COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2311, 3 June 1886, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

> Messrs Riuvson & Mackay report that [ private enquiries for bush lands aro not , iicfcivo in consequence of tho large areas bein K thrown open fov sottleinent by tho 1 Government, but that there are frequent enquiries for small holdings in the vicinity ! of Masterton for dairy and grazing purposes, The high prices to which town sections ran up during the land fever of 187(5 acts still as a deterrent to the present sale of much of this class of property held by absentees, Since their last report they ' quote the following salos and purchases • ! -Town Aero 15, Quean-street and Dixon- , street, £800; part of town acre 16, with 99ft frontage to Queen-street, and 33ft to Chapel-street, £700; part of town acre 1 in'on 6fift fronta ge to Chapel-street, 1 £330; part of town acre 22, with 40ft 1 frontage to Queen-stroet, and house, £17o; partjoftown acre 113 with 44ft frontage to Hall-street, £75; part of 1 town acre 114, with 44ft frontage to Hall 1 street, £80; four allotments with 50ft 1 frontage each to Cole-street, £200; three quarter-acre sections in tho township of liketahuna, £120; four quarter acre sections in the township of Pahiatua, £120; two quarter-acre sections in the township of Pahiatua, £7O. MESSRS LOWES & lORNS' STOCK SALE i REPORT. , Tho firm report a very large sale of cattle and i sheep at their, yardß yesterday, some 3000 ' sheep and 160 head of cattle being disposed of, I rates for both being firm, with a tendency to rise. For nil good stock competition was keen, but old ewes and culled lambs were difficult to sell.. Good forward bullocks made £5 7« • medium stores, £4lss; three year old small ' steers, £4 10s; two year olds 70s; eighteen months 48s . yearlings, 22s 6d to 30s; stole cows, 50s; dairy cows, from £4 to £G 10s: two pons of small beef made £5 7s to £5 18s, or about lGs per cwt,; heavy wethers, 9s; medium, 8s to 83 8d; store wethers. 7b to 7b fid ; two tooth wethers, fromCs for inferior to 7s6d for good; fat ewes, 7s; forward ewes, Gs: Lincoln ewes in lamb, ss, and 2s for culls: lambs in the wool from 4s to ss, and 2s to 2s Gd for small; small store pigs mado 9s; horses were dull of sale, very few selling, and those at a low figures, t I