COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2766, 5 December 1887, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Messrs Lotos & lorns' Stock and

Produce Report for November, Our transactions for the past month showed a considerable improvement on previous months both as regards the quantity, sold and the rates obtained, a fact due to the abundance of grass throughout the district. Cattle commenced to move freely, but prices in all classes are extremely low, and offering no encouragement to breeders. The demand has been chiefly for good steers or speyed heifers, and young cattle for new settlements, cows being very hard to quit* Bet f has not advanced, the demand being only local. Our sales in all classes amounted to about 400 head, and these are the prices made. Beef—Bullocks, £5 to £6, or about 16s 1001b; Cows, L 8 15s to L 4 10s, or 15s lOOlbs: Forward Steers, L 3 to L 4; Small Steers, L2 5s to L 8; Young Mixed Cattle, 30s to 40s; Yearlings 255; Calves, 12s Gd to 19s; Young Speyed Cows, 87s Gd to 455; Store Cows, 40s. Dairy Cows, old, 40s to 100s for good springers.'

In sheep our sales have been brisk, and the numbers put through the yards for this season of the year satisfactory, the demand at present being principally for store wethers or dry owes, intended for breeding purposes. Notwithstanding the abundance of grass with the prospects of a favorable season the rates for all classes of sheep are not equal to those of the corresponding month of last year, which, no doubt, is doubt is due to the low price of frozon mutton and tallow and the recent fall in wool. Our sales came up to about 4,000 in all. Fat sheep fell fully Is 6d per head during the month so many coming in off the shears, For fat wethers at the earlypart ofNovember we obtained 7s to Bs, but towards the end could only quote from 6s to 6s 6d, store wethers made from 4s 6d to 5s Cdand are in active enquiry. Good breeding ewes ranged from 3s Gd to 6s, aged ewes moved slowly from 2s to Bs, hoggets were in active demand, shorn making 4s to 4s 6d, while woolly sorts ranged as high as.Bs Gd for really good. A few lines of good carcase ewes in the wool went up to 7s and 7s 6d. A line of mixed store wethers and ewes made 4s 6d, Fat lambs according to quality from Gs to 7s. In horses we have a little change to report, there being a steady demand for good young farm sorts which always find purchasers at prices from £l2 to £lB, Light Harness harses £7 to £lO and £l2 or useful hacks young and a good size sell from £5 to £lO, while old hacks areidifficult to quit.

In pigs the market has been more active of late, the number ofmilcli cows coming in accounting for the demand in small pigs; all penned selling freely at good figures with enquiries for more.

At our sale of stock after the Pastoral Show, we quitted two bulls on account of Mr W. Boag, of Canterbury to Mr E. Meredith at 17 and 32 guineas respectively, and one hull on account of Mr McMaster at 10 guineas. A few lines of fat sheep sold at 7s, and several horses and vehicles on account of various venders at Satisfactory figures. Our sales of farming implements since then have been as follows —8 Reapers and Binders, 8 Double furrowed Ploughs, i Corn Drlils, 2 ETorse Rakes, 1 Threshing Mill, lPan Mill, and several smaller lines, including a Drain plough, Potato plough, Disc Harrows, Tripod Harrows, etc,, all on account of Messrs Eeid k Grav.

Our transactions at the Booms have included the following: Several parcels of Southern Oats from 25 to 50 and 100 sacks each from 2s 4d and 2s Gd for Cauadiaus. In Potatoes—for table and seed we have quitted over 200 sacks, being Blue Democrats at 70s. We have no transactions m new crop to report as yet. Peas and Chaff at previous quotations.

In sheep skins we have placed a few parcels during the month, good wool#J.making M alb, also a few lines in dead wool locks, and prices ranged from sdto 6d, and 3d for the latter.

In rabbit skins our dealings fell short of last month, the fall in the Home market, and the winter skins being past, caused buyers to be shy. We report prime winter lOd to Is, medium 8d to 9d, does -Id to Od. In poultry, the transactions have been very limited, and all kinds being about equal in price to previous months.

Butter and Cheese.—The market in this produce is completely overstocked and only prime samples going at rates that cannot pay the producer.

INQUEST AT MAURIOEVILLE.

An inquest was held at Mauriceville on Saturday afternoon last before the district coroner, Mr S. von Stunner, and a jury of six, of whom Mr Ole Andersen was chosen foreman, on the body of Jacob Isaaksen, whose sad death we reported in Saturday's issue. From the evidence given it appears that the deceased was in the habit of leaving home on Monday mornings to work at bushfelling on his son's section about three miles distant, and return again ou Saturday evening. He left as usual on Monday last, and on Thursday one of his sons took some fresh provisions to his camp. The lad failed to find his father and slept that night in the tent. In the morning lie reported that his father was missing, and a search party went out on Friday and found liira in a gully about two chains from the tent. He was brought out and medical assistance procured, but he died at midnight from the injuries he had received and subsequent exposure. The evidence went to show that a branch from an adjoining tree fell and injured him. Deceased was conscious up to the time of his death, but could not tell how the accident occurred. He said he endeavored to crawl to the tent, but fell down the, gully in which he was found. He could not tell how many days he was lying in the gully. _ The jury returned the following verdict-" That Jacob Isaaksen on November 29th last in the lush near Mauriceville was accidentally injured by a falling tree, and that from such injury then received, and the effects of subsequent exposure, lie languished and died at Mauriceville on 8v4,1887,"