COMMERCIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 4418, 11 July 1884, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Evenino Stak Office, this day. MESSRS E. &. A. Isaacs held a sale by auction yesterday of 415 packages of dates, ra'siris, candles, preserved milk. Sec. The attendance whs good, and lie irly all the lines were quitted at fair prlcfe.

lift ALFRED BDCKLAND'S WEEKLY HEl'OllT. fit the Hnymarkot. on Friday last, July Itli, a large' quantity of fedder met with a ready sale nt |ju_- value,. Oaten chaff sold freely nt from £5 per ton"; bonedu.t (HMPG) wentotr well at *>" pur ton. A large market of horses presented itself, but tho class brought forward hurJly caiao upto previous sales; only a few animals Wcjro withdrawn. Piy'c.fi ranged at values reached lately. Tuesday's fodder market continue- to recoive good attendance, and prices were well sustained. At twelve o'clock on the same day hides and skins wero offered us usual, aud larguqu intities were «il_tied. Hides wero In goed deinuud. ami feund buyers at urices in Advisee of previous sales, ranging from 3d to 0 per lb.: calf skins, 31 to id per lb.; shcop Skins (bntiher's), 2s to _s 4Jd; station, Is Id to Is lid caen; tallow, 2Gs Gil to 28s per cwt.; wool, lid to 6_<l. At Waiuku. on satuwlay, stock were yarded in small numbers. Kilt nil brought forward were disposed of. At Pukekohe, ou Monday, a full markfct of cittle waoyardod. and prices throughout provod moi-t satisfactory, all, with the exception of five head, being sold, and consequent on the establishment of. the cheese and bacon factory,cows wore well competed for. At Kemuera, on Thuwday. dairy cows were scarce, but. with the exception of a few reaUy good cows, thoy were not wanted. Fat cattle were brought for ward in large numbers, 260 b<*ing disposed of; best quaritj fully- maintained lato values, bringing 25s the 10-lbs. Homo of the averages wero: Charles Genld, 47 steers, £9 16s; John Muir, 21 steers. £3179; John Winks, 18 >tcei.s. £8 las; Dingle, 21 steers, £3 9s, 29 cows. £5 ss: Comisky. 9 steers. £__ _s 6d, 41 cows. £7 s lid; Browning. 8 Steers, £1 16s; It. Fisher, 7 steers. tS. Sheep were plentiful, but sold freely nt last week's prides. Pigs wero in moderate supply, with no change in price.

MESSIIS HUNTER AN» NOLAN'S WEEKLY RKIOttT. Horses: "There has been a good supply nnd improved demand, and prices as compared with the previous week had an upward tendency. The Hurheni Yards wore fairly filled on Friday In,*; thoco was steady competition throughout tho sale, and most of thsse entered were disposed of at prices a shade in favour of vendor as compared with the previous week. Wool, hide*, and skins: Supply short. Hides sold at fr_m 2jd to 3Jd ; wool, 5d per lb.; -kins, 3s lid. Cuttle: Tho supply ha_ not been so large us on tha previous woct, but there has been an animated demand, and consequently stores o.n* fat bea3ta advanced In value. At tho Newmarket Turds on Tuesday, there was scarcely an arc-rage master of dairy and fat beasts, and but low stores Wf.ro yarded, but there was a good muster at Pnkokobo on Tuesday. Stores and dairy cown remained at last week's valno.. but fat beasts advanced fully 18 per ICOlbg in price; for ail descilptions tho demands wero brisk, and we quote beef at from 25s to 28s pur 10'lbs. Sheep: Tho mißply has been adequate, and the demand steady, consequently values woro not materially altered. The Newmarket Yards' Were tilled on Tuesday; tha compotillon was brisk throughout; wothers so_(f at I__ G1 to £1 as 6d ; ewca. from 13a te ISs Gd. Piga: Yardedin numbers sufficient for requirements, and sold at fully la_t week', values.