Commercial.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXII, Issue 4054, 19 May 1900, Page 4

Commercial.

Wellington Produce Market.

Williams and Kettle’s Wool Sales.

j STOCK MARKET. ) At Feilding a most successful sale 3 was held. The attendance was un--2 usually large for a winter sale. Buyers were present from all parts of the coast from Shannon to Hawera. Bidding for all classes of both sheep and » cattle was keen throughout, and all i but three pens of sheep and a few ; odd head of cattle sold under the 1 hammer. ’ Cattle.—Fat and forward bullocks, £G Is; forward bullocks, £4 ss, <£4 . 8s Gd, <£4 14s Gd; fat cows, £3 17s, ii £4 ss, £4 10s, £4 12s Gd, £4 14s; forI ward oows, £3 to £3 10s Gd; fat £ heifers, £4 Os Gd; forward ‘‘heifers, n £3 13s Gd to £3 19s Gd ; cows and , heifers in calf, £3 to £3 16s; empty ! - heifers, £3 2s 6d ; 18-months to 2- . year steers, £2 13s to £2 13s Gd. ,i Sheep.—Fat and forward wethers, !• 11s 9d to 13s ; store wethers, 10s 3d 6 to 11s 8d; 4-th maiden ewes, 12s; J fat ewes, 10s lid; forward ewes, 8s I, to 10s 7d; store ewes (inferior), 3s 9d to ss, and 3 pens at 5s Id ; ewes in lamb, 9s Gd to 12s lOd ; mixed *. lambs, Gs Gd to 8s; woolly lambs, ■r 8s Id. c At Masterton fat wethers reached 12s fid, best ewes 11s 9d? others 10s to 10s 9d, forward wethers, good, i. 12s 2d, others 11s, culls 9s, forward ewes 8s 9d to Bs, best ewes in lamb 0 9s lOd, others 8s Gd to 9s Gd, poor 6s, culls ss, really good lambs i 0 (wethers) 9s 4d, fair classes 7s 3d to 2- Bs, poor 6s, culls ss. II Beef bullocks £G, cows 70s to 80s, H forward cows 60s, dairy heifers 58s to E 60s, 18-months steers, good, 57s Gd, <1 2-year steers 67s Gd, first-class calves J® 345, others 20s. jf Porker pigs 17 s, slips 11s, weancrs x. Bs. Farm horses £IG to £27. At Johnsonville fat cattle in fewer numbers sold rather better than last a week and made about 17s the 1001 b. t- Some of these bullocks showed signs ?r of going off in condition, due to the recent cold weather. Cattle—Prime bullocks made from d £7 2s Gd to £7 17s Gd, smaller bullocks £G to £6 12s Gd. Sheep in moderate numbers were keenly competed for. Prices for 18 medium quality showed an advance of fully Is per head over last week’s prices. Prime heavy ewes 15s lid, medium ewes 12s Gd to 13s, fat ewes r 10s to lls 3d, light wethers 13s to 13s 7d, fat wethers 15s. [ Pigs were in poor quality and sold at a low rate.

The following are the wholesale selling prices on the Wellington produce market Wheat 2s 4d,’oats 2s to 2s 3d, barley, Cape 2s 3d, maize 3s, flour £7, pollard 955, bran 80s, oatmeal £ll, chaff 655, hay 90s, field ' beans 3s, field peas 3s Gd, potatoes £2 ss, onions £3 10s, butter, dairy Bd, separator 9d to 9|d, cheese sd, bacon hams G-Jd, fowls 2s Gd, roosters 2s 9d, ducks 3s Gd, turkeys Gs to 10s, geese 4s Gd, fresh eggs Is lOd, limed Is 2d.

2 ‘ Wiliams and Kettle report having held their periodical sale of skins, to hides, and tallow, when they of- * fered 151 bales, 9G packets, and J 1 bags of wool, 2,377 skins, 67 hides, •s and 4 casks and 21 packages of tallow. We are pleased to report that a full bench of buyers bid freely, and one of the brightest sales of the season resulted in full values being obtained in all departments. Wool

consisted chiefly of crutchings and stragglers 1 fleeces. The following prices were obtained: — Inferior crossbred from 4Jd to sd, merino (inferior) 6d, pieces from 34d to 4£d, crutchings from 2jd,. for seconds up to 4£d for superior well picked bright lots/ locks 2£d, skins and pelts from 4d to Is 9d each for a well picked lot. Crossbreds from 3£d to 4d, halfbred up to 6d, merino up to Hides, medium ox, from 4d to lighter 3£d to 3£d, superior cow from 4d to 4fd, calf up to 4d. Tallow, station packages, up to £lB 5s per ton, rough ljd.