COMMERCIAL.
MR. NEWTON KllSd'S WEEKLY AUCTION AND PROL- JCE REPORT. At the Haymarket on Saturday, pigs were pretty plentiful, and prices eased down a little. Slips inado 4» to 63 6d ; good slips, 7s to 8a ; breeding sow, £1 6s Horses mot with little enquiry the majority being passed in. Hacks mado 10a to £G 153. At the mart fowls mado Is to la 6d; ducks, Is 6d to Is 10d ; geese, 2s 3d ; potatoeß, 53 to 5a 6A ; onions, 2d ; bran, 6a ; Bharps, 7s Gd ; wheat, 3a 3d to 3s Gd ; flour, 17a Gd per aack ; cheese, 5d to ssd ; soap, 6s 6d ; tea, 12a Gd ; apples, 5a ; or ngea, 6s. A quantity o£ clothing and drapery, sold at prices in favor of purchas.rs. Fruit— Fruit has been plentiful ; apples being almost a glut and making very low rates, Pineapples made 4a to 5s per uuse ; oranges, 4a Gd to 7a Gd ; cooking apples, 2a to 4s ; eating appleß, 5s to 63 ; poara, 5a to 9s 6d ; peaches, 8s Gd ; plums, 10b, Cattle.— The sale at Stratford, on Tuesday, waa much livelier. Anything good sold exceedingly well, and there was altogether an improved tone. Calves, good, made 30s to 38s ; small, £1 Is 6d to 27a ; yearlinsrs, £2 to £2 6a ; 18-months mixed, £2 15s to £2 18a, 15 to 18 r months steer?, £3 to £3 Ga ; springing hoifers to £4 13a ; fat cow?, £4 2a 6d to £5 ; cows, empty, £2 18a to £3 7s; stags, £2 10a ; 2-yeara and over rather rough, £3 9s; 2> to 3 years, £4 4s.~ At Waiwakaiho, on Thursday, a good number of both cattle and sheep wore yarded. There was .rather a smaller attendance than usual, the Waitira Regatta being a counter attraction. Bidding was very dull for nearly all classea of stock, especially small calves. Good springers were the exception, and these were well-competed for and everything at all quiet made good value 3. Small calves made 14s to 17a ; good do, £1 53 6d to £1 7a 6d ; good yearlings, 32s to 36a 6d ; 15-months heifers, £2 10a to £2 12a ; 15-montha steers, £2 15a ; 2 to 2^-year steers, £3 7a 6d to £4 3a 6d ; springing heifers, £4 17s to £5 ; cows, £3 10s to £4 17a 6d ; lamba, 4a lid to 6a ; fat sheep, 9a.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 9645, 11 March 1893, Page 4
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389COMMERCIAL. Taranaki Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 9645, 11 March 1893, Page 4
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