Commercial.

Opunake Times, Volume VI, Issue 253, 9 February 1897, Page 3

Commercial.

Messrs Hunter and Nolan's Report. Auckland, February 4. Horses have been in sufficient numbers for requirements and prices in favor of vendor. A special sale was held at the Durham yards on Wednesday. There was a good attendance, a shipment from Sydney being the attraction. Competition was good, and prices have an upward tendency: Heavy draught sold £ll 2s 6d to £25 10s; medium draught, £l2 10s to £l6 ; unbroken colts and fillies, £lO to £l6 ; hacks and light harness horses, £3 10s to £9 15s. Cattle—Quite an average number has been brought forward, and there was a steady demand for all classes. The Newmarket pens on Tuesday were well filled. Bidding was good throughout the sale, 18s to 20s 1001 b having been given for ox beef; cow, 16s to 18s ; fat steers ranged from £5 10s to £8 2s 6d; cow, £8 15s to £5 10s. Sheep were not so plentiful as on the previous week, prices had an upward tendency : Wethers sold at from 9s 6d to 12s 3d ; ewes, 6s to 9s 3d ; lambs, 5s 3d to 8s 3d. Pigs—Few yarded, light and medium weight porkers, lis to 22s each. Mr Newton King's Weakly Report. New Plymouth, February 4. Catfcla—At Stratford, on Tuesday, there was a fair muster of stock. Bidding was dull on the whole, though prices for calves were slightly better, and 12 to 18-months steers were all well competed for, and sold without difficulty ; other lines were unchanged. I quote:—Small calves, 7s to 12s ; good do., 13s 6d to 18s 6d ; yearlings, 21s to 26s 6d ; 12 to 18-month steers, 32s 6d to 34s 6d ; 2-year do., 47s 6d ; 18 to 20-months heifers, 32s 6d; store cows, 30s to 45s ; fat do., 55s to £3 ss.

At Waiwakaiho on Thursday, the counter attraction of the Waitara races probably accounted for the small muster of cattle and the scanty attendance. Bidding was flat for nearly all classes, 12 to 18-months steers, as at Stratford, being the only lines which provoked anything like healthy competition, and all these sold readily at very fair rates. Calves made 7s to 14s 6d; yearlings, 203 to 26s ; yearling steers, 27s 6d ; 2-year heifers, 35s ; springing cows, £3 12s 6d ; fat sheep, 6s 9d to 9s ; woolly lambs (good), Gs 6d.

'Messrs F. R. Jackson and Cos. Stock Report.

Wanganui, February 4. We held a fairly large sale at the St. Hill St. yards on Wednesday. Cattle were dull, so we did not sell all that offered. Sheep were well competed for on the whole resulting in all being sold, with the exception of one small pen, at the quotations below, Pigs were sold at last sales values. Cattle.—Store steers, 40s to 55s ; cows, 40s. Sheep.—Fat wethers, 8s Id to 8s 3d ; 2-tooth ewes, 6s ; ewes, 4s to 5s Id; hoggets, 5s lOd to 6s; shorn lambs, 3s Id to 3s 3d ; fat ewes, 5s 5d to 5s 7d.