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Taranaki Daily News, 1 September 1917, Page 7

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LONDON MARKETS. | % London, August 20. Tallow.—9ls casks offered, 725 sold. Mutton, fine 70s 3d, medium 07s Gd; beef, fine 71s Gd, medium GOs Cd. AUSTRALIAN MARKETS, Sydney, Aug. 30. Data. —Algerian feeding 2s lOd to 3a, milling 3s Gd, Tasmanian 3s 8d to 3s 9d. Maize.—3s lid to is. Potatoes.—Tasmanian £9, Onions.—l 3. BUBNSIDE. Dunrdin, August 29. At Bumsidc yards, 2-27 fat cattle wero penned. A [air proportion were prime, with a few pens of extra lieavy. Prices for prime were the same as lu.it week's. Medium to light were slightly easier. Prime bullocks, £lB to £2O, extra £26 Iss:primc heifers, £ls to £l7 10s; exit™ heavy £lB 17s Gd. The number of j sheep penned was 2(102, including a fair proportion of prime, with a few pens of extra heavy show sheep. Prime heavy ' declined fully 2s a head, but medium and j light suitable for graziers maintained I their values. Primo heavy 'wethers, js3s; extra heavy show' sheep 82s'6d; prime heavy ewes -10s; others 27s to 355. The first of the new season's lambs realised 255. A small yarding of pigs sold at extreme, prices. A'DDIXGTOy. Store shoep.—Two tikl four-tooth ewes to 30s Gd; sound-mouthed ewes to 37s <!d; two and four-tooth wethers, 24s to 35s 7d; tour and six-tooth wethers 2Cs to 3Ss Dd; ewo hoggets, 34s 3d; wether hogget 3 24s 3d to 31s 7d; mixed sex hoggets, 25s lid to 30s 10<1. Fat sheep.—Extra prime wethers, to 50s Gd ; prime wethers 41s to 48s ~d; light wethers 33s 2d to 40s Gd; extra prime wethers 33s 2d to 40s 6d; extra prime merino wethers to 435; merino wethers 23s to 2Gs 9(1; prime ewes 35s (id to 43s 3d; medium ewes 32s {id to 375; lighter ewes 20s to 325; prime hoggets, 30s to 335; lighter hogget:, 25s lOd to 28a Gd. i Fat Cattle—Prime steers, £l7 to £26. 110s; ordinary steers, £l2 to £lo; ex- ; tra primo cows £25 10s; prime cows i £l4 to £2O; ordinary cows, £8 l>"w to | £l3; ex.tra prime heifers, £26 ; prime 'heifers, £l2 to £ls 10s; ordinary heifers £!> 5s to £lO 10s. j Store cattle.—Yearlings, to r £ls Sla; 'two-years steers and heifers, £7 7s to j£B si; two-year heifers £7 2s Gd; j three years, £l2 7s Gd; d«y cows £2 to £9 10s. i Pigs.—Extra heavy baconers, to £7; : medium baconers. £5 10s to £G; lighter •baconers £4 to £5; heavy porkers 66s jto 755; ordinary porkers 50s to GOs; large store 55s to GOs; medium stores \ !4f2s to 4Ss; smaller, 30s to 38? ; .veaiters, ! lSs Gd to 30s; sows in,pig, £5 10s.