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Waikato Argus, Volume I, Issue 29, 15 September 1896, Page 2

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The Waikato Argus Office, Monday. NGARUA W AH IA SALK. Mu W. J. Hunter Reports At Ngaruawahia yesterday, over 300 head of cattle, all of very good quality, were yarded, and nearly tall were disposed of. Dairy cows were not selling well, but other prices ruled fair. Calves, 20s _to Ills ; yearling steers, Cl 10s to C2 os, the latter price for a nice lot from James Bros. ; empty cows and heifers, .£2 1 Os to £3 Ills (id ; U-ycar-oM steers, £2 os to £2 15s ; dairy cows, £ll 10s to £5 2s (id. A pen of hoggets brought Os (id, and light harness horses ranged from £8 8s to £lO 10s. The property advertised on behalf of Mrs Lamb was bought by Mr G. Starr at £l4O. AUCKLAND MARKETS. Messrs Esam and Arthur’s Weekly Report. —There has been a fair demand for produce all round. Potatoes are firm at £ll 115 s ex store, market somewhat uncertain. Cereals remain about the same. Good cheese is scarce, particularly loaf quality. Fresh butter is more plentiful with prospect of falling prices. Eggs are quoted at full rates. Hams and bacon move off only slowly. Fruit : Supplies during the week only medium. Poultry : Prices high ; good demand ; limited supp'iesSouthern table potatoes, £8 Ids ; seed, £8 10s to £4 ; pumpkins, £5 10s ; white carrots, £1 5s ; red, £1 10s; onions, Id to lid ; oats, 2s 3d to 2s 5d ; Canterbury bacon, aid to (id ; bams, (id to Tid ; local bacon, 4d to aid ; hams 4.U1 to (id ; cheese, 21 to 3id ; fresh butter, (id to 7d ; salt butter, 4d" to 7]d ; eggs, (id to (iid ; honey, tins 3d. bulk 21 to 2,[d. Fruit. Lemons, 3d to Gd ; Cape gooseberries, 4d; loquats, 2d to 2Jd; local oranges, 5s to (is; coooanuts, 5s to 5s 3d. Fowls, Is 7d to Is Sd ; roosters, Is lid to 2s 4d ; ducks, Is lOd to 2s 3d ; ducklings, 7d ; turkeys, 3s to 5s (id ; rabbits, Is 2d to Is 4d pair. Mr Alex. Aitken reports little alteration from last week’s quotations. Southern potatoes have arrival in sufficient quanti ies to meet t!ie demand. Onions showed little imptovement in value. The following prices were obtained :—Potatoes, ex wharf, £3 7s lid to £3 10s ; ex store, £3 15s to £4 ; inferior lota, 2s 4d to 3s ; new potatoes, lid to 2d lb ; kidneys, seed, £4 ; Oamai'u, icjd, £4 to £4 10s ; onions, Id to l|d for prime ; medium, Id to Id lb ; pumpkins, £3 to £5 ton ; cauois, £1 to £1 5) ; mangolds, 10s to Ids to i ; bran, £4 ; sharps, £5 ; ma : ze, 2s lOd to 3i ; wheat, 3s (id to 3s 0.1 ; oats. 2) 3d to 2s 4d ; chaff', £3 10s to £4 ; hay, £3 10s to £4 ; dressed pork, 3id to 4d ; h .res, Is 9d to 2s fid ; rabbits, Is od to Is fid ; butter, dairy, 4d to 7d ; faclo y, 0d to 10ld ; prime keg, 5d to ti'.d ; eggs, 6d to 7d ; ch ese, factory loaf, 41,d to 5d ; large sizes, 4d to 41,d ; farmers’, 3d to 3id ; bacon. Southern sides, Gd to G',d ; bams, 7d to 7ld : local sides, 4d to 5d ; hams, y.Jd to Gld ; honey, section, 4s dozen ; bulk, 2ld to 3d. Fruit : Hobart apples, 8s Gd to 9a case ; lemons, 5d to 7d dozen ; mandarins, 9s to 10s ; pears, 11s to P2s ; Poor Man’s oranges, S.l to 9d dozen ; Cape gooseberries, 21d