COMMERCIAL. MAIL NOTICES.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1006, 7 March 1883, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

MAIL NOTICES.

HAWERA RAM FAIR. F. E. Jackson’s Hawera ram fair was wellattended, but prices ruled low, A few of Mr McNichol’s Auckland rams fetched up to £5 each, but they only averaged about £3 —a price which would not be remunerative to the breeder. . Most of them were of good quality, but a few were below the .standard of most imported rams. Most of the other rams entered for sale found buyers either 1 at the hammer or after the auction; but the prices were far; below real values. Some' rams entered by Moore Hunter and some sold by John JDouglas were really well-bred animals, and it is to be regretted that the time and money invested by them in the introduction of sheep of really first-class quality ■ should be so poorly appreciated. None of Mr Pearce’s longwool Devons Were sold.— Star. ,* LONDON SEED TRADE.' Messrs John Shaw, and Sons, of, 37 Mark Lane, London, E.C., report through their agent,' Mr Leonard W. Blake, of Christchurch, that the market during the fortnight ending Janua^ 7 12th was gradually becoming * more, active,* =. after the quiet experienced as usual during the Christmas holidays. Considerable activity was beginning; to mark the trade for farm seeds,’increased enquiries coming in from the country. . Tbe-ipeculative demand also -Was * extremely-active, and parcels were quickly changing hands at enhanced rates;' Cable: advices' just received from America described red cloyer, there in very short supply, and a further substantial advance in-it has .been established. For Continental samples'higher;prices, were asked'; all rouhd' exbibited extreme and' stocks, generally, for the time of tbeyearj were exceedingly -light. Alsyko. and white clover were meeting -with more* attention. 'Trefoil quiet. Offerings of foreign Italian were meagre. Canary quiet. Some new heihp seed had >just arrived.

Mails are despatched fromPatea as follow i DAILY MAIIIB OUTWARD. 4 For Waverley, Waitotara, Maxwelltown Kai lwi, .Wanganui,,and. South, twice daily; 'dox'closes' at 1-SO’ p jn. ; and 7 p.m. For Kakaramea, Manutahi, Hawera, Normanby, Stratford, Inglewood, New Plymouth arid North, at 11-15 a.m. ' Direct mails to Nelson, and Wellington by every' steamer. Letters imist be marked “ per steamer.” Fbancis Long. Postmaster.

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL: SERVICE.

•’"A' supplementary mail via New Plymouth is made up two days after' above dates of closing, in Patea. •' '

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