COMMERCIAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2548, 8 July 1909, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

—■ ... LONDON WOOL SALES. ■’ OnITKU I’RKBS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT. LONDON, July 6. The wool sales opened with a poor selection. Good average sorts sold at par, and faulties at five per cent, decline. r Licit I’kicks Association.] WELLINGTON, July 7. A cable from the .High Commissioner, dated July 0, states: The wool sales commenced with a largo attendance and good competition. values were at the same price as at the ehd of last sale, except for inferior coarso crossbred, which is |-d cheaper. Present prices ruling are: Superior merino Is Id to Is 3£d, medium merino llld to is od, inferior merino 9d to fine crossbreds (all grades) Is Id to Is 4|d, medium crossbreds do 7d to Is id, coarse crossbreds do 1 7d to HadMATAWHEItO STOCK SALES. There was an. improved demand for nearly all classes of- stock at the fortnightly sale, held at Matawhero yesterday. Beef was in good demand, and ewes in lamb were wanted. Few wethers were on offer, but there were some nice pens of woolly hoggets which sold at full values. The yards were, as usual, footdeep in mud, and clients have now ceased to complain about them. Farmers were prepared to bid freely for the better class pens of ewes, and the market had a buoyant tone, although quotations were not equal- to those recorded at the first July sale last year. J SHEEP. The total sheep yarded numbered about 7000, ewes and hoggets predominating. Few pens were passed at auction, and all lines were cleared before the auctioneers left the yards. 1' at ewes sold up to 10s 6d, and forward wethers at the same price, most of the “■fat” sheep were only forwards, the following being the chief pens: 29 ewes at lfs 6d, 29 ewes at 8s 6d, 15 ewes and 5 wethers LOs 6d, 9 wethers at 9s prime wethers were, passed in at 11s 3d, hut were disposed of privately. In stores the best selling lines were wellconditioned ewes in lamb, the ciuls, of which there was a fair proportion, being almost discarded. Wool values, apparently, told, for well-fleeced sheep were freely sought after. Ewes in lamb sold as follows: 59 at 8s 9d, 250 at 11s Gd, 31 poor sorts at 5?, 50.twotooth well-conditioned ewes in lumb at 11s 2d, 60 ewes in lamb 11s 2d. Empty ewes sold at ordinary' values, the principal pens being 49 at 5s lOd, 96 at 5s 9cf, 40 culls at 3s 3d, 27 moderate =orts at 4s 9d, 64 better sorts well wooded at 5a 3d, and 38 woolly owes at 6? IdHoggets found good competition., bi nice sorts brought 8s Id, 800 vv e I grown and well-woolled 9s, 133 tor words -js lOd, with poorer sorts from 5s to 7s fid. 'Wethers sold at fair values, 160 reahsing 10s 6d, 135 two-tootlis 10s 4d, 32 sol’d at 9s, while other pens were disposed of piivately at gool values. CATTLE. Thel cattle market was brisk, beef selling at good values. -Messrs Common, Shelton and Co. and Dalgety and Co. shared a large entry, while there were some nice pens on offer by Messrs Williams and Kettle, Ltd., and the Now Zealand Loan Company. Nine, fat bullocks sold at £6 12s 6d, equal to about 19s per 1001 b, while the top price vas £6 17s Gd for a nice pen of 8,. equal to about 20s per 1001 b, with forward sorts as follows: 2 steers at-£5, 2 ecus at £4 15s, 2 steers at £5 15s, 1 5 forWeird well-grown steers fit £o 1/s Id, 30 forward bullocks at £6 17s 6d, 7>.bullocks at £5 17s 6d, 9 at £6 ss, 5 steers at £5 7s. The store cattle were all sold at satisfactory prices, the leading pens being: 3 steers at £3 10s, 10 calves. at. £1 9s, 4 cows at £1 10s, lo steers at £4 10s 3 5 heifers at £2 10s 3 o steers at £3 17s, 4 cows at £4 f;s, 20 you no- steers at £2 12s, 29 weaners at £1 13s. PIGS. The entry of pigs was the largest seen at the yards for some time, oneclient offering a batch of over 50. Competition was good, and after the sale was over many buyers could he seen driving small herds of pigs along the road, as if they were sheep. The pigs sold as follows: 9 small pigs 12s, .8 do 17s, 2 sows' 2os, 4 sows £l, 3 porkers £l, 1 Sow 31s, 1 sow in pig £2 Bs, 15 porkers 19s, 5 porkers 435, 7 porkers 17s, 2 harrows £2 10s, 6 porkers £1 18s, 4 sows £2 16s, 2 do £2 17s, 7 small pigs 16s, 3 porkers £l, 2 small pigs 1.85,'" 7 do 11s, 4 do 12s, 7 do 12k, 7 porkers 31s.