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New Zealand Times, Volume LVII, Issue 2426, 4 February 1895, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Times Office, Saturday evening. A. G. Tainb and Co. report of Abeir weekly Saturday’s horse sale ; —Wo bad a good entry of horses of all classes except draughts. There was a good attendance, and wo cleared the biggest part of our entry. Wo offered on behalf of Mr Jas. Lighten, of Hawke's Bay, six useful horses, suitable for express and spring-dray work, and sold the whole of them at fair prices. We sold of the Hawke’s Bay lot 4-yoar-old colts, partly broken, at ,815, -Cl4loa, £l4 ; unbroken eolts at £10; aged harness horse at .85 10s. Of our general entry we sold harness horses at £3 10s and -CIO; and passed a few good harness sorts out of condition at Ji 10 to £l2. Condition alone prevented their selling. Aged harness horses we sold at £6 to £8; hacks, mostly aged, £4, £5 and up to £0 10s ; crooks, from -81 upwards. Bidding generally was fairly good for host harness horses, but in many instances vendors’ reserves were too high. Wo have a draft of good draughts corning from tho South, and harness horses and hacks from tho North, which wo expect to roach us on Saturday. TUwnsend and Paul report the horse sale hold in their yards, Harris street, as follows Tho demand for any sorts that wore yarded was very limited, with the exception of a few light trap horses, which wore passed in. Tho draughts were of an inferior kind. By tho Wakatipu, which arrives about Thursday next, Mr Workman is bringing a good useful lot of all kinds, so that buyers may look forward for something very good next Saturday. Wo quote for good draughts, £lB to .828 ; light do, .814 to .810 ; express horses, ,810 to ,812; cab and brougham, .812 to .614 ; good all-round hacks, £7 to .812 ; others, ,82 to ,8110 s. Edwakds and Moßeath report of the labour market: Domestic servants, both men and women, have boon in good demand during tho week. Bg Telegraph. —Press Association. — Copyright, Melbourne, February 2. The standard of fair average quality of Victorian wheat for this season has been fixed at 58jlb. THE EXPORT OF EGGS. Regarding tho export of eggs to England. Mr Maurice Nathan has collected tho following information in London, and sends it, tinder date sth December, to Messrs Joseph Nathan and Co.; —Regular shipments are arriving from Australia at present, and the quality has turned out wonderfully fine. There is scarcely a bad egg to be found in any of tho parcels. Packing.—Those eggs are packed in cases of 240 each, or two long hundreds. They are packed in pea basks. Wo consider this a bad system of packing, as a considerable amount of breakage took place. Wo would recommend that tho eggs bo packed in oases containing six long hundreds each. Tho cose should have a partition in tho centre, so that three hundreds are packed one side and throe hundreds the other. We would also recommend that instead of tho pea husks packing, cardboard lattice-work should bo used, and trays of cardboard should be placed between each layer. When the eggs are placed in their spaces between tho pieces of cardboard it would bo well to strew pea husks over them. This would lessen tho chance of breakage very considerably. Please worn your friends not to nso inferior cardboard that is made with pitch, as this is liable to communicate a nasty flavour to the eggs. Whits cardboard entirely free from smell should be employed. Wood —It is important that tho wood used for the oases should bo quite odourless. A parcel that arrived a few months ago was quite spoiled, the wood being of a resinous nature, which gave tho eggs a very unpleasant flavour. Marking—Wo would recommend that the tops, bottoms, sides and ends of tbs oases be marked “Eggs, with care.” Temperature—lt is important that the eggs on board ship should not he stored at too low a temperature. In a parcel that arrived a short time ago a great many of tho eggs wore cracked and broken through being frozen; 32deg. to 35dog. is sufliciently cold for the eggs to bo kept at en route. When packing the eggs it is important that they should not bo laid on their sides. They should be placed upright in the oases. If eggs are laid on their sides and allowed to remain in this position for a long time, tho yolks are apt to fall through tho whits and touch the shell. Eggs in this position are called “spots,’’ and are quite worthless. The price realised for tho last shipment of Australian eggs was 10s to 12s per long hundred. The best season for tho sale of the eggs hero is daring the months of October, November, December and January.