Commercial.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43221, 29 August 1907, Page 2

Commercial.

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company report. —Horses : Oa I riday horses were yarded in average numbers and sold under fair competition. Heavy draughts sold at from £2(i 5s to £35 ; medium ditto, £lB to £33 10s ; light harness horses, £8 10s to £2l ss. On Thursday we held a special sale or horses at Papakura, when scarcely the number advertised came forward. Competition was -mod, and with very few exceptions everythiim changed hands. Medium draughts sold at from £lB 10s to £37, no heavy sorts being yarded ; useful plough and farm horses, £lßlos to £27 10; hacks and light harness horses, £5 10s to £l6. On Saturday we held a clearing sale ot live and dead stock on account of Mr J. J. Carruthers, Tauranga Creek. There was a good attendance and satisfactory prices were realised. A . spring cart brought £lO 5s ; harness. £2 12s Gd ; separator, £7 15s ; cows, £3 to.£6 : horses, £3O to £42 10s. Cattle : There was a full muster of stock ot all descriptions at Newmarket on Tuesday. Dairy cows sold at from £3 5s to £8 os ; empty ditto, £1 15s to £2 12s Gd ; calves, 17s to £1 Bs. The beef pens were well filled, and, although no extra heavy weights were yarded, the quality was good. Oxen sold at 23s per 1001 b ; cows, 17s to 20s per 1101 b. Steers sold at from £0 10s to £lO 17s Gd ; cows, £3 10s to £7 15s. Sheep wore yarded in full numbers at Newmarket on Tuesday and sold umlei steady competition at late rates, wethers realising from £1 Os 9d to £1 10s Gd. A small pen of exceptionally well -fatted wethers realised £1 17s Gd. EweT Brbught 18s Gd to £1 -Is Gd. Hoggets, fat, 10s to 17# Gd ; store ditto, 12s 3d to 13s 3d. Pigs were scarce and sold well. Porkers realised 19s 9d *o £1 8s 7d ; baconers, £2 Is to £3 ; weacersy 7s Gd to 17s Gd. Bones, £4 15s.

Cowtails, Is 8d per dozen. Horsehair, Is 2d to Is 7-kl. Horn!): Large, to lOs ; medium, 16s to 22s 0d ; small. Us to 9s; tips, 2s to 3s 6d. Oats are firm at 3s 6tl ex store Maize : The supply is in excess of requirements, store lots selling at 3s Sd. Chaff is selling at £5 2s 6d to £5 5s for bright'sanapies at rail. Fowl wheat is slow of sale at 4s 8d ex store, potatoes : There is a goud demand at £5 to

£■’> • s. . Butter : Very little new make is coming to hand. Prime separator is selling at 9|d ; good quality, Sid to 9d. - Cheese : Slow of sale at Old. Fungus - Good demand at syd. Gum: Buyers are still keen for white qualities. Blacks arc a shade easier. Laud : The demand for farms and country lands still continues, and we have to report the sale of Mr A. McDonald’s farm of 134 acres at Pukekohe to Mr 1. Latta.