COMMERCIAL

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43343, 27 June 1908, Page 3

COMMERCIAL

' New Zealand Loan and Mercantile ■ ' r c Agency Company, Lqd., weekly report:— >'■ Horses:—At the Durham Yard* on Friday horses were yarded in full numbers - and sold at late rates. Heavy draught v‘, fold at from £25 15s to £4O; medium, do, / £lB 10s to. £29 ; hacks and light harness horses, £6 15s to £27 ; Courtland waggon, ’■**[ V £SO ; spring cart, £2 10s. ■' :• :>' At; waiuku ion Saturday there was a •; good muster for this season of the year, ; . which sold at ruling rates. Dairy cows sold at from £3 15s to £7 16s; springing heifers, £3 5s to £5; empty cows, £2 10s ." 7 ;•to £3 12s; calves, 15s to £1 (is ; two to three-year-olds, £2 10s to £4 17s 6d. ■<:Beef sold at Newmarket rates. Cattle : At the Newmarket Yards on . , Tuesday there was an average muster of 7 dairy and store stock and a full supply of beef. Dairy cows sold at from £3 15s to vV£7 12s 6dj’ heifers, £2 15s to £5 5s ; ,V/ empty cows, £2 10s to £3 12s 6d ; calves, s ;,.;...12s to .£1 19s; Beef! sold under a -• 1 good competition at last week’s rates, oxen! realising up to 224 per 1001 b and .. , COWS 17s to 20s. Steers sold at from £5 .•7 los tb £lO 7a6d; cows, £3 12s 6d to £7 •77 's*. ' ; 7 ; Sheep wete yarded in full numbers at ' Newmarket ion Tuesday and Bold at late ■■ • rates. Wethers realised from 15s 9d to '•’ ) I £l 4s 6d ; eweß, heavy weights, 15sfldto ■ •v.£l 0s 3d; medium, 7s 6d to 14s 3d; ‘hoggets, 42s to 16s 9d. Porkers realised 13s to £118s; weaners , 8s 8d to 15s; baconers, £2 3s to £3 9s. - At Pukekohe on Monday we held a /*, Special horse sale, when scarcely the adr 'vertiaed number came forward. No extra heavy draught, horses were yarded, v / .Draughts realised £27 to £35; medium /.. • do., £22 to £3O; lighthamess horses, £l2 ' . ' ito £23; hacks and cobs, £8 to £23; ponies, £3 to £6 10s; weeds, to £3. , r We subiaited an ex;ra large catalogue 6f hides, drinis, and tallow on Tuesday. 7 - . Sheepskins : Market firm. Best V-S ’ ’ Watchers’ skins, large Is 9d to 2s 2d, good is 5d to Is 7d, small Is to Is 3d. H vv: Tallow: Market firm. Best mixed, to »• i- - , 23s ; good, 20s to 21s 6d ; inferior, 17s 7 W to 18s 6d ; rough fat, ljd per lb. Bones/£4 15s. "'Cowstaila, Is 8d per dozen. r 7 4:: J-y Horsehair, lOd to Is 2d per lb. ; ■+' Wheat Market firm at 5s 2d ex store. - .7-:. Maize :;3n : good demand at Is 8d ex r; : „ - - • • „ Oats'::Slow of sale at 2s 9d c.i.f., •7'wholesale lineal Butter : First grade, lOd; second p quality, 9d; poor, Bsd. • Cheese : Farmers’ best quality, old to B|d; p00r,.4d to 4£d. . < . U 7 Fungus is worth sd'.