COMMERCIAL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 53, 10 March 1900, Page 3

COMMERCIAL NEWS.

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Newt Plymouth, Saturday, Mabcjh 10. MR NEWTON KING'S WE&KLY AUCTION REPORO) Me. Newton Kino reportsAt the Haymarket on Saturday store pigs Bold at 5s to 9s; slips, 2s 6d to 4s. Suveial horses sold, hacks making £1 15i to £3 15s; draught colt, £lO. r : At the Mart fowls'made 8d to Is 4d| ducks, lid; cnions, l|d; bacon, 4d. A quantity of furniture and sundries were disposed of at low rates. The County toll-gates were sold at the following piices Waiwaltaiho, £52 15s ; Omata, £SS; Mountain Koad South, £2B; Junction Road, £23; Puniho, £lB ss; Hcimama, Mountain Road North, £7.155. : Fruit.—The following prices were realised ' duriDg the week: —Pears, 4s to 6s; peaches, 5s to 7s; plums, 4s 6d to 6s; damsons, 3s; ' tomatoes, 3s to 5s 6d; apples, 2 s to 4s 6d; grapes, Is 2d to Is 4d; passion, 6a; cucumbers, 2s; water melons, Is 5d to Is 7d doz.; rock melons, 33 6d doz. Cattle.—At Rahotu on Friday, the 2nd inst., the yards were fairly filled, mostly with calves and store cows. Bidding was active for all good young cattle, and nearly all lines sold at fair prices. Calves made 14s 6d to £1 3s 6d; yearlings, £1 6s to £1 10s; steer yearlings, £ll9s 6d; store cows; £ll3s to £2 7s; fat cows, £3 3s; heifers in calf, £3 Is 6d. At Waiwakaiho on Thursday there was a small muster of stock and moderate attsndance, Bidding for caches and all female stock was quiet, and although most of the former were sold piices did not rule high. Good 12 to 18-month steers are re in demand, Dot none came forward. A line of dairy cows, sold without reserve by order of the Public Trustee, made low prices. Small calves made 8s 6d to 14s ; good calves, 15s to £1 6s; 15 to 18-months heifers, £2 2s 6d; 2-year heifers in calf, £2 17s 6d; springers, £3 to £3 sa; dairy cows, £2 to £3 10s; store cows, £1 to £2 10s. MESSRS VICKERS & STEVENS' REPORT. Messrs Vickehs & Stevens report a fair muster of stock io their Inglewood yards on Wednesday. Most lots changed hands, and, with the exception of one pen of ewes aud a few calves, everything sold. Calves, 9s to 18s 6d; 18-month steers, £2 7s to £2 10s; 2-year-old heifers, £2 to £2 9s; store cows, £llss to £2 2s; woolly lamb 3, 4s 6d to 6s 9d;' 2-tooth wethers, 9s 6d to 103; 2-tootb to full-mouthed ewes, 7s to 10s; fullmouthed ewes, 6s to 6s 6d; rams, 10a to £llos. AUCKLAND BUTTER PRICES. [PEE PRESS ASSOCIATION.] " Auckland, March 9. Wholesale dairy produce quotations:— i Butter.— Dairy, 7d; second, (id; New Zealand Dairy Association, lid; Anchor brand, lid; Acorn brand, lid : prime salt, 7d. . MESSRS ALFRED BUQKLAND & SONS' WEEKLY REPORT. : Auckland, March 9. Messrs, Buckland and Sons report:—At . the Haymarket auction sales, meadow hay brought from 2s to 3a 6d per cwt.; oaten sheaves, 2s 6d; straw, 15s to £l3s per load; ex store maize, 2s 6d per bushel; oats, 2a 6d; dun oats, 2s 4d; grass seed and manures , are required in increased qualities ; maize 3 on wharf, 2s 4d per bushel. } On Friday, hoise stock, yarded numerlously, were required. All sound animals 1 \were competed for up to good values. -' Medium draught were from £l4 to £22 i each; riding horses, up to £18; a dog-cart, , £ls ; stacks of sheaves advertised, £6ti. On Tuesday, hides kept late values. Ox ® hides brought from '4|d to 4fd par lb.; cow 1 hides, 3|d to 4|d; kip, 4§d; calf, 4jd to a sgd; horsehair, Is 4fd; fat, ljd; tallow, J lbs to £1 4s per cwt,; bonc3, 4s, Sheepskins scarcely kept last week's valuer. ' Pelts, from Is to 2s 7d each; lambs, Is 5d to 2s sd, Wool kept its late prices. Lanjbs' wool, 4|d to sjd per lb,; crossbred, up to 6| d; longwool, H to sd, r At Waiuku, on' Saturday, a small muster a of cattle met a good demand, particularly cows and heifers near oalviog and .steers of 0 all ages. On Tuesday, consequent on the drought, the number of sheep was small. About 2000 were yarded. Of these 1500 were sold. Ewes ranged from 4s 9d to 9s eftch; lambs, , 4s to 6s 6d. Rams word shown in full numa bars, and a fair pre aortion sold, Lincoln V fwfls bjgugbt itm Ks to p [ fl9Wnej^

3s; Mr. T. Coates' Sbopshircs, 2% to 3J guineas; Mr. J. Ballard'* Shropshire lambs, £2 2s; merino rams, £4 it. At Remmera, on Thursday, dairy oows, | yarded in usual numbers, were at late values. Those at profit were from £3 to £6 16s each. Fat and jpung calves, short of requirements, brought extreme values. Fat cattle, in average numbers, were better worth. Steers and heifers brought from 17s to 19s per 1001b.; aged cows, 12a to 14s. Prioes for steers were from £5 5s to £8 each ; oowb, £3 to £5 17s 6d (240 sold). Sheep, yarded in less than average numbers, improved In pi ice. Wethers brought from 10s to 14s Sd each; ewes brought 8a to 12s (900 sold). Fat lambs, short of requirements, sold freely at from 7s to lis each (150 sold). Pigs were at late values. LONDON WOOL SALES. (Received 9, 8 p.m.) London, Mardh 8. At the wool sales there was brisk competition. Merinos are hardening slightly. I ,