COMMERCIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 170, 17 July 1908, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

MESSRS ALFRED BTJCKLAJSTD AND SONS' REPORT. Horses.—At the Haymarket ou Friday express and wagon horses realised from £24 to £35: light harness class, £12 to £19- ordinary hacks and gig ponies, £i to £10 10/; dogcart, £19; phaeton, £30. At CleTedon on Saturday there was a full yarding of both cattle and sheep. There were buyers present for all classes. Springers brought from £3 17/6 to £512/6; small heifers in calf; £2 5/ to £3; fresh empty cows and heifers, £2 2/6 to £2 14/; fre«b three-year-old steers. £5 2/6; small fat heller/ f ¥/ tO £i 10/; strons steer calves - ±l o/ to £1 13/: mixed sexes, to £1 5/.. The advertised ewes in lamb averaged 15/3; others.- broken mouths, 7/ to 10/6; hoggets i/ iv 11/; fat wethers, to 36/; small pigs] 8/. A fair yarding of stock changed hands at our Pokeno monthly sale on Monday Dairy cows were penned in full numbers at Runeiman on Wednesday. There was a good demand for first-class cows near profit. These realised from £6 17/6 to £oothers, backward, £4 5/ to £5 5/: inferior sorts, £2 10/ to £3 10/. Few stores yarded late prices ruling. Dairy cattle were required at Reinuera ??,/• J? day, I>est orin S in S from £8 to £10 12/G; others, £5 to £7. Few stores penned were required. Fat and young calves are in extra keen demand, short supplies coming forward for some weeks past, best venlera bringing from £2 5/ to £3 1/: small, to 10/, medium, to 30/: 70 sold. There was an average yarding of fat cattle, which met with steady competition. Prices were firmer right through. Os beef sold from £6 10/ to £12 5/; cows, £3 10/ to £0 5/: 332 sold vl-o yarded two pens of this Reason's lambs which sold from 14/ to 17/3. The sheep pens were well filled with a cood class of mutton Prices were slightly better. Hest wethers brought from 20/ to 25/; lighter weights. 16/6 to 19/. Heavy ewes, to 21/6----others 12/6 to 17/0; weighty hoggets, 14/ to 16/, smaller, 10/6 to IS/. Pigs? penned in usual numbers, were in keen demand, snort supplies coming forward, porkers bringing up to 6d per lb: heaw nigs £o 15/ to £3 17/6, small, to 16/. Poultry,' 1/6 Hides Skins, Tayow. etc.—Hides: Os. 4}d to 6|d, cow. 3d to 3*d. calf, 3d to 4Ad; kip, od; damaged hides, 2}d to 4<l Tallow 22/6 to 23/3. Bones. 4/9. Skins: Best butchers. 3/ to 3/3: medium, 2/ to 2/10; small and damaged, 6d to 1/3. C. B. KrXGSWELL AND CO. REPORT. On Tuesday a larze catalogue of bides, skms, tallow, etc. The market is firm for all well flayed and conditioned lines Hides—Extra stout, 7.1 to 7Jd; stout. 6}d to <d: medium, to fid; light, nd to s}d: cow, good, 83d to 3jd; seconds. 22d to 3d: inferior ', Id tn 20: kip. well flared to 4d; scores'] °d to 3d: crjlf. first quality, 4id to sd: badly shaped, 3Jd to 32<1: snored. 2d to 2Jd per lb. Sheepskins.—ButcheTs". good lines. 2/10 to 3/1; small. 1/S to 1/9. Tallow.—Best, in shipment casks, 23/6 to 24/: in broken casks and packages, 20/ to 23/: inferior. 12/ to 15/ per cwt. Rough fat. ljd to lid per lb. Bones.—Dry, £4 15/ per ton. Cow tails, 1/8 per dozen. Horse hair.—Tail, 1/4 to 1/5; mane, Pd to lOfl per lb.