COMMERCIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 300, 16 December 1908, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

WAIKATO STOCK SALES.

KAURI GUM MARKKI. "Auckland Star" Office, Wednesday, December 16, 1908. A fair amount of business is being done In most grades of kauri gum, but there is not the slightest disposition to advance prices, as the tendency of sellers is to try and get concessions upon existing quotations. A peculiarity about the market at the present time, as compared with' a similar period last year, is that although there is more gum held now than last December, the demand at present is undoubtedly better than it was at a time when stocks were lighter. Supplies of gum sent in to date total 299 tons, as compared with 261 tons for a similar period to last year, an increase of 38 tons. Supplies of gum sent in for the year show a shortage as compared with last year for a similar period of 1813 tons. The export of gum this month bids fair to be about 500 tons.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, report:— We held a special horse sale at Hamilton on Tuesday and Wednesday last, when we ottered 413 houses of all classes. Young heavy draught mares, broken, made from £35 to £39; medium do., i.M to £33; heavy geldings, £28 10/ to £38; medium do., £2j lo £34; plough and express horses, £16 to £23; upstanding backs and buggy horses, £17 to £24 10/; strong cobs, £10 to £16; useful light horses, £s to £14; ponies and aged hacks. £2 10/ to £6; unbroken colts, suitable for 'bue or spring cart work, £10 to £12: draught colts, 3 years old, £12 15/ to £13 15/; light sorts up to £5. At Hamilton on Thursday we had a good yarding of fat and store cattle, sheep and pigs. The beef pens contained over 100 head, mostly young cows and heifers, which all sold at fully late prices. Sheep were short in supply, but sufficient for the demand. Kat steers, medium weights, made from £6 10/ to £7 5/; fat cows, well finished, £~> to £5 17/; others, £4 5/ to £4 7/; heifers, £4 7/6 to £4 17/6; cows and calves, £3 1/ to £4 12/; 15----months steers, £2 5/ to £2 7/; 2-year-old helfere, empty, £2 19/ to £3; 18-months old heifers, £1 17/; springing heifers, £3 10/ to £4 17/ti; cows, up to £4 17/6.

At Te Awumuiu on Saturday we had a large entry of cattle and all sold under the hammer at satisfactory prices, buyers coming from the King Country and surrounding districts. Fat cows made from £4 3/ to £5 10/; empty cows, £2 5/ to £3 15/, according to condition; 18-months steers, 22 7/ to £2 W; 18-months heifers, £1 15/; this years calves, 15/ to 19/. Pigs: Blips, £1 3/ to £1 9/; weaners, 10/ to to/; 130 sold.

IXJAN AND MERCANTILE COMPANY'S

ÜBIORT.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report as follows:—

Horses: At the Durham Yards on Friday homes were yarded in full numbers, and disposed of. Ueavy draughts sold at from £22 10/ to £31; medium do., £18 10/ to £20 5/; hacks and light harness horses, £5 0/ to £18 10/; weeds, £2 10/ to £6 5/; spring cart, £12 10/; Courtlaud wagon, £23.

At Pukekohe on Wednesday there was a very large muster of stock of all descriptions, and owing no doubt to the rain, prices advanced all round, competition being very keen. Duiry cows sold at from £4 5/ to £10; backward do., £3 5/ to £0 lit/; springing heifers, £3 17/ti to £8; empty cows, £2 10/ to £4 4/; two to three-year-old steers, £2 10/ to £4 17/6; yearlings, £2 to £2 IS/; calves, 15/ to £1 16/. Beef, of which 120 heud were penned, sold well at Newmarket rates.

Cattle: The Newmarket Yards on Tuesday were well filled with cattle of all descriptions. Dairy cows sold at from £3 10/ to £7 2/6; heifers, £3 10/ to £4 ,J5/; c-mpt.v cows, £2 10/ to £3 15/; calves, £1 to £1 M/- There was a large yarding of beef, which sold at last weeks rates, the market iwLng much firmer, oxen selling to -iV per luOlb, aud cows 19/ to 21/ per 100 lb. Steers sold at from £5 10/ to £10 17/0, and cows £4 5/ to £7 10/. The beef cattle were of good quality throughout.

Sheep were penned in full numbers at Newmarket on Tuesday, and advanced ou late rates, wethers selling at from 11/9 to 18/; ewes. 11/ ato 18/; hoggets, 11/6 to 14/9. Lambs were in full supply, and sold at from 7/9 to 16/.

