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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 293, 3 May 1913, Page 6

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AUSTRALIAN" MARKETS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Melbourne, May 3. Wheat, 3s J)'/ 2 d to 3s lOd. Flour, £8 15s. O.ils.—Algerian feeding, Is lid to 2s Id; milling. 2s 4d. Barley.—English, 3s <Jd to 4s; Cape 2s 9d to 3s. Maize, 4s 4d. Bran and pollard, £5 ss. Potatoes, £4 10s to £5. Onions, £O.

NEWTON KIXC'S WEEKLY REPORT. On Friday, 25th nit., at my Waiwakailio yards, there whs a good entry and attendance. The demand was slack, sales being made as follows:—.Mixed weaners £1 Its to £.l 17m. good colored heifers £2 Ills to £3 2s. in-calf 20months heifers £4 to £4 lid, in-calf 20-months Jersey heifers £5 1.-., bulls £1 15s (Id to £5 10s, fat cows (in demand) £0 Os. fid, springing heifers £5 17s fid, dairy cows £5 Pis (id to £li 15s, store cows £1 8s to £2 18s Gd, aged working hulls £7 14s per pair, cull lambs 5s lid, 2-tooth ewes 14s Bd. At Douglas on Monday, 28th ult,, I offered a full yarding of 5500 sheep and 370 cattle to a big attendance of the public. Bidding for most cattle was good, but sheep were slack, the majority of the entry being passed at the hammer, although I sold a lot of pens privately. Twenty-months heifers made from £3 5s to £3 15s, -20-months in-calf heifers £3 15s 6d, aged cows £l, store cows £3 7s fid' to £3 15s, cows (guaranteed sound) £4 4s, forward cows £5, fat, and forward bullocks £B, bulls £4 7s 6d to £7 15s, 18-months steers £2 15s to £3 Bs, weaner steers £1 15s, weaner heifers (small) £1 9s, 2y a -year steers £4 14s, small mixed weaners 15s, lambs 9s 4d, 9s 2d, 8s Od, (Is sd, 2-tooth ewes (small) lis Gd to 12s Od, f.m. ewes 9s, 7s fid, 7s 4d and 7s 2d, culls 2s fid, 4, 6 and f.m. ewes 12s lOd, 4 and 6-tooth ewes (rough) lis Od, ewes 0-tooth and upwards lis, 2 and 4-tooth ewes lis 9d. On Tuesday, 29th ult., for my Stratford bullock fair and cattle sale I hr.d a very big yarding of over *2500 head. A big number of 3 to 4-year bullocks ware | yarded, the entry of this class of cattlo being, in the opinion of some of the southern buyers, the best seen in Taran&ki 'for many years. A particularly Jne line of 136 3y s -year bullocks in very iorward condition, straight from the Nukiuhakere station (Awakino) were .tttuchj admired <ind elicited keen competition, selling very readily at £7 16s, £7 14s . (id and £7 13s. Good-conditioned cows '.and bulls were in strong demand. Sotne'i very nice pens of Jersey and Hoi-" .stein; weaner heifers were offered, the forDjqr selling up to £3 7s arid Holsteins' iip' to* £3 Bs. ' tJtlier jjrices real-.-feed were as follows:—Mixed" weaners; ,fro«» |£l 2s to £1 '9s, aged or small cows 12s to £2 ss, store cows' £2 12s 6d to £3 6d, forward 1 6ows' £3'l9s fid to £4 16s, fat cows £5 Is to £s : lss, : gpo'd conditioned bulls £s' : ls ! tq' ; £7 , £.L fis to £4 ss, empty 20-months' coloT- 1 ed heflfers £4 14s 6d, springing heifers £§ <lf>i"springing coWs v £8 15s, colored ■ in-palt heifers £5 17s '6d, 2% J yetfr steers • £4| to £4 15s, 3-yfear ste!ers'!£s 10s to £5 175,'3 aqd 3 % -year liullocks '>£6 ss; to £|> 14s. "' 1 • i At iStony River on" Wednesday, r3oth, / there'was a good entry .•andr-atteßdance, most j lines being sold at late market rates las follows:—' £l;.-10s to £& 10s, empty 20-months'heifers''£3 6d, wpaner steers £1 10s to £1.12s 6d, mixed weaners £1 17s, store cows £1 10s t6 £3 17s fid, forwafcdiand:;ffit cows £4 to £6 9s, bulls £1 10s to £5 2s fid, forward 2y»-year stbera' £5. 4s, '.cpws (guai inteed sound) £4, Holstein in-oalf 2Vi-yi iar heifers (choice • line) £B-: 9s 6d.

