Commercial Intelligence.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XIV, Issue 1019, 3 April 1857, Page 2

Commercial Intelligence.

The weekly Newmarkot cattle sale hold by Mr. Alfred Buckland, on Tuesday last, was not so large as usual. The bidding for beef was dull, but sheep fetched high prices: 12 head of tat bullocks averaged £9 3s. 4d.; 25 fat ewes fetched from 335. to 225. ear-h ; B fat sams from 535. to 30s. each; 20 lambs averaged 21s. 9d.; 30 more store sheep fetched 14s. 6d. each; a number of pigs sold at from 21s. 6d. to 17s. 6d. each. At the weekly sale held at Newmarket, on Tuesday last, by Mr. W. Hunter, the quantity of stock was much larger than on the previous week. There was a good attendance of buyers, and the prices realized were very satisfactory. Fat cattle were not in great demand ; but store stock still command good prices. Fat cattle brought from £10 15s. to £7 15s. ; a lot of (six) bullocks sold from £9 10 to £8 7s. 6d. ; a lot of (twenty) heifers and steers brought from £8 15s. to £4 55.; another lot from £6 to £2 155.; dairy cows realized from £12 10s. to £11 12s. 6d.; a calf £1 12s. 6d.; sheep sold from 235, to 215.; a lot of young pigs from 15s. to 10s. each. Mr. Hunter held his usual monthly sale, at Otahuhu, on Wednesday last. The quantity of stock was not so luige as was expected, but the prices realized were very good : a lot of young steers weie sold at an average of £i ; another lot of heifers and steers averaged £3 1 7s. 6d. each ; a calf brought £3 ; and a young bull, eleven months old, sold for £9.