COMMERCIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 246, 16 October 1891, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Evening Star Office, Auckland, Friday. Messrs Alfred Buckland and Sons reporb that ab Remuera on Thursday dairy cattle were in bebfcer inquiry than last week. Those of fair quality were from £4 to £5 each ; store cattle were at late values ; fat

cattle in usual number, 250' sold; steers were better worth fully 5s each; cows ab last i week's values ; steers were steady at I£K cows 14b to 16a the 1001b ; fab calves, without alteration in price, were from 8s to 25s ; young calvee, 4a to 6s each. Sheep, mostly of prime quality, were plentiful, and ab opening of sale fully 3s each lower than last week. A few pens were withdrawn, and prices rallied, but remained lower than last week. Heavy sheep in fcheir wool were ab2l»« Swp/<;etß,:froin 10s

6d to 12s. Fat lambs, short of requirement, were better worth ; besfc pens brought from lla to 14a each. Fat pigs, in moderate supply, were dull of sale. Young store pigs, plentiful, were in demand, and sold satisfactorily.

Messrs Hunter and jSJolan report tba* the market has been well supplied with fab stock, but both more dairy and stores would have found ready purchasers, bub there was no noteworthy alteration in : Values. There was a grand muster at Newmarket on Tuesday, and rather a large one at Pukekohe on Wednesday. For all descriptions there was steady competition, but the wot day had the opposite effeci) at Pukekohe, and valuee were irregular, I but mostly in favour of the vendor as compared with the central market Some averages of- fat steers were • £S 5« £7 4s, £7 Is 3d, £G 14s, £6 83 6d, £6 3s 6d, £5 16.?; cows, £5 17s 6d, £5 2s 6d, £5 Os 6d, £4 17s 6d ; £4 12s 6d, £4 ss, £4 2s 6d. Sheop were penned in moderate numbers ab Newmarket on Tuesday ; competition was brisk, at from Is 10d to 2s per stone of Blb ; wethers sold at from 18s to 21s 6d each; ewes, 13s Gd to 19a 9d ; mixed sexes, 14s 6d to £1; shorn ewes, 12s 6d ; lambs, 7s 3d to 13s Gd each. Pigs : Small pigs were yarded, and in good demand ; weaners, from 8s to 10a each; slip 3, 13s to 19s.