COMMERCIAL. Te Aroha and Ohinemuri News Office Friday.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 388, 27 July 1889, Page 2

COMMERCIAL. Te Aroha and Ohinemuri News Office Friday.

THAMES CATTLE MARKET. At Fleming and Co.'s weekly sale of f«t cattle, which was held on 24th in^t., at their yard-?, Paniwai, Thames, they repoit: Prices were in advance of last wepk'fi sales, principally on account of the entile that were ysirded being: stores, with the exception of a few pens of steers rind pnws which changed hands readily. Steers sold at from £4 12s Gd to £5 15s each, being equal to from 18** to 19s per lOOlbs. Cows nt from £3 7s to £5 10s e;ich, heina^ equal to from 16* to 17s per 100 lbs. Stores sold at fiom £1 19s to £2 8s each. Sheap market, a limited number were penned although sufficient for demand. WetljtT^, 14" to 15s each, a few pens of merinos sold at 9s to 10s each.

THE AUCKLAND MARKETS. Messrs A. Buckl,and and Sons' Weekly Report. — On Tuesday heavy hides, in less Dumber than fnr several wr ek**, sustained a further fall in value 1 ' of neai jd the 11), prifes raneed from 3^l t«»3£d, orfioin 18s to 22s each ; light <>$ and coy hides weie at late values ; tiil'ow, 15s to ios6d the fwt ; sheepskins, pitched in full numbers, were better woith ; the greater pa>t bioimht from 4s to 5s 7d each. At llenmera on Thursday d liry cattle were dull of sale ; pi ices r.inyed from 50s to 70s ; store cattle, in better enqnity at a plight advance in value ; fat cattle, abnnant, weie at lower piice^ ; Auckland fatted were at los; Rhip horne, 13^ to 14" the 1001 h for steers of L'ood quality; fat calve", in modeiate numbers, kept last week's values ; sheep were lower in price from Is to 2s ea<h, the fall in price wns principally in the best quality, medium fatted *-hoep kept their value ; pigs generally bold well,