowSj £9,! to'i£lo 12s:(id; bulls, £l<) l,Qs; v ,4 . a!\4j<>-.' tooth wethers, to £1 .las; SS-totifth .eiijes a«d wethers, 375. <id; hoggets, 18s ,to-223.: