Commercial.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43084, 25 April 1907, Page 3

Commercial.

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., report.—Horses : On Friday .t the Durham Yards horses were again -arded in large numbers. Competition was carcely up to the previous week. Heavy Lraughts sold at from £26 5s to £SB; medium do., £l6 10s to £32 ; hacks and light lavness horses, £6 10s io £18; Cortland vaggon, £3O ; sulky, £l2 10s. The hurdle torse Nestator realised 530 guineas, the rotters Empress 22 guineas, Woodbine 35 ■uineas, and linperafor 17 guineas.

On Friday we held a clearing sale of live a# dead stock on account of Mr George s«nnntt, Kariotahi, Waiuku. There was a t ery large attendance and satisfactory prices vere realised. Cows in milk sold to £5; wo to two and a-half year old steers, to £4 s ; calves, £1 10s ; farm horses, £2O. At Waiuku on Saturday we had an average r arding, which met a steady competition. Dairy cows sold at from £3 10s to £5 15s ; anpty do., £1 10s to £3 2s ; two to three rear-old steers, £2 10s to £4 17s 6d. Fat attle sold at Newmarket rates. We sold the ollowing sections of land by order of the Public Trustee under the Unclaimed Lands let : —Lot 59, section 4, Parish of Waipipi, ontaining 5 acres 12 perches 2 roods, for £2S; it 20, section 3, do., 10 acres 7 perches, £l9; at 19, section 3, Palish of Waipipi, contain-, ng 10 acres 7 perches, £ls.

Cattle : At the Newmarket Yards on Tuesday there was a full yarding of stock o." 11 descriptions. Dairy cows sold at from £3 Os to £6 15s ; empty cows, £llss to £2 18s; alyasy£Lss to £1 6s; grown steers, £4 5s to 16 Bdet was yarded in full quantities at Newlarket on Tuesday and was mostly of good uality. Although prices were not higher, be market showed a firmer tone. We quote -Ox beef to 21s per 1001 b, cow 17s to 19s. teers sold at from £6 5s to £lO 10s ; cows, 3 5s to £6 10s. The cattle were mostly ght weights. Sheep were yardt 1 in fall numbers at the fewmarket yards on Tuesday and sold at ist week’s prices. Wethers sold at 18s 9d to 12s 6d; ewes, 15s 6d to £l. Lambs were i full supply and sold for well-fatted from 0s 6d to 15s ; other Sorts, 8s 6d to 10s.

re advertised 1000 store ewes from Gisborne id the East Coast sold at from 11s to 13s.

Pigs: Porkers sold at from 15s 6d to £ 1 ; baconers, £1 15s to JB2 8s; weaners, 7s

1 to 12s 6d. We submitted an extra large catalogue of des, skins and tallow on Tuesday. Hides : Market dropped id to -]-d per lb. Ee quote —Extra stout ox, 7M to 8d : stout tto, 6fd to 7jd ; medium ditto, 6|d to Gfd; rht ditto, sfd to 6|d ; cow, best lines, 6d t > ;n : good, sfd to sjd ; stags’, 4d to 4fd ; ps, sfd to 6d : calfskins, 6d to 6fd. Sheepskins: Market firm. Best butcher.,' fits and lambs, 3s 9d to 4s 7d ; seconds, 2s

1 to 3s 3d. Tallow : Market firm. Best mixed up to r s ; good, 24s 6d to 25s 6d ; seconds, 20s to is 6d; rough fat lfd per lb. Bones, £4 15s. Cowtails, Is 8d dozen. Horsehair, Is 4|d per lb. The maize market is firm at 3s 4d ex store. Oats are selling freer at 3s Id ex store. Wheat is in good demand at 3s 9d. Chaff: Local is slow of sale at £4 5s ; ustralian compressed fodder, £5 os ; chaff, 5 10s. Butter: Now that the export trade had ;ased the market has eased down down msiderably, prime separator realising 8d to |d ; milling quality, 7sd. pheese is selling slowly at 6|d to 6|d for rime factory. Fungus is selling freely at sd. Gum : Supplies are small and the market is mi, almost all grades selling freely. BX., 5s to 100 s ; 81, 65s to 70s; half and half, 0s to 425; sugar, 30s; nuts, 28s to 32,

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Patrons of last night’s social will be 1 anxiously' looking forward to the next, and the Lodge is to be congratulated in having hit upon what should prove a most popular attraction during the tedious winter months.