MATTHEWS, BENNETT & CO.'S I REPORT. r" j'i c •; •fyfalthews, Bennett and Go'.' repott that t there! was not a large entry of 'siock in' their | Inglewood yard 3 oft 'Wednesday last, [but nearly everything sold fl/t the following prices:—Empty heifers £2 !8s to £3 15s, springers £5 10s to £B'-2a ftd,' storei cows £2 15s to £4 6s, old ewes'4s'lOd, f!m, ewes 8s 4d. "" '' •"?"'

j ADDINGTON. Stcjre sheep—These showed no variation,! sales being made oh'alpaf rthfi fates ruling a wek earlier. Ewes, two-tooth, 14s 3d (for small) to 17s 6d, two and four-tootli lis to 14s lOd, two, four,l six and eight-tooth 15s, two,- four four land six-tooth 15s, two, four, six and eightj-tooth to 14s lid, four, six and eight-tooth 9s 5d (for small), tdi 13j 9d, fourjand six-tooth 12s 9d t'o 19s 2d (the lattdr prices being obtained for. an :extra good' line), sound-mouth sorts.<good) 14s 3d tj) 17s, sound-mouth (inferior) Ua'ld, £nd failing-mouth 9s 5d to 10s, aged Wt& 8s to lis 9d, merinos 3a 10d.;, - Lambs—Best forward rape sorts 13s :l 7<jßp 15s Cd, medium rape 12s ,fo ,13S 6d, gbo(s average stores lis -6d to lis lOd, medium stores 10s 3d to' lis 3d, small storfes 10s 3d to lis 3d, small atorqa ,9s 6d; imerino ewes 12s (for-smalL.aorts), wethers, four and six-tooth (forward) 16s ;7d to 17s 4d, four and six-tooth. 1.6s 6d to His 7d, two and four-tootli" (mediuia) 15s 4d to :15s lid, two-tooth (mediuija) 15s 3d, merinos 9s 3d. There was an entry of 5975 fat lambs, a3 against 7948 last week. There was keen competition for export, and prices for Iprime lambs were firmer, sales being ma<je up to 6d per lb for medium weights and up to 5%d for tegs. The range of prises was: Tegs 19s to 235, ordinary freezers 16s to 18s 6d, light and unfinished (some of which were taken by graziers) 13s to las fld. Fat sheep—For prime- .wether ewes the range of prices was: Prime wethers 20s to 25s Cd, lighter 15s 7d to-19a fid, merino wethers 20s, prime ewes 17s to 23s 6d, medium 14s 6d to 16s €d, aged and light lis to 14s, merino ewes 9s to lis.. -

Fat cattle—Steers £6 to £ll, extra to £ls 12s 6d, heifers £7 to £8 15s, eows £6 5s to £lO 2s (id. Store cattle—Only a small number of store cattle were yarded. Yearlings realised 335, fifteen to eighteen-months sorts £2 17s 6d to £3 ss, two-year heifers £4 ss, three-year steers £6 to £7 2s, three-year heifers £5 15s, four and five-year steers £8 to £8 Bs, cows £1 10s to £3 10s. Dairy cows made £4 10s to £ll 15s 4d. There was a large entry of fat pigs. Choppers realised £2 10s to £4, heavy baconcrs £3 to £3 15s '(equal to 4d to 4%d per lb). Lighter sorts made £2 7s <>d to £2 15s (equivalent to 5d to &y 4 d per lb). Heavy porkers brought 40s to 445, lighter sorts 32s to 375, this price being equal to Styjd to s'/ 2 d per lb. Large stores made 36s to 425, medium 25s to 355, small l<3s to 245. Weaners brought 12s for small sorts to l*fes for good pigs.

BURNSIDE. At Burnside 135 fat cattle were yarded. Prime bullocks made £l2 to £l4 10s, medium £lO to £ll ss, light £8 to £9 ss, best heifers and cows £9 to £ll 12s <sd, medium £7 to £B, light and inferior £4 10s to £6. Fat sheep—Extra heavy wethers 26s to 28s 9d, good 22s to 245, medium 18s 6d to 21s, light 14s 6d to 17s, extra

heavy ewes 22s to 24s 9d, good 17s to 20s, medium 13s to 15s, light 8s fid to lis. .Pigp—The yarding was exceptionally kmall, there being only 42 stores and small sorts, and 24. fat-pigs.' The latter inet with very keen competition on account of the small entry, and all sold at Tiigh iprices. Stores, slips and suckers Were in fair demand and realised fully last week's rates. . ' ■: . JOHNSONVULE. :Agood yarding of prime bullocks came •forward and a heavy one of sheep, which sold at late rates. Prime heavy bullocks; £lM2s 6d to £l2, prime bullocks £ll to £ll 5s 6d, lighter £lO 15s, light £.9 54 to £9 12s fid, vealers £2 S3, prime r hbavjf wethers 19s sd, plain-wethers 16s fid to 1 178, prime heavy ewes 16s ta 16s <3d, pjime ewes 15s fid, prime lambs 12s ißd tot 13s fid, lighter lis fid to 12s.