Pigs: Porkers sold at from 18/6 to £1 17/; wßinere, S/G to 11/6; baconers, £2 8/ to £3 2y.

logue of hides, skins, and tallow on Tuesday. Hides: Market firm. We quote: Extra stout ox, 7d to 7}d; stout do., «id to 6jd; medium do., OJd to OJd; light do., 4jd to 5Sd; cows', besl lines 4Jd, good 4£d to 4Jd, scored 4d to 4id; stagd'. 3d to 31d; calfskius, 4d to oict; kine, 3*d to 4sd. Sheepskins: Market brisk. Best butchers' skiun, large 4/6 to 5/2, medium 3/9 to 4/, small 2/6 to 3/3; pelts and lambs 1/2 to I/O. Tallow: Market firm. Eest mixed, to 24/6; good, 21/0 to 22/6; inferior, 17/6 to 18/0; rough fat, l*d to ljd per lb. Bones. £4 15/. Con-tails, 1/8 per dozen. Horsehair, 1/ to 1/4. Owing to the Christmas holidays our next hide and skin sale will be held on January Wheat: Market firm at 5/ ex store. Maize: Stocks are verj - ligbt, selling freely at 4/9 pi store. Oats are iv fair demand at 2/4. Chaff: Southern, £6; local, £3 (In good demand). l'ollard is very firm at £7. Itran is in good demand at £4 15/. Butter is iv slightly better demand, but no advance has been made in prices. First jjrade registered is worth OJcI per lb; second. 9d; farmers' tirst-grade separator, SJd; second grade, 7Jd to Bd. Cheese: First grade, 6d; factor}', 64(1. Fungus is worth 4*d, and is iv fair re-C'-iest. STOCK SALES. The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, report:—At Waihou last Friday, SOO head of cattle, 500 sheep, and 46 pigs were yarded. The 118 head of beef penned, mostly cows and beifere, sold readily. Weighty cows and heifers made £6 11/ to £0 6/; lighter sorts, £4 9/ to £5 15/; small fat steers, £0 13/ to £7; fresh-cou-ditioned empty cows, £3 8/ to £3 16/; two and a half to three-year steers, £4 5/ to £4 IS/; two-year steers, £3 12/ to £4; 15 and IS-month steers, £2 15/ to £3 5/; yearling steers, £2 2/ to £2 16/; mixed yearlings, 27/6 to oil/; 18-month and two-year empty heifers, £2 10/ to £2 IS)/; springing cows and heifers, £3 10/ to £4 10/. Sheep: Fat ewos, 11/ to 11/6; fat wethers, 12/; fat lambs, 11/10; forward lambs, 8/9. Pigs: Slips, 10/3 to 14/. We held a clearing sale at Te Aroba on Saturday on account of Messrs Hintz Bros, and report a successful sale. The dairy cows made from £5 to £7 "■/; the best of the others, £3 5/ to £4 15/; medium draught horse. £2.3 10/; light draught, £18 10/; harness horse, £33; hack, £9 10/. I>algety and Co.. Limited, report the result of their fortnightly sale at Cambridge on Friday as follows: —There was a Rood attendance and the yarding consisted of over 200 head of cattle, which were all disposed of under the hammer or privately immediately after the sale. The following prices were realised:—Three-year-old steers, £4 10/- IS-mouth to two-year-old steers, from £2 18/ to £4 2/6; empty cows, £4; heifers, £3 15/; dairy cows, £4; old cows, £1 18/.' Weaner pigs, 10/. (Received 10.20 a.m.) LONDON. December 15. 8.-ink shares. —Bank of Australasia, buyer-; 106, sellers 107; New South Wales, buyprs 4!J, sellers 44; Union, buyers 61J,,. sellers G2S; New Zealand, buyers 93, sellers 10!. (Received 8.56 a.m.) LONDON". December 15. Wheat: Very dull: Foreign, ninepence to a shilling lower ou the week; English, sixpence lower. Copper: Spot £62 7/6; three months £6.'J 17 /c. Tin Spot £130 10/; three months £132 7/6. Lea':: £13 3/. AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. 'JJy Cable—Press Association—Copyrigh:.) (Received 10.23 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. Wheat. 3/9; flour, £9 7/6; oats. Tasmnuian white 2/7 to 2/8. New Zealand 2/S to 2/0: barley, cape i/4 to 4/6; maize, 4/.1 to 4/6; bran. £.">: pollard £G: potatoes. new £S. old Tasmaninn £6; onions. Victorian £6; butter, 96/; bacon. Sid to 9d. MELBOURNE,, this day. Wbnt, 3/0; flour, £8 15/; oati, new 2/s

barley. Cape 3/, English malting 4/6; mai*e, 3/11; bran, 1/; pollard, 4d; potatoes, old £0 to £7 10/. ADELAIDE, this day. Wheat. 3/8; flour, £8 10/; t»ran and pollard, 1/.