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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8101, 22 March 1906, Page 6

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AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Received March 21, 10.7 a.m. SYDNEY, March 21. Wheat, chick 2s lid to 3s Id, milling 3a Id to 3a 2d; flour £7 10s, Manitoban £l4 10s; oats, Algerian feed 2s 4d to 2s 6d, Gartons 2s 6d; barley, Gape 3b 6d, English second quality 3s 2d to 3s 6d; maize, new, 3s 6d; peas, 4s 6d; bran and pollard 9%d; pocatoes, £6 to £7 10s; onions, £7; butter, choice, lOd; bacon, 7d to 9d. MELBOURNE. March 21. Wheat 3s Id to 3s 2d; flour, £7 ss; oats, Algerian milling 2s 2d, feeding Is lid to 2s ; barley, malting, to 4s-Hd; maize 3s lid; bran, 9%d; pollard lid; potatoes, £6 to £6 10s; onions, £6 to £6 10s. ADELAIDE, March 21. Wheat, 3s l>jd to 3s 2d; flour, £7 2s 6d; oats, Algerian, 2s 2d; bran and pollard, lOd to 10}£d. JOHNSGNVILLE STOCK SALE. Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on their Johnsonville sale, held yesterday:—A full entry of bullocks. The bulk were prime, balance only plain light steers. Best quality sola freely at 20s to 21s. The others were very hard to quit. Best bullocks, £7 17s 6d; otherß, £7 7s 6d to £7 12s Gd; light, £6 15s to £7. A small yarding of sheep. Only a few prime. Best ewes, 15s; wethers, medium, 15s 9d; stores, ' 13s 6d. STOCK SALE REPORT. Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on their Masterton stock sale as follows:—<We had an exceptionally heavy yarding in both sheep and cattle. Sheep were penned greatly in excess of advertised numbers, over 15,000; being submitted. Business at auction was on the whole Young sheep and good-oonditioaed ewes

selling readily, but aged gags were difficult to quit, business iu several cases having to be done privately. 'Ve succeeded in placing almost the whole of the catalogue before the close of the sale. Cattle, of which 650 were penned, were, as usual, dull of sale, and the bulk of the business had to be done privately. We quote:—Sheep: Fat ewes 14s 6d to 15s 4d, fat and forward ewes lis lOd to 13s sd, breeding ewes 17s 8d for best 4 and G tootb, others 15a Gd, 15s, 14s Bd, 14s 6d, 2-tootb 13s 6d down to 12s. store ewes 10s Od, 10a, 9s Sd, 9s 3d, 9s down to Bs, old owes 4s to 7s, crocka 2s lOd to 3s 7d, 2-tooth ewes 12s to 14s 6d, fat wethers 16s Gd, store wethers 14s to 15a Gd, 2 tooth wethers 12s 6d to 14s, halfbred 2tooth wethers 13s Id, lambs fat and forward lis, best shorn 9s 9d, other shorn 7s to 8s 2a, woolly lambs, best 8a (3d to lis, others 5s to 7s Gd, rams, of which a large number were sold, at—for Lincolns lgu to 2>£gns, Leicesters lgn to Cattle: Fat cows £3 5s to £4 10s, store cows £2 to £2 12s 6d, cows and calveß 32a 6d to £3 7s 6d, empty heifers, 18months, 22s to 365, 12 to 15-months mixed sexea 22a to 295, weaners 8s to 15s, 2 year steers £3 7s Gd, bullocks £4 10s to £5. Pics: Weaners 8s to 9s.