Commercial.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43090, 9 May 1907, Page 3

Commercial.

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd. report : —Horses : On Friday at the Durham Yards, horses were yarded iu average numbers, most of them changing hands under the hammer. Heavy draughts sold at from £2B 10s to £39 ; medium do., £l6 15s to £3O 10s ; hacks and light harness horses; £6 5s to £2O 10s ; spring-cart, £2O ; tax-cart, £lO 10s.

At Papakura on Wednesday we had a good muster of stock of all descriptions, which sold at improved rates. Dairy cows sold at from £i 5s to £7 10s ; heifers, £3 10s to £7 ; empty cows, £1 15s to £2 13s; grown steers, £4 5s to £5 2s ; empty heifers, £2 Is to £3 7s; two to three-year-old steers, £2 10s to £4 2s ; calves and yearlings, 15s to £1 19s.

On Thursday we held a clearing sale of live and dead stock on account of Mr J. Allport, of Tuakau. There was a veiy largo attendance and satisfactory prices ruled. The f irm horses sold at from £26 10s to £32 ; yearling foal, £ll 10s; cows in milk, from £i to £8 ; single-furrow plough, £4 10s. Cattle : At the Newmarket Yards on Tuesday cattle of all descriptions were yarded in full numbers. Dairy cows sold at from £-5 5s to £7 12s 6d ; empty do., £1 17s to £2 15s ; heifers, £3 12s Od to £5 ; calves, 15s to £1 8s; grown steers, £4 5s to £5 12s 6d. Fat cattle, of which there was an average muster of good quality, sold under steady competition at improved rates, ox beef selling to 21s per 1001 b, cow 17s to 19s. Steers sold at from £6 5s to £lO 12s 6d ; cows, £3 15s to £6 10s.

Sheep : At Newmarket on Tuesday sheep of all descriptions were yarded in more than average numbers and sold well at advanced rates, wethers selling at from 18s 9d to JBI 3s 9d; ewes, 15s Gd to £1 Os 3d ; hoggets, 8s Gd to £1 2s 3d for the first prize takers at the Cambridge show. j Pigs : Porkers sold at from 15s Gd to £1 ; 3s; baconers, £1 4s to £2 11s; weaners, 5s 6d to 10s Gd. ' We submitted an extra large catalogue of bides, skins, and tallow, all lines being sold at keen competition. Hides : Market firm at last weeks prices. "We quote —Prime ox, Bid to 9d : extra stout ditto; 7d to 7id ; stout ditto, 6§d to Gfd ; medium ditto, 6d to Gfd ; light ditto, 6{d to Gfd ; cows’, bett lines sfd to sfd, good sfd to 5Jd, -wet sfd to of d ; stags,, 3f dto 3Jd ; kips, s{d to sfd ; calfskins, 6d to Gfd. Sheepskins : Market firm. Best butchers’ pelts and lambs, large 4s to 4s lid, medium 3s Gd to 3s 9d, small 2s to 3s. Tallow: Market firm. Best mixed for tanners’ use, 263 6d to 2Ss; good mixed, 25s to 26s ; inferior, 23s Gd to 24s 3d ; rough fat, lfd per lbBones, £4 15s. C'owtails, Is 6d a dozen. Horsehair, 9fd to Is 9d per lb. Maize : Stocks are almost exhausted of local, which is nominally worth 3s 5d ex store. There is a fair quantity of Sydney on hand, but owing to its weevily nature it is not much sought after. Present value is 3s Id ex store. * Oats : B grade are selling at 3s 2d ex store. Wheat: Prime samples are in good demand at 3s 9jd. Chaff : Compressed fodder is finding ready sale at £5 ss; Australian chaff, £6. Butter : Stocks are heavy and the market is dull, milling quality only realising 7:{d and prime separator up to Bd. Cheese : Prime factory is selling up to Gfd for medium size ; farmers’, s {d to Gd. Fungus has advanced totfofd. Kauri gum : Stocks are extremely light and there is a keen inquiry for all sorts excepting white chips. There has been no change in value during the week. LONDON WOOL SALES. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) LONDON, May 6. At the wool sales yesterday there was ri brisk demand for merinos and prices were very firm. Crossbred prices are hardening.