COMMERCIAL.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 174, 16 October 1886, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Cambridge, Friday. Alfred BrjckLAN'D & Co. report: —At Cambridge on Saturday last we had a nu luerous attendance, and good sales. At produce sale wo sold potatoes ut 5s 9*l per bag for seed and 7s per bag for eating ; oats, at 3s 4d per bushel; eh/iff, at £4 10s to £5 per ton ; bacon, at I$A per lb. The cattle pens were filled and fair prices realised. Dairy cows at fiom £3 to £5 10s, according to quality \ young empty heifers, £1 17s 6d ; young eteeis, 2 years, £3, and steer calves^ £1 8s; fat steers, £6 and £6 7s fid. Horses : We bad a dull hale, and only few sold. We quote medium draught at £14 to JIMS; liding horses, £11 10s to £12 for real good sorts, and light riding at usual prices, We sold privately one draught gelding at £20 ; one at £21 ](Xs; one at £21; heavy draught colt, £23 ; heavy draught gelding, £27. At Ohaupo on Tuesday, a small sale, but prices were firm for all classes of store stock. We quote goorl grown store steers, £4 to £3 17s 6a ; 2 and 2£ year steers at from £3 to £3 10s, according to quality ; empty fresh young cows, from £2 10s to £3 6s ; two-year steers, small, at £2 12s to £2 17b 6d ; beef brought fair value, and made from £3 10s to £5 5s for heifers and young cows, accoiding to quality, and steers £5 15s for light weights ;£6 for medium. Sheep ; We bold 2 pens of fat ewes at 12s 6(1 ; longwool ewes with lambs at side, 13s each ; shorn ewes, with lamb at side, 7s Gd> and frtore ewes, from 4s Gd to 6& 6d. At Wnitoa on Tbur&d.iy we had a large wile but poor attendance on account of the wet day, and not more than a third of the cattle yuided were sold. We &old 50 frhorri wethers at 10s, and ewes in wool at 12b to 12s 6d.

THAMES CATTLE MARKET. Banks *nd Co.'s Wekkly Report. — At Pnr.nvai on Thuisday, the demand for fut cattle was good, and the supply not being large, an advance of fully 10s per head for befet quality was made upon last week's ratef, medium sorts also maintain ing late values. Steers made from £6 5s to £8 10 a caeli ; cows fiom £3. to £5, being from 20k to 23s per 10011 m.*. Sheep vteve in moderate supply and sold' at from 12s to 14s each, all bein« shorn wethers. Lambs nuide from 7h to 10s each.