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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 217, 21 September 1901, Page 3

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New Plymouth, Saturday, September 21. RETAIL PRICES Butchers' meat.—Prices as lately advertised. Farm and Dairy Produce.—Milk, 3d per quart; butter, dairy, 9d to lOd; separator, Is 31 per lb; cheese, 7d per lb; eggs, 8d per doz; fowls, 3s per pair; ducks, per pair; lard, 6d; bacon, 5d to 6d; hams, tid to 8d per lb. Fruit. Bananas, 3d per lk; cocoanuts, 2d to 4d each; lemons, Is and Is 6d per dozen; oranges, Is to Is 6d per dozen; apples, 4d per lb. Vegetables.—Onions, Id, 2d pel lb; cabbages, 2d each ; potatoes, 7a Gd per sack. Breadstuffs.—Bread, 6d per 41b loaf cash or weekly payments; 7d booked. Firewood, from 8s to 12s per load. Coal. —Westport(Brookdale),~42s; Mok&u, 28s Bone-dust (pure), £7 10s per ton. Plums, id to 6d par lb. BUYING* PRIOES , Butter.—B3Bl dairy, 8d to 9d; separator, Is per lb; cheese 4§d and 5d per lb; eggs, 7<l per dozen; fowls, 2s 6*d per pair,* duoks, 3s per pair; bacon, 5d to 7£d per lb; hams, Ed per lb; lard, 4d tosd; fungus, 8d per lb. MR NEWTON KING'S WEEKLY AUGHON REPORT I Mb. Newton Kino reports:— At the Haymarket, on Saturday, small pigs made 6s to 8d; small stores, 12s to 19s; harness horse. LI 4. At the mart fowls made Is 7d to 2s Id; purebred do, 3s 4d ; ducke, 2s 4d. The.speoial sale of tweeds, etc., was well and bargains were fairly numerous. Jewellery and fancy goods made low prices. Cattle.—At Waiwakaiho, on Tuesday, a good many young caUlc were yarde I, but bidding for calves and yearlings waanot so brisk as the previous sale and a good many lines were pissed in. Eighteen-months steer? were in god demand, but only one or two lots were offered and these sold remarkably well. Spring! g heifer i and store cows sold at late values. Ca'vrs made T<l 3s to L2 Is (Sd; calves to yearlings, L2 Hi to L2 10s; IS t.o 18-mooths steers, L 3 lua to L 3 IBs, empty heifers, 1.3 4s 61 to L 3 8s; backward spring.- rs, L 3 16s to L 3 13s; springers L 4 7s6dtoL4 15s; store cows, L2 43 to L 3 12s 6d. On Wednesday, at Bell Block, J held a cleaiing sale on account of the executory of the late Tbos. Cook. There was a good attendance and everything sold well. Springing cows made LB to L 8 15s; cows, in milk L 4 ins to L 7; light draught mare, L3o'. heavy (rap mire, L 24 10s; draught colt, 1 20' Suudries snd implements made good prices' VICKERS & STEVENS' AUOTION REPORT. Messrs Viokkbs k Stevens report a I good muster of cattle in their lnglewood iyards on Wednesday. Tne attendance was good and bidding brisk. The following prices were obtained:—Yearlings, LI 18s to L2 16s; 15 month* mixed, 1.3 2s to L 8 ss; 2| year steers, L 4 10s; 3 to 3J year steers, L 6 15s; empty heifers, L 3 6s to L 3 10s 61; springers L 4 to L 7 ;'store cows, L2 10 to L 3 12s; oulls, LI to L 5.

BEWLET & GRIFFITH'S SHARE HEPORT.

T sales, b buyers,B sellers. LONDON WOOL SALES. '

(By Electric Telegraph —Copyright.) j PER PRESS ASSOCIATION London, SeptemW 18. Tho wool sales have opened. Balme and Co, Buxton and Ronild, a"d Jacomb and Son offered 11 643 bales of fair selection. There wis a full attendance and strong competition from all parts except American, as compared with the closing sales of the July series. Medium low crnssbreds, fine merino, and fine crossbreds sold at 7£, and extra fine merinos at 10 per cent, higher. The total qnantity of wheit and flour aflont for the United Kingdom is 2,390,000 quarters, and for the Uonticent 1,825,C00 quarters, Bank shares unchanged. At the tallow sales 1600 casks were offered a"d 1425 sold. Fine mutton, 325; medium, 295; fine beef, 31s 6d; medium Ss Cel. The wool pale* were animated, and opening rates maintained. The Amnrican risible supply of wheat is 44.776,0C0 bushels. SYDNEY WOOL MARKET. Sydney, September 18. The local wool sales reflected the London advance, and competition for the finer class of merinos and greasy was very keen. The market is firm and advancing. The catalogues included a fair sprinkling of new seasons' wools. AUCKLAND BUTTER PRIOEB. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, September 13. Wholesale dairy produce quotations:— Butter: Fresh •'airy, 9d per lb; second quality, 8d; separator, lOd; New Zealand Dairy Association, 1»; Anchor brand, 1b ; Acorn brand, Is; prims salt, lOd; eeoon i quality, salt, B|d.

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