COMMERCIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 198, 19 August 1904, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

STOCK AND PRODUCE. Messrs Alfred Buekland arid Sons report t'uar there was a smaller entry of horses than usual, with a very strong demand for young draughts, wagg-on and express horses. Aged dranslits sold at from £13 to £33; medium do., £21 to £29: buggy horses and good hacks, £17 5/ to £2C; light harness and ordinary haet.o, £7 10/ to £13; weeds and ponies, ail prices. Hides, Tallow, Skins, etc.—Hides: Ox, 4id to s|d: cow. to 4id: kip, 3Jd to 4d; calf, sid: damaged hid-es at relative rates. Horsehair, 1/OJ; tallow, 12/ to 17/3: bones, 5/. Skins: Best butchers', to 5/2; country do.. 3/3 to 4/6; small and damaged, 1/3 to 8/2. Wool: Dead, 4d.

Grain, etc. —Maize agram advanced ow- | tng to short arrivals, and sold from 2/2 to 2/6; oats. 1/10 to 2/2: wheat, 3/4: bran, £4 5/; sharps, £5 10/: chaff, £4 to £5 10/; pressed hay, £2 10/ to £4; straw, £2 15/: bonednst, £7 to £7 15/: blood and bone, £0 5 -": gnano. £4. Stock of all classes were well represented at Ittmcimnn on Wednesday aDd sold freely throu-g-hont. Dairy cows sold from £5 to £9; dry, £3 10/ to £5: strong calvtM, 35/ lo 45/; yearlings, to £,Z 5/: Uirw-year-o'-d steers, £6; potatoes, 1/ per bag. At Remuera on Thursday dairy cows Fold from £5 to £7 0/: dry, £3 to £4 10/. Fat and young calves, short o£ requirements, improved in value, small selling to 8/, medinin to 18/, others to 45/; no heavy weights penned; GO sold. The beef peris were well IJLled with cattle of good quality, which sold well up to last week's quotations, ox beef selling ap to 21/ the 1001b; cow to '2:2/. Steers ranged in price from £7 U> £10 15/; cows, £5 to £8; JiH sold. There was a moderate yarding of cheep, which made prices firmer. Best wethers brought from 20/ to 25/0; lighter weight, 16/ to 18/; heavy ewes, to 21/6; others, 12/ to 17/; hoggets, S/9 to 14/3. Five of this season's lambs from Mr George Prond?, of Bom-bay, brought 21/6 each. Pigs, in average numbers, sold freely, all classes being wuiited at aji advance on lat? quotations; KB sold. WHEAT MARKET. FURTHER EXTRAORDINARY ADVANCE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) (Received 5.25 a.m.) LONDON, August 19. Wheat: Three Anstraliau cargoes sold at i!l/4ft; 24,000 quarters AujrasP-SeptPinber shipments at 32/U; and CSOO quarters at 32/104. The American visible supply is 20,000.000 bushels. A further extraordinary advance in prices has occurred in America, wheat for May delivery touching 114 i cents in New York and 1123 ceuts In Chicago. The rise was the result of alarming reports received from the north-west of Canada, North Dakota, and Minnesota.