Commercial.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43116, 20 July 1907, Page 3

Commercial.

Messrs Alfred Buckland and Sons report. — • Horses : At the Haymarket on Friday last we had an average entry.' No heavy colts oi " fillies were yarded. Ag6d draughts sold at from*£l6 Jo £27 5s ; medium draughts, £2l 10s to £36 10s ; light harness and buggy horses, £lO to £26 10s ; ordinary hacks and gig ponies, £2 12s 6d to £11; gig, pony and harnea' £2o< huggy, £ll 15s; the hunter figftru; £lO ; mare Star of the South, 21 guineas. ’. Oh Saturday we -held a clearance sale at Mr R. Barnes’, Puni. Despite the inclement weather there was a large attendance and competition spirited. The dairy cows sold from £4 17s 6d to £lO 10s; ca T ves, 255; Jersey bull, £5 5s ; farm horses. £l4 to £27 Os; foal, £8 ss; sow, £2 2s (d ; wean era, 10s; farm implements, fumituio and sun- : dries, satisfactory prices. At Pokeno on Monday we had a moderate yarding of stock. Dairy cows realised from *' £3 2s 6d to £6 10s heiftrs, £3 7s 6d to £4 ; empty cows, £l y 4s to £2 LOs ; beef at Retmiefa rates. : We sold on account of Mr S. Vinson : Dairy cows, £8; empty cow, £1 ' 18s; calves, 14s to 37s : Shetland pony, £6 12s 6d ; Courtland waggon, £l6 10s ; gig, £l3 ; waggon,' £27 ; implements and sundries at usual rates. We held our monthly sale at Runciman on Wednesday, and fortheiime of the year there 'was a fair, muster of cattle. Dairy cows near their profit, of good quality, sold from £6 to £7 15s ; others, £3 15s to £5 10s ; dry, £2 to £3 los'; fat, £3 10s to £5 10s ; 18 months to two-year steers, £3 to £4, no grown steers penned. Strong calves, 20s to 30s ; small, 12s to 16s ; yearlings, to £2 ss. At Remuera on Thursday dairy cows came forward in larger numbers than usual. Best sold'up to £8 I s : others, to £6 ; dry, £2 to £4. Fi t and young calves, in average numbers, wei e in strong demand at from 2s to £2 2s ; 98 so Id. There was an average yarding of fat cattle of choice quality, which met with a ready sale throughout at late quotation, ox beef being firm at 22s per 1001 b and cows’ , at 20s. Steers ranged in price faom £5 5« to £l\ 12s 6d ; cows, £4 to £8 2s 6d ; 298 sold. ' Sheep, penned short of requirements, were in demand at fully 2s 6d advance all round for all classes, extra prime wethers selling to 31s others to 255, ewes to 28s, hoggets to 19s. Pigs also sold freely throughout. .Small, 8s 6d to 14s ; porkers, to 38s ; baconers, to £2 198 ; 55 sold. Poultry, 2s. Hides, skins, tallow, etc.: Hides—Ox, 4gd to 6fd ; cow, 4-J-d to s£d ; kip, 4fd to s{-d : calf, 6d to 6jd ; horse 6s to 10s : damaged hides, l|d to 5d ; horsehair, Is sld ; tallow, 25s 9d to 26s 6d ; bones, 4s 9d to ss. Skins —Best butchers', 5s to 6s 3d; medium, 3s 4d to 4s lid; small and damaged, Is 2d to 2a Bd. '