COMMERCIAL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10573, 2 March 1912, Page 6

COMMERCIAL

PALMERSTON WOOL SALE. ' (My Telegraph—Special to the Age.) PALMERSTON N., Last Night. | Messrs Abraham and Williams, i Ltd., report:—We held our usual I monthly wide to-day, and offered a fair catalogue to a fair attendance of buyers. Bidding was spirited throughout the .sale, and tin? prices realised were equal to late rates. Wo quote:—Wool: Hiv'.f'hrcd, 8; B. b'J-d to 7}d; dead, 6Jd to 63d ; black. 6id.; lambs, Cid to BJd ; cm tellings, od to s;id ; pieces, locks and bellies,' 2Jd to 5-Jd to 7|d; crossbred, ;ld to OJ-d; crossbred, all faulty, 3£d to od; lambs, 4.\d to 6Ad; hoggets, quarter-wools, 3.|d to -1-Jd; black, 4d ; pelts, lid to 33d; dead and damaged, 3d to J id, at per piece; quarter to half wools, 2s to 3s; lambs, 3s; pelts, Is Gd; salted pelts, Is lOd to 3s 2d; calf skins, sound, Ukd to Dd ; cut and slippy;"" sd; yearlings, cut, ssd; Hides: Ox, light, 6d to 8d ; cows, medium, od to 7d; light, ogcl to Gkl; cows, cut, sjjd; slippy, 4-Jd; heifers and steers, 6Jd; bulls, 5d to s£d; horse hides, 5s each. Tallow: Casks, (£2o 10s per ton ; tins, £l7 to £23 los per ton. Horsehair, 7d to Is 9d per 11). Rahbitskins, 68d per lb. Cowtails, Is 2d per dozen.

HOME MARKETS. The Xcw Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd.. have received the following cablegram from their London House .—-AVhe.it:—old at 37s 3d, c.i.f., Australian parcel. The market is firm, but inactive, owing to light arrivals, and the outlook is uncertain. AVe quote per quarter, c.i.f., Xcw Zealand wheat, longberried, 35s 9d, shortlberried, 35s 3d. AVool and sheepskins:—AVc expect next wool ■sales will open at about last sales ' closing rates, also sheepskins, provided the coal strike has been settled. Messrs Levin and Co., Ltd., received advice from their London agents yesterday morning, stating that March sales, which were to have opened on the 6th inst., have been postponed ■pending settlement of the coal strike. MARTIN'BOROUGH STOCK SALE. Messrs Abraham and Williams, ' Ltd., report on their Martiuboroiigh stock sale held ou Thursday as follows: The yarding was an exceptionally heavy one, and the quality throughout much ahove the average. We yarded over five thousand sheep comprising some exceptionally good lines of breeding ewes and useful sorts of ,store wethers, which met with a ready sale, competition throughout being animated, and practically a tctal clearance being the result. In cattle we yarded 140 head, comprising mostly grown ■bullocks of good quality, all of which d under the hammer at prices in excess of owners anticipations. The highest price of the day for sheep was 14s 6d for a line of 270 4 and 6-tooth ewes from Bush Gully. They were exceptionally well grown, and in firstclass condition, and were purchased by Messrs Wall Bros. Mr W. J. Maatm sent forward a splendid line of four hundred four year ewes, which were greatly admired by the public, being bred on the right lines, and the typical sheep for the fat lamb raiser being sheep well into the Romney, all showing good quality and in splendid condition, which made the' satisfactory price of 13s 9d. Other principal sales were as under: —345 4 and 5-year ewes on behalf of Mr John MeDougal, IBs ; and 300 \j\vo3- on behalf of Mr A. McLeod, Gleiidrynock, 12s 2d. A line of 200 good conditioned two-tooth wethers on behalf of Mr Stanley Parker, made 13s 6d. Quotations: —Four year bullocks, well forward in condition, £7 17s; others, £7 3s; three-year bullocks, £6 10s; others, £5 13s; fat cows, £5 14 s; forward cows, £4 2s 6d; store cows, £3 14s; eighteen months run heifers, £3 Is; dairy heifers, up to £4 ss; 2-tooth wethers, 13k to 13s 0d; others, 12s Cd; small undergrown cull wethers, 5s Id; 4 and G-too tit breeding ewes, good, 14s 6d; good 4year ewes, 13s 9d; sound mouth brooding ewos, 8s 9, 9s 2d, 9s 3d, 10s 3d, 10s Gd, lis 2d, 12s, 12s 2d, 12s 3d, to 13s; small 4 and 6-tooth ewes, 7s; cull blackface lambs, 4s lid.