COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3062, 5 December 1908, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

MARKET EE POET. The following are the wholesale buying prices quoted locally, December sih, 1908 : Per Ton. £ s. d. £ a. d Flour, s'ks 12 0 0 Wheatmeal 12 0 0 'Pollard 8 0 0 Baied Straw 2 0 0 'Chaff— Baled Hay 4 0 0 Best Oaten 4 0 0 ±surley • Oaten Straw i'earl 22 0 0 chaff, 20 0 Onions 10 0 0 'Oatmeal 13 0 0 Split Peas 18 0 0 gran 7 0 0 Potatoes 7 0 0 Per Bushel. "Wheat, fowl 5 0 Beans 5 0 •Oats, short .. 2 6 Barley, feed 4 b Oats long ..2 6 Blue Peas 4 6 Oats, dun .. 2 9 Partridge Peas 5 0 Maize ..4 6 Per lb. Hams .. 9 Bacon 7£d to Bsd Cheese .. 6 .Butter—9d to lOd Eggs 1 0 vWELLINGTON WOOL SALES. Messrs Levin and Co., Ltd., report that the second sale of this season held m the Town Hall, Wellington, yesterday, when there was a large attendance of buyers, keen competition, and an all round rise in values. Fine crossbreds advanced 2£d and coprse crossbreds from id to Id as compared with the sale iheld on November 13th. Me&srs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report:—Our catalogue at to-day's wool • Sale comprised 3,200 bales, of which 3,1C0 were sold. There was spirited • Competition, especially from the local woollen mills. Halfbred wool was higher by 4d, fine crossbred Jd to Id, medium id to Id. The •Fernyhurst clip sold by us topped the market, realising Is per lb. for halfbred and fine crossbred. A lot, •■on account of Messrs White Bros., Tane, and Mungavin, Porirua, 10£ d. N LONDON MARKETS. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., are in receipt of the following cablegram from their London office:-?" Wool — .As compared with last sales closing "rates, prices are higher about 1\ per cent, to 10 per cent, for fine crossbred and merino, and about 15 per - cent, for medium and coarse greasy -crossbred, and about 10 per cent, to "15 per cent, for greasy crossbred , VJambs and crossbred slipe. America -•competing very keenly." EKETAHUNA STOCK SALE. Messrs Dalgety and Co., report held their fortnightly sale in Messrs Abraham and Williams' yards at Eketahuna, on Friday, December 4th. We had a heavy yarding of botn sheep and cattle; ■ and quitted the whole yarding before the day closed. Bidding for f sheep under the hammer was good, the same may be said for the -cattle. We quote:—Mixed hoggets, in wool, 9s 2d to lis Id, ewe hoggets 12s 4d, ewes and lambs, in wrool, 17s Bd, shorn •ewes and lambs 14s 9d, k 2-tooth ewes, poor, to 8s lOd, shorn :2-tooth wethers 10s to 10s 6d, j '4-tooth shorn wethers lis lOd, Cattle—2. to. 21-year steers £3, empty heifers 35s to £3 6s, 4-year-•old bullocks to,i£s ss, dairy cows to .£5 ss, mixed yearlings 26s to 30s, •bulls to £5.