Commercial.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43066, 9 March 1907, Page 2

Commercial.

Messrs Alfred Buckland and Sons re-port-—Horses: At the Havmarket on Friday last we had an average yardiug Young heavy draughts were not represented, Active waggon and spring cart sor*s brought from £26 10s to £35 , butchers and grocers’ cart class, £lB 10s to £25; buggy horses and good hacks, £l4 5s to £l9 IGb ; light harness and ordinary hacks, £7 to £l2 ss; ponies from £4 10s to £ls; sulky, £l6 16s; spring cart, horse and harness, £25. Hides, skin tallow, etc.: Hides —Ox (no extra stout), 5Jd to" 6Jd , cow. 5Jd to 6£d ; kip, s£d to s|d ; calf, 6d to 6fd ; stag, 3£d to 3f d ; damaged hides, 2d to ofd ; horsehair, Is 5d to Is 7d; tallow, £1 3s 3d to £1 6s; bones, 4s Od to ss. Skins—Best pelts aud lamb skins, 3s Id to 3s 7d • others, 8d to 2s 11 l. At Kaipara Flats on Monday a moderate yarding of stock was disposed of at satisfactory prices. Forward grown steers. £5 5s to £5 10s; three-year-olds, £4 ssempty cows, £1 13s to £3 ss; yearlings, £1 15s; calves, to £l Is ; wethers, 13s 9d to 16s; ewes, 9s to 12s 6d. Sheep, penned in less than average numbers, were better worth, although our quotations are lower. Best wethers sold from 19s to £1 3s; lighter weights, 15s to 18f.; heavy ewes, to 19s 6d; others 13s to 16s; lambs, 8s 6d to 17s, Pigs in usual 'numbers sold freely throughout. Small, from 8s 6d to 15s ; porkers, to £1 16s; baconers, to £2 12s (103 sold) At ' Wellsford on Tuesday more than the advertised number of cattle and sheep, with few exceptions, changsd hands at full values. Springers, £3 5s to £5 ss; empty cows. £l 10s to £3: fat cows and heifers, £3 10a to £4 15s; two to three-year stoers £3 to £4 ; yearlings, £1 15s to £2 2s 6d; oaives, 16s to £1 3s; forward and fat wethers, 15s 3d to 16s; full-mouthed ewes, 9s to 13s; a nice line of two and four-tooth ewes, from Mr D. Smith, of Wharehine, brought l?g; ambs, 9s 6d; English aud Border Leicester rams, £2 2s to SJgs. ; aged Romneys. £2 2s ; small pigs, 6s. At Remuera on Thursday dairy aud store oattle penned in usual numbers aud kept recent quotations. Fat and young calves, in less than average numbers, sold freolj at ap advance op late values There was an average yarding of fat cattle of uioe quality, wliiob sold irregularly, but on the whole prices were firmer. Ox beef sold from 19s to 21s ; cow, 17a to 19s. Steers ranged in price from £5 10s to £lO 17s 6d; cows, £3 10s to £7. (286 sold).