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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 47, 9 March 1901, Page 3

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Br Electric Telegraph.—Copy bight (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION). Received 7, 10 7 a.m. London, March 6. The total quantity of whea l ; and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 3,745,000 quarters, and for the Continent 1,000,000 quarters. At the tallow salee 11.73 casks were offered and 141 sold t —Muttoa. fine, 29s 3d; nteuium, 27d J beef; fine, 27s 6d; medium, 265. Received 8, i 0.7 a.m. London, March 7. The American visible supply of wheat is estimated at 80,704,000 bushels. The Antwe p wool sales operlsd with prices of merinos on a par with January rates. CrcSabrsds showed a decline of sto 10 oentides; 1087 bales of Australian wool Weraoifo'ed, and .-old at prices equaling those of the last London sales. ]

BUCK LAND /. N:) 80 MS' WEEKLY | AUCTION REPORT. (Special to News.) Auckland, March 8, Horses were in gsod supply and demand, Heavy draught s.-dd for L 25 to L 42; medium, L2O to LS2; hacks and ha iue.-s horses, L 4 to LI 5. Cattle.-Dairy oows required L 4 10s to L72s 6d ; stores; gr jwu steers up to L 7; 2 to 3-year steers, L 4 7s 6d to L 5 10s; dry cow., L2 10s tj L 4 10s. Beef was firm at 1 9s to 22s for steets and heifers; Its to 18s for aged cows. Sheep.—Wethers, 14s to 18s 6d; ewes, 12s to 16s 3d; lambs, 7s 6d to lis I'd, Pigs,—Porkers, LI to LI 8s; weaners, 6s to 12s.

Napier, March 7. Messrs. Nelson Bros., Limited, report the receipt of a cable from London to-day stating that the frozen meat market continues to decline. North Island mutton has fallen another eighth of a penny per pound, quota* tions being best Canterbury, 4£d: North Island, 4d. 5 Christchueoh, March 8. At the Amuri Ewe Fair 54,000 sheep were entered, The condition of the stock was not ao good as in previous years, but for all classes a strong demand and good prices were secured, Ruthe fords sold 3000 odd 2-tooth half-bred ewes at an average of 3ls 7£d, a New Zealand reco d.

MR msvvXON KING'S WEE&LY AUGIION REPORT Mb. Newton King reports:— Cattle—At Waiwakaiho on Tuesday the yards were full. All small lines of calves were weil competed for and sold at full rates, but bidding was not so free for several bigger lines of yearlings and most of these were passed in. Two nice pens of 2 to 3-year steers were yarded but bidding did not reach vendors reserves. Store cows sold well as also did springing heifers of which only two or three came forward. Wear.ers made 13s 6d to 335, calves to yearlings 35s to 445, IS to 38-months steers L2 16«6dt0 L 3 10s, store cows L2 10s to L 3 15s, fat and forward cows L 4 5s to L 4 lis, a good line of 2-year Holstein Jersey Heifers in calf L 3 9s, F.M, Ewes Bs, On Wednesday, at Elliot Road, 1 held a sale of Mr. Job Wills' dairy stock, etc. The cows were a good lot, but mostly all past profit and several on the aged side, and taking this into consideration they sold well. Cews, just calved, made L 5 10s to L 7 lis; springers, L 5 15s to L 6; cows in milk, L3lss Gd to L 5 ss; trap horses, L 8 to Ll7 15s. Implements and sundries sold wel\

Land, —I hive to report the sale of Mr. A. F. Stone's well-improved farm of 300 acres on Durham Road to Mr. H. Buckthought, of Stratford, at a satisfactory figure. VICKERS & STEVENS' AUCTION' REPORT. Mkssss VtcKEits & Stevens report owing io the inclemency of the weather there was only a limit -d eDtry of stock in tlwir Jnglewood yards; prices, if anything, were a fiba'leeasier, butalicos'every Jot was placed before the sale concluded. Small calvas, 15s to 255; good calves. 23s to 38s; 18rnonths heifers, L2 10s to 1.2 12s s<l; 2-year-olo steers, 1.4 !>■•; stoic cows, L 3 10a io Li 3s; fat cows, L 4 6s; sprin/ers, Li 10s; 2- > year-old heifers L'Z to L'i 2s.