COMMERCIAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2525, 11 June 1909, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

MATAWHEItO STOCK SALES

The past week of fine weather made a great improvement in the general conditions of the Matawhero saleyards yesterday. The mud had dried up. There was a large yarding of stock, and both cattle and sheep showed improved condition all round. The poor quality pens were few and far between. All the sheep yarded showed plenty of wool; the season’s ewes looked strong and healthy, while some of the wethers offered as stores were little lower in weight than prime freezers. There was a large crowd present, but buyers were few and bidding was not vigorous. The fat pens of sheep did not find ready buyers and most were passed in for private sale. Beef, on the contrary, sold well, some jiens of prime bullocks sold at £6 15s while one buyer secured a nict< pen of fat steers at £6. The sale of store sheep dragged and many of the better class pens were passed. Wethers sold up\ to 10s 4d and old ewes as low as 2s Id, the latter being very cheap considering the wool they were carrying. Farmers stated that there was plenty of feed in the paddocks and the mildness ox the winter so far has been particularly favorable to stock. In many instances yesterday tbo sellers preferred to drive their sheep home again rather than take under values. Ewes in lamb were yarded freely and met with good demand as there is every prospect of an early lambing season, and the coming spring should bring about a better condition of the stock market. SHEEP. The sheep yarded totalled about 15,000. The yards controlled by Messrs Dalgety and Co. and Messrs Common, Shelton and Co. were well filled, while Messrs. Williams and 1 Kettle and tho New Zealand Loan Co offered about 9000. Few fat sheep were disposed oi. 62 ewes sold at 7s and a lot of 150 ewes at 7s. The principal store pens sold were: 300 2-tooth Romney Cross ewes in lamb 8s 6d, 364 forward wethers 10s, 24 big framed woolly wethers 10s 4d, 14 ewes in lamb 4s, 18 light wethers 9s, 20 ewes ss, 33 2-tooth wethers 8s 6d, 256 6-year old ewes in lamb 7s 4d, 237 6-tooth forward wethers 10s, 201 big Romney Cross wethers 9s 2d, 240 Romney Cross hoggets 7s, 76 4-tooth ewes in lamb 9s, 24 ewes 8s 7d, 37 hoggets 6s od, 21 ewes in poor condition 2s Id, 7 ewes 7s, 7 old ewes in lamb 6s, 186 hoggets 6s 7d, 161 2-tooth wethers 8s 6d, 66 wethers 7s 3di 111 ewes 2s 4d, 127 hoggets 3s 2d, 29S lambs 5s Sci, 176 ewes in lamb 7s, 162 2-tooth ewes 8s 2d, 292 lambs 6s 3d, 104 lambs 3s 9d, 226 2-tooth ewes 3s, 188 ewes 5s lid, 294 lambs (culls) Is 7d, 289 forward lambs 9s Id, 4S ewes 7s, 109 wethers Ss and 273 cull lambs at 3s. . ,

CATTLE

Tlieto was a large Yarding of cattle, tho total being about 700 head—the beef pens holding some prime stock: The best price of the day was obtained by Mr. Jex-Blake, when two pens of 9 and 6 fat bullocks realised £6 los—equal to_ about 18s per lOOlbs. Another pen of 5 good fat steers found a buyer in Mr. F. Hall at £6 6s; and a pen of 8 forward bullocks sent in by Mr. Jex Blake, brought £5 10s. 1 beef bullock at £6, 1 fat- steer at £4 7s 6d, 4 fat cows at £4, 12 fat cows at £4 10, 12 18-months sioeTS £2 os, 8 3-year old steers £4 2s 6d. 8 fat cows £2 los. 3 fat steers £6—equal to 17s per lOOlbs, 4 beef cows £4 Is, 6 prime steers £6. 4 forward steers £5 10, o forward steers at £5 10s and a daily heifer at £2 17s 6d were tho principal pens sold under the hammer. PIGS. There was a large yarding of pigs. Baconcrs brought 335. 7 porkers from 16s to 26s , wcaners from 6s to 12s and a sow at. 30s. THE HIDE MARKET. Onitvt) Press Association* —Corvincm (Received June 11, 12.10 a.m.) SYDNEY, June 10. Hides: The supply is moderateThere is active competition, and prices are firm, especially for kins, the Turf ohkcueouthYtt’yo(hej