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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43323, 9 May 1908, Page 3

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Thb New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company’s, Ltd.) weekly report Horses i On Friday, at the Durham Yards, horses were yarded in full numbers and disposed of at late rates. Heavy draughts sold at from £27 10s to ‘£36; medium do., £ls 15s to£29 10s; hacks and light harness horses, £5 5s to £2l; weeds, £2 10s to £7 15s; spring-cart, .£ls. The racehorse Pohntu realised 260 guineas. ; ■ At: Coromandel on Thursday there was a good miißter of stock of. all descriptions. . Competition, was scarcely as keen as the previous sale, although, with few’exceptions, eveiythingsold. Dairy cows realised from £3 5s to £4 10s ; .empty sows, £2 to £3 6s ; grown steers, £4los to £5 6s; two to three-year-clddo., £2 10s to £4 15s ; calves, 18s to £ll6s; ewes, 12s. Beef sold at Newmarket rates. 1

On Saturday we held a clearing sale of live ■Vend dead stock-in the estate of the late W. . Maskery, . There was a good attendance and ' very.satisfactory prices ruled. Cows sold at from £3 5s to £6 12s 6d ; farm horses, £l3 td £25 ; unbroken two-year-old horses, £24 to £26 ; foal, £l4. ‘ Cattle: At the Newmarket Yards /on Tuesday a large number of dairy and store stock were yarded, with a full supply of beef, Dairy cows sold at from £3 10s to £6 Ss ; empty cows, £2 to £3 ss; calves, 16s to £1 8s; grown steers, £4 to £5 sb. ..Bidding for.beef.was brisk,, prices being on par with last week. Oxen sold to 23s per ; 1001 b ; cows, 1 17s to 20s. Steers sold at Sm £6 Iss to £lO 12s 6d ; cows, £3 15s to • The fat oattle, although of good ..Mjfx/. were, without exception light Weights. Sheep, were yarded in usual numbers, but showed no improvement on last week’s prices, although the market had a firmer tone. Wethers sold at from 16s to £1 3s ; ewes, t 13s 6d to £1 0s 6d ; lambs, 9s 6d to 18s. The advertised store ewes sold at from 7s 6d to, 12s 9d ;*do., wethers, 13s 3d 14s 3d.

Pigs: Porkers sold at from £1 Is to £1 13s : weaners, 4s to 7s 6d ; baconers, £1 to 2s. . ‘ We submitted a large catalogue of hides, skins, and tallow on Tuesday, all lines meeting with good Competitions at late rates. Hides: Market firm. We quote—Extra .-stoutox, 7dto 7jd.; stout do., 6fd to CM ; medium do., sfd to 6d ; light do., 5d to s|d ; cows’, best lines 4§d to 4fd, good, 4Jd i to 4|d, scored 3|d to 4d ; stags’ to 3d kips, 2Jd to 3fd; calfakinf, 3d to sd; / damaged Jfidee, ljd to 3|d. : .Sheepskins: Market easier. Best butchers’ y —skins, ! Is 6d to Is 9d ; good, Is to Is 4d ; inferior, 6d to lOd. Tallow: Market lower.' Best mixed, to 24s 6d ; good, 21s 6d to 22s fd ; inferior, ■ 18s to 20s ; rough fat, lfd per lb. * Bones, £4 15s. Cowtails, Is 8d per dozen. Horsehair, Is 3d to Is 4d. Maize : Only a few bags of local came to hand, which were disposed of at 5s 2d. , ■ iWheat is in good demand at 5s 2d to 5s 3d. 1 V Oats; Southern buyers are asking equal " to 2s lOd o.r.f. ■ ' ® a tier: The market is very quiet and sales are slow at 10d to 10J for first grade separator and 9d for seconds. Cheese : Farmers’ is slow of sale at 5d to 6jd for good quality, 4d being realised for • 1 poor. •’ - »*V Fungus is worth sd. . Northern Sales :At Tangowahine, owing to .the extremely wet day, there was a small ' which,sold under the hammer. At Arapohue there was a good yarding of stock of all. descriptions, which sold well under brisk competition. At Raupo there was sn average yarding, consisting mostly of . rbeefoows, which sold, without exception, at uhngrates. At Maungatnroto large num- • , bera of cattle came forward, and in nearly every instance shies resulted, the exception being calves, of which too many were \ yawed for requirements. At Kaiwaka the .- .- y»*us. were again full, and nearly all the stock was sold at auction or immediately after at satisfactory rates. At Wellsford mostly young stock and cows with calves came forward, sales resulting in most cases. At W ark worth .the yards were full, some of the cattle being really ’ choice. Bidding was goqd im anything showing quality, and we ■ **port a successful sale. The advertised land ? at Matakana elicited keen competition and sold: at a satisfactory" price. At Joseph Poynton’s sale of live and dead stook at the wadathere was a large attendance of the pnblio, aud everything was quitted' at ruling ‘ > retoe. "We quote for these sales: —Beef: • Steen, £5 16s to £7 10s; fat cows, £3 15s c - '. to £5 lQs; three to three arid a half year-old steem, £4 to £6 Sa ; two to three-year-old do., £2 7a 6d ta £4 ; yearlings, 22s to £2 3s; calves, 12s to £1 9s 6d. Sheep: ■.! V Wethers, to 17s 6d; young ewes,. 12s 6d to it-jj; '■!; aged .ewes, 6s 6d to lls 3d ; hoggets, Us. Horses: Medium draughts, £.,:,£20t0£27 10s ; hacks, £9 to £l7 ; ponies, pSKjJrom £2 10s upwards. v-- v • *'*• .?,! ■v--- •