to 4d ; lo(piats, 2ld to 3ld lb. Poultry : Roosters, 2s 6d to 3s ; hens, Is Sd to 2s 4d ; turkeys, gobblers, 5s Gd to 7s 3d ; hens, large, 3s 3d to 4s ; small, 2s 3d to 2s 9d ; ducks, 2s Gd to 3s 24 ; geese, 5s ; ducklings, 5d to Is 7d ; hens and broods, 3s 9J to 4s ; chickens, Is ; canaries, 2s 9d to 8s ; pigeons, Gd to 9d. Pigs : Medium, 10s 6d to ISs ; small, 6s to 10s Sd. Messes Arthur Tooman and Co. reportßusiness for the week has been only fair, and may be noted as rather quiet. Farm produce moved slowly at late values. Dairy produce: Butter has dropped suddenly, and heavy supplies were received. Bacon and hams are most difficult to sell at any price, although most lots arc of good quality. Cheese, good, commands quick sale. Poultry, although in good supply, price* ruled very high, with unsatisfied demand. Pigs arc now in good request at much improved values, and pork sold well. The fruit market is certainly dull, and although supplies aie only moderate, retailers show no desire to operate proving the very limited consumption. We ([note : (Southern po*atoes, prime, £3 Ids to £4 ; poor, £3 to £3 10? ; picked seed, £4 JO? ; new kidneys, IJd. Onions, local, Id to J J d ; carrots, £1 to £'l 5s ; swedes, 9d to 2s sack; mangolds, Is to Is Gd sack ; vegetables plentiful, at fair values; maize, 2s Sd to 2s 9d ; bran, .£‘4 ; sharps, £4 10?; oats, feed, 2s Id ; seed, 2s -Sd to 2 s lOd; chaff, £3 5 s to £3 10s ; baled bay, £4 ; straw, £2 2s fid to £2 l()s ; wheat, 3s fid. Rutter : Prime local dairies, Old to 7d ; poor and seconds, 4d to 5d ; Taranaki rolls, 4d to Gd ; Acme prime fresh factory, lOd ; frozen factory, <d ; keg, prime, Gd to Bid ; poor, 3d to 4d Cheese : -Superior, 4d to 5d ; poor, 2Jd to 3id. Eggs, Gd to 7d ; bacon and bams, nominal, 4d to Gd ; poor and fair, lower. Honey : Section, 2s to 3s G 1 ; tinned, 2d to 2LI. Fruit : Hob-irt apples, 5s to 9s Gd ; pears, 14s ; oranges, local dessert, 2s to 4s ; Sydney, prime, 3s ; Island, 5s ; local marmalade, os 3d to (is G;l ; lemons, 5s to 8s 6d case, and 2s to 3s Gd box ; loquats, green, lid to I-’, 1 ! ; ripe, good, 2d to 2id, and 3s to 4s 3d box ; pines, 8s Gd ; peanuts, l.]d to I Jd ; cocoatmts, 4s Id to Gs; walnuts, 7id : passion fruit, 9s ; mandarins, Ss to 8s Gd. Poultry : Poor fowls, Is 7d to Is Sd : good ordinary, Is 9d to 2s 3d ; fat young, 2s to 2s Gd ; loosters, light, Is lOd to 2s 2d ; good, 2s 2d to 2s lOd ; ducks, 2s 2d to 2s Gd ; small young ducklings, lOd to Is 9d each ; turkey hens, 3s Gd to 5s ; gobblers, fair, 4s Sd to os ; good, 5s 4d to 7s Gd. Pigs : Good young, 10s to 14s 9d ; poor, 7-s to 9s 9cl ; pork, 3i 1 to Ggd. Hares, 2s to 2s Gd each ; rabbits, Is 2d to Is Gd pair. HA WEB A MARKETS. Tm; Eii.moxt Farmer’s Union (Limited), report under date Hawera, .Sept. 10th, 189 G. —Our monthly -sale at O’Kaiawa was held on Thursday, the 3rd iiist. The i ntry of cuttle was large and bidding for 2 to 2i year steers brisk. Other lines were not in such request, though we managed to do a fair amount of bunness. We quote : Fat cows, .