COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81870, 20 October 1906, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

MR NEWTON KING'S WEEKLY REPORT. At. the Haymarket 011 Saturday pigs were not tjuite so plentiful, but the demand was as keen as hitherto. W'eaners made from y/ to 14/, s.orcs 15/ to 17/6, porkers 38/ to 45/, trap mare £l3 15J. At the Mart about tho usual supply of poultry was penned. Prices were slightly easier than of late. Chicks made Cd, hens 1/2 to 3/6, pullets i/g 10 2/9, roosieis i'S to 3/, cockerels 1/ to 3 , duck 6 1/6 to 3/O, ducklings 1.3. ; Plants, furniture, etc., sold at the usual rate s . Pure-bred pug dog £l. Cattle.—On Monday at Smart road the sale of Mr E. May's farm and 1 dairy stock was well attended, buyers : being present from all parts of the - district. 'The cows were unfortunately in low condition, otherwise they 1 would have made much higher prices ' Springing cows made £5 to £8 15/, cows in milk ,£4 5/ to £y, aged and • backward calvcrs- £1 15/ to £3, ycar- ■ ling heifers ,£l, 18 mos. do, 29/ to ; 31 , light harness horses ,£4 2/0 to ■ £j, sows in farrow £2 17/6 to £4 15/, 1 sow and litter £5 5/, store pigs 24/ to 2t) , weaners 15/ to 16/6, dairy plant and sundries selling well. A Stratford on Tuesday the yards

were full. Store stock met with fair competition, but there was little o- no alteration in values. In the dairy yauls springing heifers came forward far in excess cf requirements and prices, except fur prime quality, ruled very low. Yearlings made [26 to 23/. sieers 27/ to 29', 2 to 3 \ear steers £3 15/ to £3 12/6, fat cows £4 15/ to £5, store do. £1 4/ to £2 2;, springing heifers (prime quality) £4 10/ to £7, medium and inferior 52 b to £-, 10/, springing cows L2 7 b" 10 £<> 10'/. At Kahoiu on Thursday nearly cvci\ thing sold either at the hummer 01 piivately at satisfactory prices. Yearlings made 10/ to icj/, 12 to 15 mos. steers -;/ to 26/(1, 2 year steers 400, 2Jto 3 year do,',£2 li to £3 ()/, -■tore cows 2(1; to 44/, bulls 30, to 47/. Shorthorn do. ,£4 to £$ 8/, empty heiI'eis ;5' to 40/O, springing do. -£3 i, to £4 10/. Land.—l have to report having -old Mr J. Goidon C-lassford's dairy farm of 200 acres, situated near Inglewood, to Mr A. Nisbet, of Silver.iope. ' WILSON AND NOLAN'S REPORT. We had a good entry of poultry on Saturday, icalising satisfactory prices, liens brought r'lo to 2/11, cockerils i .1 to 2 7, hen and ducklings <)/, hen and chicks 4(1, turkey 51), ciiicksi/, ducks 1 'll to 2';,. Ai the mart a large quantity of sundries were disposed of at -atl'sfaclory rates. BUCKI.AiXO'S REPORT. (Special to "News"). Auckland, October 19. Morses: Aged draughts £l3 10/ L, .£22, young aelive sorts £•<) lo; tt ,£.is in-'. g°"d light harness £-14 tc £ti, hacks ,£7 5/ lo £l7, ponies and weds £2 s' 10 /Jto to.'. At l-Si-minia be.ef sold irregularly Steers made froom £5 10; to £ll cows ,£ 4 to £7 15'. Sheep: Rather better prices ])re vailed. Wethers made to 16/, short 1 10 21 ■' ewes to 22., shorn to' 18/, lamb 'll/ to 20,'. i Pigs sold tit late advanced rates.