Commercial.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43215, 15 August 1907, Page 2

Commercial.

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report. Horses : On Friday, at the Durham yards, we had a moderate yarding, with good competition for useful sorts. Heavy draughts sold at from £BO 10s to £42 ; medium ditto, £2O 5s to £36 ; light harness horses, £8 15s to £l9 10s; hacks, £G 10s to £l7 ; spring-cart, £S 10s ; Courtland waggon, £3O. At Pukekohe on Wednesday there was a large muster for a winter sale. Dairy cows, of which there were 169 yarded, sold at from £3 10s to £8 12s 6d ; ditto heifers, £3 os to £5 15s ; empty cows, £1 17s Gd to £3 2s; grown steers, £4 17s Gd to £5 15s ; tw r o to three-year-old ditto, £3 2s to £5 10s ; yearlings, £ll7s to £2 18s : calves, 15s to £1 Bs. Beef was yarded in full quantities, 98 head being sold. Steers sold at from £6 10s to £lO 5s ; cows, £4 5s to £5 17s Gd.

Cattle : At the Newmarket Yards on Tuesday there was a full yarding of stock of all descriptions. Dairy cows sold at from £3 15s to £8 10s ; empty cows, £1 15s to £3 8s ; calves, lGs to £1 9s. Fat cattlo wore yarded in average quantities and competition was irregular, oxen soiling to 22s per 1001 b and cows 17s to 20s per 1001 b. Steers sold at from £G 10s to £lO 17s Gd ; cows, £4 5s to £G 15s.

Sheep : At the Newmarket yards on Tuesday sheep were yarded in average quantities and sold at improved rates, wethers selling at from 18s 9d to £1 7s Gd, ewes 10s Gd to £1 ss, hoggots, 10s Gd to 17s. Pigs : Porkers sold at from 18s 9d to £1 6s ; baconers, £1 8s to £2 16s ; woaners, Gs to 15s.

Sheepskins: Market easier. Best butchers’ skins, large up to Gs, good lines 5s to 5s 3d, medium 4s 3d to is Gd, small 3s Gd to 3s 9d. Bones, £4 15s.

Land: We have an active inquiry for suitably-situated farms, and have sold during the week Messrs Leeds and Jackson's property at Matakana, consisting of 731 acres, to Mr John Cameron, of Milton ; also Mr J. D. Mackay’s farm of 100 acres, Dome Valley, to Mr Joseph Williams. Oats : B grade have advanced to 3s 5d ex store.

Maize is selling ex store at 3s 3d. Chaff : Local is in good demand at £5 10y ex store, Fowl wheat is worth from 4s 4d to 4s 5d ex store.

Butter is firm. Separator is in very short supply, sc-lling freely at 9d. Poorer qualities are hard to quit.