COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9191, 19 September 1891, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

MR. NEWTON KING'S WEEKLY AUCTION AND PRODUCE REPORT. At tho Haymarket, on Saturday, a good number of pigs wore penned. Slips made 4s to 6s 6d, larger sizes 8s 6d to 13s 6d. Horses were dull of salo, nearly all being passed in, £2 5s to £2 10s boing realized for thoso sold.

At tho mart, fowls made Is Is to Is 3d, potatoes 28 to 2s 6d per cwt, bran 2s 9d to 3b 9d, maize 2s 9d to 3a 6d per bushel, cheese 4d to 5d for really priruo, small size hams 4d to SM, sugar 3d, tea 13s. A lot of sundries and furniture made rather low rates.

Fruit. — At Wednesday's sale oranges made 9s Grl to lls, bananas l£d to 2d. Cattle. — At Inglewood, on Tuesday, there was a fair muster of stock; bidding, however, was not particularly brisk, and several pens weio passed in, several of which were, however, placed privately after the auction. Mixed 12 to 18-raonths made £2 58, 18-months to 2-years heifers £2 17s to £3 2s, cows in calf £3 lls,±resh conditioned do £3 17s, 1 pair bullocks £8 10s.— At Stony River, on Wednesday, the yards were well filled, moat of which were apld at and after the auction. Prices were ' scarcely as high" as on the previous occasion. Calves made 28s to 31s, 12 to 18montli3 39s to 495, 18-months to 2-years mixed £3 3s, cows to £4 ss, hoggets 12a 6d, culls 6d. Produce. — Potatoes are still unsaleable. Onions, if sound, will sell readily. Butter is weaker.

Land. — I beg to advise the sale of Mr T. Baldwin's farm, 115 acres, on Barrett Eoad, to Mr E." Kenyon ; the price, a. very satisfactory one, is withheld.