COMMERCIAL.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 276, 27 May 1907, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

♦- STOCK MARKET. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency, Auckland, report: — Horses —On Friday at the Durham Yards horses were yarded in scarcely average numbers, and competition was extra keen for anything of a decent stamp. We quote: — Heavy draughts at £32 10s to £42 medium do. £24 5s to £36, hacks and light harness horses £7 5s to £19 10s; sulky £10 10s, spring cart £12. On Tuesday at tie Newmarket yards dairy and store stock were yarded in average numbers. Beef was penned in average quantities. Bidding was good, and prices snowed an upward tendency. Oxen sold to ?2s Per 1001 b, cow 17s to 19s per 1001 b. Steers sold at from £6 10s to £10 7s 6d, cows £3 10s to £7. Dairy cows sold at from £3 10s to £6 15s, empty do. £1 15s to £2 18s, calves 16s to £1 6s. The advertised Holstein heifers sold at from £4 4s to £11 11 b. The fat cattle were all light weights. Sheep were yarded in usual numbers at the Newmarket yards on Tuesday, and first quality advanced in price. Wethers sold at from 19s 6d to £1 5s 6d, ewes 18s 6d to £1 4s 9d, hoggets 13s 6d to 17s 3d. Pigs.— Porkers sold at from £1 Is to £1 18s, weaners 5s 6d to 9s, baconers £2 Is to £2 18s. We submitted a large catalogue of hides, skins, and tallow on Tuesday, all lines meeting with keen competition. Hides. Market firmer. We quote : Extra stout ox 7jd to B}d, stout do. 6Jd to 7jd, medium do. 6d to 6|d, light do s}d to ssd, cows', best lines s|d to 6Jd, good o|d N to 6id, kips Bid to sfd, stags' 3|d to 4d, calfskins 6d to 6}d. Sheepskins. — Market firm. Best butchers' skina sd, large 4s Cd to 5s 6d, medium 4s 9d to 5s 6d,sb...acm 6d, medium, 4s to 4s 3d, small 3s to 3s 7d. Tallow. — Market firmer. Mixed up to 275. good 24s to 25s 6d, inferior 22s to 235, rough fat Hd per lb.