COMMERCIAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 141, 7 August 1911, Page 6

COMMERCIAL.

HIGH COMMISSIONER’S REPORT

(Per Press Association.]

Wellington, August 7. The High Commissioner cables under date lioucloa, 51 li: — Mutton.—'J lie mat ket is weaker, wit.i a tendency downwards. There is a pom demand, and an inclination to lot vc calcs. Canter inn y 3i|d, iVortn Island 3|d.

tiiiaiu.—l tie market is steady, and a good demand continues for best. Canterbury syd (light-weight), heavyweight 4gdj other than Canterbury 4fa, .diver date 4fdneel . —Tlio market is dull, and stock is accumulating. On the w noli* tmro is pa slight improvement in tlio demand tuns week, owing to reduced offerings of cnilied. .New Zealand hinds 3.1-d, rores 2,; d, •..butter,—Trie market remains firm. Several steamers cannot discharge on account of the strike, whiwi does not affect market. So far stock from cold stc.cs is being used. Australian 112 s, Danish.-1225, ’Siberian l‘l9s.

Clio: re.— : ho market is Jinn. White 60s, coloured 61s.

too uc.T.p market is dull, with very little business doing. J r.e w 00l market remains firm, and a fair demand continues. Current quotations for Bradford tops:—36’s, low crossbreds, Is lid j 40 s, low crossbreds, Is 2d; -445, medium crossbreds, Is 2fd; 50’s, hulfhreds, Is fi;jd; sG’c, qum terbreds, Is 91 d; GO’s, merinos, 2s 2d. Mr. Newton King’s Stratford Weakly Report. At the Haymarkct there was a large attendance out only a moderate yarding of pigs, which mot with keen compaction.- I quote slips and weaners Gs 6d to 10s,’ small stores 12s 6d to IBs, medium do. 26s 6d to 28s "fu, calves 3s Gd to 6s, set harness £5 2s 6d, chain harrows £2 10s, sundries at usual rates. At-the Mart.—Poultry, roosters Is 7d to 2s lei, potatoes 10s 6d per sack, onions is per hag, pumpkins 6s. fid per sack, seed potatoes—Early Rose, Beauty of Hebron, and White Elephant 10s to I6s per cw t. Apples, 11s per bushel case. Furniture and sundries at prices in favour of buyers. 1 am lidding another tree sale on Saturday next on behalf of the Morshead Nursey Company. At my Horse Bazaar on Saturday last I offered some jvery useful classes of horses. There was a small yarding, only 76 coming forward, out of which 40 were sold. 1 quote as follows: Unbroken draughts £lB to £2l, half to three-quarter draughts £lO to £l7 10s, hacks £2 10s to £6 10s, broken draughts £25 to £3B 10s, half to threequarter o*alights £ls to £24, hacks and light harness horses £5 to £l6 10s, w eeds and packs £1 to £3 10s, * gig £2O. My next horse fair w ill be the spring fair, when J anticipate a good enquiry for all useful classes of horses.