Commercial.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XI, Issue 487, 24 June 1867, Page 2

Commercial.

OTAGO. DErr.it, M vceeax & Co. report ns fbl fpvvs u:,:e Till J.iiv; . In rtvuTri;-.? onr t'.ans!;rii‘i:« since the issue c for -Or’. ve nr.nb.:; to :p:r,:~ srv ;; - a tcuil t ,1 ux' «• i r i;.u.e con W ijj; j foif utf6Siisi fw f f,

ic nu ncro’ii. rvs TTita x*G ;ad aii"ed season. t'HWer lots are off Ting. Mixed a-.rl sura xralieis km most fought a f>er a.m sab.Mb'o at quotat on-. In tut sheep large, sales have been mails for delivery during tno nest tbrei or lour iu-v.U’hs. Fat oatV.e fM evidently bpc.i.i.iog in .-ns g.;a 4 -;o; and towards thy end of winiosr we loon fir a eynsulirabl-i i-n irovpnetv. in the in lee of both beef and wattou. O.ir sales have as follows ; «orj stoelt.— llaider, ewes, 17sto 17s PJ ; 2, I and S-tooth ewes, 15s (Id to 18s; 8 tooth ewes, 12s to 13s; W.itiiers. at 12a; mixed lambs, at 21s to 21s Flore Cattle,—Mixed herds, at £3 to ±9 10s bullocks, 2 to 5 years, at £9 to £lO. Kut stock,—Prime wethers, delivered in town id per lb; do cattle, do do, 35s per lOdlbs: ordinary do, do do, -P's to -its bd per IWibs, Country Sales.—Ou 23th April wo held a large :i!e of store sheep at Mr Pius's Station, on the Halima and disposed of over iriit-Jj at sail Mastery pi ices. V. - l- mil hold our usual sales at Luveii’s Fiat on the sth instant, Molyneux on tith aud 7tb hist., aud at Oamaru on 15th lust. Stat ons —We have uumeruus inquiries for desirable properties, and we have to note the sale of »lr N. J. B M'G regor’s Cottisbrook and Paid Hill Stations, 53,0. K? acres, with SO.-iPI sheep and »*> head of eatle, to Mr William Gs'dihi-aud, for £2-.i,ruo. Mr Edward Lee’s West Taieri runs. 37. 0 ) acres, with 15,0,0 sheep, to .Mr 51, Hulinos, for £15,73i). Mr W. Pinkerton's Tapauui Station, 3»,<h)) acres, with 11,5 0 sheep, to Mr George Gunn, tor £17,0a), h e are in treaty tor the sale of one or two oilier properties, par.leulars of wbicb will be given in our next report. WoM.—The season is now over and no transactions of any moment have transpired sim-u the data of our last report., the only pus still in the market being fellmoiigera’ sorts, amounting iu all to about lod bales. We catalogued during the season some 45’X' bales, all of which, with the exception of one or two small c.ips, we disposed of citncr by auction, or privately. O.irs.iles verc wellatte.ul.-d throughout, liy buyers both on II uneand Foieigu account, and (he prices obtained have, wo believe, given genera; ra'.is-.ae; tm to grower.-,. Advices fr«m Europe by last mail tend to eonlinn this te. Png, and induce further eoiidideuee in our local market. The clips of the Province were, in general, heavier m Hu.lease, but sounder iu staple, ami more can fuhy got up than those of previous years; but the increase, widen, as shown by tiro acev.npnnying .-l.ilcaicin, ts only 1513 hales, falls far slioM oi our expo"! -ilium-. The large quantity s-oared doubtless ies-cus the Ostensible increase, and iu some mea-uve ae.-oiuiis tor the smallness of it daring the [mst season. The quantity of N'cw Zealand wool offered at the London i'ehnir. rv-.March sales was cm.lined to annul parcels of scoured, wte.o'.i. uuiw 11 In-landing i nr decline in some of the inferior aud wasty wi.eis ol other Colonies realised Lur va.uj. ibices r.eele 1 eor.siJcnily during Ine series; and as the quantity for next sale was expected to bo L.rge, no maleual improvement was loosed for.