Commercial.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43094, 18 May 1907, Page 3

Commercial.

Messrs Alfred Bucklandand Sons report t Horses : At the Haymarket on Friday las we again had a full yard and good competition for all young sound workers. A line of .seven heavy draughts from Paeroa were keenly competed for and sold at from £33 10s ■to £47, an average of £3B 5s each ; medium draughts, £25 to £3B ; buggy horses and •good hacks, £ls to £24 6s; light harness and ordinary backs, £6 10s to £l6; wellbred ponies, £7 10s to £ls 15s; pair medium unbroken colts, £52; pony, trap, and harness £25 10b. The hunters Roger and Honey realised £lO 10s and £26 respectively. At Manurewa on Tuesday, in the estate of J. W. Waller, cows sold at from £1 2s 6d to £6 2s 6d ; calves 8s to 17s; bull, £4 17s 6d horses, £2O 10s and £2l 10s; stacks, £l2 10s «sach ; sundries at satisfactory prices. At Clevedon on Saturday a moderate yardiing of both cattle and sheep sold at late -rvalues. Springers, £4 to £6; fresh-condi-tfioued empty cowb, £2 10s to £3 ss; yearlings, £1 7s 6d to £1 13s; strong calves, to 19s; forward, wethers, 14s 3d; ewes, 9s 6d to 13s ; fat lambs, 14s 6d; Btore lambs, 7b; chestnut mare, £lB 10s.

The Pokeno yards were fairly well filled -with stock on Monday, and with few excep--,tions all changed hands. Dairy cows, £6 to £7 7s 6d for best: others, £3 10s to £5; forward-conditioned three-year steers, £4 17s •6d ; fat cows and heifers, £3 15s to £6 10s : •empty cows, £1 15s to £2 15s: yearlingß to £1 11s ; calves to £1 6s. We held a special saleof Mr J. W. Waller’s dairy stock at the Maukuon Tuesday. There was a large attendance and everything scdd at satisfactory figures. Fresh-calved cows made from £6 to £8 ss; calves, 16s to £1 2s 6d; hay gelding, £l6 2s 6d; milk cans, 19s to £1 Is; cart, £9 ; pigs, £1 10b each. At Runeiman on Wednesday dairy cattle met with a better demand than at recent sales. Other classes were at late rates. First quality dairy cows, £7 to £9; others, £4 10s to £6 12s 6d; aged and inferior, £1 10s to £2 15s; empty cows, £1 17s to £3 ; fat cows, £4 7s 6d to £5 5s ; two to three-year steers, £3 10s to £4 4s : 18-months to two-year-old, £2 2s to £2 15s ; calves to yearlings, 17s to £1 12s 6d ; small calves, 7s to 12s; small pigs, 7a to 10s. Both dairy and store cattle came forward in usual numbers at Remuera on Thursday, cows near their profit selling to £7, backward springers to £4 16s, stores at recent quotadona. Fat. and young oalvee, short of requirements, sold freely from 4s to 38s; 44 sold. There was a full yarding of fat cattle, which sold at an advance on last week’s pcg&et ox beef selling up to 22s the 1001 b, cdqgL t i'Jg. Steers ranged in price from £6 to £lo 16s ; cows, £3 10s to £9 ; 348 sold. Sheep, penned in average numbers sold freely, best wethers selling to 24s 6d, others to 20s; heavy ewes to 19s 9d, others to 17s; 1473 sold. Best woolly lambs, 15s to 18s; lighter weights, 9s to 13s; shorn, 9s to 14«;' 363 sold. The advertised ewee in lamb did not arrive in time for the sale. Pigs, in moderate numbers were at last week’s quotations ; 64 sold. Poultry, Is 8d to 2s 7d. ■ Hides, skins, tallow, etc.: Hides—Ox, ssd to B§d ; cow, 6sd to sfd; kip, 6sd ; calf, 6d to ojd; horse, 7s 3d to 14s ; stags’, 3|d to 3§d ; damaged hides, nominal; horsehair, Is Od to Is 7id ; tallow, 24s 6d to 27s 9d ; bones, 4b 9d to ss. Skins —Best pelts and lambskins, 4s 3d to 4s lid ; others, 2s 2d to 4s; damaged, Id to 2s.