Commercial Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 14, Issue 746, 23 December 1869, Page 2

Commercial Intelligence.

AUCKLAND LIVE STOCK MARKET. [CAREY, GILLES, AND HUNTER.] December 17, 1869. We have little improvement to note in the horse market as regards price or description of stock offered, but transactions have been rather numerous. At the Durham yards on Saturday, horses were difficult to quit, sellers being unwilling to submit to the prices offered, but towards the end of the sale competition was keen. At the Junction yards on Tuesday there was an average number of cattle brought forward, and for dairy, store, and particularly young stock there was the keenest competition and an advanced price realised; but fat beasts were very slow of sale, and the numbers disoosed of limited.

The sheep market has been glutted with inferior stock, which are most difficult to quit at any price. I Good sheep are in request, and could be placed at| remunerative figures. The folllowing is a list pf J

prices.:—Dairy cows,from £9 15s to £l2 12s 6(1; yearlings, from £l> to £5 ; .weaned from £2 7s 6d to £3 ; three-year-old steers, £3 7s 6d to £l.O 2s 6d each; beef, from 30s to 32s 6d $ 1001 b.

Sheep, half-breds,fromlls6d to 17s 6d; lambs, from 9s 3d to 12s each ; pigs, the supply was inadequate, and prices looking up. Wool —There was a marked improvement in the price on Friday notwithstanding: the jotting up was not all what could be desired. We cannot too strongly urge upon our friends the advisability of taking extra pains. Half-bred met most especial favor, but some long-wool realised, we believe, the highest, price that has been obtained the last two years.