COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9146, 30 August 1888, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

STOCK AND MINING ASSOCIATION.

New Zealand Herald Office, Wednesday evening. The Customs duties to-day amounted to .£1358 5s 6d.

I Auckland, August 20, 18S8.

A. Saunders, C. Alexander, S. Yickers, J. F. Clarke, R. Frater, J. M. Lennox, D. B. McDonald, D. G. Mac Donne)!, Aitkon Carrick, R. Spratt-, Francis Hull, James Reid, R. G. Macky. Joseph Newman, Chairman. CALL AND DIVIDEND LIST. CALLS. £ S. d. Due. Askhsua-Molloy Gold & Silver Extraction Company .. 0 0 9 — Sept. 15 WAIRARAPA STOCK AND PRODUCE MARKETS. Messrs. Lowes and lorns' report of their stock sale on Wednesday, the 15:h August. : — We yarded 300 of cattle and 2000 sheen, embracing all classes. Cattle all sold under the hammer at figures in advance of previous sales. The beef yarded was light and medium, no heavy beef offered. Bullocks made £11 15s to £5 10s, or about 17s 1001b ; fat cows, £3 10s to £4 ss, or 14s 1001b. Large forward four-year-old bullocks made £4 : three-year-old stores, 6«ls to 70s; two-year-old. 50s to 55s ; mixed young stock, 25s to 30s ; dairy cows, according to quality,'ranged from £3 to £5. 'In sheep, the entries were principally store wethers, ewes in lamb, and hoggets ; the wethers making 10s ; ewes in lamb, 7s to 9s ; hoggets, 7s 6d to Ss 3d. We sold 30 young store pigs from 7s 6d to 10s each. Horses were dull of sale: few selling. Produce sales are active, and produce and gram generally rising. Potatoes (Southern) were 90s to 100s; seed potatoes, 80s; seed flukes. 6s cwt. In oats, the trade has been active, and prices rising. For prime seed samples we obtained 2s 6d ; tartars and duns for feed, 2s 3d. Wheat remains firm at 3s 6d to 3s 9d ; chick wheat, 2s 6d. Grass seeds are beginning to move off, rye making 2s Gd ; cocksfoot, 2M to 3Jd; carrots, 50s ; chaff, 40s ; bran, 3s; peas, 3s 3d ; butter, Sd to lOd. In poultry, the market has been overstocked, and prices in consequence ars ruling low. Fowls, 2s to 2s 6d per pair for table ; turkeys, 6s ; geese, 5s ; ducks, 3s 6d. Rabbit-skins are coming into the market; well-furred making Sd to 10d lb ; does and suckers, 4d to 6d; sheepskins are still very low, considering the growth of wool ; large long-w'oolled and crossbred skins from 2s 6d to 3s 6d, or 3d to 4d lb. Ox hides are mostly sold in Wellington, those sold locally making 2d to 3d lb. We report placing privately to an East Coast runholder a line of 75 pure RM. rams at £2 per head, being two and four-tooth. The sales of fruit and ornamental trees have come to an end. We sold a long catalogue for a Nelson nurseryman last Saturday, prices being very low. Reports from every direction are all alike with regard to the abundance of grass, and all stock have been well wintered. Evidences of spring are appearing in the shape of fresh green pasture ; trees bursting into bud in all directions ; crops are also looking strong ; and the season so far has been most favourable to farming operations, and we expect the area under cultivation in the Wairarapa this season will be some thousands of acres in excess of last season's, and with a favourable harvest, and the increased price of farm stock and produce, the fanners should have a very prosperous year.

Company. Business. - : Closing Prices. Banks : Buyers, j Sellers. New Zealand .. 10/12/0 — 10 12 6 Colonial .. .. — 2 4 0 — Insurance: I New Zealand .. — — 4 2 0 Miscellaneous : N.Z.1-. & Mercantile — 4 10 — T.-.upiri Coal Co. .. j — 2 2 0 — Mining : Cambria .. .. — 0 5 9: 0 6 0 Saxon .. .. 3/S — i 0 S 10 Old Caledonian .. — —050 Trenton .. .. — 0 2 3, 0 2 0 Manukau .. — 0 2 0 0 2 2 Union, W&ihi .. " — — 0 7 0 Alburnia .. .. — 0 2 0, — Paroquet .. .. — — j 0 3 0 Gem.. .. .. — Oil! — Crown .. .. - — — 0 4 0