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Patea Mail, Volume V, Issue 428, 24 May 1879, Page 2

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KAKARAMEA FLOUR MILLS. Flour in sacks and in bags, Pollard, Ga per 100 Iba; bran, 4s per 90 lbs. EDWIN PAYNE. May 24, 1879. 270 MR FEE MAN R. JACKSON’S FORTNIGHTLY STOCK REPORT. Wanganui, May 21. The yards at Hawera on Friday were well filled with a first-class lot of cattle. The bidding was very dull, which resulted in the bulk of the cattle being passed in at the auction. I succeeded in placing the larger number afterwards at fair prices. The large bullocks were turned out unsold, but 1 expect to place them privately this week. At St. Hill Street to-day, beef of the best quality sold well. Stores were in fair supply, but were not all sold, the reserves not coming up to owners expectation, though full value was offered. The bidding for sheep was animated and brisk, all being sold at quotations which were fully Is per head in advance of late sales. This was expected, owing to the better telegraphic information from England, as regards the fine state of the wool market. Pigs were at lower values, the class offered were not quite those required for the trade. No really good porkers came forward, chiefly Horses were in large numbers. Draught animals of good stamp, met a good sale, whilst weeds and screws were neglected, and difficult to sell. The quotations are as fallows : Cattle—At Hawera, 253 head were offered. Two-year-old steers, £4 los to £5 10s; cows, £5 ss; yearlings, £3 15s. At St. Hill Street, 124 head were yarded. Fat bullocks £0 12s 6d to £11; cows, £6 17s 6d to £8 12a 6d; milch cows, £6 10s and £7 10s; steers, £4 to £4 10s; calves, £2. Sheep—At Hawera 410 were penned. Store wethers, 5s 9d; old ewes. 3s. At the yard to-day, 700 came forward. Fat wethers, 8s 9d; fat ewes, 6s to 9s; store sheep, 4s 6d to 4s 9d. Pigs—Stores, 8s 3d to 14 s; bacon pigs, £2 10s. Horses—Best draught, £29 to £35; mediums, £24 10s; good hacks, £l2 10s to £l3; screws and weeds, £2 to £6. Exports—Bo cattle, 850 sheep, 200 pigs, and 25 horses.