Commercial Record.

New Zealander, Volume XVII, Issue 1570, 4 May 1861, Page 3

Commercial Record.

Nkw-Zkalandkii Office, Auckland, Friday, May 3rd, IH6I. the weather, during the past week, has been of a very singular character for the season- Smart gales at it* commencement hate been succeeded by torrents of rain towards its close. And, to muggy, indeed so sweltering has been the atmosphere that it has been generally felt to be even more oppressive and relaxing than the must intense of our mid-summer heat. We are without any foreign arrival ot departure ; and those fr om the coast are limited, the only supplies received consisting of—Uß4 bushels wheat, tit) bushels oats, 3(1 bushels maize, 1)1 bushels apples. 10 cwt potatoes. 5 cwt bacon. 45 cwt pork. 2 c wt onioDi, 1 cwt lard, 15 head cattle, 21 pigs. I 2 *owUm tom kauri gum, 472 tons firewood. 200 feet house blocks, Mi palings, GOO posts and rails. 144.000 shingles. 39.000 feet ,4 timber. . . . . . he Customs Revenue received during the week ended the 271h ultimo amounted to £MI)3 IJM (>d. Messrs. Cbeeseman report that their weekly sa es o ive Stqck.at Newmarket, during the past month, have been well itunded by buyers, and all descriptions of cattlt ottered changed hinds at satisfactory prices. The Fat market is firmer, and both sheep and cattle have slightly advanced. There is still a demand for good Dairy Cows, and high figures are given. e iterate prices for each description sold ate as follow : Fat Sleets and Cows, £lO 15-; Store Cattle, £7 14; Dairy Cows, ffiTOs,; Fat Sheep, 22st Gd.; Lambs, 2U.: Calves, £2 14s. bd. Hunter, Cochrane & Co. Report, at a Sale of Dairy Cows and young Stock, held on Friday last, at the Farm of Messrs. Henderson and Tuck, Mangarie, a good attendance of buyera. Dairy Cows feiched£li 17s. Gd. to £l4 los. for which there was i very sound competition, A lot of Mixed Heifer and Bu i Calves sold for 375, C. each' Other lots [of Heifers fetched, ttipetifively. £2 7i-(ill. to £3 2s. Od., £’4 12s, 6d., £6. and fios. Bay Horse, £HJ 10s. Spring Cart, £l3. 6s. &c. Hunter, Cochrane & Co. report, at their Sale of Horse Stock, held at the Greyhound Yard, on Saturday last, that a fair average number were driven in for sale. A small number only changed hands, at about late value. Owners generally, are holding for higher prices. Hunter Cochrane, & Co., report, at their Sale of livestock, held st their Yards, Nenmarket, on Tuesday last: the market barely stocked with fat cattle; graziers holding the opinion that beef will be dearer, consequently desirous of holding on their stocka. The fat cattle sold realized somewhat better prices- Store stock ruled low j and many were withdrawn, not coming up near their value. A good market of Fat sheep and lambs, which realized about late rates. Store sheep sold fairly; and fat pigs sold well.

Mr-Alfred Auckland reports his sale at Newmarket to have been fairly supplied with tat cattle ; 30 head were sold at an Khanceof from 20s to 3ti» each over last weeks prices, but owing to the inclemency of the weather there were no store Hock brought forward ; a fait market of fat sheep numbering 160 also realized an advance of 2s per head, tSMOKD PnomMy,—At the sale of Real Estate, Ac., by Samuel Cochrane, Brother it Co., on Saturday, 27th ult., one ot the properties of Mr George Simpkins, near the junction of Panmure with the Great South Road, was brought to the hammer, £°t I, about fil acres, rough scoria, was bought by Mesars D Nathan 4 Co at £’4 per acre. Lot 2, seven acres, good cleared scoria land, fenced and with numerous buildings, die., after spirited competition became the property of W H Turner, Solicitor, for £33,'>. Lot 3 being the interest in a leasehoWofthe adjoining Hospital reserve and having over ten IWatoruuat an annual rental of nine pounds, was finally knocked down to Mr. W Hobson for £220. Lots 4 and 5 were purchased by Mr. George May at the rate of £l4 per acre, amounting t„ the sum of £1,041. Two acres in Howick brought and small lots in Dunstown £i each. At the sale on tne previous Saturday a farm in Manurewa teres belonging to Mr. T 1* Baber, was sold to Mr. •hingsle at £8 17s (id per acre, and a lot of 43 acres in the *” e neighbourhood was purchased for £IOO. * B ss asi) GttorKiuKs.—A trade sale of Groceries was held “IS Cochrane 4 Co„ at their new stores, fort-street, on the • d Ultimo. Fine Congou cx Miranda, was cleared out from 10 i’9 5s per chest. 20 chests ex Antagonist, felchetl prices ’•ajing up to £i() ss, Teas cx liosworth from London, were Tiitted 2» to 2s (id per lb. The half-chests ex Antagonist, " e withdrawn after the sale of the first lot of ten. 00 boxes ‘brand sold at 20s fid to 20s fid per box, and one lot of Cinrfl l '*° n tons of Sydney soap £4l lOs to £42. »hj l . * >et A few clearance lots of Teas were sold cheap *•4 quantity of French Fruits and Clroceries were disposed w f,ir r,,e »- vernta Yorkshire, —We are much pleased to find M length New Zealand tan compete successfully with the "country i n ,h e curing and manufacturing of the unclean CocT 10t0 Sightly *'4w bacon and tempting hams. Sit Co. sold at auction last Friday a small W (,j. *j a,ce ’y a ton cured by Mr H Robertson of Waluku. •"me brought ltd per lb, while a shipment of York hams "ne before could not bo cleared out at la Id. **oueh U!i<> l ,f ' nce Ldward Whaling brig waa diet' * l ° hammer on the 22nd Inst by S Cochrane Btoou tw ,”' ai,d after good competition was knocked down to fir,n of Messrs. I) Nathan 4 Go for the sum entem ■ " ew 'sh the new ownership tvery success in the lh*t * 01,6 og *be most laudable and we hope profitable 3ri undertaken in the Colony.