COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10199, 30 March 1911, Page 6

COMMERCIAL.

AUCKLAND SHARE MARKET.

Mr Jj. T. Hendry, sharebroker, of Auckland (in conjunction with Messrs „C.; G. Ross and Co,, his' local agents),' report the : folio wing , quotations of • business at the first call on the Auckland Stock Exchange yesterday morning:— MINING— ', :

.. j/Goldiields; :•;. ./19; 0 .'; .17 -S SALeK; (By:Telpgrapii-7-Special to,tho Age.) / JOHNSONVILLE;- Nighti Messrs Abraham and Williams report on their Johasonville sale as follows: —We offered a heavy yarding of sheep and a good one of prime bullocks,' which sold at late rates. .Prime heavy 1 , bullocks, £lO to £lO 17s 6d; lighter, £9 10s to £9 15s;'light, r £B 17s 6d to £9 2s 6d; vealers, 355; extra prime heavy withers, 19s 9d; prime wethers; 17s; plain, 14s to 15s; prime ewes, 13s 4d to 13s 9d; extra, 16s r 6d 5 good ewes, 14s; plain, 10s to lis 6d; good.lambs, lis to 13s 6d; good shorn, 9s 6d to 10s6d. ; ; MASTERTON STOCK'SALES; " Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., rcj port" having held their usual weekly.

sale in the Sol'way Yards,. Master- ! ton, on Wednesday, 29th March, when they advertised a yarding well above advertised numbers, which we J are pleased to report met ; with a, 1 ready sale. There was a good; atten- j dance, of buyers, and despite the dry , weather experienced during the last few weeks, bidding was brisk, and -prices, were well up ■to late ' fates. Our yarding of sheep, was 5217, and \ve ; 501d;'4770, ;,which .under 'the cuv.; • cumstances' is -..• satisfactory. Y» ej j quote as; follows':— Two-tooth lis to" 12s 6d; 2, 4 and/6-tooth | 10s '"jßd; f.f.m. ewes, 8s 2d to 9s 4d • 6-tooth to f.m..ewes (poor condition) os 4d to 8s lOd; f.in. ewes, 6s, 6s (3d, 7s 4d to 8s 2d; poorer sorts, 4s 6d to 5s lOd; ewes for boiling down, 2s 6cl to .4s Id (according to condition) ; 2-tooth wethers -, 10s 2d to 10s lOd; ,2 and4-tooth' wethers, lis, ; lis 4d to 12s; 4-tooth'wethers, 12s i to 13s 3d; lambs, woolly K 6s, to 7s; small woolly lambs, 4s 6d io. 55,.7 d; shorn lambs (small) 2s 6d, 3s, 3s Bd, 5s 8d to 5s lid; fat maiden ewes and wethers to 13s 6d; fat ewes, 12s 7d; fat wethers to 14s 6d. . ihe New Zealand Loan»and Mer- ! cantile Agency Co., Ltd., report at their weekly sale at the SoHvay yards Yesterday:' .We." submitted other, heavy list of sheep of all class-, es.' The fear'of a drought was very ' apparent, buyers being cautious, in bidding,' ■ although ' good forward. • sheep in 1 ewes, or ;wethers sold readily the; only' classes 'to : "drag being ; the aged and faulty sorts. /I'aken as a, I whole, the sale was a good one, only j two pens failing to change hands.. i In fats, prime ewes made 13s 8d; 'medium, 12s; light sorts, lis. to lis j 6d; forward ewes, sound.. ;.-mouthed, j ranged from 8s 9d to 9s 9d; good : wethers made lis to lis'j ! 9d; small, 9s to 10s; : breeding ewes were only fair to medium, selling 1 from 6s lid to 8s 3d; culls, 3s 6d to'*4.s. In ilaanbs, a good pen, of forward conditioned made 9s 2d; stores 5s to 6s 6d. In rams only a few came forward, Downs making £2 2s to £1 Is; aged .sorts, 10s 6d. A lot of 50 nice quality steers were submitted, but failed, to reach owners' -reserve.; .'■'■■•.

£ s. d. £ s. d. •:'S ellere. Buyers. Old-Alburnia 3 1 Bonanza 4 ■ 2 Ktirariui 31 - -..':'^ Caledonian • 1 '2 • 10 May Queen 2 0/ i io Mouowai 1 9 1 4 New Sylvia -. 3 0 2 10 Saxon ■23 2 2 OldHauraki .2 2,'2 0 Kapanga 9 :•' ..8J Crown ■; i'.; 3 6 3' 6 Talisman con. 2 9 6 2 9 3 Wailii v 2 5 6 2 5 0 Reefs Consolidated; '2 '*;■: 2 1 ' Wajhi Extended • 2 o •■','■ ;.1 : --':-- "Wailii jjjnid; June. ■i : 7" : :: ?"; '% ;7' : -f" 6 Haridswprth'•/" , •■ari; .'.' ■' : '■•': ,! i Consolidated