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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7754, 4 March 1905, Page 4

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I HEW PLYMOUTH. SATURDAY, | MARCH 4. . RETAIL PRICES. Para, and Dairy Produce.-JKlk I p» quart, butler (.dairy) 10d, Btory Is iier lb. cheese id per K>, « Is 2d per dozen. Jowls 3s per St. lard 7d per ft, bacon 7d to lOd f», bams 9d pet », rashers lOd sr lb. _ Fruit.—Bananas 3d per lb, cocoaits 2d to 4d each, lemons Is to i 6d per doz., apples 3d to 4d per , oranges Is to Is 6d per doz. L'ual.—Wcstport, firookdale 425, »<• «okau 425. Br" Oonedust, pure, £7 10a per ton. K- BUYING PRICES. p-- Butter (.best dairy) 7d to Bd, sep- %" arator 8d to 9d, factory rolls 9Jd gf. to lOd per lb, eggs Is per dozen, |L fowls 3« per pair, ducks 6s per pair, bacon 7d per" lb, hams 7Jd per lb, cheese 44.d to 5d per lb, lard 6d per lb, fungus 2|d per lb. NEWTON KING'S WEEKLY AUCTION REPORI.

Cattle,r-At Waiwakaiho on Tuesday I held my annual sheep fair combined with my usual -f o rUrightly . cattle sale. Between two and three * thousand sheep were yarded, and r there was a large attendance. Bidding was keen from the start, and »" nearly every line was sold at the hammer at very satisfactory prices. K nice lot of rams, principally Lcicesters from Messrs Western Bros., C. and W. Hoskin, and Ars- Street were well competed for, and sold at lair prices. Shorn lambs made 8s Id : to 8s 9d, woolly do. 10s to 10s 6ct. fat do. lis 9d to 12s, culls 7s 7d, i.m. ewes lis 8d to 13s lOd, 2 tooth do. 15s- «d. 2, 4 and 6 tooth do. 16s Id, wethers 13s 6d to 14s 4d, Leices- £ ter rams, 2 tooth, 2} to 3 guineas. There was a fine yarding of cattle, but bidding was very quiet and prices low. Weaners made 12s to 18s 6d, good calves 24s 6d, 12 to 15 months mixed £2 ss, store cows 32s 6d to 645. i At Stony River on Wednesday t there was a good muster of stock ►■ and average attendance. Bidding i was quiet, and prices in favour of buyers. Weaners made 15s to 19s Gd good calves 24s 6d, 2 to 2J year Jersey heifers in calf £3 12s, store pigs 8s to 13s Gd, !" MESSRS VICKERS & STEVENS' ' REPORT. i| There waa a fair yarding of cattle £ in our Inglcwood yards on WedncsC, day. Prices do no* show any improvement. Calves made from 14s I to £1 3s Ad, yearlings £2 3s, store cows £1 5s to £2 17s. springers £3 . 5s to £3 15s. > ADDBramWJ STOCK MARKET. P. CHRIS-ICHrRCH, March 1. J There was a good attendance at Addington Yards to-day, aad fair entries in all sections. t - Fat Cattle. The entry was 179 >■ __ head, mostly fair to prime steers. Jt. " There was a slight improvement in the-market, and most of the stock ■n- was cleared. Steers sold at £6 5s $ to £9 12s 6d, heifers £5 15s to £7 8-, 10s, cows £5 5s to £7 ss. Per 100 £ H>, beef was worth 16s to 21s. j* Fat Calves.—A fair entry sold at £ 7s 6d to £IJ 10s, values being firm. ( . Store entry was small .= and the demand no better than of i' late. Yearlings 20s, fifteen to eighty -teen months old 30s to 595, two--4 year-old steers £4 10s, ditto heifers £3 5s to £3 10s, three-year-old f steers were passed at £5 12s 6d, •-- ditto heifers £4 9s Gd, dry cows 30s j- to £4 10s. j. Dairy Cows.—There was a large yarding. • -Good springing cows and heifers met' fair enquiry, but aged f. and inferior animals were difficult of sale. Prices ranged from £4 5s to k **■ - s Fat Sheep.—A moderate entry conJ;-" sisted mainly of wethers, including some station lines, which were kecn- £ v ly competed for by exporters. Butt chers joined issue with exporters for j the ordinary supply, with the result f- of a very buoyant sale at firm rates jj for wethers and an advance of quite jS Is on good ewes. The absence of •£ aged ewes is very noticeable at this a* season's markets. Prices—For prime £: wethers 22s 6d to /25s 9d, lighter si from 20s to 22s ; m*tnie, heavy ewes t Sis to 23s 3d, good 18s to 20s Gd, * aged 16s 6d to 17s 6d ; prime mcr- [., ino wethers IBs 3d to 21s. i- Fat Lambs.—About 3000 were penA ncd. The quality • generally > was t" good, but many of the primest lots fc- now come jnta-tbe "teg" grade.t There was good competition by both. fi butchers and exporters, and prices «*■ were steady. Tegs 18s 6d to 20si 1 3d, freezers 16s to 18s- 3d, lighter £jT' sorts fsom 15s. «h' Store Sheep and Lambs.—The enE* try was not so largo, as at the last y two or three markets. Competition L* was extremely keen, and prices made >- a further advance of Is. Ewes sold up to 25s 9d for a line of six-tooth V crossbreds (with about 25 per ecnt " of old sheep) from Mr W. C. Flem- * ing, Port Levy ; good, young ewes «' generally commanded from 23s to I 24s 6d ; lines of moderate breeding and condition 21s lo 22s 6d, good I sound-mouthed ewes 21s to c!2s 9d, { moderate 18s to 20s, aged 14s to 17s 6d, culls from lis, good forward, wethers 18s to 19s 7d, fair condition- '.' 17s to 16s, backward and culls 15s \ to 16s ©d. A line of North Island shorn lambs, very mixed in size and condition, made 16s 7d, forward line 15s to 16s, backward to fair condition 13s to 15s. Pigs.—There was a good entry of fat pigs, which met an active demand, prices advancing 3s to 4s a head. Best aaconers sold at the rate of 4d to 4Jd per lb, heavy, weights to 3fd, porkers 5d to sid, and some pens even higher. Stores were a small entry, and there was a dull sale.

