COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8375, 8 March 1907, Page 7

COMMERCIAL.

WEEKLY MARKET REPORT. (Special to the Wairarapa Age.) The New Zealand Farmers' Co- • operative Distributing Company, Ltd., report as follows:—Maize 4s .3d per bushel. Wheat 3s lid to 4s, firm. Oats, prime feed, 3s 2d per bushel, market very firm. Linseed, whole, £ls per ton. Pollard £6 to £6 10s per ton. Bran £5 per ton. Prima oaten sheaf chaff £4 10s per ■ ton, at rails, market firm. Pota- [ toes £7 to £8 per ton, good enquiries. Onions, Sydney,. £5 per ton, dull. Butter, separator 9d, -dairy pats B£d to 9d per lb. Eggs, fresh, Is 6d par dozen, weaker. Honey, 60's, 4Jd to 4j'd per lb, good demand. Beeswax Is 4d to Is ,6d psr lb, good demand. Porkers, 60's to 100's, 4}d to 4Jd per lb. Bacon, sides 7d, hams 7id, roll 7£d per lb. Cabbage 5s 6:1 per sack. Carrots, table, 4s per sack. Marrows 2s per sack. Tomatoes, Is 6d •per half case. Plums 4s psr half case. Cooking apples 4s 6d per case. Dessert apples 5s to 8s per case. Peaches 4s 6d per half case. Cocksfoot 4|d to s£d per lb. Ryegrass 53 6d per .bushel. Poultry—labia roosters As, cockerels 4s 6d, table hens 3s, chicks 2s 6d, ducks 5s 6d, Turkey gobblers lOd, hens Bd, live ' weight. Dressed poultry: Roosters 7d, hens sd, turkey gobblers lOd, .hens Bd. THE TALLOW MARKET. By Telegraph—Press Association. Received March 7, 8.51 a.m. LONDON, March 6. At the tallow auction 1,077 casks -were offered and 853 were sold. Fine mutton, realised 39s 3d, medium •-36s 6d; fine beef 37s 6d, medium 35s 6d per cwt. ANTWERP WOOL SALES. Received March 7, 8.51 a.m., LONDON, March 6. , At the Antwerp sales there was a good attendance. There was a poor selection of merinos. Fine crossbreds were firm and unchanged compared with January sales. Medium and ordinary crossbreds were neglected and were a penny lower. One thousand seven hundred and sixty bales of La Plata offered, and 967 were sold. FROZEN MEAT MARKET. NAPIER, March 7. The Colonial Consignment and Distributing Company, to-day, received, by cable, the following report on the frozen meat market:—There is .a further general decline in values, due to heavy stocks and shipments afloat. The following are the quotations -.—Canterbury mutton, 4|d; Napier, -Wellington, North Island, 4d. Lamb, first quality, s§d, .second quality sd. Beef, hindquarters, 3§d, forequarters 2|d. TE RANGITUMAU HORSE SALE. Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., held a clearing sale of horses on account of Mr James Stuckey and Messrs Stuckey Bros., at Te \ Rangitumau, •esterdayi The weather was all that could be desired, and . there was «n exception- ally large attendance of buyqrs, Wel-lington, Manawatu, and Hawke's Bay being well represented. The arrangements made by Mr Stuckey for conducting the sale were particularly good, the horses being shown to full, advantage without any delay. Bidding was inclined to be dull at the opening, but the public soon livened up was keen, the whole lot of 81 being disposed of under the hammer. Prices were very satisfactory, and taken throughout the sale was a most successful one. A large catalogue of implements and sundries were disposed of. Prices for Mr James Stuckey's draught mares and foals ranged from £l4 to .£49, geldings and mares in work £36 to £4B 10s, pair light draught horses £93, unbroken 3-year draughts £4l , to £43 'lOs, 2-year-olds £29 to £45, yearlings £l7 to £3l. In light horses Mr Stuckey's hack cob reached £3B after spirited competition, other hacks £2O 10s to £26, aged buggy horses £l2 to £2O, unbroken pair £SO, mares and foals £13 f child's pony £7 10s, unbroken 2-year-old £l7. The average for the draughts, including foals, was £25 13s 6d,- and for light horses £2O 16s. Messrs Stuckey Bros.' draught mares and foals sold from £ls to £36 10s, dry mare £34, unbroken 2-year-olds £29, yearlings £lB 10s to £23, hacks £S to £lO 10s, unbroken ■ light horses £3 to £8 10s. Messrs Mitchell and Griffith, auctioneers and estate agents, of Eketa huna, report having held recentb very succesful sales of householi furniture and effects at Mangamairc and Woodville.