COMMERCIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 116, 17 May 1901, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

AUCTIONEERS' REPORTS

MESSES A. BUCKLAND AND SONS'

REPORT.

Horses: At the Haymarket on Friday last we had an average muster, and a stead? demand for all good classes. The stallion Young Matchless sold for £19. Medium draughts and active horses sold at price! ranging from £20 to £30; aged draughts, £12 to £18; heavy draught of good quality, £45; ordinary hacks, £7 to £10. The unbroken colts were a poor and rough lot andrealised low prices. Hay and straw: At late quotations. Meadow hay, 1/6 to 2/; clover, 2/3 to 3/ cwt; straw, 13/ to 29/ the load. Grain, etc.: Local dun oats, at 1/10; Southern feed, 2/ to 2/1; maize, 2/6 to 2/7; feed barley, 2/; fowl wheat, 2/8 to 2/0;, maize, 2/4 per bushel ex wharf; chaff plentifui, inferior £1 15/ to £2 ex store, good £2 10/ to £2 12/0 ex rail, £2 15/ to £3 5/ ex store; carrots at low price, 22/6 to 25/ per ton. Hides, skins, tallow, wool, etc.: An average catalogue was submitted, prices similar to last week. Ox hides, up to Cd, the greater number 4d to sd; cow, 3id to 4Jd for best, and 3d to 3gd for lighter; calf, 3sd to 5d lb; sheepskins, 2/ to 2/9 and 1/6 to 2/ tbt the majority; light pelts and small bad ykept skins, 8d to 1/ each: a few bales of longwool, 3Jd to 3Jd: pieces, ljd lb; tails, 1/10 per doz; horsehair, 1/ lb; bines, 5/ per cwt; tallow, 18/6 to 20/6 for good, and 14/(5 to 16/ for fair; rough fat, lid and 13d lb. At Pokeno on Monday there was a smaller muster than usual, and with one exception all were sold, dairy cows bringing from £■"> to £C 6/ each; dry cows, £2 10/ to £4; fat, £5 to £6 10/; calves, £1 to £1 15/; jyarlings, £2 10/ to £3 5/; sma.l pigs, 8/ and 9/ each. The Runeiman yards were fairly well filled on Wednesday with stock of all classes, and with the exception of dairy cows prices ruled lower. Cows at profit ranged in price from £4 to £7 7/6; dry cows, £2 10/ to £3 15/; three-year steers, £5 10/ to £0 5/; two to.three years, £4 10/ to £5: strong calve?, £1 to £1 15/. Several horses were sold, bringing from £3 to £7 15/ apiece. Pigs were not required. At Remuera on Thursday stock of all classes were well represented, dairy cows fully maintaining late values; but there was no improvement in fat stock. Cows at nro'fit ranged in price from £4 10/ to £6 i?/G; dry cows, £2 10/ to £4; fat and younff calves, short of requirement, sold freely: fresh dropped 4/ to 8/. medium 10/ to 147. heavy up to 53/; 40 sold. Fat cattle were penned in full numbers, and scarcely kept late values; well-fatted steers and heifeM brought from IS/ to 20/ the 1001b; need cows, 14/ to 16/; steers ra^ed in price from £fl 10/ to £9 15/; cows, £4 to £7 15/ each; 230 sold. The working oxrn sold last week brought £7 10/ each. The sheep pons wore we.) filled, and prices ruled nhoul the same as lnst week, wethers brin^'n? from 12 to 16/; ewes, 10/ to 14/6; 900 sold. Fat lambs, 8/ to 12/0; store, 3/6 to 6/0 each; 100 sold. Pigs sold freely, porkers fetching £1 to £1 I.V each; stores, 12/ to 18/; small, 0/ to 7/6; 70 sold.