Commercial Intelligence.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 15, Issue 798, 23 June 1870, Page 2

Commercial Intelligence.

AUCKLAND LIVE STOCK MARKET. (Eeports to June 17.) [MR ALFRED EUCKLA.ND.] On Saturday last fodder was in better demand than on the previous week. For the land offered there was scarcely a bid made. After the auction the farm at Ruarangi was sold at 5a an acre. Horse stock were generally of middling quality and dull of sale, A good heavy draught gelding, the only one offered, realised £SO; riding and light harness horses fetched from £2 to £ll each. At Remuera, on Thursday, dairy cows were lower, in price than on the previous week, about 20s each. Store cattle were in improved request. Fat cattle were in, larger than usual supply; they met with a free sale, and brought between 32s and 35s per lOOlbs. 97 head sold to the. butcher. The cargo (42 head), ex Wanganui, averaged £ll 10s Id. The sheep market was very full of fat stock of good quality. Prices were well sustained. Those ex Storm Bird averaged 12s 6d ; ex Wanganui, 12s 6d; ex Comerang, 12s. Well-fatted sheep bi ought 2|d to 3d per lb. Inferior sheep were much lower in price. Pigs of good quality

were more plentiful than usual, but prices were a shade lower than have lately ruled. Young calves for the purpose of rearing were in request at extreme prices. No fat calves brought forward. [CAREY, GILLES, AND HUNTER.] Horses: The market has been tolerably brisk since last report. Good upstanding and draught horses meet with ready sale at an advance on late prices, and for unbroken draught and light harness .horses, as previously reported, there is an unsatis- | tied enquiry. There was a large muster of horses and good attendance of buyers. Prices rallied considerably for second-class animals, no really good having been disposed of. We sold hacks at from £4 7s 6d to £11; and light harness horses from £l3 5s to £ls. An ombibus fetched £80; and several traps sold well. Fodder : There was a marked improvement in Wednesday's market, a greatly increased quantity being brought forward with a good muster of buyers, evidencing the necessity of a semi-weekly sale. Prices ranged for hay from 3s to 6s ; straw from 17s to 28s per load. Cattle: The supplj of store stock unequal to re- 1 quirements, and and advancing a shade in price. Dairy cows offering freely, but mostly of interior description ; prices have receded at least £1 per head. Fat stock in limited supply, but no alteration in price worthy of note. Beef, 35s ; very prime, 37s Gd per lOOlbs. Dairy cows sold at from £9.3s 6d to £l2 7s 6d per head. Store stock is nominal. Sheep : The market is moderately supplied, and prices remain fiim with an upward tendency ; those in first-class 'condition fetched from 17s 6d to 22s each ; average quality, 14s to 15s 6d, while prices for inferior quality were proportionately less. Pigs are in short supply, and prices without material alteration.