COMMERCIAL.

Waikato Argus, Volume XV, Issue 6039, 12 September 1903, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Thb Waikato Aehus Office, This Day WAIHOU SALE.

Messrs McNicol and Co. report:—At Waihou yesterday we hud a full yarding —750 head of cattle being penned. Stores were slightly easier that at the previous monthly sale ; tpriogers and fat cattle sold about late rates, the latter—--121 head—were of exceptionally good quality, and all but four head aold ; cows sold up to £9 9s 6d ; heifers up to £8 12s ; steers to £9 ss, averaging about 25s per 1001 b. Fresh-conditioned 3-year old steers, £6 7a to £7 4a; 2j»year-old Bteera, £5 14a ; fresh empty cows, £4 5s to £5 ; store cows, £3 3a to £3 15a ; good calves £3 3s to £3 11a ; others, £2 53 to £2 15s; IS months steers, £4 to £4 7a fid ; IS-months heifers, £3 10a to £3 15s. Fat sheep : Wethers 21a, ewes 18a.

AUCKLAND MARKETS

Messrs Alfred Buckland and Sons' Rejport. Horaea: We bad a amail

entry at the Haymarket on Friday last, and, with few exceptions, all yarded were sold at satisfactory prices. Aged draugbta £l6 to £27, spring cart horses £4O to £43, medium draughts £2O to £2l, light harness and ordinary hacks £4 to £l3, buggy horses and good hacks £l6 'to £2l, a gig, horse and harness realised £25, sulky £ll, light cart £7. Hay and Straw : Hay 2a 9d to 3s 3d ewe, straw 358 load. Hides, Skina, Tallow, etc., Hides, light ox 4gd to C.Jd, cow to 43d, call 4jd to 4jd, kip 3d to 4 : }d, stags 3£d, horse 3a to sa, bones 4s 6d, tails la sd, tallow 18s to 21a. Skins; Town and country butchers' best 4a 9d to 5s 4d, amallor 2a 3d to 4a 4d, damaged 7d to la 7d, pclta la. Grain, etc. : Oata same as last week. Maize declined to 2s 10d ex wharf, though some large consignments were stored for higher prices. Bran and sharps unchanged. Chad', firac-class, Waikato, £4 ex rail to £4 10a ex store, sacks extra. Damaged oats 2s, damaged maize 3a 6d, hay £2 JO3 to £3 10s, straw £3 5«, linseed 2d per lb. At Remnera on Thursday dairy cowß came forward in larger numbera than fir some time past, and for thoßo at profit were from £6 10a to £lO sa. Store cattle, penned in usual numbers, aold up to £7 12a 6d, dry cowb £3 to £5 sa. Fat and yonng calves, in moderate supply, kept late values, small were from 8a to lis, medinm, 14s to ISa, heavy up to £3 3s, 55 sold. There waa a good mußterof fat cattle, and all of good quality, wnich aold steadily throughout at od advance nn last week's quotations, nx beef selling up to 36a, cowato 26a the 1001 b. Steers ranged in price from £7 17a 6d to £l4 2s fid, cows £5 153 to £lO, 288 sold. Fiit sheep came forward in average numbers, and met with very keen competition. Best wethers sold up to 31a 6d, 164 wethers fiom Matamata Estate averaged £1 10a 3d each. Spring lambs were well represented, and aold freely at from lis to 18a each, 46 sold. There was an average number of pigs penned, which sold freely, small were from 10s to 15s, good stores, 20s to 30s, porkers 36s to 40s, baconers, up to 67s each 94 sold.