Commercial.

Opunake Times, Volume I, Issue 29, 9 October 1894, Page 3

Commercial.

Mr W. D. Scott's Stock Report.

Opunake, September 28

The yards were full, and most lines sold. Prices were as follow's :—Yearling heifers, £2 10s; 9 to 12 months, 32s 6d ; weaners, 24s to 89s; springing heifers, £5 10s to £7; dairy cows, £4 17s 6d to £5 10s ; store cows, £8 5s to £4 ; 18-month bull, £2 16s ; 2ytar steers, £8 6s. At Awatuna, on Monday, October 3rd, no young stock came forward. Springing heifers, £4 5s to £5 10s; backward heifers, £3 5s to £4; 2-year heifers, £3 ; dairy 'cows, £4 to £5 IDs. I held a clearing sale of Messrs Geary Bros dairy stock on the 28th September. Bidding was very brisk. Cow's made, £4 10s to £9; springing heifers, £5 10s to £6 15s; backward heifers, £4 to £4 10s; 15-month steers, 35s ; store cows, £8 to £3 TOs ; trap horse, £l4 10s : pigs, 12s to 17s. Mr Newton King’s Weekly Report.

New Plymouth, October 6.

At Waiwakaiho, on Thursday, the yards w’ere crow’ded, principally with young stock. Buyers mustered in full force, and there w'as a keen competition from start to finish, prices showing a slight advance upon the previous sale. Only five or six bead of young cattle were passed at the hammer, and these were all placed afterwards. Dairy cattle, as a whole, were a very medium lot, and prices were lower than for some time past. A nice line of ewes and lambs and also two pens of fat sheep were well competed for, and sold at very satisfactory rates. I quote small calves to 80s, good do. 38s, yearlings to 48$, 12 to 18-month mixed £2 14s, to 3-year steers, good £4 ss, 12‘to 18-month heifers £2 14s, heifers in calf to £3 11s 6d, springing do. £5 ss, store cows to £3los, springing do. £4 2s 6d to £6 12s 6d, fat do. £4 15s, ewes and lambs 15s, fat wethers 15s Id, fat wethers 15s Id, fat ewes 14s 9d.

Messrs F. R. Jackson and Co.’s Stock Report. Wanganui, October 4. The quarterly horse fair passed off fairly well. The quality of the animals offered was not equal to those submitted at the previous sale. Pigs were at slightly lower values. Cattle.—At- Waverley—Bullocks, £4 12s 6d ; heifers, £4 5s ; cows, £3 15s ; weaners, 255. At St. Hill-street —Fat bullocks, £7 Is ; steers, £3 2s 6d to £4 12s 6d ; cows, £8 to £8 10s. At Kaitoke—Breeding cows, £4; weaners, £2 2s. Sheep—At Waverley—Wethers, 10s 3d to 11s 3d. At St. Hill-street— Good hoggets, 11s 9d, At Kaitoke— Ewes, in lamb, 8s 2d ; wethers, 10s 6d ; hoggets, 5s Id. . Horses—At the fair Draughts, £lB to £2l; unbroken, £l2 to £ls ; hacks, £8 to £ls ; inferior horses, £3 10s to £5. Pigs : Small baconers, 295; porkers, 19s to 21s ; others, 9s Od to 16s; small pigs, 5s 3d to Bs. Messrs Nolan, Tonks and Co. s Stock Report. Hawera, October 4. At Opunake, on 2nd inst., we bad a good entry. Bidding was slack, yet we succeeded in quitting most lines offered. At Kakaramea, on Ith, there was a good muster of stock, and a good attendance of buyers. Every pen was disposed of at or after the auction. At Opunake: Weaners, 28s 6d to 33s ; yearling steers, £2 3s to £2 8s ; mixed, £2 to £2 4s ; fat cows, £4 10s;

springing heifera, £4 Qd to £4 15a dairy cows, £5 to £o,ss. At Kakaramea: Calves, 25s to 27s ; weamrs to yearlings, £2 7s to £2 12s ; cows and heifers, £8 7s to £3 12s , 2-voftr old steers, £8 6s ; 2jr to 3-yrar old steers, £4 4s to £4 7s 6d; 2to 2iyear quiet heifers, £8 8s; dairy cows, £5 7s Gd to £6 10s. Sheep, hoggets, 9s ; ewes and lambs, 50 per cent, 7s Bd.

New Zealand Loan and liercantile Agency, Limited. Received by cable by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (Limited), Wanganui. (Quotations corrected up to Sept. 7.) Frozen Meat. Lamb—Prime New Zealand pr carcase ... ... s|d per lb Mutton— Canterbury ... 34d „ Wellington ... 8d ~ Talloav. Fine mutton ... 20s 9d perewt Gcod beef ... ••• 28s 9d ~ Hemp. Medium N.Z. is worth £l6 0s per ton Wheat. Average -24 s3d per 4961bs Longberried ... 25s 8d ~ F.a.q. to arrive iron ship, c.i.f., new crop ..... 22s 6d 480 lbs London, October 2. Wool.—The sales progress steadily. Quotations unchanged since last report. The total quantity catalogued io date is 184,000 bales. The total quantity withdrawn to date is 20,000 bales. Wheat.—Spot -quotations have advanced threepence per 4961bs since last report.