COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10310, 10 August 1911, Page 6

COMMERCIAL.

JOHNSONVILLE STOCK SALE

(By Telegraph—Special to the Age.)

JOHNSONVILLE, Last Night, Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report <m their Johnsonville sale as follows : —A good yarding bullocks and a heavy one of sheep came forward, and met a ready sale. Prime heavy bullocks realised £lO los to £ll 2s 6d; prime medium weights, £9 12s Gd to £10; light, £8 12s 6d to £8 17s 6d; vealers, 27s 6d; prime heavy wethers, 22s 6d; prime wethers, 19s 5d to £1; extra prime heavy ewes, £1 2s 9d to £1 4s 6d; prime ewes, 18s Gd; good medium ewes, 16s 6d. PAHTATUA STOCK SALE. Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report as folows : —We offered a good yarding of both sheep and catle. All classes of sheep were in keen demr.nd, and showed a marked advance. Good dairy stock also sold exceptionally well! Quotations. —4-year old ewes in lamb, 13s 5d to 13s 9d; 4 and 5 vear ditto, 10s 5d to lis 3d; others, 6s 10d to Ss id; fat ewes, 15s Id; good hoggets, lis 7d; others 8s Id; good dairy cows. £5 10s to £9; cows "in calf, £3 7s Gd to £4 ; .springing heifers, £5 17s 6d, £7, to £9; yearling heifers, £2 to £2 10s; 18-month steers £3 9s to £3 10s; weaners, small, 21s to 245. MASTERTON STOCK SALE. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report on their weekly sale at the Solway yards yesterday as follows:—The yarding in sheep embraced all classes. The quality generally was only secondclass, and under these conditions .sales were hard to make, the unsold lots being poor-conditioned ewes. In cattle our entries were beef of good quality, station yardings, and dairy stock. The quality being good, we effected a clearance at very satisfactory figures. Fat ewes made 14s lOd to 15s; forward ewes, 9s to 10s; culled sorts, 5s to 6s; store wethers, 13s Id; hoggets, medium, 9s to 10s 6d; small, 7s; ewes in lamb, poor. 8s 6d to 10s. In beef, prime fat heifers and cows made £6 12s 6d; fat cows, £5 17s 6d; station yearling steers, £2 17s 6d; heifers, 355; best dairy cows, £7 10s; others, £6; aged, £4.

SHARE MARKET. AUCKLAND QUOTATIONS. Mr J. T. Henary, sharebroker, of Auckland (in conjunction with Messrs C. C. Ross and Co., his Masterton agents), reports the following quotations of business at the first call of the Auckland Stock Exchange yesterday morning :-r~ MINING—

PERMANENT QUOTATIONS. ; Messrs C. C. Ross and Co., report the following 4 quotations on the Wei-' lington Stock Exchange. ;

' LOCAL QUtfTATIOIsS.

Sellers. Buyers. £ s. d. £ s. d. Caledonian - 1 5 1 3 May Jueen 2 6 2 4 New Sylvia 3 6 3 5 Saxon 2 6 2 5 Waiotahi 3 3 3 1 Waitangi 3 1 3 0 Watchman 1 S 1 7 Ross 2 1 1 11 Hauragi R«efs 1 9 / 1 7 Old Haurakr 2 1 i ao Crown 3 2 3*1 Tairua Mines 1 10 1 "9 Waihi 3 1 6 3 0 9 Waihi Extended 1 7 15 Waihi Qnd. June. 1 7 9 .1 7! 6

Permanent stocks. Buyers. Sellers. • -- £ s. d. £ s. fd. National BkN.Z, 6 1 6 6 2 .0 Wellington Meat Export £5: 6 5/0 Wellington Meat . Export, £2] 2s 6d 3 5 Q VVgtn Wobl, pref. 3 1 0 Wgtn wool, ord. : i[ 1 6 Westport Coal 1 9 3 N.Z. Diug 2 9 3 Taratiaki Oil 17 3 Taringamutu 2 6 0 2 8 0

Buyers. Sellers. £ a. d. £ s. d. Wellington Farmers' Meat, pref. 8 0 0 Wellington Farmers' Meat, ord. ,•, 3 0 o Worksop dredge 2 0 0 2 10 0 Taringamutu 2 8 6