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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8056, 24 February 1906, Page 3

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NEW ZEALAND LOAN & MER CANTILE AGENCY CO., Ltd. WEEKLY' REPORT. PEU MESS ASSOCIATION* A viKLAxn, February 21. Horses: On Friday, at the Durha'" yards, horses were well representedI'seful heavy draughts kept their values and brought from £2O IDs to £3B: medium do., £1915s to £29 10s; hacks and light harness horses, £5 os to £l7; a spring eart, £l2 lUs; sulky, £9. Cattle: At the Newmarket yards on Tuesday, dairy and store cows yarded in larger numbers than usual. The | former met a ready sale. Dairy cows sold :ii front £i 10s to £10; empty do., £1 lis to £2 15s; calves, lis to £1 9s. Beef was yarded in usual numbers, and competition was good, up to last week's rates, oxen, selling to 22s per 1001b, cow 17s to 20s. Steers sold at from £5 10s to £lO 17s 6d; cows, £3 5s to £6 7s 6d. A draft of 21 steers from Mr F. W, Manning, Paparata, averaged £lO, Sheep: The Newmarket yards were well filled on Tuesday with sheep of all descriptiDiis, and sold well at l-.ile advanced rates. Fat wethers sold at from 15s Od to £1 3s Gd ; ewes, 13s (id to £1 Os (id. Lambs, in full supply, sold well at 8s (id to 10s 9d.

Pigs: Porkers brought from 17s 9d to 2Ss ; weaners, 7s Od to Ms; baconcrs, £1 17s to £3 2s. Hides.- Market advanced fully Id a lb all round. We quote : Prime ox, B;fd to 9Jd; extra stout do., 8d to SM ; stout do., 7id to 7fd; medium do., fid to (Jill; light do., s}d to sfd; cow, best lines, Sid to Oil, good old lo sjd; stags, 3Jd to 3-jil; calfskins, o'fd to (i|d ; kips, ojd to sid: damaged hides, ■fid lo od. Sheepskins: Market firm. Best butchers' pells,' 2s jHd to 3s Id ; lambskins, 2s 7d to 3s Id; dry country skins, 3s Od to 7s. Tallow : Market linn. Best mixed 2ds 'Jd to 22s ; guud, 19s lid to 20s 3d ; seconds, 15s to 17s: rough fat, l',d to lid. Bones, £1 15.-. Cow tails, Is (id lUMen. Horsehair, Is 3d to Is 7\i. Wool : We held our third wool sale id' I lie seas.hi on Tuesday, when we offered a catalogue of 219' bales out of a lolalof 1(19 bales. Competition was not so keen as Usual, most of the wool being logstained and seedy. We quote : -Fine crossbred, to ltld ; medium crossbred, SUI to 9|d; coarse crossbred, 7!d to good, S.id to 9id; lambs'wool, seedy, sid to 7id; piece" and bellies, s|d to 7id; locks. :i;d to I:M.

Maize: None to hand since lasl reliort; store lots selling slowly at Is 2d per bushel. Oats : Stocks arc very light here and market linn at 2s Id ex store fur B grade. Chaff: Prime is linn at C 3 los at rail. Potatoes: Supplies have cased, and values advanced to £'.» for prime ; inferior hard to sell. Duller: Selling freely at ltd for good separator, !Sd lo Sjil for poor to medium. Cheese : Finn at Sid for fiulory. AUDTXCTON STOCK MARKET. CiiitisTciiritni, Feb. 21. \t Addinglon live slock market todav there was a fair eniry ot stock, bill the attendance-was sniii'll, as farmers were taking advantage of the line .lav for hiirve-l work. There was yr:w.'. cully binge in store sheep, a.i 1 f'l lambs and fat ewes were tinner. Prime l beef sold at the previous week's rales

while cows were agaiu dull of sale. A siuali yarding of pigs resulted in better prices, and store cattle were ratlier dull of sale. I Store sKeop.—Between 111 Kill and 7000 penned. There was again a good demand, especially for forward huiilis aud wetliers. The principal sales were :—278 wethers, Ilia 10(1; 101, 15s per head; 12 -1, 0, and 8 tooth ewes 17s Id, 111 2-tooths 17s Id, 80 .sound uioulln His, 111! at Ms, 95 aged Cs, smaller lots (is to Ms lid ; 190 sound mouth Merino ewes 9s Id, 194 lambs 12s (id, nil! 12s (id, 119 12s, 336 lis lild, 502 lis 8d to lis lOd, 300 lls7d, 7r>o 1 Is (id to lis 7d, 230 Us 4d to lis 7d, 2-17 lis sd, 3!)S lis, 411) wetliers 10s (id, 220 10s Jd, 119 10s Id, 11)0 at 10s6d, 300 ils (id. 314 culls lis '.ld, smaller lots 10s lo 12s.

