COMMERCIAL.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42798, 28 October 1905, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Loan "and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd.; Tteporfc.—Horses have been in steady those of a good stamp being for tho i equipments. An averageqH number were entered for disposal by ■ auction at Durham yards on Friday. Biddiug fluctuated, but on the values were slightly in favour of the vendor. We quote: — Heavy draughts, £27 10s to £42: medium ditto, £lB 15s to £3O 10s; light harnes, £lO 10s to £22 5s ; hacks, £5 10s to £lB. A hooded buggy brought £29. The ; racing pony Annoyed realised". 73. guineas. .... , : On Friday at Maungaturoto we had a fair muster of stock. Grown steers sold at from £5 11s to £5 175.; cows, £2 10s to £3 5s ; calves, £1 to £1 5s ;a-;; shorn sheep, 16s 6d. , •/.. -7 At Waiuku on Saturday, there was a good yarding, and prices showed an improvement on last month. Dairy , cows sold at from £4 10s to £7 15s ; empty cows, £l 17s to £3'; calves, £1 to £1 ISs; grown steers, £5 15s to . £6 12s Gd; beef at Newmarket rates, We sold privarely the Grange Estate, at Kaiwaka, consisting of 1870 acres, at a satisfactory figure. Cattle : At the Newmarket yards on , '; Tuesday, dairies and stoi es were yarded in usual numbers. The former were dull of sale, but the store steers sold ot late rates. Dairy cows sold at from £3 15s to £7 12s 6d; heifers, £4 5s to £q : empty cows, £1 18s to £3 7 4s; calves, £1 2s to £1 16s. Beef was yarded in average numbers, and met a keen competition, prices showing an)' upward tendency, a'though quotations were tho same, steers selling up to 26s per 1001 b, 18s to 225. Fat oxen sold; - at from £7 5s to £l2 ss; cows, £4 5s y . to £B. The quility of the far cattle 7 was scarcely up to last week, A draft of steers from Mr E. W, Manning, Puparata, averaged £ll 9s, . Sheep: At the Newmarket yards on Tuesday, sheep were yarded in average numbers, and met a brisk)" sale, wethers selling-fit from. £llsto to £1 13s; ewes, 18s 6d to £i lls pjhoggets, 15s 9d to £1 3s ; lambs,"’ Vis 9d to 16s 9d ; store wethers (shorn) IGs 3d. We have sold for shipment - to New South Wales, 300 Shropshire rams at a satisfactory price. Pigs were represented in average numbers at Newmarket on Tuesday., Young pigs sold at from 10s 6d to 18s Gd ; porkers, 18s Gd to £l.2s ; baconers, £2 8s to £3 10s. Sheepskius: Market firm, Best bucchers’ skins, picked, 6s lOd to 9s; medium ditto, 5s 9d to 6s 41 ; small, . 3s 9d to os; lambs, Is 2d to 25.2 d; , polts, Is to Is Gd. . . Bones, £5, Cowtails, Is Gd per doz n n. Horsehair, Is 2d to lsLld. Oats : Stocks are light, and all shipments coming to hand are finding a ready sale at the late rise, equal to 2s 4d c,i.f. Chaff has advanced to £5 os ex wharf, and £5 10s ex store* Potatoes: Prime D u wents are worth. £l3 ex wharf. Butter : " Market easier. Prime separator, 97,-d ; good, .9(1 to 9-}(l, Cheese : Market firm ; 40’s, 6d; loaf, G^d,