Commercial Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 14, Issue 714, 2 September 1869, Page 2

Commercial Intelligence.

AUCKLAND LIVE STOCK MARKET. Reports for the week euding Friday, August 27. [MR. ALFRED BUCKLAND.] At the Haymarket on Saturday last fodder was higher iu price—best hay brought 8s the hundredweight ; the flour, £9 to £ll 10s per ton ; potatoes, £5 and £5 10s per ton. There was a large muster of hor.-e -took, principally draught of medium strength ; horses of this class were lower in price ; a very choice unbroken filly, heavy draught, four years old, brought £l6; 1 pair of carriage horses, £4O.

At Remuera, on Thursday, dairy cows, unless young and choice, were lower in price; grown store cattle sold more freely ; fat cattle were better worth. Sheep, either fat or store, were lower in price. Fat pigs in demand. Aged dairy cows, of otherwise good quality, brought from £8 10s to £10; heifers, if well bred, sold relatively high, bringing from £l2 to £l4-; eighteen-month steers, £6 each; store cows, £4 to £7 ; two to three-vear-old steers, £6 15s to £9 ; aged fat oxen brought from £lB to £23 10s; three-year-old steers, £ll to £l4-; fat cows, £8 10s to £l4. (GO head sold.) Store sheep were lower in price, and many pens remained unsold. Half-bred hoggtts brougnt from 9s 3d to 12s each ; a pen of three-quarter-bred ewes, with lambs at side, 24s 6d the couple ; aged ewes, 10s the couple. The fat sheep by the 'Ahuriri' brought from 14s to 2Gs each ; a portion of those brought by the ' Wanganui,' at 13s 3d to 21s each. Fat calves sold very high, small animals bringing from 30s to 52s each. Pigs were plentiful,' but in request; they brought from 4d per pouud live weight. [MESSRS. CAREY AND GILLES.] There was a limited supply of fat cattle offered for sale during the week, which sold at advanced rates, prime beef finding keen competition at from 40s to 45s per lOOlbs ; second quality, 30s to 40s. A large number of fat sheep were placed at from 3£d to 4d. Long-wooled store sheep found greater favor with the grazkrs than for some time past. There was no alteration in the value of store stock, and not many offering.

At the Junction Yards on Wednesday we obtained the following 1 prices :—Fat Cattle : 25 head Napier bullocks of very prime quality at from £ls tq £2O 7s 6d per head, averaging from 40s to 45s per lOQlbs; Wanganui cdtle, per 'Keera,' 26 head at from £9los to £l9 10s per head. Store Cattle: Some heifers at £0 10s to £7 10s each. Sheep : 130 Poverty Bay sheep, not first class, at from Us to 14s 0,1 ; 125 Napier merinos, at 10s to 13s 3d ; 450 Wangunnis, ex 'Keera,' at 18s ; 50 ditto, 153 . Provincial, 17s to 225. Store Sheep : 350 long-woolled, at 14s GJ. Calves sold at 10s to 15s each. FLAX. Now that flax is attracting so much attention in New Zealand, the following extract from W. W. Tickle and Co.'s Trade Review, of 11th June, may ha of interest to some of our readers. The prices quoted will be considered very satisfactory : Flax.—2oth May : 497 bales and 50 bundles New Zealand offered, and 97 bales sold at £32 up to £3B 10s for dressed ; 4th to Ist class sea-da-maged, at £26 10s to £3B ss. 2nd June: 73 bales New Zealand sold chiefly at £3l ss; a few lots of better quality, at £3B 5s per ton. 3rd June: Of 180 bales New Zealand, 104 sold at £3l 15s to £36 15s. 9th June : 176 bales New Zealand sold, ordinary, £2B 10s to£3L 5s middling, £34 5s to £3B 10s; good, £4O 155.—1 am, &c, F. Foster.