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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 258, 4 November 1904, Page 4

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KEW ZEALAND LOAN AND IUCB- * AGJOrc* Co., LW. . WEEKLY MARKET REPORT, \ AUCKLAND, Nov. 2. ; Horses have been brought forward in increased numbers ami a good dfeipand prevails at prices in favour of the vendor. Th<ire was a full muster at the Durham yards on Friday, ffleavy draughts sold from £29 to '4538 10s, medium do. £l7 15s to £26 ;Bb, light harness £9 15s to £2O, backs £n 10s to £l6. A sulky realised £l4 10a. ■ Cattle.—At the Newmarket yards on. Tuesday dairy and store stock .w«e penned in larger numbers than 4or many months and sold at late rates. There was a good yarding of beef, the quality in many cases being excellent. Ox beef sold up to last week s prices—cow 17s to 225. Fat Steers sold : from £6 10s to £ll 7s

6d, fat cows £4 15s to £7 17s 6d. Dairy cows sold from £4 10s to £B, empty d O . £2 12s to £4 15s, heifers [£4 5s to £5 2s (id, calves £1 13s to £2 lis. Sheep.—The Newmarket yards were well filled on Tuesday, and sheep advanced in price. Wethvrs sold from 1 37s 9d to £1 8s 3d, shorn do. 15s 6d to £1 4s 9d, ewes 15s 6d to 19s 9d, shorn do. 15s 6d to 19s 9d. Lambs, in full supply, sold well from lis 9d to £1 0s 3d. Pigs.—Yarded in large numbers . and sold well. Porkers realised from £1 9s to £2 14s, baconers £2 6s to £3 Bs, weaners 8s 6d to 16s. At Tuakau on Wednesday we had a larger muster than for many months, tihe s a le being a very successful one. Dairy cows sold from £4 10s to £6 ss, backward heifers £3 10s to £5 ss, two-year-olid ateers £3 5s to £4 2s 6d, calves £1 lis to £2 12s. Beef at Newmarket rates. At Warkworth on Wednesday more than the advertised number was brought forward. Dairy cows solid from £3 15s to £6 10s, fat cows £5 os to £7 12s 6d, fat steers £7 2s 6d to £8 12s Gd, grown steers £5 15s to £7, two to thsae-year-old do. £4 5s to £5 17s 6d, calves £1 5s to £2 6s.

We submitted a large catalogue of hides, skins, tallow, etc., 011 Tuesday. Hides.— Market firm at late rates. We quote :—Prime ox 7d to 7J.d, extra stout do.. 6Jd to 6fd,stout do. 6d to 6Jd, medium do. sjd to 5Jd, light do. 4}d to sd, cow (best lines) 4jd to 4jd, good 33d to 4d, stags 3d to 3irt, kip 4Jd to 4Jd. Calfskins 5Jd to s{d, cut 4Jd to 4jd. Sheepskins.»-Mai'ket firm. Picked (large) to 8s (good lines 5s 6d to <ss) ; country skins 4s lOd to 6s, small and damaged 3s 6d to 4s 6d, lambs Is to 1 s 3d, pelts Is to Is 3d. Tallow.—Market firm. Best mixed 20s 6d to 225, good ISs 6d to 19s 3d, seconds 16s to 17s, rougih; fat Id to ljd. Bones, £5. Horsehair, la Id to Is 3jd. Cowtails, Is 6d per dozen. Wool.—Fine crossbred 7Jd to BJd, coarse croi sbred 6-jd to Bd, bellies and piece® 3|d to 4Jd, locks 3d to 4jd. Maize.—Arrivals have been light since our last report, only 459 sacks coming to hand. Price has remained the same for good samples. Oats.—Market easier. B grade are worth Is lOd c.i.f. for wholesale lines. Chaff.—Southern is worth £5 5s to £5 10s, ex store. Potatoes.—Market lightly stocked and firm a t £2 7s 6d c.i.f. Butter.—Supplies heavier and prices easier. Good separator 7}d to Bd, poor 6Jd to 7d. Cheese.—Old season's make getting scarce. Prices of new season's expected to rule about 4d for large, 4Jd (or medium and 4Jd for loaf. BURNSIDE STOCK SALES. (Per Prnra Association.) DUNEDIN, Nov. 2. Fat cattle.—l 44 yarded, mostly good to prime. Competition was keen at prices 10s to 15s per head above last week. Best bullocks £ll 10s to £l2 5s (one or two pens of extra prim's and heavy fetching £l2 12s 6<l to £l3 7s 6d), medium to good £9 10s to £lO 10s, light £7 2s 6d to £8 7a 6d, best heifers £8 5s to £9 7s 6d, good to besit £6 15s to £7 15s, light and medium £4 7s j6d to £5 15s. Fat sheep.—l7s4 were yarded, tfcfe I entry being comprised mainly o f' woolly wethers; but a few pens wfere filled with shorn sheep. Prices opened at about last week's level, but the | sale improved as it went on. Some pei.s of prime half-breed and Merino wethers (heavy weights from th» Puketoi Station) realised up to 25s 9d for the laitter and 33s 9d for the former. Shorn wethers realised fr 0 m 18s 6d to 20s 3d, best wethers 26s 6d to 28s 9d, heavy weights to 33s 9d, -good 24s 6d to 265, medium 22s 6d to 245, light 20s 6d to 22s 3d. Fat lambs.—llo yarded. The demand was not so good as at last week's sale. Best 18s to 20s 3d, .medium 15s t 0 17s, light 12s 9td to'l4s 9d. Piga—l22 penned. Suckers and slips weiv in good demamd, amd prices for these were higher than .last Wednesday. Porkers were back, but bat Oners were very firm. Suckers 12s to 15s, slips 16s to 20s, storee 21s to 255, porkers 26s to 355, light baconers 41s to 47s 6d, heavy do. 48s to 545.

DUNEDIN GRAIN MARKET. DUNEDIN, Nov. 2. Wheat.—The market is void of animation, and the quantity of prime milling in store on groweifi' account is small, and with only moderate demand a clearance could soon ljo elfected. Prime milling 3s 8d to 3s 9d, medium to good 3s 3d to 3a 6d., best whole fowl feed 3s Id to 3s 2d, broken and damaged 2s 6d to 2s 10(1; sacks extra. Oats.—There ie no improvement to note in the tone of the market, which continues extremely weak. Business is confined to retail lots for local consumption. The quantity available is within small compass, and very little is coining forward. Prime milling Is Gd to is 7d, best bright short feed Is sdtols 5Jd, good to best Is 4d to Is sd, inferior to medium Is 3d to Is 3d, sacks in. Barley.—ln the absence of prime malting the business done is limitod. Quotations are nominal. 1