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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7705, 6 January 1905, Page 3

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NEW ZEALAND LOAN AND MER- * If CASTILE AGENCY Co. Ltcl. WEEKLY jyiAUKET REPORT. AUCKLAND, Jan. 4. J Horses.—Owing to Friday being a public holiday, we held no horse sale V at the Durham Yards on Friday, but a good deal o£ business has been done privately. At Warkworth on Wednesday there was a good muster of stock of all classes, which met with a ready sule. Dairy cows sold at from £1 « £5 15s • """Pty do - £ 2 18s to m **• erown steers £5 to £6 15s, fat r steers £7, to £8? 10s, fat cows £4 j to * ss ' store sheen I yarded sold at from 14s 3d to 16s 9d. _ , At Tuakau on Wednesday there ■> an avera 8» yarding, and everv- », thing brought satisfactory prices. Cattle. At the Newmarket vartfs j oil Tuesday, owing, to it being a'holiijf;,- Wy» the sftlc taking plofce in r morning-, there was a small niusWter of dairy stock", but beef was .yarded m average quantities. Ox j g£ , beef sold up to 20s per loOlt), cow Sk~ 17s to 225. Steers sold at from £5 |j|* Sheep.—There was a small muster m£l*- ■' sheep at Newmarket on Tuesday. »;-■ Wethers sold from 15s Hd to £1 2s IBi 3 d . « wefi 13s 9d to 17s 9d. Lambs, K;. in average supply, sold well at from Hb£. lis to 17s 6d. A truck of lambs i from W. Vosper, Cambridge, fl'verngMl l"s. Wm-tl Maize.—Heavy arrivals during the HKi.* ec ' i sales slow owing to holiPrice remained at 2s 7d on 'or wholesale lines. Oats—sout|iern market firm. "B" are.now worth Is lid c.i.f. Potato is.—A few oltl Southern still forward, but local new in fulat about late rates. Prime Southern £5 5s to £5 7s Gd c.i.f. change to report, separator worth 7£d to inferior lines 6Jd to nnxlium