COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8583, 3 June 1891, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

• " ' ■.., New Zealand Herald Office, ' ■ ■ • Tuesday evening. , The Customs duties to-day amounted to £126113s 3d. ; ,; ; > •. ,

': LIVE STOCK & PRODUCE MARKETS. • :: v- ■ ■ -•..'■ \VAI".ARAPA. ■•.'-■■•■ " -'. ' • ■'•■ Messes. ■ Lowes and iorns' Retort.—During the month stock of (all classes have come freely into the yards, and in all castes have met with a brisk sale, and. prices firm > throughout, ,' especially tor sheep; the demand for yhich bus by far exceeded the supply.- Store wethers for turnip feoding have reached a. far more relative value than fat, : but the splendid turnip crops and the rink of their going to waste caused buyers to bid high for all stores and lambs. - Good ewes in lamb have reached as high as 16s, a figure not reached in the district! for many years'past.. The same applios to all goodiitrong lambs. v Fat wethers aro \ steady at present, from 15s to lGs for heavy weights, '■' store : wethers making ISs, fat from J4» to lCs: Jab ewes, heavy, 123 to 12s 0d; empty ewe.i, for fattening, 10s to Us Cd. In -'. lambs the ; prices have t been r unprecedented, really «;ood well woolled lambs going as iiigb as Us ; medium, 8s Cd to 10a Cd; while culls ruled from 7s 9d to 8s 3d. Cattle hare advanced the last mouth or so rapidly in price, a fact } mainly. due_ to the abundance of '.feed: everywhere, and the high rates of sheep. The rise in price hiis had the effect of filling the yards, an unusual thicg for thin season of the year, but beef has not risen; in proportion. Fat bullocks, 8001b and 9001b, ranged from £5 to JSA 10a, or 12a 6d per 1001b; fat cows and heifers, 75s to 80s; store bullocks, 70s to SOs; medium, two and three-year-old steers, 60s to 05s; stcre cows, 35s to 455; yearlings, , 3o3.to, 355; calves, 20s to26i<.. The morket in horses has been very dull of late, especially in hacks, 'owing"to the number sent here from Qawke's Bay, but forall decent draught stock a fair demand : existed, • and very good ; figures ■ realised, good farm ; sorts ranging from £14 to £18; hacks; good, £S to £12; poor soVta, £4. 'In p'.irs, the prices have receded, owing to the scarcity of milk at this season of the year. : Porkers ranged from 23s to 30s 14s to 20s;; weaners, 6s to S3. In grass 'seetVup to this week cocksfoot has been quite unsaleable, owing to the bad i burns in the Bush and elsewhere, but quite recently orders have boen received ! ' from Canterbury where, the; seed harvest proved a failure, and; several hundred sacks have been sent i South, prices about SJd per pound. Oats remain stationary, the splendid grass season causing ■ the ■ consumption ', to be less, , : and large holders are sticking; out for ils IM. Wheat stocks are short of requirements, and prices advanced 3d per.. bushel. »;■ Potatoes are. a di Kg :*t ■ present, itlio yields being generally heavy, ana farmers lrave to be contented with £2 per ton.; In jamt, our ■> sales have been limited, although we sold, by auction some ■ suburban ; sections at s £34 per acre, which showed confluence on the \ part of the invest ore. Sales of fura.ture. poultry, and general produce, have been marked by firmness of prices all thiougiiout the mouth. , ■ ■ ' .^:?-V.;.-r:i::- 1^.:..i-v'./MANAIA.:-,;' v -->-■■'::::■'■, "■ ' Messrs. Budge and Good's Stock Report.—At onr Oeo sale, on the 19th May, stock realised the following « prices: Yearling *• steers, 325; empty heifers, £2 Us ed; cow and calves, £3 Is to £3 17s ; yearling .heifers, 20s. Sheep : .Napier: ewes, 1_; culls, Cs 4d. :At our Manaia sale, on the 20th May, our yards were crowded with stock; considerably, more coming forward than were advertised; % about 1100 head of cattle and 2000 sheep were j yarded. I The demand for cattle was not so brisk as usual, but notwithstanding wo disposed ■of several s lots after the ' sale. : l> The following .'■ prices were ■ realised: Three to four-year-old bullocks, from £4 to £4 7seel; three-year-old steers, £312s ed ; two-year-old steers £2 12s to £2 ISs; IS-months' old steers, SOs to £2 ; yearlings, 23s to 30s;: store cows, £2 16s to £219s ed ; yearlings, heifers, 25s to 30s; fat cows, £3 7s to £3 Bs. v: Sheep: s= Two-tooth ewes, Us* 0d; »fallmouthed ewes, 10a to lla 9«i ;; fat ' ewes, 10s \ 0d; lainbs, 7s. ■ . _:'-.-,

HAWERA. The Egmont Farmers' Union. (Limited) repeat: On Wednesday, the 27th ultimo, :>>efore a large attendance of buyers, we held our fortnightly stoi* Sale at Jla.iiaia.The yards were well filled with -cat-> tie, the majority of which were of good'quality, nearly twice the number coming forward than-were advertised being yarded. The bidding was spirited throughout, and every pen of stock well contested, though several lines of cattle left the yrirds unsold through excessive reserves being put upon thum. We quote price* as under:—Fat bullocks, JOS 4s to £o gs : 3 to 4 year old forward bullocks, £4 10s to £5 ;2Jto 3 year old steers, £3 19s to £4 3»; 18 month* to 2 year old steers, £2 2s to £218 a; fat cowifc £3 to £3 6» ; empty cows, £2 18s to £2 158 ; springers, £217 ato £3; yearlings to IS months old heifers, £1 8s to£l 14s ; calves, 13s ; sheep culls, 43. One line of ewes in lamb was passed in at 14s.