Commercial.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 236, 31 July 1902, Page 2

Commercial.

CLKABING BALE AT WILLOWBRIDGE. Meesrs Guinness and LaCren (Mr E. R. Guinness, auctioneer), instructed by Mr John Pratt, who had sold his farm, held a very mice ssful clearing sale at his late farm. WiilowbridgH. The stock, implements, etc, were all in good order, and the attendance was large. Every line effered was keenly competed tor, and full maiket prices were revised. Particulars ■pf the sale are as follows : - Cattle—Dairy cows, £4 15a to £9 15* ; springing heifers, £4 12s 6d; steers, £4 17s 6d. Horses—Trap horse, £2O; hack, £ll. Implements/ &o.—Cambridge roller, £11; dray and frame, £l9; grubber, £l3; hayrake, £9 Iss; disc harrows, £8 15s; four-leaf harrows, £3 17s 6d ; weighing machine, £4 ss; trap, £ls. Sundries at fall values. TEMUKA STOCK SALE. There was a good entry of aheep and cattle at the Temuka yards on Monday and a good sale resulted. Quotations were as follows.—Three quarter bred hoggets from 9s 6d to 10s 2d ; 4,6, and 8 tooth eweu in lamb, lis 7d ; 6 and 8 threeqnar er bred ewes in lamb, lis lid ; fat ewes, lis, lis 6d 12s 6d to 12s lOd ; forward wethers, 14s; three* j

quarter bred lambs, 8a 6*l to 9s 6d ; 2 tooth wethers, 7a to 10a 7d. Cattle—F*t stewr*, £7, £7 10s, £B, £8 10s to £lO ; good Htore »te«.s £5 to i £6; heifer*. £5 10a to £72s6d ; fst.o«w«, £5 5s to £7; 2 year olds, ?8«; eighteen months old cattle £2 s*to £2 10u ; dry cows, 3l» ; ye.irling*, 30', 3"iv 6 1 t<i 35*. pijfs—V\ eu..er=, Gs ; stores, £2. £1 6a to £1 10s. ASHBURTOtf STOCK SALE. Ashbukton, July 29. The yardin/ at TindwUl y*rds was sn ali in nil c-1 B e« of stock and the »ttendance wa« an average one. The pale (bagged nt the i-tirt, hut in proved later ou. The ollowing are some of the pric-8 reali-ed Fat oUt le—Steers, £3 10-! to £7l7s 6d ; heifers, £4 15< to £8 ; ows £5. Sto e tatile—Springers, £2 7s 6d to £6 12b 6d ; fm ward ca lie, £3 si; yearling*, 25s to to 33*. Sheep—Fat cro«sbred wethers, 163 ; ■ crossb ed merino wetherp, 5s 6d o 10» ; d meri (i ewes, 7« lid to 12« lid ; lOi tD 12< ; me.inn t w s, 8«4.'. Sii.re sheep Mei in«i ewes, 01 91 ; hofi-gets, 9s 31 to lis ; forward wether*, 14s to 14s 7- ; c ossbreii e«' s, 12-. Id t'» 13s 6d. ADDIN'JTON BTOJK MARKET. [By Tulkorapii.] Chui tchhkch, July 30. 'I heie weic medium vardings of mock it Adding on today, and 'he attendance the ay i age. Fat (Ja'tie. — ' he ymdmg «f 168 head was a mixed one, in.ludiog a few good bullockp, but the bulk w<ie light weight .steers and heifers. Bidding was. fairly k> en f<r %■ od he< f, nnd 1 ist w ek's rates were well niaintn ned. Good beef ruled at fr m 22s 6d to 25i 6d, and other sorts from 19s to 22s per 1001 b. Kight bullocks from Men.lip Hills brought £8 2s 6d to £9, and .'even heifers 2b 6d to £8 78 6d. Of the other entries heavy bullocks mnde £9 to £ll, steers £6 17s 6d to £8 10s, heifers £6 2s 6d to £8 7s 6d, extra prime cows £8 to £lO 10a, others £5 5s to £7 10s. Fat Sheep. —The entry was larger than for some time past, and included some good lines of wethers. There was keen compet tion between freezing buyers an 1 both live and dead exporters to Sydney, with the result that a rise of fully Is per head took place, but secondary ewes were rather neglected. Heavy wethers brought 20s 6d to 23s 4d, best freezers 16s to 20s, lighter sorts and maiden ewes 14s 9d to 15s 91, butchers' ewes lis to 15s 6d, merino wethers 9s to lis 31. Fat hmbs.— Only some 160 were yarded, the majority being really good **sorts. Buyers for export were keen on securing supplies, and all that were fit went for freezing at from 10s Gd to 14a and up to 15s 9d for extra quality, inferior sorts being taken by butchers at 9s to 10s 3d. The yarding of store sheep comprised 1750, the bulk of which were wethers. A good demand was experienced for all classes and a fair clearance was made. Forward wethers brought from 13s to 13s Bd, good young ewes lis to 13s lOd, aged sorts 5s 2d to 10s 9d, hoggets 9s 9d to 10s 6d. Pigs,—Fair yardings of all claseea came forward. Fats brought fully up to jjlast week's rates, but 3'ores were slightly f' easier. Bsconers made 37s to 54e c averaging 4d per lb ; porkers 21s to 345, equal to 4d to 4£d; large stores 15» to 235, including a line from Cheviot at the top figure ; smaller sort, lis to 14s J suckers and weaners, 5s to 9a.