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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 33, 8 February 1905, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

STOCK AND PRODUCE. The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report that horses have been in steady demand, those of a good stamp being insufficient for the requirements. Fully on average number was entered for disposal by auctkm at the Durham Yards ou Friday. Competition was fairly keen. We quote: Heavy draughts, at from £26 to £40 5/; medium do., £19 to £32; light harness, £10 10/ to £21 5/; hacks, £S 10/ to £19. At the Newmarket Yards on Tuesday dairy and store cattle were yarded in larger numbers than usual. Dairy cows sold at from £4 5/ to £7 5/; empty cows, £2 8/ to £3 12/6; calves. £1 1/ to £2 3/. Beef was yarded in average numbers, and showed an improvement on last week's prices. Ox beef sold up to 23/ per 1001b; cow. 16/ "to 19/. Steers sold at from £7 to £i 0 17/6 cows, £3 15/ to £15 15/. Sheep: The Newmarket Yards were well filled on Tuesday, and sheep of all descriptions sold at improved rates. We quote: Fat wethers, at from 14/3 to £1 3/9; ewes, 13/9 to 19/9. Fat lambs, of which there was a full supply, sold at from 9/6 to 15/. The advertised store sheep met a ready sale.- Ewes sold at 10/6 to 14/9; lambs, 8/ to S/6. Pigs, yarded in average numbers, sold at from for porters 19/6 to £2 3/; weaners, 6/6 to 11/9. We submitted a • large catalogue of hides, skins, and taUow ou Tuesday, all lines being sold at late rates. Cow hides: In short supply, and sell readily at 4id per lb. We quote: Prime ox, none offering; extra stout do., 6Jd to CJd; stout do., s§d to 6Jd; medium da, 43d to s_d; light do., 4Jd to 4fd; cow. best lines 4_d, good _ld to 4Jd: stags', 3d to 3id; kips, 4d to 4|d. Calfskins, ssd to s£d; cut, 4_d to 43d. Sheepskins: Market firm. Large. full-woolled skins. 5/ to 6/; pelts, 2/ to *2/6; lambs', 1/9 to 2/7; damaged, 1/ to 1/4. TaUow: Market easier. Best mixed, 19/ to 20/6; good, 17/6 to 18/6; seconds. 15/ to 16/3; rough fat, Id to lid. Bones, £5. Hrfrsehair, 1/ to 1/3. Cowtails, 1/6 doss. Wool, in bags and dumps: Merino, 9d to 9Jd; crossbred, 7d to BJd; pieces, 4_d to SJ<L; locks, 3_d to 4_d; lambs', 6d to T_d. Maize: Market bare Two hundred sacks arrived last week and found ready sale at 2/10 on wharf. Merchants are offering a penny more for next shipment Oats: Stocks are light and market firm at _✓_ for B grade, ex store. Potatoes: In fuller supply. Price for sound samples has eased £2 per ton, and are now quoted at £9 to £9 5/. Chaff: Prime old Southern, in small compass and held firmly for £6 per ton ex store. Local is arriving in more or less moist condition. Sales have been made at from £3 15/ to £4 5/, with prospects of further decline. Butter: Not quite so plentiful; demand good for best quality separator at 7_d to ajd; poor and milling lines, 6Jd to TS. Cheese:. Slow of sale. Factory, medium. 4_d; loaf, sd; fanners', 3Jd to 4<L IN\_d_e__-G_-_ WOOL SALE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, Tuesday. There were plenty of buyers and a large attendance of those interested at the wool sales to-day, at which 5113 bales were offered. One-third was passed at auction, but there were numerous private deals, vendors realising that they could not get more by holding. There was a drop of Id to 2d an round. The merino offered was not :i high class, and prices were lower by a half-penny. Half-bred was l_d down, the top price being lod. Super crossbred brought up to lOjd, as against l/0± at the January sate; strong do., lod, aa against l/oi. Good to medium merino brought lOd to 9_d ; inferior, 9d to Sd. Hat-bred, super, lOd to 93d; good, »ld to 83d; inferior, S_d "to Bd. Fine crossbred, IOSd to lOd; medium, 9Jd to 9d; inferior, BJd to 8d; strong do., super., lOd to 9d; medium, S2d to 8d; inferior, 7id to 6d. Tie bulk went to America and France. But for the local buyers the prices would have been still lower. AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE MARKETS. (By Cable.—Press Association-—<jopyrtght,) (Received 059 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. Wheat, chick, 2/9; milling, quieter, 3/3 i Flour, £8 10/; Manitoba, £13 to £13 15/. Oats, Tasmanian, 2/7 to 2/9. Victorian Algerian. IAO to 1/1 L Barley, Cape, 2/7; English, 2/4 to 2/5. Maize, 2/6 to 2/9. Bran, Sd Pollard, lOd. Peas, blue, 4/9. Potatoes, Circulars, £6 to £10 10/. Hotter, Sid. Cheese, 5d to 6d. Bacon, 6d to 74. MELBOURNE, this day. Wheat, 3/4. Flour, £7 15/. Oats, firm; Algerian, feeding, 1/6 to 1/8;: milling, 1/9 to 1/M. Barley, 3/8 to 4/: Cape, 2/4 to 2/6. Maize, _V_. Bran, Sid. Pollard, lOd. Potatoes, local, £6 5/; Tasmaniaa, £6 10/. Onions, £8 to £9. ADELAIDE, this day. Wheat, 3/4. Floor, £8 5A Oats. Algerian, 1/10. Maiae, 3/. Bran, lOd. Pollard, 1/. Potatoes, £6. i LONDON CABLE (Received 9.42 a.m.) LONDON, February 7, An Australian wheat cargo was--sold at 33/1.. Oats,' 14/6. (Received 12 noon), LONDON, February-7. The total wheat and floor afloat for the United Kingdom is estimated at 2,885,000 quarters, and for the Continent at 875,000 quarters. The Atlantic shipment is 21,000 quarters, and the Pacific 2000 quarters.