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KAKAKAMEA FLOUR MILLS. Flour in sacks and in bags. Pollard, Os per 100 lbs ; bran, 4s per ibs. EDWIN PAYNE. •January 18, 1879. 702 51 :t FREEMAN R. JACKSON’S FORTNIGHTLY STOCK RETORT. ■Wanjratun, January 15.1879. 1 itAVE held two sales since my last report, * ,•: yards at each sale being pretty yell i] ’cri. Cattle still maintain their prices, vVji the exception of beef, which is slightly ki.vcr in value. Sheep are otfering freely, raid prices have receded, stores being lower 1; an at the corresponding time la<t year. T :,;tton being at boiling clown rates. The „••.ns to-day sold at lower prices considering Ihe quality. Mr Teat’s were a first-class La. and should have made better values ; the jM.cs obtained for them do not give much •encouragement to the breeders. The low ii. ice of wool, and general depression in -beep may in some measure account for the Tr.r rates obtained for sheep of this class. Cattle. —At Waveriy IK) head were y„rded. Prices were for best heifers, £G ; mixed steers and cows. £5 7s 6d ; steers, 12s 61; mixed yearlings and eighteen i .enths old. £3 15s. At St.Hill-.strect to,-day jo.cnty head were sold. Fat bullocks. £8 Iv> to £lO 10s; three year-old steers, £7 7s <TI ; cows and calves. £6 2s Cd. SiiKur. —At Waverley, 1,954 head were pained. Store wethers, 7s 3d ; ewes, 0s 6d ; j lived ewes and wethers, 4s (id to 4s 9d ; fat v" Thors. 9s 3d, At St. Hill Street, 1,480 i. sme to hand. Fat wethers, 7s 6d to 8s (id ; f.v.ii arid lambs in low condition. 3s 9d ; store r,- ••Is. rs, 5s :»d ; good lambs, 5s 3d. Raais.—Mr Peat’s Lincolns brought from £ 10s to £3 12s Gd ; Mr Shield’s pure-breds, f; or\ £3 to £9 5s Horses. —About thirty head were offered, ■chiefly of inferior class. Prices as at last sales rates. Exports.—Seventy sheep, three hundred •cattle. Hawera, January 17. Messrs McLean and Co report holding their monthly sale at Hawera on the 14th instant, v. hen There were yarded 52 head of cattle. Two-year old steers brought from £5 12s Gd to £6 I7s Gd; cows £G. Sheep—23o fat sheep b. ought Bs. Mr Ly.-aght’s rams let for- An JU.s and £3 15s fm- n.oT.-^un.