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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 119, 27 August 1910, Page 7

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AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. By Cable.—Press Association. —Copyright Svdnev, August 25. Wheat, 3s I<M to 3s 10y 3 d. Flour, £lO. Oats—Algerian, feeding 23 2d to 2s 4d; milling 2s sd; Tasmanian 2s Od to 2s 7d. Barley—Cape 3s to 3s 2*l. Maize, 2s od to 2s 7d. Bnan and pollard, 4s. Potatoes —Tasmanian £7 10s. Onions, £G; picklers £2. Butter, 112s. Cheese, G%d. Bacon, 6%d. Melbourne, August 25. Hides—Good firm market, especially for heavy description. Wheat, 3s -10y 2 d. Flour, £9 10s. Oats —Algerian, Is lid to 2s 3%d. Barley—Choice malting English (nominal) 4s Gd; Cape, prime 2s (id. 'Maize, 2s Gd. Bran and pollard, 4s 10d'. Potatoes, to £5 10s. Onions, £4 10s. Adelaide, August 25. Wheat, 3s 10y 2 d. Flour, £8 15s. Bran, ll%d. Pollard, liy 4 d. Oats —Algerian, Is lid.

NEWTON KING'S REPORT. At the Hay market on Saturday a fair number of pigs were penned. Weaners made 5s to 7s Gd, small stores 9s to 12s, do. forward 13s to 15s, porkers 235, d.f. Duncan plough *£l3, Superior drill £ls. At Douglas on Monday mixed yearlings made £2 Ss to £2 12s Gd; yearliny heifers £2 5s to £2 10s, empty heifers £3 15s, 18-month-s to 2-year steers £3 lfis Gd to £3 l'Bs, store cows £2 3s to £3 5s 01, forward cows £3 15s to £4 2s od, fat cows £G, fiat 'heifers £5. springing heifers £4 17s Gd to £5 17s Gd, dairy cows £4 12s Gd to £7, bulls £3, hoggets 10s to 12s Gd, f.m. ewes 8s to lis 2d. At Urenui on the .same day mixed weaners made 295, yearling heifers £2' 2s to £2 14s Od, yearling steers £2 13s to £2 IGs Gd, empty heifers £3 10s to £4, store cows £8 to £3 14s. fat cows £5 Gs, dairy cOws up to £6 l>ss, springing heifers £4 10« to £5 10s, 2,-year steers £4. At .Stratford on Tuesday there was a fair yarding of cattle, with good demand. | Mixed yearlings made £2 2s Gd to £2 I*2s, yearling heifers £3 7s to £3 17s, in-calf heifers £3 10s to £3 IGs (kl, store cows £2 lis to £3 13s, forward cows £4 Gs, fat cows £5 Ss to £5 12s (id, 2-year steers £4 2s. 3-year bullocks £5, bulls £2 7s Od to £3. There was a big yarding of springing heifers, with a good attendance of 'buyers. Bidding was keen throughout, arid excellent prices were realised. Springing heifers (close up) made £0 10s to £9 10s, later £4 l(k to £O, pedigree Jersey heifers 13 guineas t6 17 Va guineas, cow 21- •guineas, dairy cows (early calvers) £(i 10s to £S lOs. later do. £3 10s to £6. At Stony River on Wednesday mixed weaners made 35s Od, yearling steers£2 5s Oil to £2 15s. yearling heifers £2 (is Gd to £2 15s, store cows £3 2s to £3 l'4s, fat cow £5 15s, tat heifer £4 Ills (id, •springing heifers £4 4s to £G. MATTHEWS & BENNETT'S REPORT. Matthews and Bennett report a good yarding of cattle at their Inglewood yards on Wednesday tost. The attendance was good, and nearly everything was sold at the following prices:—Springing heifers £3 17s Od to £5, good do. £5 10s to £7, heifers (calved) £4 17s Oil to .£5, springing cows £5 5s to £7 10s, old and 'backward do. £2 los to £4 12s Gd, empty heifers £3 14s to £3 15s, store cows £3 17s Od l , old do. £1 2s Od, bulls £2 7s, yearling heifers 335, good do. £2 '9s to £'2 I.Bs, good yearling steers £2 to £2 15s Od.

Mr. Herbert's dairy brought satisfactory prices, the best cows bringing £7 to .•€9, and l the more backward ones £4 7s fid to £6 7s. At the sprint horse fair on the 19th there was a good entry, about 100 horses being ottered. Bidding was brisk for all good young half-draught and milk-cart horses, and the fair was the best yet held in Inglewood. The following prices were obtained:—Draught horses £2O to £33, young half-draught horses (unbroken) £l'l. to £l9, milk-cart horses £lO to £l7 liOs, light harness ihorses £8 to £l3 10s, hacks £4 Las to £l2 10s, weeds £1 10s to £3. At the mart on Saturday weaner pigs sold at 9s to 13s (kl, stores 16s to 235. ■DAIRY PRODUCE REPORT. Mesrs E. Griffiths and Co., Sew Plymouth, are in receipt of the following market report from their London principals, Messrs Mills and .Sparrow, dated July 15: — There has been a favorable ehanue in the weather, and brilliant sunshine lias been experienced the last few days. Danish: Market has been quiet, and the quotation was reduced one kroner yesterday. Siberian: The arrivals this week amount to over 20.000 casks, which is the largest we have had so far this season. The butter is beginning to show signs of heat, and the proportion of finest quality is considerably less than has been the ease during the last few weeks. Prices have been well maintained on finest goods, ibut weaker on secondary.

