Commercial.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43107, 20 June 1907, Page 2

Commercial.

New Zealand Loan and MWe-mile Agency Company Ltd., report Horse*: On Friday, at the Durham Yards horses were yarded in average numbeas. Heavy draught's sold at from £3l to £42 5s modi I 'm do., £l9 10s to £3O 10s, h*cfcSJ and light harness Horses, £7Hoato £l-9-1 15s; Courtland waggon, £2B , gig. £lO. At P.ukekohe on Wednesday we nad a good muster of stock, which s.dd at ad< v meed rates. Dairy cows sold at from £3 15s to £8 ss; dairy heifers, £3 10s to £6 10s ; emp‘y cows, £l 17s to £2 19s ; grown steers. £4 15s to £6 6s ; two to three-year-old do , £2 10s to £4 2s 9d ; yearlings and calves, 15s to £1 18s. The GO advertised steers from Wairamarama averaged £5 12s 6d. Beef, of which 79 head were yarded, sold at fully Newmarket rates. Cattle : At the Newmarket Yards on Tuesday there was a full yarding of stock of all descriptions. Dairy cows sold at from £3 10< t> £7 15s ; do . heifers, £4 5s to £5 5s ; empty cows, £1 18s to £2 10s; calves, 15s to £1 Bs. Toe beef pens were well filled and competition was good, prices improving, although quotations are no higher. Oxen sol Ifo -2-H per 1001 b ; cows, £3 l ’»sto £Bl2-od. Steers sold at from £6 10s to £ll The quality of the fat stoek was good, al 1 though no heavy weights were yarded. Sheep : The Newmarket Yards were well filled with sheep on Tuesday and prices improved, wethers selling at from 17s 9d to £1 4s 6d ; ewes. 17s 6d to £1 0s 3d; hoggets, 10s 9d to 10s 9d. The ad> vertised store ewes sold at from 10s 6d to 14s 9d ; hoggets, 9s 6d to 13s 6d. A line of merino store ewes sold at frem 7s to 10s 9d , Pigs ■ Porkers sold at from 18s 9d to £1 11s; baconers, £1 17s Gd to £2 11s ; weaners, 5s 6d to 10s. AtWaiukuon Saturday there was a. fair muster for this season of the year. Dairy cows sold at from £3 10s to L 7 5s ; Sj empty cows, L2 2s to L 3 4s; steers, L 4 | 2s 6d to L 5 ; calves, 15s to LI 6s. Beef ‘ sold at Newmarket rates. Sheepskins : Market firm. Best butchers’ skins, large 5s 3d to 5s 9d, medium 4s Gd to 4s 9d, small 4s to 4s 2d. Bones, £4 15s Oats are very firm at 3s 4d ex store Chaff: Frirne local is rather slow qf sale at £5 on wharf. Fowl wheat is selling slowly at 4s sd, Butter • Farmers’ prime quality i« selling at 9d; anything below is slow of sale at and up. Cheese is selling slowly at 6£d for ... prime factory.