Commercial.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume III, Issue 286, 11 August 1882, Page 2

Commercial.

— »- 1 ... . , HK.-F. R. JACKSON'S FORTNIGHTLY' , ■! ; BEPQRT. . . , .... ' WxDifisDAT;. August 9. The 1 teles during the. fortnight .were ; ' fairly well attended; ' considering 'the boiiterouß weather which we have Had. r Prices, ytete maintained for cattle, but.noi for vpeepi thelatter not selling bo well as last month. Possibly as spring approaches ' they will recover their value. The yards hate been well filled, and nearly all the lot* offering found purchasers at the~piices , quoted below, t : , » Cattle.— At Waverley, .85 head were jrarded-7-Cows and calves> £Ai mixed stores, . M ' % y eaners. £2 to 22 6tf. it Kakaramea, *01.Tie*a cam* forward-i-Cbws, M 17s to £A 2s ; bullocks, £5 ; steers, £2 4s 6d to £Z 1b ; weanors, .£2. At the yards to-day 260 were in the penß-wFat-Bulloclfs, £1 to £9 58; cows, JBS tyMUEkj COWB, J6B 18s; heifers, jß3 Ss>/«tfeW«Hs. Sheep.— At ■WatoHey7l473 were sold— Best fat wfethert, 18s to 16s ; ewes, 10s to „ 12* Jdj Napiefr ewes" fls.< At Kakaramea, 1300 were penned and' 900 sold— Ewei 9« 6dt o i4a ia. At the St Hill-stroefc yards —Best wethers, I6sj ewes and wethers, I4s; ewes 11b j merinos, 4s 6d. 637 head made up the sale, . . j xr . Horses— A large number of inferior Animals were offered. Some fair drafts found purchasers at from J817 16s to £20 iPigs-tOnly small stores were penned, which fetched from 3s to $s 9d. Exports f —7s cattle, 605 sheep, 29 pigs, and 7 horsea.