Commercial Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 13, Issue 695, 28 June 1869, Page 2

Commercial Intelligence.

' Auckland Live Stock Market. Messrs Carey & Gilles' Live Stock Report for the week ending Friday, 18th June : The firmness in the price of fat cattle which we noted as having existed during the previous week's sale has heen well maintained since our last report. Cattle in prime condition found ready buyers at 36/ to 3S/ lOOfts Fat sheep were penned in usual numbers, and being chiefly of a superior class, were well competed for, selling at full rates. There have been a few inquiries for store sheep, but the prices offered do not afford inducemeut to shippers. We have no change to report iu the value of store cattle ; the limited numbers offered command previous quotations. Dairy cows (in full milk and early springers) are still in great request, and meet with brisk competition. At the Junction Yards, on Wednesday, we obtained the following prices :—Fat Cattle: provincial bred, realized 36/ to 38/ f- IOOIbs. The balance of Australian cattle, ex Island City, were disposed of at £9 12/6 to £l3 1/ head, with the exception of a few in low condition, which brought store prices. Dairy cows we quitted at £ll 1/ to £l2 11/ each. Fat sheep: half-breds (Provincial fatted) sold at 14/6 to 17/6 each. Napier half-breds fetched 13/ to 16/9. Napier merinos, ex Star of the south, were sold at 13/to 14/9 for good quality; second class quality, 8/ to 9/9.

SUDDEN DEATH IN A MAIL COACH. A man named George Wilson, a passenger in the mail coach from Cassils to Muswellbrook, died last month, suddenly, while on his journey. The Singleton Times gives the following particulars of the sad occurrence : —The deceased, who was an ablebodied man, about thirty-five years of age. left Cassilis in the coach along with the sub-inspector and the driver, Thomas Adams, with the intention of proceeding to Muswellbrook for medical advice, as he was suffering from bronchitis. When they had readied the neighborhood of Hall's Creek, Wilson called upon the driver to halt, us he felt ill and thought he was dying. He, however, resolved not to get out then, but would take up his quarters for the night in the next public-house. Seeing the d> jected condition his fellow-pas-senger was in, sub-inspector Thorpe kept, a look-out upon him, and in about ten minutes saw the poor fellow fall olf the seat upon his knees. The dying man was at once raised and placed in as comfortable a position as was possible under the circumstances. In a short time, however, the unhappy man was in the throes of death, and being in the prime of life and of a in us cular frame of body, it took all the strength and activity of the sub inspector, and sometimes of the driver, to hold the now unconscious fellow-mortal. After struggling for about half-an -hour with the last grim adversary, the afflicted man expired in the arms of his humane companions. The deceased was with some difficulty conveyed along the uneven road. At the inquiry which was subsequently held, Dr. Brown, jof Muswellbrook, attended and made a post mortem examination, when the cause |of death was ascertained to be an acute attack of bronchitis.