COMMERCIAL.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 144, 7 March 1874, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

From Mr. M. R. Miller’s Hawke’s Bay Stock and Station Report we cull the following The demand for young store sheep during the past month has continued in excess of the supply, and though high prices can be obtained, there are very few lots offering. Present quotations are— Cattle. —Fat: Demand limited at 18s fid to £1 per lOOlbs. Stores : Fair average herds mixed, £3 10s to £4 per head. • Dairy Cows, £6 to £B. Quiet two-vear-old heifers, £2 10s to £3. Steers, £6 £7-' Weddeks.—Fat: Dull of sale. I have sold three lots, amounting to 1,600, at from 9s to 10s 6d. Stores: Merino, aged ; numerous lots in market, difficult of sale. Eight-tooth and under, I have sold in several lots; altogether 5,800, at from 6s 3d to 7s 3d. Crose-breds ; Two to six-tooth, 1,700, 8s 6d to 9s 6d. Ewes.—Active demand. Since my last I have been the medium of sale from various flocks of 3,800 two, four, and six-tooth, at 10s tolls ; 2,300 six and eight-tooth, at 8s 6d, and 4,900 eight-tooth, 6s 6d to 7s, and 1,000 superior do., Bs. Cross-breds, few offering: sales have been effected at from 9s to 12s for six and eight-tooth ; and a superior lot eighttooth, changed hands at. 15s. In mixed lots of sexes, I have sold a lot 400, principally young cross-bred, at 7s, and another lot of 5,000, principally full-mouth merino ss. Lambs.—A few private sales in merinos reported, at 7s to 7s 6d ; very few lots offering. Rams.—Merino: I have sold 300, Mr. Caverhill’s two and four-tooth Mount Parnassus flock—loo to Mr. Studholme, and 200 to Mr. C. Nairn. The wool from these rams took first prize at the Vienna Exhibition. Lincolns: I have purchased for Mr. Westrup of Gisborne one of Mr. Tanner’s pure Kirkham two-tooth rams at £so—a very handsome sheep, remarkably evenly wOoled : along with him, for the same buyer, 20 selected Lincoln ewes at £5 each. I have secured for Mr. Tanner 50 pick ewes from the flock of Messrs. Buttle Brothers of Auckland: these are considered the best Lincoln blood in Auckland. At the Oakbourne sale on the sth iust., Mr.

Canning’s Cotswolds and Messrs. Naim’s pure-bred short-horns brought very satisfactory prices. Station Properties. — I have . several Southern properties now in negotiation with northern buyers; and found a buyer in Colonel Whitmore, for Hon. John M'Lean’s Lind is Station. Otago; about 350,000 acres leasehold, with 140,000 sheep, 300 head cattle, horses, plant, Ac., for a little under £130,000. I have closed for sale of Mr. AV. T. Buckland’s Apley Estate here (formerly Colonel Whitmore’s), to Messrs. J. N. Williams and Alexander McHardy, about 15,000 acres freehold, and nearly 9,000 sheep with all improvements. The purchasers intend disposing of about 10.000 acres in convenient blocks, of from 500 acres and upwards ; and from its proximity to town and natural capabilities is being much sought after. Horse Stock.—A very considerable demand continues unsatisfied for medium and heavy draught; also for really good hacks.