COMMERCIAL.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2629, 18 May 1889, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The H'niknto Times Office, Friday. AUCKLAND LI VIO STOCK MARKETS. Mfs-srs A. Bucki.and and Sons' Wkkki.y "kxi'OUT. —At t!ie Hayniarket during the past week hay has ranged from 2s lid to 3s !ld, the ruling prices heiug from 3s to 3s 3d per cwt.; potatoes, £2 I.">s to £3 ; carrots, 3."is per ton ; oats 2s 10J per bushel. At tho horse sale on Friday a smaller muster of horse stock than usual maintained late values. Unbroken draught stock, in low condition, ranged from I'll to £S 10s; a useful riding horse, £10 10s ; stroll" trap horse, £'13 10s. At the hide and skin sale on Tuesday both hides and skins were pitched in full number. Green butchers' ox hides brought 27s and 3os each ; salted ox liidi.s, -1.l t to sid per lb. or from 22s to 31s each ; cow hides, 2Jid to 3,V1 ; calfskins, 3kl to Id pur lb ; butchers' sheepskins. Is !)d to 3s 8d : station skins, Is (id to 2s lOd each ; hair, 10d ; wool, GJ.'I and per lb ;Jmrns, Id each ; tallow and fat, lis (id to los per cwt. At the cattle sales, held lespeetively at Pokeno and Drury, less than the usual number of stock were yarded. Dairy cows were in good enquiry. Stores dull of sale. Fat cattle at Kemuera values. At Remuera on Thursday, dairy cattle freshly calved or near calvinpr, were in demand at full values ; store cattle were also in better inquiry ; fat cattle in full numbers ; those ship-borne and heavy cattle were lower in price Is the lOOlbs ; but medium and lifjht weights kept their lato values ; sheep were also plentiful; stores ill good request, at full values ; and fat sheep at tho beginning of the sale, better worth, but fell as the sale proceeded to last week's prices ; piss abundant, kept their value throughout, and sold better at conclusion than beginning of tho auction. Young fatted calves s\ :re at ext.ivmo prices, and calves of all kinds sold well. Prices for dairy cows ranged from £6 10s to I'o ."is ; young store cows, L'.is to 40s ; old cows, 10s to 21s ; fat cattle, lis to 15s per lOOlbs; fat culvcs, «s to 30-i each, wetliers. lis to los ; ewes, Ss to 12-? ; lambs, y.s to ]0< (id ci'Cli.

MI'.SSUS IiUNTKR AND NOI.AN'S WKI'.KI,Y R upour. — 1 base feed, seed, grain, etc. : Supplies have b'Oil moderate and the demand steady for forage, but little lias been done in si ed grain ; and owing to the lateness of the season, grass and clovcr seeds have. found a limited nimilvr of buyer.--. We quote : I'Yed oats from 3s I) 1 |ier bushel ; maize, Us to 3s (Id : bran, £5 10s to £1! per ton ; oaten ehalf, £3 10s per toil. Rye Sellers at from -Is to os; cocksfoot, as to (is per bushel. Mor.-es: A dmnand for those of ;i good stamp his existed, and buyers of hacks and good harness horses could not be supplied', and the auction sales demonstrated th;.t real]v good draught horses are saleable at. something like former values. The Durham yards were fairly supplied on Eriday: bidding was steady throughout, and for some lots was spirited. Heavy draughts ranged from £12 to £!>('> ; hacks from £-"> 10s te til; light harness horses, from £7 to tlOtOs; springcart horses, from to to £18 10s, Wool, hides, skins and tallow: About the usual <|ii mtities were pitched at the Durham Yards on Tuesday, and there was keen competition, particularly for heavy o\ hides. We. quote : Jleavvox, from 'l.'.d too}J per lb ; medium, 3d to'ljd ; cow, 2jcl to .'fpl ; calfskins, 3VI ; to 4 j'd ; sheepskins, 2s (id to Ms M each ; pelts, l.s -id to lis ; tallow, lis (Id to 17s (id ; rough fat, l.|d per lb. Cattle: The market ha.-- b-'en well supplied with dairy and fat stock : but few stores have been brought forward. Values have not materially altered for any class. There was a large muster at thc'Newmarkct yard on Tuesday, t-juite an average number of dairy cows were yarded, and the butchers' pens were full of fat beasts; but few stores were olfered. Dairy cows were wanted, and sold at from £4 to £(>173 fid. Eat beasts were steadily competed for throughout the sale, a large proportion being of prime quality; prices ranged from Ms to 17s per lOOlhs for steers, and from 12s to 15s par lOOlbs for cows. Koine averages were : Steers, £-1 las, !'■> 2s (id, £5 12s L' 3 los (id, £5 15. t'S IDs, £1! Us (id, £6 15s, £7 2s (id ; cows, £3 2s (id, £3 3s, £3 ISs lid, £-1 2s (id. Sheep : There was rather a short muster of sheep at Newmarket on Tuesday, and all went to the butcher. Wethers sold at from 12s to lis (id each ; ewes, 10s 3d to 12s; land's, Jss to lis Oil. Pigs : But few yarded. Prices ranged from 2',d to 3 .1 per lb, live weight.

MELBOURNE GRAIN MARKET. The New Zealand L >an anil Mercantile Agency report, under date Melbourne, Ist May Splendid rains have fallen throughout the colony since our last monthly report, and the, genial weather which followed lias enabled farmers to push on with their ploughing and sccdinir. The early-sown crops in the northern districts are already beginning to make considerable progress, and although frosts are mentioned still the warm days and moist condition of the soil tends to make vegetation rapid. Altogether the outlook, both in Victoria and the adjoining colonies, is most satisfactory, whilst the rainfall in South Australia is a.l- - unprejedented, and tills will thourntighly saturate the subsi.il, an event which has not occurred for many years. The course of the who it market during the month has not shown much alteration, prices being well sustained as a whole, though not on a pir w.lh '.ho-e realized immediately af ; • e (he pab.ii; itioii of the Agiieultmal S' ill-ties, As-.M'o:n.: that the H.-a- -.ast-i tV- wli-at vs.-M, n« :;ivcn in 1i iim-'ut i efuni, him (.-'rivet, we hi r: : ■aI v e 'pe .T.r -ui p'.iis, and for ! i.t- bdioeeol 11;.' yon wii!h:ive to draw I >1- ,n k;.!« f'.-i.i the mii plus we it ii i.-! 1.. .v.p.l l.viS. As this was 1..--! free to 10,000 tons, though j,i c■ - iviil doubtless remain high, no scireoy necessitating _ importation of foreign srown wheat. W heat : The local mil eM'.--' demand Iris of I ate fallen o|f somewhat, but J luge Speculative purchases have been made, which have had the elle::t of concentratinK supplies outside the trade,. The probable result of these operations has yet to be determined. _ At present quotations are from as 7Ad to os 8d for prime Northern samples.

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