COMMERCIAL

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42790, 12 October 1905, Page 3

COMMERCIAL

NewZeaaland Loan and Mercantile Agency Co.’s, Ltd., Report.— Horses continued in s'eady demand, average numbers being brought foro ward. The usual lots were put under the hammer on Friday at the Durham yards, competition being keener than on the previous week. We quote : Heavy draughts, at from £29 to £3915s ; medium ditto, £22 to £36 10s ; light harness horses, £8 10s to £2O; hacks, £4 10s to £l7 ; weeds, £2 5s to £5 ; a spring cart/£l2 10s. On Wednesday last we held our first cattle fair of the season at the Papakura yards, when we yarded more than the advertised number of 2000 head. \ The.e was a large attendance of buyers and competition was good for all classes, with the exception of grown ■ steers, which scarcely realised the vendors’ expectations, showing a decline of from 10s to 15s per head on last. year’s pricss. Grown steers sold at from, £5 15s to £7 10s; three to four-year-old ditto, £4 7s 6d to £6 2s; two to three-year-old ditto, £3 5s to £5 15*; empty cows, £2 7s 6d to <£4 17s; yearlings, £1 11s io £2 18s; calves, 18s to £1 19s, With the ex • ceptioa of one or two lines of grown steers, nearly everything in the yards ■ changed hands. At the Newmarket yards on Tues- ' day, dairy ahd store stock were yarded in usual numbers and sold at late 1 rates. Beef was yarded in average numbers and sold at advanced rates, ox beef selling up to 26s per 1001 b , cow, 19s to 21s. Steers sold at from £6 10a to £l2 17s 6d ; cows, £4 10s to £8 10s. Dairy cows sold at from £4 5s to £5 10s; empty ditto, £2 10s to £4 2s 6d; calves, £1 Is to £2 4s. A truck of steers from-Mr Edward Allen, Cambridge, averaged £l2 6s. Sheep were yarded in usual numbers at the Newmarket yards on Tuesday, and met a ready sale, wethers selling at from 19s 6d to £1 10s 9d; ewes, . 17s 3d to £1 6s 9d ; shorn wethers, 19si6d to £1 3s 6d; ditto ewes, to £1; hoggets, 13s to £l. Pigs : Porkers sold at from 17s 6d to £2 Is; weaneis, 10s to 193 6d ; baconers, £3to£3 17s. On Monday we held a special sale of horses at Pukekohe, when we yarded 235 horses. There was a good attendance of buyers, and for everything of good stamp competition wss keen. Unbroken medium draughts sold at \ from £2O to £32 10s; heavy ditto, £27 to £4O 10s, which was obtained for a fourt»year.-old colt from Onevrero ; useful plough horses, £lO 10s to £2O ss;* hacks, £5 5s to £2l, A Thorne roadster realised £l4 10s; buggy, £l2. A pair of medium four-year-old draught mares realised £74 the pair. We submitted a large catalogue of hides, skins, and tallow on Tuesday. , all lines meeting with keen competition. Hides : Market firm at late rates.. We quote: —Prime ox, 7f l to B£d ; extra stout do., 6£d to 7-£d ; stout do., 6Ji to 6Jd; medium do., sfd to ssd ; light do., 4£d to 5Jd; cow, best lines, 4fd to 4sd ; stags, 3Jd to 3£d ; kips, 4£d to 4£d; calfskins, s£d to 6d ; damaged hides, 3Jd to 4£d. Tallow : Market firm. Best mixed, in shipment casks, 20s 6d to 22s 6d; broken casks and packages, 19s 6d to 21s;. seconds, 16s6dto 18s 6d ; rough fat, l£d. Bones, £5. Cowtails, Is 6d dozen. Horsehair, Is 2d to Is 6d, Maize: Supplies small and market firm at 3s 3d on wharf in wholesale lines. Oats are in good demand at 2s 4d on wharf. Wheat: Selling freely, 3s 4d to 3s 5d ex store. Chafl: In good demand at £5 10. s ex store for prime, Potatoes : 2k£arket easier, owing to of American, which are quoted at £ll 10s; Hobart, 13s. Cheese. Market firm at s£-d for 40’s, 6d for loaf. Butter: Prime separator, lOd; good, 9d to 9 Jd; poor, Bd.

Those interested in the new syllabus should attend the lecture by Mr E. K. Mplgar, .M.A. in Te Aroha school on Friday evening at 7 o’elook.