STOCK REPORT.

Patea Mail, 26 May 1881, Page 3

STOCK REPORT.

Mr C. F. Barker reports: I held my usual monthly sale at my Patea yards on Wednesday, 26th instant. CattlK: Not a large number of entries, but the demand was good. I cleared all except one or two milch cows, as follow—--3 3-year-old steers at £5 ; 5 3-year-old store steers, £4 10s ; 2 2-year-old steers, £4 ss; 5 mixed steers and heifers, £3 10s; 29 yearling heifers, £1 13s Cd ; milch cows from £5 to £6.— Sheep : 150 ewes at 7s 9d ; 210 store ewes, 5s ; 53 lambs, 6s. The demand for fat sheep is good, but few offering.—Pxas : 24 yarded ; only a portion sold.— Houses : The usual number of inferior hacks entered ; prices low. Good medium draughts sold from £ls upwards. Cheap Cables, —Recent experience has shown that lighter, and therefore more economical telegraph cables are as useful as the old heavy ones, and with such less costly instruments a lower tariff will suffice. There is probability of a cable being laid to Canada, and the continents of Europe and Asia, at a cost which, it is expected, will admit of tariff of one shilling a word. In the Colony of New Zealand there are 63 County Councils, 316 Road Boards, 65 Boroughs, 9 Cattle Boards, 12 Education Boards, 13 River Boards, 11 High School Boards, 10 Waste Lauds Boards, 25 Harbor Boards, and a practically unlimited number of School Committees. “What’s in a dress?” asks a popular writer. Sometimes a good deal, and sometimes precious little. “ There’s music in the heir,” was a fond father’s remark, as he paced the midnight floor with his crying son in his arms.

AUCKLAND CATTLE MARKET.

Messrs Hunter and Nolan report : Cattle.— At Newmarket, on May 17th, dairy and store stock are unaltered in value, and there remains an unsatisfied demand for young dairy cows at their profit. Beef in fall numbers, and sold at from 27s to 30s per lOOlbs. We quote.* Calves, 20s to 42s 6d ; yearlings, from I*2 12s 6d to £3 ; two-year-olds, £3 17s 6d to £4 10s ; grown steers, £5 12s fid. SliEEr, — There was a slight advance on last week’s prices, a cargo from Wanganu 1 averaging 15s 9d. Lambs—Few yarded, with no alteration in value. Pigs.—A moderate number yarded, small porkers.selling well.