COMMERCIAL.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42782, 23 September 1905, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., report: — Horses have been in steady demand, about the average numbers being brought forward. On Friday, at Durham yards, draught horses sold at from £3l 10s to £4O ; medium 'ditto, £22 to £3o ; hacks and light harness, £7 10s to £10: the thoroughbred mare, Famrahi, 21gs. : spring cart, £lO 10s ; tax cart, Alo. At Fukekolie, on Wednesday, there was a good muster of stock of all descriptions, which met with a ready sale. Dairy cows sold at from £1 l()s to £0 10s ; ditto heifers, XI os to £0 os ; empty cows, £1 los to £4 : grown steers, £4 10s to £•"> los ; two to tliroe yoar-okl ditto, £2 10s to £4 Is ; calves, Ills (i) £1 17s, Buef, atNowiuurket rates. At tiio sale of Mr W. N. Johnson’s dairy cows, at. Waiuku, on Friday, there was a g<Kid attendance, the cows being a choice lot realised good prices, cows in milk selling at from £0 10s to to £0 Ids; springing ditto, £*(i As to £0 ; the hull. £S>. The dairy averaged about £.3 pur head. On Saturday, at the clearing sale of Mr \V. K. Tide’s dairy stock, there was a huge attomlimmi and bidding was extra keen, the cows selling at from £7 to £23 (which was realised for a grade Alderney cow, which had calved a fortnight, the price luring a record one for a dairy emv). At the Newneu'ket Yards on Tuesday, fat steok was punned in usual numbers, and met with a, steady sale. Oxen sold up to 24s per 1001 b ; cows, 13s to 21s. Steers sold at from £0 10s to £ll I7s(id; rows, £4 las to £7 l As. Dairy rows yarded in average numbers, sold lit fimi) £A As'to £7 12s (id; store ditto, £2 Is to £3 l7s;ealvos, 17sto£l Us. Sheep were yuriled in average quantities at the Newmarket, Yards on Tuesday, and met a ready sale, wethers selling at from lSstyAU |Us t)d ; owns, LI Oh (id tu Ll Us { ||(>ggbts, 13s to Ills t)d : spring lambs, Ms lid to 13s : shorn wethers, ttjs 0d to Ll Is. Porkers brought front 10s (id to L2 As ; weaners, 7s tjd to l"s Oil. At. Waiuku, on Hatimluy, there was a large npiHtur of stock, UnnmotHltm was Dairy eo>yssold at froiu- Ll As to L 7 7s (id : gixtiyu stfsij’s. Lj lAs ti) LA lflnfitl: two to :|-yearrni(| ditto", L’i |()s to LA ; empty cows, Ll )3s to 1/3 H)s; iialvos LJ Is to Ll 17s. I leaf at Newmarket rates, Wo submitted a large catalogue of bides, skins and tallow on Tuesday, all lliujs being sold under, keen competition. Hides: Market very linn. We quote : Frinie ox, 74*1 to 3jjd ; extra stout ditto, (>Bd to 7Ad; stout ditto, (id to (tjd : medium ditto, ABil to Ajjd; light, ditto, Ijd to Aid : cow, best, lines, Ifd; ditto, good, 4jUt ti| 43d; stags’, 3d to Itjjd: kips, Ijd to Ijd: ealfski.t|s, A.jd to (Id; damaged hides, 2jj to ijlil. tjliecpsklus i Murlcot, limp llest bnlebers’ skins, picked, tjs lid to 3s: medium ditto, As (|d to IMs ild: rough fat, l|d to Ijd. Hones, LA", eevvtails, Is fid dozen: horsolmiy, Is 2d Iq Is (Id. Maize : Market linn, at 3s 3d im whuff for wholesale lines. Dips: Market linn, at 2s 3.1 c. i. Olialf : SiliK'lts are aecunmlatiug. and imu\ ltd is essler. Bright Is worth L| JAs fo/sA, Foliiloas: ’f!he dtitfitiud' l|«{« H 1 sldiaplily, 1)11(1 jliO iijiijikefis busier. Prime are ipntied at Ll" ud-o I Jilt far ; Supplic" five'ooming in very slowly. Choice sopnratijr, tt»|d: fair ditto. »|d J<( lpd. Cla 1 esc : Market very bipo. Forties, A|il; loaf, fid.