COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10101, 24 September 1910, Page 7

COMMERCIAL.

MARKET REPORT

The following are the wholesale buying prices quoted locally, Aug 27 1910: Pee Ton. £ s. d, £ s. d. Flour, s'ks 10 10 0 Wheatmeal 10 10 0 Pollard 7 0 0 Baled straw 17 0 New chaff- foaled Hay 3 0 0 West Oaten 40 0 Pearl Oaten Straw Barley 14 0 0 chaff 2 5 0 Onions 7 ..0 0 Oatmeal 12 10.0 Split Peas 16 10 0 Bran 5 0 Potakes 8 10 0 Pee Bushel. Wheat 3 6 Beans 4 3 Oats 2 5 Barky feed. 2 fi Oats, lonj' 2 5 Biue Peas 4 R Oats, do 2 6 Partridge Peas 4 3 Maize 8 6 Per Lb. Hen B£d Bacon 7d bu I '"' factory 1 0 Eggs 10 dairy, 8d to 9d,

THE CAMBRIDGE SPRING HORSE FAIR.

The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Co., Ltd., report:—On September 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th, we held our annual Cambridge spring horse fair. Breeders and farmers had bestowed a good deal of attention to their draught horses' this season, consequently the entry and display was better in every respect at this sale than previously, both in the way of condition and general get up of horses. The numbers also greatly exceeded all former years. i Best 3, 4, and five year old ,heavy I draught made from £4O to £SO, a ! few made from £SO to £57, but in these instances fortune favoured the owners, in that perhaps a couple of buyers had picked out an animal to match a previous purchase, and went a few pounds extra, not that these animals were so much better than those quoted. Medium draughts made, from £25 to £35; ' milk cart horses ,£lB to £24; heavy draughts, aged, £ls to £26; old worn out draughts, £4 to £lO. The hacks and light harness horses were no better than the previous year, in fact we think they were not as good; anyway there were not half a dozen good hacks in the sale—we mean horses required to carry you in comfort 70 to 80 miles in a day. Most of those offered were by cobby roadsters, which may be all right in harness for 20 to 30 miles. Upstanding horses made from £2O to £25; useful 'hacks £l3 to £IS; cobs and ponies, £6 to £lO. During the four days 1113 horses were offered, and 859 were sold, the classes being:—Unbroken, 227 offered, 199 sold; broken draughts, 503 and 388; light harness and hacks, 383 and 272 sold.

HOME MARKETS. '

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., have received the following cablegram from their London house:—"Wheat, sold at 37s c.i.f., Australian cargo, shipment per sailer January February. Market firm but inactive, owing to decreased supplies. Outlook uncertain. Tallow —We quote present epot values for the following desoiptions:—Good mutton. 39s 3d per cwt; good beef, 37s 6d per cwt; in xed, 36s 6d per cwt. Market firm."

STOCK EXCHANGE. Messrs C. C. Roes and Co., of Masterton, supply the following quotations for yesterday : Buyers. Sellers. Waihi 6 10 3 6 10 6 Waitangi 2 0 2,3 Talismans 2 11 3 2 12 6' Ross Goldfields 2 11 8-0 Old Hauraki ■* 1 4 3 Waihi GJ. 1 16 6 Talisman Rights 1 14 6 Saxons 13 15 New Sylvia 3 10 40 SALES. Waihi 6 10 6 6 10 3 Con. 1 16 6 LOCAL QUOTATIONS. BuyerH. Sellers. Success Dredging Co. 5a prem. . Worksop Dredging £36 I'aringamutu 22 6 Masterton Dredging 1 0 0