SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 20 July 1907, Page 5

SPORTING.

Messrs Kin;; and l-'laimagan report the following business mi (lie Cliristolmivli doul.lc: £2OO to a Waitarere and Cuiragr.o. t;200 to iil'/\ Waitarere and , Asteroid, £2oo'to £2 Waitarere and Idnsa, ClOd to £2 Inniskillcn and Paritiitii, £2OO to £2 Inniskillcn and lionhcur, £IOO to £2 Inniskillen and Cuiragno; also £IOO to £4 While Cockade. £K>O to £5 intelligence, £SO to £1 10s Lyrist, £-100 to £0 Helen Portland, £SO to £3 Lady Annie for the Winter Cup. The firm also report brisk business over the treble. Intending treble investors should now make early application, • s acceptances close on the 2(>th,wlien the odds, £2OO to 2s (id. may considerably shorten.

COMMERCIAL. WEBSTER BROS.' REPORT. We held our usual sale on Saturday, and had a very good entry of poultry. Prices were well maintained, if anything, higher. We quote: liens Is tid* to Is lOd, pullets Is »d to 2s lOd, chicks !)d to lid, ducks 2s to 2s lid. There is an increasing demand for young poultry. We can now assure full competition for poultry consigned to us. Fruit is still scarce. We quote: Cooking apples 2d to 4d. prime dessert Nelson's 7s 6d to lis.

JENKINS, MATTHEWS & PKiOTT'S REPORT. We had a fair muster of en!tie at our I'renui yards on Monday, but bidding was very slow and most lines were dull of sale. Store pigs made 7s, calves Ids 10 245. cows in calf J.">s to sjs. springing heifers l>2s. backward do. SOs. heifer and calf tills, bulls :ils lo -IDs. A quantity u f trees and shrubs from tlie Mor.-head nursery brought failprices. The entry at Waitara ou Tuesday was very small, but most lines changed hands at the following prices:—Store cows 30s to 80s, springing cows £4 to £5, cows in calf .13.1 to lijs. old cows 2os to :«ls.

SIIAUEJIARKKT. li. Woodhoiisc. sliardirokcr, reports the business and prices for week ending loth July:-Maorilan<l Copper Co.. 11l at 20s, 2.". ;it. '2ls: Talismans, 100 at 40s Od, 100 ;.( 41s, 50 at 42~ :id. ,->0 nt 42s fill, .10 at 44s 3d; GoJrlcii T!f>J(s, 300 at Is fld. Talismans arc in good demand, t:tkinj( a sharp rise yesterday, nnd rcic/iiiif? '£2 Is.

DAIRY PKODCCH AT HOME. Messrs .1. li. MaeF.wan and Co. received on .lulv 13th ii report from Iheir I.onilen representatives. dcaHicr with the hist week in .May. 'they staled that the neck's arrivals „f Australian butters amounted to •,10.752 boxes, as against 11.322 in the corresponding week of last vear. Th" bulk of (he arrivals were nc-iin •Jni'en<l:inil butter and inferior grades. The v-.rkel was lower all round, in eooscuuencc of a falliiiL' off in demand. Tlic "Tuvakina" reunited on °.ltll Mav with 7-IS4 l.arka-es of X,.,y ''e.land butter. I/o-l vear there were 17.t1ti.-i. Demand wan slow, prices a little easier, at (iii'-»l Otis. fis«j to 100s for iiu--ill--il. (If Siberian onlv 3UM packages were 1-m.W. ss auainst 071 V Ibe pvovbms week and 177-1 in the week last vear. Prices van from BRs to 00s.