COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9991, 11 March 1910, Page 6

COMMERCIAL.

LONDON WOOL SALE. Messrs Dalgety and Company, j Limited, report having received the j following, cable message from their London House under date of the Bth inst. — Wool.—The March aales opened with a large attendance of buyers, animated competition, and a fair selection. *or Merinos generally prices are at par to 5 per cent advance, fine crossbreds are unchanged, but medium and coarse crossbreds show a decline of from par to 5 per cent.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., have received the following cable from their London house:—London wool sales: There was a full attendance at the opening of the sale to-day, competition by Home and Continental buyers being active. The opening catalogues were fairly representative. As compared with last sales closing rate prices are about the same for fine and medium crossbreds, about par to 5 per cent lower for coarse crossbreds, and about 5 per cent, higher for greasy merino. America is buying suitable lots of crossbred.

STOCK MARKET. Messrs Dalgety and Company, Limited, report on their Pahiatua Sale as follows.—We had a fair yarding of sheep, no cattle coming forward, and had a fair clearance at ruling prices, bidding being anything but spirited. We quoteLambs, 3s, 3s sd, 4s 4d to 6s 3d; cull ewes, 3s; breeding ewes, of 10s 4d; cull rams, 6s to 10s 6d;. 4-tooth Romney ram £3 3s. wethers, 9s lOd to 10a lid. CLEARING SALE AT MT. BRUCE. Messrs Co., Ltd., report having held a most successful clearing sale on account of Mr Hugh Douglas on his farm at Mt. Brace yesterday. As Mr Douglas had dis posed of his property all stock and implements offered were absolutely unreserved, and buyers knowing this bid spiritedly for all lines brought under the hammer, and the sale, from start to finish was brisk. The attendance was good; settlers from all over the Mt. Bruce district rolled up in force, and it was evident that they had piade up their minds to give a popular settler a good send-off by making the sale a success. Some very good sheep were offered, especially in Lincolns, Mr Douglas having some very nice purebred sheep of this breed. His flock was worked up from McMaater ewes, the rams used being from the flocks of Messrs Wm. and Bland Eayner. Thirty twotooth ewes made 2fgns; seventy six tooth ewes, 15s 6d; Lincoln ewe and ram lambs, 14s 6d and 16s 6d, respectively; seventy-four f.m. Lincoln ewes, 20s. A line of forty-three two-tooth Lincoln rams sold as follows:—Five at 4|gns, five at 3£gns, fifteen at 3£gns, eighteen at 3gns; one six-tooth stud Lincoln, 6 gns, one do at 7gns. In crossbred sheep three hundred s.m. ewes made 10s 4d, good lamDS 8s 6d, cull lambs 3s. Cattle: Dairy cows £3 8s to £3; forward steers, £6 2s; good calves, 365. Light draught horses sold at from £2O to £24. Implements, harness and all sundries sold at satisfactory pries, and all through the sale was in every way a most successiul one.

By Telegraph —Pre?s Association. PALMERSTON N,, 1 March 10. Messrs Abrahu .. and Williams report at their sale at Palmerston North on Thursday, the 10th March, / as follow:—A full yarding ot sheep met with good competition and recent pi ices were well maintained. All classes of cattle also sold well, and a total clearance was mad*. A line of sev.enty forward bulloi-.ks realised £6los; three-year steers. £4 18s; two and a-half year steers, £4 ss; fat cows, £4 to £4 17s 6d; forward cows, £2 16s 6d to £3 Is; eighteen - months steers, £2 17s 6d; weaners, 22s to 28:?; small weaners, 15s; bulls, £2 2s 6d to £5; two-tooth ewes 136 6d; medium two-tooth to six-tooth ewes, 12s 6d; 3mall twotooth ewes, lis 7d; four and five-year ewes. 10s 8d to lis; f.m. ewes, 6s Id to 7s; cull ewes, 2s 6d to ss; store lambs, 7s; woolly lambs, 8s 6d; one lii.e of 1,300 four and six-tooth wethers made 12s; other lines, lis 8d to 12s 2d; f.m. rams of various greeds, 8s 6d to 21s.