COMMERCIAL

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 177, 26 July 1907, Page 3

COMMERCIAL

MESSRS ALFRED BUCKLAND AND SONS' REPORT. Horses: At the Haymarket on Friday last we had an average entry and good competition for all sound, young, useful sorts. Spring cart and waggon class realised from £28 5/ to £33; aged medium draughts, £24 5/ to £31; buggy horses and good hacks, £14 to £26: light harness and ordinary hacks, £5 15/ to £12; weeds and ponies, all prices. At Pukekohe on Monday we held a special horse sale and had a large entry. Buyers were numerous and bidding brisk throughout. Active waggon and spring cart sorts brought from £31 to £45; lighter sorts, £21 10/ to £29; buggy horses and good hacks. £15 to £27 10/; light harness and ordinary hacks, £6 5/ to £1S 10/; mares and geldings, suitable for butchers' and bakers' carts, £19 5/ to £25 10/; medium unbroken two to three-year-olds, £23 10/ to £27 15/: lighter sorts, £5 12/6 to £19 15/: pair of Shetland ponies, two years old, unbroken. £20 15/.

At Remuera on Thursday dairy cattle sold from £3.10/ to £8: dry, £2 to £3 5/; no grown stores yarded. Fat and young calves, short of requirements, brought extreme values, selling from 3/ to 66/; 62 sold. There was an average yarding of fat cattle of good quality; which sold steadily throughout at recent quotations. Steers ranged in price from £6 10/ to £11 7/6; cows, £5 to £S; 333 sold. Sheep, penned short of requirements, met with a ready sale throughout, last week's prices being maintained, best wethers selling to 31/3, lighter weights to 25/; heavy ewes 24/9, others to 20/: hoggets, 15/ to 20/: 1420 sold. Pigs of all classes were In keen demand, porkers selling up to 38/. baconers to £3 2/6. smaU 7/ to lb/; 116 sola. Poultry, 2/7 to 3/.

Hides. Skins. Tallow, etc.: Hides—Ox, 43d to 71d; cow. 4d to sd; calf, 6d to 6*d; kip, 4d to s*d; horse, 6/; damaged hides, 3d to 45d; horsehair, 1/2 to 1/ui; tallow, 25/ to 26/. Skins—Best butchers'. 5/ to 6/3; medium, 4/ to 4/11; small and damaged, 1/ to 378.

C. B. KIXGSWELL AND CO.'S BEPOBT.

At our weekly sale we again offered an extra large catalogue of hides, skins, tallow, etc. Hides: Market firm for all. well flayed and conditioned: cut and scored hard to sell. We quote: Extra stout. 7_d to Sid: stout, 6Jd to 63d; medium, s_d to 53d; light, 5Jd to sJdr cow. „5d to old; kip, 5Jd to s_d; calf, 6d to 6Jd; stag, 33d to 4d: damaged hides, 2d to 3.d; cut and scored. Id to Id per lb less. Sheepskins: Butchers', large. 5/6 to 6/; for good lines, 4/10 to 5/3: small. 4/ to 4/6; damaged, 1/4 to 2/6 each. T ail s. 1/S per dozen. Horsehair: Tail. 1/6 to 1/3; mane. 9d to lOd per lb. Tallow: Casks, good. 27/ to 27/6; seconds, 23/ to 2-i/6 per cwf: -Hough fat, lid per lb. Bones, dry, £4 15/ per ton.

LONDON WOOL SALES.

(By Cable.—Press Association.—.Copyright.) LONDON, July 25. The wool sold to Home buyers totalled 82.000 bales, to buyers for the Continent 55,000 bales, and to American buyers 5000 bales. There have been held over 24.000 bales, including 19.500 bales of New Zealand. Compared with May closing - rates hest merinos suitable to the American trade are fully 5 per cent dearer, and average sorts are slightly in sellers' favour. •Short faulty, especially scoured,- are a halfpenny to a penny lower. Good greasy crossbreds are firm and unchanged. Shabby faulty sorts show a decline of from 5 per cent to 10 per cent. Stipes are in superabundant supply. Finest and coarsest have declined from a halfpenny to a penny and medium a penny. Lamb: Best merinos are unchanged and faulty merinos and New Zealand crossbreds have declined a halfpenny to a penny. The average prices realised for the fleece portion of the undermentioned clips were: Ngakonul, Hid; I Homewood, lid.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., limited, received the following cablegram yesterday from their London house:—Wool: "Sales closed firmly this day. As compared with last sales' closing rates, prices are about par to 5 per cent lower for lambs' and fine crossbred, greasy merino, inferior and scoured merino, super, and about 7J per cent to 10 per cent lower for crossbred lambs', coarse scoured crossbred, faulty wool, coarse crossbred slipe, medium crossbred slipe, and medium scoured crossbred. For greasy crossbred wool, medium and coarse, In faulty condition, prices are lower by Id since the close of last sales. LONDON CABLE. (Received 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, July 25. Copper, on spot. £96; three months, £88. Tin, on SDOt, £183 10/; three months. £182. Iron, £58.0/. Lead, £21 10/. Silver, 2/71. AUSTRALIAN HIDES. MELBOURNE. July 25. At the hide sales to-day there was keen competition ■ for good-conditioned lots at firm rates.