Commercial.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3153, 14 March 1889, Page 2

Commercial.

Messrs Lowes anil lorns leport at their stoik sale yesterday tlieii cdkd logue was the hugest this seiison, entucs_ comprising 12,400 sheep, of,,' winch npwaid? of 10,000 sold under the liammur, the lines juilin? to find pmclw3eis bi'ing two huge entiles of aged merino ewes. The pi ices weie about equal to those of last sale. In cattle about 100 head came forward, being all bullocks or speyed cows and beifeis, with a few small lots of young stock and dairy cows. AH lots sold, with puce of beet J wty low. The following aic the tigurts. Fat wethers h Gd, medium 8s to 8s Gd, dtoies 7s to 8s 2d; fat ewes, heavy, Bs, medium 7s, sLot es Gs; bleeding owce, according to quality, wentliom 8s for really good to 6i foi )oung, 5i 6d and 5s for medium, and 3s foi aged; lambs, host woolly, 6s 6d, medium ss, shotn 3sto 4s 9u Some 60 rums sold, ringing from 10s foi old to 30s, and £Z 3s foi unpolled two tooth Cattle, Fat bullocks ranged fiom jyrTj to £4los, fat cows £2 10a, foiwfflr*" bullocks £3 5s to £3 15s, Uous £2 10s, d,my cows £i 10s to U Os, yeailings 255, calves 12s 61 Hoises wci6 still dull of sale, few selling; useful-hacks madi) £7 15s, old crocks £2 to £3. Figs: Stores made 12s 6d, porkeis 15s

Freeman |B Jackson &Co report ■■" , on then stock sale at Jolinsonvillo on ; Wednesday:—Just double thenuin- •-' ber of cattle advertised cime forward, about one,third being beef, ot the V ';C' remainder, peih.ips tho least said .the ' '*•, better, sufficient to say they were iho '- ~ most ordinary of stores, and .as a { ; ' matter of course found no purchasers ''' among the butchers, the majoiity,were , . turned out unsold. The bidding for • - anything like beef was brisk ond > made itiling rates, one pen' ' heifers only was entered. musteied up plentifully, a large pro- ' portion being stores, principally morinos, the bidding for all sorts was _ brisk and, with the exception of one line ewes and wethers disposed of at auction. No fat' wethers penned; pigs, also were absent. §sP\ beef lis the lOOIbs; ewe mutton, lsd ' and Ifd per lb. Bullocks, £4 16s to s £5 7s 6d, aveiuging £i 18s 2d, others .averaged £5; young and giccn steins, £3 7» 6s to £3 10s; heifers, £3 7a Gd. Sheep-Fat ewes, 7s lOd to 8s; light weight wethers, 8s Id; merino wethers, 6s 3d to 63 4d; store merino ewes mid wethers, 3s 3d to 4s; meiino lambs (inferior),, . 2s 3d; fat lamhs, 7s 4d to 7s Bd. A J , few Eomncy i f aish lumbs bred by IMr Eglintou, 30s.

Melbourne, Maroh' 18.,: ; A parcel of wheat has been sold, at 5a 6Jd. . -.-._. ' r The official statistics give tbe total .; yield-of wheat for this colony'at ; ' 8,688,000 bushels, averaging >11! •:: bushels;per..we.- The total yiaM. ■ last year .was-18,828,000 -' .. with an average of 10*81. bushels.peV ' ? acre. - The acreage under wheat is :i •; slightly over 18,000 acre's more than;;, last year; Thero is an: apparent:...: surplus lor export of---1,876,000"; ;■ bushels. The estimated surplus'-in --:-V Soush Australia . for;'export is'l;';'. 2,334,000, so that; according to figures, the .two together. fall;..fef|jn' short of the requirements of Newjfe; South-Wales alone. The fallingin oats, potatoes, an 1 hay is also . : .;'- great.:. Oats. show & decrease ; of .7 ;:;v bushels ger. acre,potatoes of 809 -ij-: tons per acre, aiid hay '.75 'ions p'or : .;;\ acre. ? '-. .■-.--.'■' ■