COMMERCIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 69, 20 March 1908, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

MESSRS. ALFRED BCCKLAND AND SUNS" REPORT. Horses: At the Haymarket on I'riday all young useful sorts met with ready sale. Active waggon and express sorts sold at from £32 10/ to £3S; lighter class, £16 to il-i; buggy horses and good hacks. £15 to £21 10/; light harness and ordinary hacks, £5 5/ to £17 5 ; gig ponies, £3 2/6 to £7; sprii:g-eart, mare, and harness, £::6; sulky, mare, and harness. £17; cart and harness, £7 ,">/. The hurdler Pipi brought 10 guineas and the thoroughbred mare Mynota 23 guineas. Hides. Skins, Tallow, etc.: Hides—Ox, 4Jd to 7d; cow, -Id to 4 5-sd; kips, 2Xd to aid; horse, ifif to !•, : calf, 3d to 4}d; damaged hides, 111 to -lid; horsehair, 1/4 to 3/5. Tallow—Good, 24/ to 25/9; inferior. 12/0; bones, 4/ to 4/9. Skins—Best lambs' and pelts. 1/C to 2/; others, 'Jd to 1/3; damaged, 3d to 7d. We had an average yarding of both cattle and sheep at Clevedou on Saturday. Springing heifers made from £4 to £5 3/; backward lieifers, £2 10/ to £3 12/ti; fresh empty young cows and heifers, £2 5/ to £3; "best calves. £1 to £1 4/6; others, smaller, 11/; fat ewes, to 16/6; fat lambs, lo 14'; full-mouthed ewes, 0/6 to 12/6; store lambs. 14/ to 10/6; ponies. £3 to £6 7/6. The Pokeno Yards on Monday were well lilled with stuck, the greater number selling nt satisfactory figures. Dairy cows, £3 I.V to £~> 10/; empty cows, £1 15/ to £2 1."./; fat cows. £4 12/ ii to £•"' 7/0; yearlings, £1 12/<5 to £2; strong calves, iiV to £1 G.; smaller suns, 7/ to 13/; small pigs, 0/ to 12/ C. At Runclmau on Wednesday a large muster of cattle was offered and disposed of at ruliug rates. Dairy cows and heifers at their profit sold at from £5 17/6 to £7 10/; others. £4 to £5 7/6; fat young cows, £4 11/ to £."i 14/; empty cows and heifers, £2 to £3 7/6; grown bullocks, £5 111/ to £0 7/<3; two to three-year-olds, £3 10/ to £4 8/i yearlings. £1 It./ to £2 2/; strong calves. £1 1/ to £1 !)/; others, 11/ to 17/; weedy. 5/ to 10/; small pigs. 7/ to B.; two-year-old medium filly. £13 5/; yearling filly. £5 2/6; aged mare, £5 17/6. At Remuera on Thursday dairy cows and heifers near their prolit sold freely from £5 to £0 2/6. Few stores yarded* kept late values. Fat and young calves, short of requirements, were in keen demand, selling up to 43/; S2 sold. There was a shortage of fat cattle, in ninny cases the quality being inferior. Well-fattened steers were better worth, fully 2/ per 1001b. cows being about the same. Ox beef sold from 23/ to 25/ per 1001b; cow, 10/ to 22/ for best, inferior 10/ to 17/: 27!) of, all classes sold. Sheep, penned short of requirements, were in keen demand, best wethers selling from £1 to £1 4/. One small pen of heavy wethers brought 20/3; medium weights. 16/ to 10/; weighty ewes, IS/ to 23/1); lighter weights. 15/ to 17/n. Heavy lambs, 17/ to 20/; others. 11/6 to 10/. Pigs, in full supply, kept recent, quotations. Porkers. 25/ to 38/; baconers, to £2 IS/; small. 5/ to D/ 6; slips, to 17/6: store ewes. B/ to 13/6; lambs, 'J/; shorn, 7/tt. Poultry, 1/3 to 2/2. NORTHERN SALES. Messrs. Hunter ana Wilson report:—At Tangiteroria sale the yards were well filled with cattle of a good class, which were required, a few small lots only failing to sell. We quote—Two to three-year-old steers, £2 15/ to £4 7/6; one to IA-y*ear do., £1 10/6 to £2 12/0; l*-year heifers, £1 15/; calves. 10/ each. At Whaugarei monthly sale about the advertised number of cattle came forward, also, 500 odd sheep. The whole entry changed hands, with the exception of a Hue of two and 2J-year-old steers, and a few odd lots. We quote—Fat cattle, in good demand, steers, light-weights. £6 5/- cows and heifers, £3 10/ to £6 15/; springers, at profit, in keen demand, £3 10/ to £7; backward, £.'! to £4; bulls. £1 15/ to £6; bullocks, suitable for working, £6 10/ to IS/; one to two-year do.. £2' to £3; store cows and heifers, £1 10/ to £2 15/: yearlings, £1 3/ to £1 15/; calves. 11/ to IS/; store ewes, 11/6 to 15/; lambs, 7/3 to 0/ each. Privately we have disposed of Mr. W. E. Hunter's farm, of 3GS acres at Tangihua, to Mr. F. Childs; also. Mr. R. P. Foote's farm, of 777 acres, at Opuawhanga, to Mr. O'Hagan. of Palmerston; also, three sections, nt Kensington, at satisfactory values. CAMBRIDGE HORSE SALE. The autumn horse fair of the Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company was commenced yesterday. There was a larg* attendance of buyers from Auckland and a" parts of the Province. Anything really gooS brought good prices. Heavy draughts brought from £40 to £48, mediums made

from £28 to £40, and unbroken draughts np to £31 10/. Five thoroughbred mares by Westmere were offered on behalf of Sir Matthews, of Hawera, and they were sold at prices varying from eleven guineas to thirty-flve. LONDON WOOL SALES. WELLINGTON, Thursday. The High Commissioner's cablegram, dated London. March IS. is as follows: — The wool sales have commenced, there being a large attendance of buyers, but competition is moderate. The selection catalogued consists largely of inferior lots, fine crossbeds not being represented. Compared with the prices at the closing of last sales merinos are 5 per cent to 10 per cent, and crossbreds 10 per cent to 15 per ceut lower, the fall being heaviest in coarse grades.