COMMERCIAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13078, 14 September 1904, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

Daily Times Office, Tuesday evening, The amount of revenue collected at the Dunedin Custom House to-day on coodi cleared for consumption was £1288 12s 9d.

A Gisborno telegram states that at a sale of dairy stock there cows sold at from £0 to over £10; springing heifers, £5 to £8; yearling steers, £3 17s 6d.

FALL IN COLONIAL SECURITIES.

(Per United Press Association.) V,'ELLINGTON, September 13. With regard to the drop of 40s in New Zealand 3 per cents., as cabled on Saturday, the Piemier has received word from the Agentgeneral that there was a general decline in the market of 10s. As to the remaining 80s, that is tho half-year's interest, which bccomea diu- on October 1, and tho custom of tho market is that all stocks arc quoted less tho half-year's interest from the first of the month previous to which the interest is payable.

GORE STOCK SALES,

GORE, September 13. There was a very small yarding of sheep for to-day's stock sale, only 1100 being offered. Tho demand was good, and all, classes so'.d well. Fat ewes brought up to lGs 4d; merino wethers, 9s to 12s 4d; hoggets, 15s Gd to 17s; four, six, and eight-tooth ewes, £1- 2s 3d; aged ewes, 12s Cd to 17s Gd. Cattle: Tho entry was large, about 150 head of all classes being penned. The demand was not good, and sales were hard to make at vendors' reserves. Fat bullocks brought from £G 10s to £10; fat co-.v3 and heifers, £5 5s to £7; three-year-old steers, £5 5s to £6; two-year-old steers and heifers, £4 to. £4 15s; yearlings, £2 5s to £3; calves, £2 Gs to £3 ss; milk cows, £4 to £7 10s.

SKIN MAHKET.

Messrs A. Moritzson and Co. report on their weekly sale of rabbitskins and sheepskins, as follows: —

Rabbitskins.-We held our usual weekly ealo of rabbitskins yesterday, and offered a very large catalogue of all classes of skins. There was a good demand for everything under offer. Our top price was 17id for prime doss; mixed winters sold up to 17d; winter blacks, 23d. We quote: Mixed winters lGd to 17d, prime does 17Jd to 172c1, outgoing 13Jd to 14d, autumns lljd to 12£ d, racks 7/, d to 6d, winter blacks 22d to 23d; horsehair 14Jcl to 15d. Sheepskins.—Wo offered a very large catalogued! sheepskins to-day, made up of country butchers' and farmers' lots. There was keen competition for everything under offer, dry skins that were in good condition fetching as high as 7}d per lb. Our top price per skin was 9s 5d for two very heavy crossbrcds. Wo quote: (Jross-breAs—Extra good 8s Gd to 9?, heavy 7s Gd to Bs, medium Gs to 7s, light 4s Gd to 5s Gd.

SALE OF CLYDESDALE STALLION.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (Limited) reports having sold on behalf of Mr James Patrick, of Lee Creek Farru, Outram, his three-year-old brown colt by Agitator out of Pride, to Mr James Grant, of Hawera, who is to be complimented ori having bought one of the grandest specimens of an up-to-dato Clydesdale stallion that stand in the colony at the present day. While this is so, his breeder (Mr William Patrick, of Balmoral Farm) is also to he complimented on possessing mare 3 capable ot producing such a perfect specimen of just the class of horse suited for this or indeed any other country, having plenty of substance and quality, combined with beautiful action. The colt was first in his class at the Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Society's show as both a yearling and a two-year-old. Tho price obtained for this eolt ran into big figures, and was one very satisfactory to tho vendor. His pedigree is as follows:—Brown colt, foaled October, 1901. Sire Agitator (101SS; imported), by Royal Standard (9517); dam Nelly M'Gregor (11243), by St. Gatien (3558); granddam Kate M'Gregor (G325), by M'Gregor (1487), by Damley; grcat-granddam Lady (5G2), by, Sir 'Walter (795). Dam Pride, by Wallace, late AlbertU3 (7420: imported), by Golden Treasure (4417); grandsire Lord Erskine (1744); granddam Pride of Kilsyth, by Salisbury Pride; great-granddam Princess (imported), by Prince of Wales (G73). Agitator was fourth at the Highland Agricultural Show at Edinburgh in r. strong class of three-year-olds. 1599. and has r.evcr been beaten in New Zealand unleHS by his stable-mate Sandy Erskine (imported). He was first and champion two years in succession at Dunedin and Oamani shows. Prido was first as & yearling at the Taieri and first as a three-year-old at the Taieri and Dunedin, and has taken other prizes too numerous to mention. Granddam Pride of Kilsyth has been a most, successful prize-winner at both Dunedin and Taieri shows, ar.d champion at Invercargill and Dunedin, besides having taken many first prices as a brood mare.