COMMERCIAL NEWS

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 116, 18 May 1863, Page 2

COMMERCIAL NEWS

WELLINGTON LITE STOCK MARKET. Messrs. G. 11. Lxjxfoed & Co. report for the week ending Friday, May 1, 1863. We have sold a small lot of fat beasts in fair condition at £8 per head and are likely to place our lot of mixed cattle at 80s. to 85s. We also hear of several small lots of Stores changing hands at 80s. to 925. 6d., according to condition. Upon the whole we report a great disinclination to ship upon owners’ account and a preference to effecting a sale on the spot, even if attended with reduced rates. Eat Cattle may be quoted at 3id, with a slight upward tendency as the winter advances, and the demand for this description of cattle increases with the exportation of carcasses during the cold weather. Store Cattle. —Market full and demand nominal. Prices from £4 to £5 12s. sixpence per head. Fat Sheep. —A good supply at last week’s quotations ; about 150 were shipped per Storm Bird, at 225,, good heavy framed wethers averaging 60 lbs. There is a small parcel, 300, of similar sheep, waiting shipment, also sold. SroxtE Sheep. —No transactions in store ewes, which are still in request at good rates. Store Wethers are looking up, the grazier preferring to hold for the clip. There has been an arrival of imported Merino Sheep by Messrs Krull & Co., which are landed, and appear to be of a superior description. We have heard very high encomiums passed upon them by good judges and experienced breeders. Horses. —Messrs. Bethune & Hunter sold a small lot of excellent horses by sale at prices ranging from £27 to £32 per head ; colts £lO to £l4 each. These prices were better than could have been anticipated, there being really no demand. DUNEDIN. Fat Cattle. —We quote prime beef at 60s to to 64s per 100 lb ; second quality, 50s to 555. Fat Sheep are in good request; some very line sheep, ex Storm Bird, from Wellington averaging about 901 b, sold as high as 50s. 1700 fat weathers were sold at 30s net. Store Sheep. —Provincial bred flocks are in great request. We quote ewes 30s to 325. Wethers 26s to 375. Wellington wethers 4 and 6 tooth arc also in request at 24s to 265. First class heavy draught, £9O to £l2O. Second class do, £6o' to £BO. Third class do, £25 to £SO. First Class light harness do, £4O to £6O Second do do, £2O to £35. First class hacks, none in the market, they will fetch from £4O to £6O. Second class do, £2O to £3O. Middling do, from £l2 to £lB.