COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10172, 23 February 1911, Page 7

COMMERCIAL.

MASTERTON STOCK SALE

.The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report on the first sale held in the Sol way yards yesterday, as follows: —All good classes of stock right through the sale found a ready market, the only lines to drag being poor and inferior lots Of our large catalogue of sheep and cattle only a few poor class sheep and inferior cattle went out unsold. We quote: §heep\- Best 2-tooth ewes, 14s lid; others, 13s and 12s 9d; small, 10s; sound' good woolled breeding ewes, lis to 13s; older sorts, 6s to 8s; culls, ss; lambs, best, 9s; medium; 7s 9d; small, 5s 6d; fat ewes, 12s; store wethers, 2 and 4-tooth, 12s;" 2-tooth medium, lis; small, 10s. Forty 2tooth Lincoln rams were sold at from 3i to 4£; guineas; full mouth 2-tooth" Romneys, H to 2} guineas; 2-tooth Southdowns, 3 guineas; 2-tooth Shropshires, 3 guineas. Cattle: Forward bullocks, £6 7s 6d; Poled Angus, £•". 15s; 3-year steers, £5 10s; 2A-.YW steers,'£4 10s; 18-months steers, £3.

PAHIATUA STOCK SALE. Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report as follows:—We had a moderate yarding of. both sheep and cattle. We experienced a decidedly dull sale, very little business being donei Quotations: Pour-tooth Lincoln rams, sto 2J guineas; cull ewe?, 3s 9d; small lambs, 2s 6d to 4s 3d-; full mouth rams 10s 6d; light fat cows, £4 to £415.; empty cows, £3 l k ; heifers in calf, £4 Is; 2|-year steers, £4 6s;;18-months steers, £3 ss; bulls, £3"ls to £4 10s.

|AUCKLAND SHARE MARKET Mr J. T. Hendry, sharebroker, of Auckland (in conjunction with Messrs C. C. Ross and Co., his local agents), report the following quotations of business at the first call cf the Auckland Stock Exchange yesterday morning:—

MINING-*- - . £ s. d. £ s. d. /' Sellers. Buyers. Good Hope. H 2* Kuramii 5 3 Caledonian ,1 4 12 New Sylvia 3 5 3 .1 Occidental 2i" ' ■• -14 Watchman 2-10 •: 2 .9 Bremner's Freehold •■ 5 ' 3 Old Hauraki 1 8 1 7 Kapanga • ' 4 oC Crown 4 ?. -11 Options 1 8 1 3 Golden Cross' 8 ■ ■ 7 Talisman con. 2 7 3 2 6 9 New Issue 2 2 0 2 1 G Waihi 3 12 :63 12 0 Reefs Consolidated 2 .7 2 '5. Waihi Extended 2 3 1 11 Waihi Gnd. June. . 1. 8 9 18 6 Taranaki Petroleum 13 6 13 0