COMMERCIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 249, 18 October 1907, Page 6

COMMERCIAL.

AUSTRALIAN HIDES. MELBOURNE, October 17. Hides: Good-conditioned lots are unchanged. Other sorts are easy. . '.■ MESSRS ALFRED BITCKLAND AXD SONS' REPORT. Horses: At the Haymarket on Friday last we had a full yarding. Buyers were numerous and competition keen throughoutActive draughts realised from £25 to £50 10/; waggon and express sorts, £27 to £38 5/; light har.iess and buggy horses and good hacks, £13 to £31; gig poaies and ordinary hacks, £4 10/ to £9 10/; medium unbroken colts and fillies, £22 to £31; lighter sorts, £7 15/ to £16. Hides. Skins, Tallow, etc.: Hides—Ox, 4sd to 7|d; cow. 4d to 54d; kip. 3d to 4}d; calf, od to 6Jd; horse, 8/ to 12/6; damaged, scored, and wet hides. Id to 4jd; tallow, £27; bones, 4/6 to 4/9; rough fat, ljd; horsehair, 1/ to 1/43. Skins: Best butchers', 7/6 to 8/3: medium, 5/ to 6/8; small. 2/1 to 4/7; damaged. 7d to 1/9; lambs', 1/9 to 3/. We had a larger muster of stock at Pokeno on Monday than for many months. There was a large attendance and prices were good throughout. Fat, young cows and heifers. £5 to £5 17/6; aged heavy cows, to £5 5/: 18-month to two-year-old steers, £2 17/ to £3 8/; yearling steers. £2 to £2 6/: mixed yearlings. £1 10/ to £1 19/; well grown calves, £1 3/ to £1 9/; others, 12/ to IS/; fresh empty cows. £2 10/ to £3 5/; cows, near calving, £4 5/ to £5 10/; backward sorts, £3 to £4 2/6; small pigs, 10/ each.

At Rnnciman on Wednesday we yarded 693 head of cattle, amongst them being 250 two ,to four-year steers. Dairy stock, unless something good, were again hard to ault Best brought from £5 17/6 to £7 17/6: others, £2 2/6 to £4 15/. All other classes were required and sold readily, although prices for grown steers were not so high as last sale. Three to four-year-old bullocks, £5 lTi/6 to £6 16/; two to three-year-olds, £4 to £5 5/; yearlings to 18 months, £2 6/ to £3 4/; mixed yearlings, £1 17/ to £2 1/: fresh empty cows, £3 5/ to £4; fat cows and heifers. £5 to £6 1/; young bulls. £3 to £5 5/; 33 sold. Strong calves. £1 3/ to £1 11/: others, 14/ to £L

Stock of all classes were well represented at ' Remuera on Thursday. Dairy cattle sold from £3 to £8, according to quality; store cows, £2 to £4 10/; 18 months to two-year steers, £2 9/ to £4. Young and fat calves, penned in usual numbers, sold from 2/ to £2 10/: 113 sold. There was a full yarding of fat cattle of nice quality, which sold freely throughout, ox beef selling to 28/ and cow to 25/ per lOOlb. Steers ranged in price from £6 to £14 15/; cows, £4 to £9 17/6; 359 sold. Sheep, penned in moderate numbers, sold at late rates. Best wethers were from 28/ to 32/6; others to 27/. Heavy ewes, to 31/; others, to 25/. The advertised hoggets sold from 16/6 to 19/. Lambs, in fair supply, met with keen competition and sold from 17/9 to £1 5/; S3 sold. Pigs of all classes were in demand. Small, 12/ to 16/; porkers, to 38/; bacouers, to £3 4/; 118 sold. Poultry, 1/6 to 2/7.