£'4 1o £4 Gs Gd ; 1 to 2i year steers, £3 to £3 18s Gd ; l i to 2 year steci s £2 5a to £2 19s ; yearlings £1 Gs to £1 Ids ; calves, 10s to IGs. \Ve held a very successful sale of daily stock, etc., on Mr Bentley’s f irm, SkccC Road, Kapuni, on Monday, the 7th inst. The cows sold well, being a good line, and all the sundries realised their full value. Dairy cows : £4 15s to £9 10s ; dairy heifers £3 15s to £5 12s (id ; 1H months heifers, £1 15s to £2 : yearlings, £1 to £1 2s Gd ; harness In rses, £l4 to £l7 10s. There was a grcit abundance of cattle in (lie Manaia yards j oil Wednesday, the 9th inst., it being the largest entry that we have bad there for some time. The attendance, was small and bidding dull, so that not a oft-at deal of business was t-ansacted. We quote : Fat Imllccks ( igbi weigh;) £5 5s to £5 14s (id ; 3 year steers, £4 to to £4 7s (id ; fat and forward cows £'.'! S.s to £'3 Ids ; dairy cows and heifers £3 to £4 5s ; calves, 15s to £l. FROZEN MEAT. The Nhw Zealand Loan & Mercantile Ace.vcv Company (Limited) report under da c : London, 7th August, IS9fi. since our last report arrivals of New Zealand mutton have been moderate, and ivitb a fair demand the position has omewhat improved. Quotations have

remained steady, ami when the damaged meat now in store has he n cleared, some slight improvement may not unreasonably be expected. Holders of Australian mutton have continued to act together, and values have been maintained. For prime crossbred descriptions as high as 2'd and 3d per lb lias been obtained. Frozen lamb has been somewhat freely offered upon a slack market and with a large quantity of damaged carcases values have dec'incil Jd and jj<l per lb. Quotations for American beef have ruled fairly high, but while the demand for frosrn has improved, ((notations have remained practically unaltered. New Zealand has sold at about }d per lb in excess of the pries for Queensland. The Elstree Grange arrived on the 16th ultimo, with the first shipment of frozen mutton from Patagonia. The sheep are very heavy, with large frames, coarse and old, but with a good proportion of lean meat. The prices realised range from 2Ad to 2?d per lb. To-day's quotations at Sniithficld are : - Prime selected New Zealand mutton, 23 3d to 2s fid per 8 lb ; average, 2s to 2s 2d ; inferior, Is lOd ; Australian mutton (merino), Is 9d ; crossbred, Is lOd to Is lid ; prime New Zealand lamb, 3s to 3s Id ; average, 2s 9d to 2s lid; Australian beef fores, lid to Is; hinds, IslOd to Is lid.

NEW ZEALAND PRODUCE. London, August B. Messrs Wcddel and Co. report that there is very little New Zealand butter left in the market, and that there are many enquiries for the best grades of that butter, which cannot be met till the arrival of the first shipments of the new season's butter. Danish has risen and is worth 110 s to 112 s for best qualities, and is quoted at Is Id per lb. retail. There is some New Zealand butt r in private hands which has been kept in cool stores, which is fully worth 10s to 12s perewt. more than in August last year. The market is nearly bare of Sew Zealand cheese. Choicest white would realise 40s to 42s ; coloured New Zealand is in less demand and not worth more than 34s to 3(is. The price of English and Canadian is on the rise, and better prices are likely to rule for some time.