COMMERCIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 230, 25 September 1908, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

■ MESSRS. ALFRED BUCKLAND AND SONS' REPORT. Horses: At the Haymarket on Friday last wagon and express horses sold at from £18 to £30; buggy horses and hacks, £12 10/ to £22: light harness sorts. £7 to £16; gig class, £4 15/ to £10; Shetland ponies. £6 to £11 10/; gig pony and harness, £23; wagon and harness, £22; gig. £15: pony trap, £16. At Tuakau on Wednesday we had a moderate yarding of cattle, which sold at recent values. We held a special sale of store cattle at Helensville on Saturday. Five hundred and twenty-seven head were yarded, and on the whole were well bred and in fair condition. Fresh three to three and a-balf year old steers realised from £5 2/ to £6 5/; two to three-year-olds, from £4 4/ to £4 19/: IS-month to two-year-olds. £3 5/ to £4; yearlings, £1 16/ to £2 6/; mixed yearlings, to £1 15/; good calves. £1 1/ to £1 "/: smaller. 13/ to 18/; fat cows, £5 2/0 to £6; empty young cows, £2 5/ to £3 5/. At Remuera on Thursday stock of all classes were well represented, dairy cows selling to £7, dry £1 10/ to £4; three-year-old steers, in forward condition £0- two to three-year-olds, £4 to £5; strong" calves, to 35/. Young and fat calves, In full supply, ranged in price from 2/ to 37/. according to weight and quality: 124 sold. There was a full yarding of fat cattle of choice quality. Prices were irregular right through, ox beef selling to 23/ and cow to 21/ per 1001b. Steers ranged in price from £6 10/ to £11 15/: cows, £4 10/ to £8 7/6: 340 sold. The sheep pens were all filled with mutton of nice quality. There was a drop in prices, fully 2/ per head. Extra heavy wethers. 21/ to 23/: others 16/ to 19/; weighty ewes. 17/6 to 19/; lighter weights. 12/ to 17/: hoggets, 12/ to 16/; 1780 sold. This season's lambs realised 8/6 to 19/6; 78 sold. Pigs, penned in moderate Bombers, sold freely—small to 18/. porkei- to 3S/. baconers to £3 15/; 77 sold. Hides, Skins, Tallow, etc.: Hides—Ox. 4_d to 65d; cow. 31d to 4J; stags'. 3d: caif, 3Jd to 4Jd; kip, 23d to 3Jd; damaged and dirty bides. Id to 4d. Tallow—Good. 22/ to 22/6; inferior. 17/6. Bones. 4/9. Skins — Best butchers'. 3/11 to 4/11; medium. 2/9 to 3/S; small, 1/4 to 2/6; damaged 6d to

CAMBRIDGE HORSE FAIR.

The Farmers - Co-operative Auctioneering Company report:—We held - our annual spring horse fair at Cambridge last week, and have to report a most successful sale. Starting on Tuesday at 10 a.m. with tbe unbroken horses, the sale was continued up to Friday, finishing that afternoon at Tour o'clock. Notwithstanding the boisterous state of the weather, there was a large attendance each day. Prices for heavy draughts were about £10 lower than our spring sale last year, no doubt due t0 the completion of the Main Trunk line, together with the fall in prices in tbe Southern markets. The other classes of horses sold readily, and previous spring prices were fully maintained, particularly in the light horses. Buyers were present from all parts of the Auckland province. Unbroken horses: Heavy draughts, colts and fillies, three and four-year-olds, £34 10/ to £42: medium draughts, same age, £20 to £33; light draughts, three and four years. £12 10/ to £17; yearliug draughts, £7 10/ to £12: two-year-olds, £12 to £16 15/; three and fouryear light horses, useful sorts. £14 to £16; ponies and cobs. £10 downwards. Broken uraughts: ueavy, three, four, and five-year-olds, £35 to £45, three mares malting £48, £50, and £56: medium draughts, same age, £2S to £35; lighter draughts, £15 to £22; light spring-cart and milk-wagon horses. £12 to £17 10/; aged heavy draughts. £15 to £25; best backs and light harness horses £22 10/ to £31. one good buggy mare making £39; useful hacks and harness horses. £15 to £20. with keen demand. Cobs, three and four years, £10 to £12 10/: ponies. £7 downwards. During the four days 981 horses were offered and 655 sold.

TALLOW.

Messrs. Dalgety and Co.. Ltd.. have received the following cable from their London office, under date 23rd inst:—"Tallow: Mntton tallow i firm. Any change in prices of other descriptions is in favour of buyers.'