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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81843, 8 September 1906, Page 4

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VICKKRS & STKVKXS' REPORT. Yicker* & Stevens report a fu'l entry at their Inglewoocl yards last Wednesday. t"<rii|X'tition was about the innie as late sales, old springing cows being aim'-st unsaleable. Prices are as follows:—Good mixi-d yearlings £i ,l! £■' 1 ■ Rood yearling steers £i 10 , empty heifers £\ no to £i ifj', young store cows £2 4 to £2 tS.. springing heifers £3 126 to £d. old cows 15 to£i.

LOAN AND MERCANTILE RETORT. AUCKLAND, Sept. 5. Horses: On Friday, at the Durham yards, heavy draughts sold at frr m £lt to £3B, medium do. £2l io, to .£34 15 , hacks and light harness horses .£8 10, to £l7 15/. Catt'e: At the Newmarket yards on Tuesday, oien sold at 24: per 100 lb. cow 17 to 201, fat steers from ,£6 to, to £q 176, cows 10/ to ,£7 17 6, dairy cuvi from £i 5/ to £5 15 , empty cows £2 5 to £3 7/6, calves 17 to ,£1 9 . No heavy-weight cattle were yarded. Sheep: The Newmarket yards were well-filled with sheep, wethers selling at from £1 1, to £1 6,9, ewes 189 to £\ 40, hoggets 15 to IX9. Pigs were yarded more numerously than for many weeks and sold well, weaners selling at from 10 6 to 146, porkers £1 3 to £2 8 . Sheepskins: Market brisk. Best butchers' skins, large 9 to 10/9, medium 7/ to 8.3, small 5/6 to 6/6, country, dry, large 7/6 to 9,3, medium 6/ lo y':, small 4/ to 5,6. Tallow: Market firm. Best mixed, up to 246, good 22,6 to 23/6, seconds 20/ to 21/3, rough fat ijd to ijd. Bones £4 15'Cow tails 16 dozen. Horsehair 1/3 to 17. Maize: Supplies are heavy this week, but ah good samples cleared at 3 4Oats are firm from 2 7 to 27 J ex store. Potatoes ate firm at ,£l2 ex store. Oats: Prime quality is selling at £4 17,6 at rail. Mr Jaques, canning expert, says Auckland is one of the finest fruit districts, if not the very best, in the whole co'ony and London merchants told him they would welcome NewZealand preserved fruits with open arms as against all other supplies. New Zealand was the best pear-can-ning district in the world. A German peasant named Francis Ogrodovski has been sentenced to 7 years' penal servitude at Roheim. in the province of Posen, Russia, for a particularly atrocious form of grave desecration. Ogrodovski opened a number of graves in the Jewish. Roman Catho'ic and Protestant cemeteries and removed the heads and sometimes the limbs from motives of superstition. He brought the fragments home and buried them in the stables andcow stalls and also in the fir'd where crops were growing, being firmly convinced that he would thereby prelect the horses and cattle from disease and ensure good crops. Ogrodovski was denounced by his wife after he had beaten her. At his trial he protested that he had no criminal intent in mutilating the bodies and that it was the accepted belief awong the peasantry that portions of corpses taken from graves soon after burial brought ''good luck."

STOCK AiND SHARE QUOTATIONS. The following are the latest quotations as revised by Mr Walter Betrler, New Plymouth:—

The du'ncss that has characterised investment stocks during the past month continues, and' changes are for the mest part downwards. Insurance shares have suffered under the influence of the Chilian disaster, investors having had brought home to them that large conflagrations are not such remote possibilities. Mining shares have had some attention and I hav sold good parcels of Champions at 2 . Waihi's have seen a further strong advance, recent developments pointing to increased permanency and returns. I have enquiry for Talis man's at 28/, which is a further advance. 1 have had good enquiry for Taranaki Petroleums, and report sales at 14 , wkh further enquiry for large or small parcels. Applications still come in for contributing shares.

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