COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4966, 4 March 1895, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Mastekton, Monday. Messrs R. E. Hornblow and Co., auctioneers and produce merchants, report as follows for the week end- >• ing Saturday, March 2nd: Business in all Hues is much about thesoA ns last week. Oats and wheat™ dull of sale. Potatoes are anything but scarce, consequently prices have a downward tendency. Poultry of every description are almost unsaleable at our quotations. Grass seed euquiries are more activo, cocksfoot ' shewing a decline in va'ue. Rabbit and sbeop skins are difficult to quit, ' our last returns showing a fall in price. Butter and eggs are still plentiful, and prices remain at our last quotations. Young pigs are a trifle below our last week's report, Horses show an upward tendency. < Dairy cows, good milkers,, are in ; demand, and fair prices are realised. With reference to properties, although we had numerous enquiries, only two sales passed through our bauds this week. We quoto: Butter, 3d per lb; eggs, 8d per dozen ; fowls, Is 6dtfl 2s per pair; ducks, 2s 2d; 2d; turkeys, ss; oats, Is 6d to 2b; oaten sheaf, 2s 3d; straw chaff, la Id; wheat, 3s Id; potatoes, £3 7s Gd to £3los per ton ; rabbit skies, 2kl to 2|d; sheepskins, ljd toOt per lb; horses, saddle hacks, SMo £6lss; light harness, £4 to £810s; draught, £8 to £l7 ; dairy cows, £4 10s to £6 ss; Pigs, slips, 7s to 8s 6d.