Commercial Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 16, Issue 826, 27 September 1870, Page 2

Commercial Intelligence.

AUCKLAND LIVE STOCK MARKET. (Reports to September 23.) [CAREY, GILLES, HUNTER ANU CO.]

On Saturday last, at the Durham Sale Yard*, an average number of horses were offered and found purchasers, but prices realised were low, owing to their description being very interior. First-class heavy draughts and hacks are in demand, but few are brought under the hammer. Hacks sold from £7 to £l2. Light-harness horses from £lO 10s to £l6 ; draught horses, from £29 to £35 each. On Wednesday, at the Durham Sale Yards, the supply of hay was inadequate to the demand. All brought forward lound ready sale at improved prices. On Tuesday, at the function Sale Yards, the attendance w.s large, but prices were lower, and bidding not so brisk as latterly, buyers being determined not to give late ruling prices for store stock. Dairy Stock : Very few first-class offered ; ttiose iu, being chiefly inferior, were dull ol sale, and brought from £9 7s 6d to £ll 10s. Store cattle were in full supply ; a lot, ex •Charles Edwards,' from Wanganui, principally heifers, two years old, in low condition, sold from £5 to £6 2s 6d. Calves, 7 to 9 months old, realised £2 5s to £3 ; yearlings, £3 12s 6d to £4 7s 6dj two-year-old steers, £6 to £6 5s ; three-year-old steers, £7 15s to £8 ss. Jbat Cattle; The supply was small, and the quality inferior, being chiefly shipborne. Reef fetched from 32s 6d to 37s per 1001 b. Sheep : The market was full, and for mutton prices ranged lower than last week about Id per lb, the rate obtained being from 3£d to 4£ per lb. A prime lot from Taranaki, ex * Phcebe,' commanded from 18s 6d to 29s per head. The lot ex ' Charles Edwards,' from Wanganui, inferior, sold from lis to 17s. Fat fambs 6old from 8s to 10s each. Pigs were scarce ; well-bred are inquired for, and command a high pripe. [MR. ALFRED AUCKLAND,]

On Saturday good hay was in request, but that of inferior quality was lower in price. Linseed brought aid to 3&d the lb j maize, 4s 6d the bushel. The business done in horse stock was very limited ; a very choice young heavy draught gelding brought £ls ; med'uui draught, £26 to £AS ; aged draught horse, £lB ; small-sized and riding horses from £3 to £lO 10s. At Remuera on Thursday an unusually large number of youug steers, from two and a-!half to four years, were brought fori ward ; the first few peus were at lower values, but the price rallied as the sale proceeded, and a satisfactory average was obtained. Grown bteers in fresh condition brought from £8 17s 6d to £9 10s j 80 head averaging £9 5s each j in low condition, from £7 to £7 15b. The two-year-old steers were in low condition, they brought from £5 12s 6d to £6 2s 6d j yearnings, about £5 each ; dry cows, £5 5s to £5 12s 6d each.. Heifers, if quiet and well bred, continue in request at high relative values;

not many are brought forward. Fat cattle were in moderate supply, but of heavier weights than "usual and of prime quality : 57 head were sold. The bidding was dull; prices given from 35s to 37s 6d per 1001 b. The sheep market was full, but the greater number penned were of light weight and inferior quality. Prices were again lower than last week, and several pens were withdrawn. Those ex * St Kilda,' from Wanganui brought 10s each ; ex ' Ph®be,' from Taranaki, 17s 6d each j ex J Rangatira,' from Taraaaki, 13s 6d each ; ex ' Coraerang,' from Napier, 17s 6d each. Fat lambs were plentiful, and in request, at near double the price obtained for them last week; they brought from 10s to 18s each. A large number of pigs, of inferior quality, were brought forward; they brought low prices, from ;2s 6d to 14s each. Q-ood pigs were in request at higher values than for the past few weeks.