NEW ZEALAND LOAN AND MEB•CANTILE AGENCY Co. Ltd. WEEKLY MARKET REPORT. Horses have been in steady demand those of good stamp being insufficient for requirements. Fully an average number was entered for disposal by auction at the Durham , Yards on Friday. Bidding fluctuated, but on the whole values wer» slightly in favour of the vendor. Wei quote—Heavy draughts at from SfiQ to £35 10s; medium do., £l9 10s to £32. A pair of plough horses made £32. light harness horses, £9 10s to £3O ; hacks £6 10s lo £l9. Cattle.—At the Newmarket Yards .on Tuesday dairy and store stock were yarded in full numbers. Among them a lot of cows were penned. Ox beef soM up to last week's quotations ; cow 15s to 19s per 1001b. Steers sold from £6 10s to £lO 12a Cd; eowsj, £4 5s to £7 17s 6d ; dairy cows, £4 10s to £7 17s 6d ; empty "do., £1 14s to £3 6s; calves, -CI 6s to £1 18s. Sheep.—The Newmarket Yards were veil filled on Tuesday and sold at late rates. Wethers sold fr 0 m 15s 9d to £1 2s Sd ; ewes 13s Od to 18s 9d\ Lamh'9, in fun supply. Gold from 8s 3d to 16s 9<l f o r well-fa ttCLcd j other sorts, 6s 6d to 8s ; store ewes, 8r 6d to 13s 9d. Pigs.—Young pigs, 6s 6d to lis 9d store do., 10s fid to 15s ; porkers, £1 Is to £2 lis. Wc held our first sheep fair of the season at the Otahuhu Yards on Thursday, when wc sold a record yahrding of 14,360 odd sheep and ramsy Prices in some cases were scarcely up to scdlers' expectations, although they were much higher than. last year. Breeding ewes sokl from 8s 6d to 19s 3d ; Lincoln do., 15s ' 6d to £1 5a 6d \ wetbers, 13s 3d to 18s 9d ; lambs, 5s 6d to 13s 9d. Kama : Lincolns, from £2 2s to £7. 7s, (which was realised from Mr J. R. McElwain's) ; Homncys, 3 guir negs to 41 guineas ; English Leicestcrs, 3 gfiineas to 4 guineas t Shropsbircs, 2 guineas to 3$ guineas,, Wc submitted an extra large catalogue of hides, skins, etc., on Tuesday, all lines being sold under keen competition. Hides!.—Market firm. We quote : ;* Prime ox, 7id to 7fd ; extra stout r do , 6{d to 6jd ; stout do., s|d to 6|d ; medium do., 4J»d to 5Jd ; light » do., 4Jd to 4Jd. Cow, picked 4|d. i. gocd lines 4Jd. Stags, 3d to 3Jd ; 6 kip», 4jd to 45d. Calfskins, s|d to W Oi ; cut tjd to IJd. f Sheepskins.—Market firm. Large 't full-woollcd, 4» 9d to 5s 6d ; pelts', - . 2s to 2s 8d ; lambs, 2s to 2s 9d. F Tallow.—Market firm. Best mixed, I 19s lo 20s ; best good, 17s 6d to | I 18s 3a; best seconds', 15s to 10s 3d; I rough fat, itf to ljd% ~ * Bones.—£s. Cowtails.—ls 6d per dozen. ' Horsehair,.—ls »id to Is 3d. jj Our third wool sale of the season T was held on Tuesday, 21st inst., %- when we ofTcred a catalogue of 516 r bales. Buyers, were not in attendance |i, in usual numbers. The wool was Igf scarcely equal in miality to that ofat our second sale in January, MfflEftl ff,r" 1 nTtlj ta(e shorn lots, awl

In sympathy with the London market, coarse wools dropped from Id to per lb in value, fine wool id to jd, and lambs wool Jd to Id. Our range of prices Wiis as -follows : 'Fine crossbred, to Did ; medium do., '7j<l to BJd; Lincoln, 6Jd to 7Jd ; coarse do., 6Jd to 8d ; lambs' wool, 7d to Bid ; pieces and betiies, 4id to 5Jd ; locks, 3d to 4Jd. : -Maize.—Supplies were very heavy, and the values fell 3d per bushel. Good samples sold at 2s l(\i on .wharf. Oats.—Stocks light ; B grade worth " 2s 3d ex store. 1 Potatoes.—Market glutted with poor and damaged samples. Prime kidneys are selling at £7 ; other sorts neglected. i Chaff.—Prime Southern was cleared on wharf at £5 ss. lx>cal is worth £4 10s, but the higher valued ■ article is preferred. * Butter is coming to h a nd in a very , soil condition, and wheb not propcr- • ly made has depreciated considerably. Good to best separator, 7d to 7Jd ; milling -lines, 6}d to tiid. I Cheese.—Factory is slow of sale at 4Jd for medium ; farmers', 3Jd to 4d. | =!!— SB