French: Trade continues on a steady, basis, and: quotations are again unchanged. Australian: There has been no arrival this week, and the demand for butters in store is on the quiet side. Only where parcels of really fine quality can be found, can clients be induced to buy. We are afraid that the secondary butters will remain unsold at the present, •but the position on -finest goods is rather different, and we are of opinion that these will be wanted all the time. iNew Zealand: The season is practically over, ibut there are a few butters in cold store which are making fairly good prices. Cheese—New Zealand: The s.s. Tongariro is now in dock, and should land her cheese early next week, and everything depends on the quality as to how these sell. Canadian: The demand lias been quiet, and although there has been a disposition in some quarters to try and get an advance of a shilling* or two, it 'has hardly been posible to do so this week. STOCK MATUvETS. iMA'STERTON. Messrs Dalgctv and Co. report having held their fortnightly sale at their Masterton yards, when they submitted a fair yarding of sheep and cattle. Bidding "for cattle was brisk, but the yarding in sheep was comprised mostly of aged ewes in lamb, which dragged a good deal. The bulk of the entry was passed in. but were sold privately after the sale. Quotations: Aged ewes in lamb (low condition) 9s to 10s, hoggets 12s 8d to 14s

9d, fat cows £0 10s, two-year empty heifers £4, three-year steers £5 15s, store cows £3 to £3 ss, empty forward heifers £4 12.s Gd, two-year heifers in calf £3 10s to £3 K»s, cows in ealf £2 los to £3 Os, springing cows £0 10s. JOH'NSONVILLE. Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on their .Johnsonville sale as follows:—We offered a good yarding of cattle and a rather short supply of sheep. Both cattle and sheep sold readily at very full rates. Prime heavy buliocks £l.O 10s to £lO 12s Od, medium 'bullocks £9 10s to £9 17s Gd, lighter £8 10s to £9, prime heifers £7 17s Od to £B, prime cows £8 to £8 10s, prime heavy wethers 25s to 25s 7d, prime wethers £l. 0s Od to 21s 3d 1 ; good ewes 17s Id, prime woolly lambs 14s Od to 10s 2d. ADDLNGTON. Store sheep —There were a few pens of good ewes, sound-month making 18s Od, four and six-tooth to 10s Od, Border Leieesters to 295, old ewes Gs 9d to 10s, wether hogegts lis to 13s, mixed sexes 10s to 10s Gd, good ewe hoggets 14s 7d , to 14s 9d, inferior 10s 9d. Wethers sold 1 at 14s Od to 16s for good sorts, and 13s to 13s 9d for lower-conditioned lines. \

Fat sheep—The range of prices was: Extra prime wethers to 32s Od, prime 19s to 24s 9d, lighter 15s 9d to 18s Gd, extra prime ewes to 23s 7d, prime 10s to 19s, others 13s 4d to 15s lid, hoggets 10s lOd to 17s lOd, prime merino wethers 15s Od to 20s Od, others lis 5d to 14s. Fat cattle—Prices advanced fully "2s per lOOlbii the range being 22s to *23s per 1001b. iSteers made £7 15s to £lO los, extra to £l3, heifers £5 10s to £7 17s fid, extra to £9 2s Od, cows £5 15s to £7 IH-, extra to £ll. Store cattle —Three-year heifers made £4 to £4 15s, four-year steers £7 15s, three and a-half \ ear steers £7, threeyear steers £0 15.-, dry eows £2 5s to £4 15s.

A good entry of dairy cows met with a ready -sale, and prices ranged from £3 10s to £lO, according to age and quality. There was good demand for fat pigs, of which there was a fairly large yarding, and prices were firmer. Heavy baconers made 50s to 58s, lighter 42s to 48s (equal to 4y 4 d per lb), large porkers 32a to 38s and smaller 2ss to 30s (equal to 4y t d to 4%d, a rod in some cases to ad per lb). Stores were slow of sale, large sorts making 22s to 255, medium 14s to 20s, smaller 8s to 12s, weaners os to 10s. BDR'NoIDE. •Fat cattle—2ol yarded. About half were good to prime, qnd the remainder very inferior. Bidding', was fairly brisk, but prices, except for prime quality, were slightly easier. Prime bullocks £ll to £l2 10s, extra to £1.5, medium to good £9 to £lO 15s, light £7 10s to £8 los, best cows and heifers £8 10s to £lO 10s, medium £0 5s to £B, light £5 to £5 13s.

Fat sheep—29oo penned. The yarding consisted chiefly of wethers, with several splendid lines of heavy sheep. The sale opened "with a very slack demand, and prices were Is lower than was the ease last week, 'but the demand gradually improved,' and the closing rates were equal to those ruling last week. Prime wethers 19s Od to 21s, extra heavy 22s to 24s Od', medium to good 17s to»!.8s Od, light I:4s to IGs, prime ewes 15s to 17s Od, medium 13s to 14s tjd. Fat lambs—3ls penned. With the exception of two or three pens the quality was only middling. Best los to 10s. medium to good l'3s to 14s od,. small and unfinished lis to 12s Gd. Pigs —110 yarded. Porkers and baconers were in rather short supply, and met with a brisk sale. Voung pigs were also competed for at a shade above last week's rates.. Suckers 9s to 13s, slips 15s to "20s, stores 21s to 255, porkers 28s to 335, light baconers 38s to 435, heavy 45s to 50s.