COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10140, 10 December 1910, Page 6

COMMERCIAL.

HOME MARKET. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., have received the following cablegram from their London house:— "Wheat sold at 35s IOJd c.i.f., Australian cargo. Market steady; Very little demand owing to decreased supplies. Outlook uncertain." EKETAHUNA STOCK SALE. Messrs Abraham and . Williams, Ltd., report on their Eketahuna sale, held yesterday, as follows :—The yarding was not a large one, but the cattle pens were fairly well filled. The entry of sheep was confined to weth-

ers, dry ewes, and ewes and lambs, for which there was a good enquiry, and bidding at auction was animated. Cattle also sold well, young dairy heifers and steers of any description being keenly sought after. Quotations :—Two-tooth wethers, 12s Id; shorn ewes and lambs (all counted), 8s Id; forward ewes, 10s; yearling steers, £3 to £3 4s; mixed steers, with a few cull bullocks, £3 6s; yearling heifers, £3.2s to £0 10s, and as low as £2 for small late calves; bulls £3 to £5 17s 6d; weaner pigs, 10s to 15s. (By TelesrraDh—Special to Acre.) EKETAHONA, Last Night.' The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co.j Ltd., report having held their usual fortnightly sale yesterday, when they submitted a large yarding of cattle, all lots selling under the hammer at prices

in vendors' favour. Owing to the wet weather, the sheep as advertised did not come forward. They quote: —Two-year-old steers 80s, 80s to 955; empty store cows, 70s, 75s to 80s; empty yearling heifers, 60s, 65s to 70s; "2-year-old heifers, 80s to 90s ; weaner calves, 325.