COMMERCIAL

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42795, 24 October 1905, Page 2

COMMERCIAL

Messrs Bewley and Griffiths, . produce exporters, New. Plymouth, iu receipt of the port from their London principa V Messrs Mills and Sparrow, dated Ist * September 1905. — Butter. There is no change in the general position to report, buyers are . > acting very cautiously,land only taking ’• just sufficient to fill their immediate requirement. In spite of this the 1 market remains firm. A few, freshly, y. made Victorian ex s.s, Orontes ” came to hand in very fine order, the salted selling at 112 s to 114 s. New South Wales ex same ship are clearing at from 106 s to 112 s for the best, : ..' / Salted Canadian is selling but ly, and the unsalted is causing great concern to all interested, on account . of the mold which unfortunately is showing up in many of the factories now arriving: • ' New Zealand. Speculative sales at 102 s to 103 s c.i.f, shipment from October to March inclusive have been made in several quarters. Irish, Russian, Danish and French, all steady at the quotations, the latter being the cheapest butter offering.'.-*. ■: Cheese continues firm and though the volume of trade is not heavy, yet there is a good steady consumptive . demand.

Quotations. Butter.— Danish. 119 s, 122 s j French, 945, . 965, 104 s, 108 s; Australian, newly made, 108 s, 110 s, 114 s, fine stored, lG2s, 104 s, 106; Canadian, finest >V?§j salted, 106 s, 108 s, finest unsalted, 110 s, ;-y ;/ 112 s, dairies, 925, 94s’; Siberian, 102 s, 104 s, secondry, 98s, 100 s, inferior, V£sj 945, 965; Irish, creamery, 108 s, ■ 11.05,. 112 s, factory, 975, 100 s, 102 ; Dutch, creamery, 110 s, 112 s; American,finest, lo2e, 104 s, good to fine, 945, 98s, in- . ferior, 88s, 90s. Cheese. Canadian, white and coloured, 55s to 565. Alfred Buckland and Sons’ report. ' i Horses: At the Haymarket weekly sale on Friday last we again had a large entry, and for staunch, -good young horses competition was keen and many changed hands at full value, young heavy draughts realising ‘ : from £36 !0s to £SO; spring cart ) horses, up to a ton, £24 to £3O; well" ;'', y-’f; bred weight-carrying hacks and carri- , age horses, £l7 to £24; strong active - trap horses, £ll 10s to £l6 ss; gig and lighter, £6 to £lO ; ponies and , ‘v, weeds, £4 downwards; 16 unbroken medium and light colts and fillies, from' South Head, and others brought from . £lO to £23 15s; chestnut stallion ‘ • Fabannie, £3O ; brown horse Persever- |gg| ance, £2O; . We had a full yarding of cattle at Pokeno on Monday, and with few ex captions, everything sold at mling prices, Dairy cows,’£4 15s to £6.l<s;, ... .* j empty cows, £3 to £4 ss; yearlings, , , £2 7s to £2 16s; two-year-old steers, £3 7s6d; strong calves, £1 8s toy yy £1 18s, a pen of extra choice £2 6s; beef cows, £6 6s; steers, £B. . A At Remuera on Thursday it rained ~ incessantly, but did not interfere with, the sale of stock. Dairy cows came j. forward in usual numbers and sold at recent quotations; store cattle at ad- .;--v vanced rates. Fat and young calves, in full supply, were required. (120 .t ? sold). There was a full yarding of beef of choice quality, which met with steady competition throughout at late values, ox beef selling to 26s the 100.1 b, cow to 235. Steers ranged in price from £6 15s to £l2 12 ; cows to 2s fid; 292 sold. A draught of steers from Messrs Wimtle Bros of the * Tara, averaged £ll 7s each. Fat sheep, penned short of requirement were better worth, wethers in their wool selling to £1 11s; shorn, to 265; ewes, to 27s 9d ; two pet ewes, 32s 9d each. Lambs, in full supply, kept late v; .; values, best selling to 17s 6d ; lighter weights, 9s 9.1 to 10s; 187 soM, Pigs, scarce, were bet’.er worth, ail classes being in keen demand.