Fat lambs.-Tlieri! were 1228 fat lambs entered. There was better competition by butchers, and prices were firmer. 'There were 687 taken for freezing at 12s '.ld lo 15s oil, 'll6 bought by butchers at 12s to 15s 10d, one lot 19s 9d, and 25 passed in. Fat sheep.—Medium entry, ewes and wethers being about equal in number. Prices:—Prime wethers 18s Od to 21s 7d, lighter 15s to 18s, prime heavy ones 16s 6d to 18s 6d, medium lis to 16s, aged lis to 13s 6d. prime Merino wetliers 15s 8d te 17s 6d, lighter 10s 3d to 12s 3d. Fat cattle—The supply of beef totalled 173 head, including a few pens of good steers, the bulk oE the yarding being cows. Prime beef showed practically no change, but cows were very dull of sale. Steers made £6 17s oil to £lO ss, heifers £5 to £7 10s, cows £4 5s to £7 17s (id, equal to 20s to 23s for prime and 15s to 19s for cows and inferior per 1001b. Veal calves 7s lid to 16s, there being a moderate entry Store and dairy cattle.—A fair demand for young dairy cows, which sold at £6 to £6los, aud up to £8 for extra good, aged sorts ranging from £3 upwards. Pigs.—Baconers 2l)s to 15s, heavy to 50s, equal te 3id to 3:(d per lb, porkers 19s 6d to 355, equal to 4d to did per lb, medium stores Ms to 18s, and winners -Is (id to 9s.

Bt'CKLAND & SONS' REPORT, Auckland, February 23. Horses: Active, light draughts, £3O to £35; aged, £lB 10s to £2B 10s; good hacks and harness horse, £ls 5s to £22 10s ; ordinary, £5 to £l3. At Renmera, average supply. Beef sold at late rates; steers, £6 to £lO ss, up to 22s per hundred ; cows, £1 to £7, up to 19s per hundred. Shoe]), in moderate supply, sold at late rates, but not to last week's extreme values. Wethers, lis to 13s; ewes, lis to 19s ; lambs, 9s to 15s 9d. Pigs, small market required. Small, 10s to 14s i porkers, to 335; baconers, to 575. DALGETV'S BUMER REPORT Dalgety aud Company, Ltd., Wellington, have received the following cablegram from their London otlice, dated'the 15th inst:--Butter:—The tone of the market is rather better. Buyers are operating more freely. The Copenhagen official quotation is unchanged. We expect no immediate change in prices. The total imports of butter into the United Kingdom for the week ending the 10th inst. amounted to 72,0()0ewt. as compared with 100,000 for the corresponding period of last year. New Zealand frozen mutton and lamb -Market firm, but little doing. Beet.—We quote ox fores, 180/320 lbs., f.a.q, £2 7s Bd, £3 3s Bd. Tallow: Since our last telegram, prices arc unchanged.

| VICKERS & STEVENS'-REPORT Messrs Viekers and Stevens report that there was a large entry of cattle in their Inglewood yards on Wednesday. There was a good demand for first-class weaners, but poor and badcolored ones were almost unsaleable. Inferior and bad colored weaners made from Is (id to Ss, gooil weaners lis (id to 17s, 15 lo 18 months LI 10s to LI 13s (id, old stores LI 5s to LI 10s, good fresh stores LI 7s (id lo L2 lis, fat cows L 3 5s to L 3 19s, springers L 3 to L 3 15s, f.m. ewes IDs 3d to lis Id.

BEWLEY AND GRIFFITHS' REPORT. Messrs Bcwluy and Griffiths report: Owing to the wet morning, there was barely sin average supply of poultry, but prices showed a distinct improvement on recent sales. We <|uolc : Cockerels, Is to\2s; liens. KM to lsliil; chickens. Oil to. lOd ; ducks. Is to Is 3d; turkeys (sniilll hens), Is. l)uring the week we have sold a large <|iiantity of fruit at improved prices for soft, friiit, but apples, owing to the gales, are in over supply, except for choice fruils. ISiirbank plums is 3d to is (id, Ojons 2s 3d lo is (Id, English 3s (id ; grapes, Sd, 'did; apples. 2s 3d. 3s (id ; pears, 3s; tomatoes, Auckland, 3s Oil, Nelson ss; bananas. Is lid, 8s; oranges, small cases, lis lid ; kuninras lis (id per sack. On Tuesday we sold the contents of the Pagoda tea-rooms, when then' was splendid attendance, and good prices were realised On Saturday a good deal of furniture and sundries changed hands at fair prices.

JENKINS, MATTHEWS & PIGOTT'S REPORT. At Urenui on Monday last we had a fair yarding of cattle, ami most lines were sold at the hammer or afterwards. We quote —Yearling heifers 30s. IS month steers 375, store cows 10s, 2 year steers 51s, fat cows LI to Lt ss, 'bulls His to LI 15s. hack L 3 15s. We sold the lease of the Urenui Domain for three years at LlO per annum. At Waitara on the following Tuesday the yarding was small, but we had the satisfaction of selling every line except two pens of calves. Yearlings brought 29s (id, IS months 39s lid, store cows 15s to 395, 20 months heifers 12s, heifers in calf 575. forward cows 70s, I year bullocks l,|. 2s (id, fat I rows L 3 15s, bulls 37s to ISs, pony