COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10088, 8 September 1910, Page 6

COMMERCIAL.

MASTERTON STOCK SALE,

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report at their fortnightly sale at the Waipoua yards yesterday :-~The yarding was very light, only one lot of sheep coming forward, and those being mutton. In cattle the list was made |up of beef cows, dairy stock, and 1 one pen of bullocks. Sheep all changed hands, and all the cattle with the exception of two or time backward cowa. They quote:—Fat ewes,-medium, made 13s 3d; 1 extra heavy pet wether, 255; fat cows, £6; store bullocks, £6; 2\ year steers £4 19s; nice quality forward ] springing heifers, £6; store cows, 60s; bull, £5; wearier pigs, 15s 6d. I Messrs Dalgeiy and Co. Ltd., report having held their uaual Masterton sale yesterday, when only a fair yarding was offered, but ail stock offered brought satibfactory prices, and we report having had practically a total clearance. We quote as follows: Hoggets, backward stoiee, to lis 2d; fat heifers, £3 12s 6d, £3 15s to £4 10s; fat.steers, to £7 12s; store cows, to £3 8s 6d; cowa in milk, £3 13s <sd to £3 18s; extra good cows in milk, to £8; 2-off steers, £3 19s; pigs—sows in pig, 20s to 375; slips, to 18s; boar, 16d.

PAHIATUA SALE.

Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on their Pahiatua sale, I held on Tuesday:—We offered a fair | yarding of sheep and cattle to a moderate attendance. Sheep, which consisted principally of hoggets, were somewhat harder to quit than of late; the whole of the yarding, however, changed hands. The cattle yarded I were of poor quality, but sold well up to recent values. QuotationsMixed hoggets, 13s 6d, medium hoggets to lis sd, poorer sorts 7s 9d to Bs6d;fat ewes, 17s 6d. Cattle: Springing heifers at drop, £6 to £6, 2s 6d; others, £5 7s 6d, £5 10s, £& 12s 6d, £5 15s; backward heifers/ £4 15s; forward empty heifers, £4 15s; springing Holstein heifer, £6.

JOHNSUNVILLE SALE,

By Telegraph—Special to Age. JOHNSONVILLE, Last Night. Messrs Abraham and Williame, Ltd., report on their Johnsonville sale as follows:—We offered a good yarding of bullocks and sheep, wliich sold readily at late rates. Prime heavy ox, £ll 12s 6d to £ll 15a; medium, £8 12s 6d; light, £7 lis Id to £8; prime heifers, £8 to £8 19s; lighter, £7 9s 6d to £7 18s 6d; vealers, 17s 6d to 365; prime wethers, 25s to 263 and 24a 3d to 24si v 9d; prime ewes, £1 Os 7d to £1 is 73.