Commercial,

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43093, 16 May 1907, Page 3

Commercial,

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company’s, Limited, reported. —Horses : On Friday at the Durham yards horses were yarded in average numbers and for anything of a decent stamp competition was good. We quote —Heavy draughts at from £32 10s to £4 5s ; medium ditto, £l9 15s to £2B ; hacks and light harness horses, £6 10s to £lB ; a sulky, pony and harness, £29; Portland waggon, £2B ; waggonette, £25. At Pukekohe on Wednesday we had an average yarding of stock of all descriptions, which sold at late rates. Dairy cows sold at from £3 10s to £6; dairy heifers, £3 5s to £5 15s ; empty cows, £1 15s to £3 10s ; grown steers, £4 10s to £5 ss; two to three-year-old ditto, £2 5s to £4 Is; calves, 15s to £1 6s. Beef sold at Newmarket rates.

Cattle : At the Newmarket yards on Tuesday there was again a good muster of stock ;f all descriptions. Dairy cows sold at from 64 10s to £6 17s 6d ; empty cows, £1 15s to 62 18s ; calves, 16s to £1 7s ; grown steers, 64 5s to £5 10s. Beef was again yarded in fall quantities and sold at fully last week’s rates, oxen selling to 21s per 1001 b, cow 17s (o 19s. Steers sold at from £6 5s to £lO 15s : ( ows, £4 5s to £7 ss. The beef cattle were aot up to last week’s quality, being mostly light weights. Sheep : At the Newmarket yards on Tues-

i.iy sheep were yarded in average quantities aid sold well at improved rates, wethers selling at from 18s 9d to £l 3s 9d ; ewes, 16s 6d to £1 5s for a pen of extra well-fatted; hoggets, 10s 9d to 18s. Pigs: Porkers sold at from 11s 6d to £1 3s; weaners, 3s 9d to 5s ; baconers, £1 17s to £2 Bs.

We submitted a large catalogue of hides, skins, and tallow on Tuesday, all lines being sold under keen competition. Hides: Market firm. We quote —Prime i.x, Bid to Ogd ; extra stout ditto, 7jd to 8d; -rout ditto, Old to 7d ; medium ditto, s|jd to '■Jd ; light ditto, 5-id to ofd; cows’, best lines, s§d to ofd, good s§d to ofd : stags’, 3|d to 4§d ; kips, old to sfd; calfskins, Od to 6id ; damaged hides, 3d to 4f d. Sheepskins : Market firm. Best butchers’ skins, large 4s 3d to 4s 9d, medium 3s 6d to is, small 2s 9d to 3s 3d. Tallow : Market firm. Best mixed, up to 27s ; good, 24s 6d to 25s 6d ; inferior, 20s to •J2s 6d ; rough fat, lfd per lb. Bones. Cl 15s. Cowtuils, Is 8d dozen. Horsehair, 10id to Is 7jd per lb Land : We have tbis week completed the -ale of.Mr Grimmer’s farm at Wayby, con- ' skiing 532 acres, at a satisfactory figure. WAIKATO STOCK SALES. Messrs McNieol and Co. report : At. the Hamilton Mock sale on Thursday, the 9th i nst, we had a. yarding of 105 head of fat cable, 190 -‘ore-: and 374 sheep. Well-fatted steers brought £7 12s Gd to £8 17s 6d ; heavy fat cows, £4 15s to £5 13s; small fat heifers, £3 7s to £4 10s; good calves 20s to i3s ; small calves, 9s Gd to 14s; 18-month-old steers and heifers, 30s ; springing heifers and cows. £3 10s to £5 10s; veal calves, 19s to 32s Gd ; fat wethers, 19s to 20s ; woolly hoggets, 8s Gd to 10s 4d; good hack, £l3. At Morrinsville on Friday, the 10t.h inst., we offered 199 head of cattle and 341 sheep. Cattle sold fairly well ; small fat steers, £5 12s Gd ; fat cows and heifers, £4 10s to £5 ; good fat steers, £7 10s to £7 15s; fresh-con-ditioned three and-half year old steers, £5 to £5 10s; two and a-half year old steers (in good order), £4 to £4 12s; rough two and ahalf year old steers, £2 14s; choice one and i-half year steers, £3 6s to £2 7s ; 18-month dd heifers, 24s to 365; springing heifers and cows, £4 17s 6d to £5 15s; fat ewes, 17s 3d; •rop of swedes, 40s; unbroken light horses, £2 10s to £5 10s. The 13,000 ft of timber in connection with the Assets Board’s old yards •old well. Totara strainors, 3s 9d to 4s 6d ; i-imu (6 by 2, in 500 ft lots), 35s to 40s; two posts and gate, 21s per gate. Ten tons of good ebaff brought £4 12s Gd per ton (sacks in).