COMMERCIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 127, 29 May 1907, Page 7

COMMERCIAL.

NEW ZEALAND LOAN AND MERCANTILE AGENCY CO.'S. LTD.. REPORT.

Horses: Owing to Friday being a public holiday we did not hold a sale at the Durham \ards on that day. Cattle: At ,the Newmarket Yards on, Tuesday dairy and store stock were yarded in average numbers. Beef was penned i*L, ru 'l quantities and sold under good competition at last week's rates Oxen 1001b. Steers sold at from £G 10/ to fl9 V»; cows £3 10/ to £8 .vf dairy "cowst from £3 10/ to £9: empty cows. £i 15/ t( * J n ; c * ] 7 es - l to 7' £1 '•>/■ A di-aft of 30 %?i w «*»*•»•*■«*. steers from ¥ T V -™J ManDi *'5, Jan.. otau, sold at from £7 15/ to £12 2/0. averaging £10 Sheep: At Newmarket on Tnesdav sheep were yarded in average quantities and sold at late improved rates, wethe-s selling at from £1 to £1 3/p, Pwc , to £1 21. hoggets 12/6 to 18/3. "" " Figs: Porkers sold at from £1 1/ to £1

We submitted a largo catalogue of hides skins, and tallow on Tuesday, all lines being sold under good competition. Hides: Market firm. We quote—Exfra stout ox, 7Jd to 3d; stout do., 6Jd to 7dmedium do.. 6jd to 6£d; light do.. 5Jd to UK' f? w ' best " nes sid t0 5 8d, good 5Jd to s&d: kips, ogd to sld; calfskins. 6M to 6idstairs', 3Zd to 4<L

Sheepskins: Market firm. Best botchers' skins, large 4/8 to 5/3, medium 4/ to 4/5 sma'l 3/G to 3/9. Tallow: Market firm. Best mixed, up to 27/; good, 24/ to 25/6; Inferior. 22/6 to 23/3' rongh fat, ljd per lb. Bones, £4 15/. Cowtails, 1/s per dozen. Horsehair, 1/3 to 1/7 per lb. Maize Is nominally worth 3/5 ex store. O-als are worth a/2 ex store. Wheat is selling freely at 4/1 ex store. Chaff: Compressed fodder, £5 10/- Australian, £6; Southern. £6 10/. Butter: Milling, 7Jd; farmers - separator prime, Ssd to 81d; good, 7}d to 7Jd. Cheese: The market nas advanced somewhat In the South, and local has increased to 53d, with a further tendency to rise Funens if worth old. Kauri gum: Demand continues good for all grades, the poorer qualities receiving better attention, and soiling at 18/ for W.S and 25/ for W.N, sifted. 35/ for streaky white scraped, and 45/ for ~ood streaky white when well cleaned

WAIKATO STOCK SALES

-The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited. Hamilton reDorts: —

On the 21st Inst., at Ohaupo, we held our annual sale of cattle and sheep for turnip stocking. Over 1000 cattle of all eiasses and 2600 sheep and lambs were yarded. A large of buyers attend, ed from Te Pr.ke, Te Kuiti. Matamata, Hikutaia. and all parts of the Waikato aad we report a snecessful sale Steer* of all classes were required, especially grown steers in forward condition, every pen of this class selling readily at the "hammer. Store cows were dull of sale, aud several pens were reserved. Forward steers t'eal'sed from £0 15/ to £7 ;i/ : fresh three-year-old steers, £5 2/6 to £6 4/: three and aha If and four-year-old bullocks, iv low condition, £1 5/ to £4 16/; two and a-half year steers. £3 13/ to £4 10/: two-year-old steers, £3 to £3 7/; 15 and IS month steers £2 S/ to £2 19/: store cows, £1 5/ to £2; fresh cows and heifers, £2 5/ to £2 17/flstrong good calves. 1 1/ to £1 4/; others' 12/6 to 13/. Heavy fat cows, £6 2/6 to £6 15/; fat heifers, £4 10/ to £5 5/; three and four-yar-old bulls, £2 15/ to £4; dairy cows and heifers, near calving, £4 to £5 10' The sheep elicited keen competition, and all sold at the hammer or afterwards, excepting a few pen 6of lambs. Fat and forward wethers realised 16/6 to 19/6- twotooth wethers, 14/9 to 15/6; full-monthed ewes, in lamb, 15/ to 16/2; good woolly lambs. 11/6 to 12/9; shorn lambs, 9/6 to 10/3. We sold privately 100 ewes in lamb at 18/6.