Commercial.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 792, 7 April 1905, Page 3

Commercial.

NEW ZEALAND LOAN AND MEE CANTILE AGENCY Cc. LM. WEEKLY MARKET REPORT. AIX'KL/ANn, April 5. Horses. —At the Durham Yards on Friday last ivc bad a large muster, with a good demand for draught!) and useful horses. Competition was keen. Heavy draughts sold from, £32 to £44 10s f, medium ditto, £22 to £36 5s ; hacks and light harness ditto £lO 10s to £l9 15s, weeds £2 8s to £5 10s. A gig realised £9, spring cart £ls 15s. At Warkworth on Wednesday, there was a small muster. Dairy cows sold from £3 10s to £G 15s, empty ditto £1 7s tid to £2 14s, grown stecrrf £5 5s lo £6 10s. Bivl at Newmarket rates. On Monday, at Clevedon, more than the advertised number of cattle came forward, and there was a large yarding of sheep. Dairy heifers sold from £4 5s to £5 7s Od, empty cows £1 9s to £2 lis, heifers £3 2a Gd to £4 ss, calves 15s to £1 lis. Sheep : Wethers 13s 8d to Kss, ewes 6s 6d to 14s 9d, lambs 6s 6d to 9s. The Junction Yards on Tuesday were fairly well filled with stock of all descriptions, which sold at latevalues. Dairy cows sold from £3 10s to £9 ss, heifers £4 5s to £7 2s 6d, calves 18s to £1 lis, empty cows £1 10s to £2 15s. There was an average yarding of beef, which sold at late rates. Fat .steers sold from £5 15s to £lO 12s (',(!, cows £3 10s- to £7 10s. Sheep.—The Newmarket Yards were well filled and sold at late values. Wethers sold from 14s 6d to £1 2s 9d, ewes 13s ©d to £l. Fat lambs were yarded in full numbers well fatted sold from 9s to 15s 3d, other sorts 7s 3d to 8s 9d. "We submitted an extra large cat a- , logue of hides, skins, and tallow, cm Tuesday, all lines being sold under keen competition. Hides.—Market firm. We quote : prime ox, 7jd to B]d, extra stout ditto 6Jd to 7d, stout ditto 5Jd to ftjd, medium ditto 4Jd 'to 55d, light and shcety 4Jd to 4|d, cow best lines 4Jd, good 4|d to 4Jd, stags' Slid to 3Jd, calf-skins s id lo !>jd, kips 4Jd to 4Jd. Sheepskins.—Market firm. T-argc full woolled skins 4s lo 5s 6d. pelts 2s to 2s lOd, lambs' 2s 3d to 3s, damaged 9d to Is 6d. fallow. —Market easier. Best mixed 18s tkl to 19s 6d, best good 17s to 18s. -best seconds 14s 6d to 16s, rough fat ljd to IJd. Horsehair.—ls 2Jd to Is 3Jd. {{ones. —£5. Cowtails, Is (id dozen. Maize.—Full supplies were received, but the market remained firm at 2s lOd on wharf for wholesale lines. Oats are firm at 2s 2d ex store for 1* Chafl.—Local is firm at £1 5s at rail for prime samples, and Southern is in good demand at £4 l'7s (id on wharf. Potatoes.—Fair quantity received from the South, but not being of a good ke.'ping quality, had lo be cleared at £0 10s on wharf, prime local are worth 20s [kt ton more. Uut{*P.—Supplies arc very short, and market firm. liest separator, SJd to 9d, good 7£d to Bd, poor'dairy, 7d to 7Jd. H Cheese Vfcn better demand, factory 4Jd to 4ijd, dairy, slov^jit