COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 1036, 17 August 1911, Page 7

COMMERCIAL.

JOHNSONVILLE STOCK SALE. (By Telegraph—Special to the Age.) JOHNSONVILLE, Last Night. Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on their Johnsonville sale as follows: —A fair yarding of bullocks and a good one of sheep came forward and met a good demand. Best bullocks made £9 10s, £loj lighter, £9 to £9 7s 6d; light, £8 15s; prime heavy wethers, 22s 3d; good wethers, 19s 4d to £1; light, 17s 6d; prime heavy ewes, 19s Id to 19s 3d; good ewes, 17s 6d. MASTERTON STOCK SALE. Messrs Abraham and "Williams, Ltd., report on their Masterton Stock Sale held yesterday as follows: —We submitted a very small entry to a very fair attendance of the public, but demand was not good, business under the ; hammer in some cases being inclined to drag throughout. Good dairy cows realised £6 10s to £7 10s, and up to £9 5s for extra quality; weaner calves £2 Is; mixed sheep, good dog meat, 5s 6d.: 'We will l)e offering.an extra good line of dairy cows at next Wednesday's satle. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report: —■ We submitted a good yarding in sheep of all classes. All breeding ewes offered were good sorts and found ready sales at advanced rates. All good strong hoggets changed, hands at sound prices, only inferior pens failing j to reach reserves. In wethers, very i few came forward, and strong sorts ' sold rapidly. In cattle, the entries were confined to dairy stock. Really good cows close to profit sold freely, but poor and backward sorts were neglected. S.m. ewes in lamb made 12s; 2 and 4-tooth ewes in lamb, 13s i 6d; aged ewes, 5s 3d to 7s 6d; store I wethers, 13s 6d; first-class hoggets, I to 12s lid; fair sorts, 10s to 10s 6d; j dairy cows, best, £6 to £6,17s 6d; j aged, £3 to £4; small pigs, Bs. j Messrs Dalgety and, Co., Ltd., rejort:—Sheep came forward in excess >f advertised numbers. We yarded 1500 sheep of all classes, and some really good wethers and hoggets came mder the hammer. Although bidling by auction was not spirited, prices were sound and showed a slight idvance on last, week's rates. On account of Mr W. H. Booth, we sold a line, of 490 shorn mixed sex hoggets' it from lis 6d to; lis Qd. >. On account Booth, 100 .woolly hoggets at lis lOd. Fail-, hoggets mad© from 7s 5d to 9s 8d; small 2-tooth wethers, 9d to'lis 9d ; cull ewes, from ss-4d: fcp Bs. In fat sheep we yarded an ex-, cetptionally line of heavy-skinned prime Lincoln wethers, on account of Mr Jas Macara, and the top "price for the season was obtained for these sheep, a buyer being found under, the hammer at 20s. On account of the same vendor we sold fat hoggets at 14s. The yarding of cattle was small, principally dairy stock coming forward. We sold springing cows on acooupt of Mr J. A. Donald at £7 15s to £B. Other sales: Mixed sex weaners, 30s; store cows, £2 17s 6d to £3. GREYTOWN STOCK SALE. Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report having held their usnal fortnightly sale at Greytown yards on Monday: —Only one line of sheep came forward, and this—woolly hoggets of fair quality—sold at 10s sd. A fair entry of dairy cows and heifers camei in, and a j nice line of heifers on account of Mr 1 E. J. Jackson were quoted at £6 15s; j cows made from £5 to £6, and store ' cows up to £3 15s. |

SHARE MARKET. AUCKLAND QUOTATIONS. Air J. T. Hen.try. sfiarebroker, or Auckland, (in conjunction with Messrs <3. C. 3(m -nnd Go., his Masterton agents), reports the following quota■t'w"! nf business at thp first coll of the Auckland Stock Exchange yestercl-iv morning:— MINING—;

PERMANENT QUOTATIONS. Messrs C. C. Ross and Co., report the following quotations on the Wellington Stock Exchange. Permanent stocks. Buyers. Sellers.

LOCAL QUOTATIONS.

Sellers. Buyers. • . £ s. d. ' £ s. d. Caledonian ,15 1 3 May' Queen 2 5 2 4 New Sylvia 2 11 2 10 Saxon ■ 2 6 • 2 4 jiWaiotahi 3 2. • . 31 3 2 > 3 - 0? /WatcEmail 1 10 - ; '(- ; 'l-' ' 8" Boss ' 1 11 | Hauraki Reefs 1 5 1 2 • Old Hauraki 1 10 1 6 Crown 2 10" 2 6 j Tairua Mines 1 2 1 0 j "Waihi 316 3 0 9 1 Waihi Extended 17 1 •) , Waihi Gnd. June. 17 6 1 7 3

, £ 6. d. £ s. d. National BkN.Z. 6 1 6 6 2 0 Wellington Meat * ExpdHi: £5 ■ - s 6 5 o Wellington Meat Export, £2 } 2s 6d 3 5 6 Wgtn .Wool, pref. 3 1 0 Wgtn wool, ord. 4 1 6 Westport Goal- 1 9 3 Drug . 2 9 3 v - - Taranaki Oil' 17 3 Tarihgamutu 2 6 0 2 8 0

Bnyera. Sellers. £ 8. d. £ s. d. Worksop dredge 2 10 0 Success dredge 10 0Wellington Farmers' Meat, <ord. 3 2 5 Taringamutu 2 8 0