Commercial.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43081, 13 April 1907, Page 2

Commercial.

Messrs Alfred Auckland and sons report.—Horses : At the Haymarket on Friday last we had a full yarding and all sound, young, useful sorts, especially draughts, were keenly competed for. Heavy unbroken colts and fillies realised from £49 to £SO ss;. active .waggon Sorts, £33 10s to £46; draughts, £37 10s ~ to £47; buggy horses and good hacks, £l4 to £22; light harness and ordinary hacks, £6 10s to £18; gig ponies, £2 10s to £8 10s; aged and worn draughts, £ll f to £2l; light trap, pony, and harness, £2O. . ‘ A fair yarding of stock at Waxuku on Saturday was disposed of at prices satisfactory to the seller, Springers, £3 5s to £5; small fat heifers, £4 10s; empty cows, £2 2s 6dto £3 2s 6d; yearlings to 18 months, £1 15s to £2 10s; calves, 17b to £1 4s; smaller 14s; no grown steers yarded. Small pigs. 8s each. Fowls, 9d to Is 6d. Sulky, £5. At Helensville on Wednesday an average yarding found buyers at slightly •better values. Grown bullocks, in forward condition, £5 Is to £6 4s; year-olds, to £3 6s; empty cows, £1 15p to £2 12s 6d; fat cows and heifers, £3 108 to £5 ss; calves, £1; fat wethers, £1 Is. Stock of all classes were well represented at Remuera on Thursday. Gairy cattle sold from £3 to £7 7s 6d ; dry, £2 fo £3 15s; store cattle at late values j fat and young calves, 2s to £3 7s 6d; 75 sold I'here was an average yarding of fat cattle of choice quality. Prices were lower all round, fully 15s per head, ox beef selling to 21s, cow to 19s. Bteers ranged in price from £3 to £lO 17s cows, £3 to £7 2s 6d; 285 sold. Mutton m«t with steady competition throughout at slightly lower values. Heavy wethers sold to 245, lighter weights to 21*; weighty ewes, to 21s 9d, others to 18s; 1500 sold. Best lambs, 13s to los ; shorn, 8s to 13s 9d; 670 sold. Pigß» m usual numbers, sold freely at late quota<* tions’ 112 sold. • Hides, skins, tallow, etc. : Demand good. Hides—ox, o£d to 7d; cow, 5M to 6|d; kip, 6gd to 6£d; calf, 6d to 6Jd, . stags’, 3£d; horse, 10s to los; damaged hides, 2d to afd; horsehair, Is 4d to lB 8d; tallow, 24s 6d to 275, Bones, dry, £5. Skins—best butchers’ pelt*,. 3s 9d to 4s 8d; others, 2s 7d to 3s 6<l» *7 and damaged, 6d to 2s 3d; lambs . beat 3s 3d to 4s 2d, others Is 4d to 3s.