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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 256, 2 November 1906, Page 6

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ftIKSSKS ALFKIiJU BUCKX.AMJ AM) Klil'UliT. At tue Haymarket on Friday last we nad a lull yard of Horses. draughts sold at from £14 to £32; active young express aud waggon sorts, £oo to £41 lv/- ngut harness and buggy horses, £16 to £24 10/; hacks, £y to £22 5/; gig ponies aud weeds, -•■S try £7 lii /; Ugkt tdl > tSt ay to £ Xi 10/ . buggy, £iij io/; medium and light unbroken colts aDd allies, £10 lv/ to £Zl. Wβ held our monthly sale at i'ukekohe OTi .Monday and yarded U»7 nead. There was v large attendance, but competition was none too keen, prices being similar to those ruling last month. Dairy cows and nelfers, best £5 3/ to £7 15/, others £3 to £4 10/; li 7 yarded. Kmpty cove, £2 to £3 3/; lour-year-old bullorks, to £t> 7/tS: two to three years, in nice condition £:j to £5 2/(J; yearlings to IS mouths. £l' 15/ to £2 15/; strong, well-grown calves, is/ to £1 7/; fat steers, £7 to £S 15/; cows, £3 WO to £0 10/, equal to Kemuera prices; 77 sold. Hulls, of which there were 112 penned, sold at low values. At Kunciman on Wednesday we yarded close on luuo head lor our second fair, aud, with one exception, all changed hauds aL satisfactory prices, last month's values beiug sustained aud iv some cases exeeed-ed Grown steers. In forward condition, sold from £(j to £ti 35/; three to lour years, £4 15/ to £U; two to three years. £3 10/ to £•>; yearlings, to 4"i/: strong i.-alves, 20/ tv 3.1/: empty cows, £2 to £4 7/. Dairy cattle were well represented at Kcmuern ou Thursday and sold from £2 1"/ to £S 17/t>. few stores yarded; those sold at late values. Kat and young calves in lull supply; small. 2/ to 12/; medium, to IS/; others, to 25/; no Heavy weights penned: so sold. There was a record yardm'g of fat cattle, which sold steadily throughout at last week's values, ox beef selling up to 2:: per luoib. cow to 20/. Steers ranged in price frnm i;r, iv/ to £11 2/0: cows, £:i lv/ to £S li/tj; 3-) L' yarded. :J4l sold. Sheep, licniiL'il in less than average numbers, improved in value, shorn wethers selling to 22,. ewes t>i 1!», . l,unihs. plentiful, were slightly ea.<i»-r. liest were from 15/ to 18/; others, lu/li t■» 34,; 2:-!ti sold, rigs, yarded in usual iuiinliws, were in keen demand and brought extreme values ror all sorts' 107 Sold. Duekei, l/>) each. Hides, skins, tallow, etc.: llidos. ex. U}U i.. G;il: cow. s}d to Ufd: lcips. c>id to U'.d: i-alf, lUd io id: stags', 4d to 4UI; Jinrse. S'li lv 14 : damaged Hides. :sd to 5-,' d; horsehair, i i S: tallow. Hl/0 to 20/: inferior. '.),- to 2n . ', skins. bcMt initc-hers'. 7/ tv s/<J: medium : 4/10 to li/.s; small. 2/3 to 4/8; damaged. 1/ i to 2/\i; pelts. 1/S to 1,"J; lamlis', 1/U to 1/11. ! UIIALI"U SALK. Messrs Mc.N'icol and <.'o. report: At j Oliaupo on Tuesday last we held our umiual ! bull sale, and offered li) 7 bulls. With the exception of six Hereford bulls, all were shorthorns, pure-bred and grade, and were brought forward by breeders In really good condition. The price of store cattle does j

not warrant high prices for bulls, and none [ were rpcorded at this sale. Xnere was aI . large attendance ot dairymen and farmers ! requiring serviceable yoiing animals, aud. with the exception of a few pedigree bulls from Ureeunill and Kotorangi nerds, practically all were sold. Two-year-old, bulls made from £S s/ to £15 15/; pedigree yearliug bulls, up to *Jlo 15/; well-grown and well-fed yearling bulls, £ij «/ to £14 14/; tUose not quite so forward, £0 5/ to £7 i/; and a few not old enough lor service, £2 2/ to £i 4/. Pedigree nve-year-oid Duke or . Maudiestej- bull made £13 is/, and a tew aged bulls Irom £1 lU/ to £.5. immediately after the bull sale we ottered llou head o'l' well-bred cattle, a large proportion being two and a-half to lour-year-old steers, tor which there was good competition, aud prices improved on those ruling at last few markets. For steers under two years old, however, prices were no better. Forwardeondltioued lour-year-old steers made ironi £5 13/ to £6 7/; Ireen tnree-year-old steers, Hi 15/ to £0 10/; store tliree-year-old steers, Hi lU/ to £5 3/; steers, £3 15/ to £4 5/; is months and two-year-old steers, from £2 5/ to H'2. 15/; several pens, not too well bred, £1 15/ to £2; extra choice yearling steers made up to £2 ."j/; fair yearlings, £1 lv/ to £1 15/; small yearlings or calves, £1 to £1 5/; cnoice two-year-old empty hellers, up to £3 7/; fresncouditioned cows, £2 15/ to £3 10/. SYIJNEY WOOL SALES. SID.NEY, .November 1. The weens wool sales have closed, with keen competition anrt prices very firm. CroKSbreds have a nimproving demand, and greasy'sold to 143 d. a record for the season; and scoured to 20d.