COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7943, 18 January 1906, Page 5

COMMERCIAL.

MASTERTON STOCK SALES. Messrs Dalgety and Co, Ltd., beld their fortnightly sale at the Masterton yards yesterday. Though unly a few sheep were advertised, considerably over 1000 ffere yarded. Cattle, also, exceeded advertised numbers. There was a large attendance of buyers, and bidding for sheep was free, all lines selling under the hammer or Immediately afterwards. The majority of the cattle were also disposed of, a pen of 40 3-year store bullocks selling at £4 12s 6d, fat cows £4, dairy heifers £2 15a, 2%year steers £3 se, fat ewes reached lis lid, young breeding ewes 12s 6d, 2-tooth wethers 12=, 2, 4 and 6-tootb I wethers 13s 2d, good Southdown woolly rape lambs lOd, good woolly whiteface lambs 10s 4d, good shorn lambs 9s Bd, light porker pigs 17s 6d to 20s. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency report:— A\, our Mastertou stock sale in eheep we penned aged ewes, 2-tootb wethers and ewes and woolly Jamba, all selling under the hammer. In cattle we yarded cattle of all classes, including some lots of grown steers. These being good sorts found ready purchasers, as did any well-bred younger cattle, the sorts failing to sell being aged cows and bad coloured steers. Aged ewes made 8s 4d, woolly lambs, medium 8s 7d, small ss, grown steers £4 10s to £4 13s Gd, 2-year-olds 55s to 655, 2-year heifers 45s to 50s. springers 655, light beef cows and heifers 55s to 655, yearlings 20s to 30s, calves 13s. A well attended meeting of settlers in connection with the annual stock sale at Upper Opaki was held in the Schoolroom on Tuesday, 10th instrint. The chair was tuken bj G . H. Welch, and according to the stock promised at the meeting the sale will far exceed those previously held. The number of cattle and sheep promised in the room were 300 and 4000, respectively. A strong committee was chosen to canvass the district and, also, a working bee to enlarge the yards later on. The date . for the sale was 6xed for the middle of March, and on a ballot being taken as to the auctioneers, it was decided that Dalgety and Co., in conjunction with the Loan and Mercantile should conduct the sale. LONDON WOOL SALES. By Telegraph—Speoial to Age). WELLINGTON, Jan. 18. The London office of Messrs Dt>lgety and Co., cables, under date January 16th, as follows:—The wool sales opened with a good selection. There is a large attendance of buyers, and animated competiton. In merino wools any change of price is in favour of the buyers, while in fine orossbred wools any change in the price is in favour of the sellers. In medium and coarse orossbred wools prices are, on the average, at par to 5 per cent. 1 ower than the closing rates of the November series. ' Keoeived January 17, 5.19 p.m. LONDON, January 16. The wool sales opened with brisk demand, but unchanged prices. LONDON MARKETS. Received January 17, 5.19 p.m. LONDON, January 16. The total wheat and flour afloat; in the United Kindgom is 2,125,000 bushels and for the Continent 1,250,000 bushels. Atlantic shipments total 254,000 bushels, acd Pacific 100,000 bushels.

BANK SHARES. Received January 17, 5.19 p.m. LONDON, Jan oary 1 6. Bank of Australia, 92 to 93; Bank of New South Wales, 40 V 2 to Union Bank, 49 to 50. SYDNEY WOOL SALES. Received Januaiy 18, 1.17 a.m. SYDNEY, January 17. The sale of good sorts continues animated and firm. Medium and inferior are a little weaker. Greasy touched and seourea 23J^d.