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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 234, 7 October 1904, Page 3

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HOME MARKET CABLE. LONDON, Oct. 5. At the tallow auctions 924 casks offered and 80f> sold. Fine mutton 29s <UI, medium 275, fine beef 28s, medium 26s 6d. HOMEBUSH STOCK PRICES. (Received Oc,t. 6, 10.40 p.m.) SYDNEY, Oct. 6. At Homebush sheep values wore stronger. Rest wethers 20s. In cattle values were weaker. Rest bullocks £lO, good £9 ss, best cows £7 10s, good £(> 10s. Best beef averaged 22s per 1001b. HIDES, TALLOW, ETC. JffcLBOIiRNE, Oct. 0. Hides.—The demand is brisk. Quotations—Stouts 5Jd to (id, heavy 4£d to 4|d, average and medium 4d to 4Jd. Supplies are moderate. Tallow—l'rime mutton £25 10s, prime mixed white and coloured £22 5s The demand is brisk, and shippers are operating. BURNSIDE STOCK SALES. DUNEDIN, Oct. 5. Fat Cattle.—l 49 weie yarded, principally medium and light bullocks af lair quality. Last week's prices were -maintained, 'but unfinished 'lines were easier. Fat bullocks £lO 5s io £ll 12s 6d, medium £9 to £lO, light £7 5s to £8 ss, best heifers £7 5s to £B, extra prime up 10 i£9 2s Gd, medium £5 15s to £0 I 15s, light £4 10s to £5 10s. i Fat sheep.— 2212 were penned, 0 f which cniy about 100 were ewes. The demand was not so good as a*t week's, and prices were one selling per head easier. Best wethers 25s to 27a med(iuim .23s i&d 24s 6d, lighrt 20s to 22s 9d. i Lambs.—Fifty-six were penned, of fair lo good quality, and were well competed for. Prices were easier by ' fully 3s per head. Best 16s to 18s, ' medium 14s to 15s 6d, light 12s Jkl to 18s Od. Pigs.—Ninety-three were yarded. 'I he larger classes sold much better than at last week's sab, but suckers an>i flips were unchanged. Suckers lis 6d to Us 6d, slips 13s 6d to 18s, 19s to 24», jwkers 25s to 83s, 'baconers 36s to 495, chop- | ;>ers to 68s.

j DUNEDIN GRAIN MARKET. DUNEDIN, Oct. 5. Wheat.—The market is firm, although few sales of any consequence are taking* place. Prime milling has much inquiry, but t<hle bulk: offering is o®ly of medium quality, which is not in demand. Fowl wheat has a fair sale for local consumption, but prices are too high to induce much coa'ital shipment. Prime mill- ; !ng 3s 6di tot 3s* 9d, nudajjim 3s '3d to 3s sd, whole fowl wheat 3s to 3s Id, broken 2s 8d to 2s lid ; sacks extra. Oats.—"A" grade and prime milling, as well as seed lines, have some attention, but the demand for feed is small. "B" grade is asked f o r, but little is offering, and lower grades have a ver y limited sale. Prime milling, Is 7d to Is Bd, good ro best feed if? 5d to Is 6d, inferior and medium Is t© Is 4d ; sacks extra-

NEW ZEALAND LOAN AND MERCANTILE AGENCY" Co.. Ltd. WEEKLY MARKET REPORT. AUCKLAND, Oct. 5. Horses.—At the Durham yards oil Friday we had a large entry, with a good demand fo)' draughts and good working sorts. Heavy horses sold fiom £2fi J.Os to £42, medium do. £2l 15s to £35, hacks and light harness horses £lO 10s to £22. A horse, gig, and harness realised £ls, spring cart £\l4. At Warkworth on Wednesday there was a large muster of stock., more than the advertised number coming forward. Dairy cows sold from £4 I.os to £7 : empty do. £2 10s to £4 2s, grown steers £0 5s to £7 Is, two to three year old do. £2 17s fid to £5 15s, yearlings £1 tils' to £2 Bs. lleef at Newmarket rates. On Saturday we held a special sale of horses at I'apakura. There was a good yaiding, but the quality :hro»shout , with few exceptions, was verv poor. Useful farm horses •old from £22 to £Bl Ids ; no hoavy draughts entered. Plough horses £2O to £29, other clatsos at Durham ya"d rates.

On Monday we Irfd a special sale of dairy cows at I'apakura, when there was a good yarding. The cows were somewhat backward in conditin, owing no doubt to the very bad weather experienced lately. Dairy cows close to profit sold from £.'s to £8 lOsl. backward do. £4 5s to £5 15s. bulls £4 10s to £7 ss. Cattle.—At the Newmarket yards on Tuesday dairy and store stock were penned 1 in larger numbers than usual, and sold at late rates. Although there were no heavy weights the quality of beef was goad. We quote ox up to 27s per 1001t), cow 19s to 225; fat steers from £0 5s to £ll 17s Cd, cows £4 10s to £8 12s fid, dairy cows £5 5s to £8 17s Cd, empty do. £2 17s to £4 4s, grown steers £5 5s to £6 10s, calves £1 7s to £2 lis. Sheep —The Newmarket yards were well filled on Tuesday, prices being scarcely up to last week's quotations. Wethers sokl from 14s 9d to £1 Bs, ewes lfie fid to; £1 ssi, iioiggets 10s 0d to 17s 6d, lambs 10s 6d to 16s 6d. I'igs—Porkers sold from 17s fid to £1 16s, baconers £2 10s to £3 lis, weaners 7s fid to 14s 9d. We had an extra large catalogue of hides, skins, tallow, etc., on Tuesday. Hides.—Market firm for well-flayed lot?. We quote Stout ox (id 1o (>Jd, medium do. 5Jd to s}d, light do. 4}d to 5d : cow, best lines, 4Jd, good :i;d to 4d, scored HJd t 0 '!Jd, ;ta'JS 8d to 3Jd, kip 4Jd to 4Jd, calfskins 5Jd to cut 4d to 4.1 d. Sheepskins.—Market advanced, liest, butchers' skins' 5s .'M to (is fid. Colintry .butchers' skins 5s to 5s (ill (good lines average 5s 2d), small and damaged 2s fid to 4s. Tallow.—Market advanced fid per cwt. llest mixed 18s 3d to 1!)s fid. good 17s fid to 18s, seconds 14s to 16s, rough fat l}d. Horsehair.—ls 2d to Is 3 J ,d. Cowtails.—ls fid per dozenBones.—£s. Oats.—ln good demand at late rates. Maize.— I The market has been better supplied during the past week than for some time, but prices remain uni-, hanged. Chaflf.—Southern moving off freely a t £4 10s to £4 15s, c.i.f. for good samples. Potatoes.—Market overstocked, and nothing but good lines will sell. Inferior quality can scarcely be quitted at any price. Butter. —In, good demand, prices' unchanged. Cheese. —Selling t freely ; medium loai m<