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' London, Feb; vary 20. 209,000 bales of wool arrived m time for. wool sales. y--t Sydney, February 22. "fjfennes-T's brandy, cape, and, quarters, firm j kerosene, duJI ; rice, Adelaide wheat, and flour, all, ■: unchanged, ; New Zealand f wheat, 5s 6d ;. New; Zpaland oats, 4s to 4s 6d ; Barrett's twjst, Is, 3J{d t to ls.4d j sugar and, candle?, unchanged. Auckland, February 22, Buckland reports :.— Fat cattle, 25s t0, 27s " per ibOlbs ; fat sheep have a downward- tendency; fat lambs, 8s to, lis ;.ewes, 2_d per lb. *■' ■ .* ' ■ ' W""" t *"*'P r *3-tON, February 22, Q-i Thomas reports ppduce prices as ipllows : — Flour, colonial, £l' 4to &14 JLOs j Adelaide, Jgl8 v l 6s 4 ' to. £ t l9 ; *. oats is? 3d.,' , scarce •. bran, Is, ldi, scarce ; wheat, 4s ; hams, 9d-j bacon, 8d; 'cheese, 7;4d; pollard, £5 10s ; maize, 5s •„ butter, H.d. ' * ' Oa_^_bu, Bebr^Miry, 22; Wheat, 4s j. oats, 3s to, 3s 3d ; flour £13 to £14 15a.;. oatmeal, 7a.;. psarl barley,. 2Ss,; pollard, 5s 5d,,; bran 3s' sd. "f^-BTO^ February 22. Messrs. Harris Bj*os. report :— At M^-'A. Oameron'sj sale, on Wednesday^ 20th inst., ' there. l^ere a, number o 1 " buyeis, and the whole of the. stock psissqd under.. the hajn,mei'. at m,P?t satisfactory prices. Ewes, 6s 9dto'lls 3d; wethers, 7s «3d to. Sa, 6d,; . lambs, 4s 3d ; cams, '30a to £5. 55 ;. yearling - steers, £4 4s y yearling heifers||,£3_2s 6d; weaned calves, £3, mixed sexes ; three-year-: - ojd steers, £7 ; three;year-old hewers, £6 15s ; two-year-old steers, £5 12stc_£5 15s'; heifers with calves, £6* 12s 6d-*T dairy cows, £,6 25.6 d to.£B 10s,;, horses, £6.10s t0.£20. o*ie draught mare fetched £30, Pigs, f sbm Is to, 20s. 1,419 aheep, 9/ yearlings and calves, 75 two, and: threetyear-old. cattle, mjxed sexes ; 55 dairy cows, 9, horses, and 30 pigs, were disnosed- oi. Seven half-bred , bulls t so].d;f or Messrs. Owen and Lefchbr^dge, realized- as high as £12. 12s each. At our sale on 21st, of sheep, etc., there w.a.3 a small attendance of buyers, owing, np doubt, to, the. unfavourable' state of. the weather. There were oyer 1,000 sheej) yarded^ but only a, fe,jv pens, were sold.