COMMERCIAL

Waikato Argus, Volume I, Issue 46, 24 October 1896, Page 2

COMMERCIAL

The Waikato Argus Office, Friday. HAMILTON MARKET PRICES CURRENT. "Wholesale : Bacon, (id per lb ; hams, 7d per lb ; eggs (id to 7d per dozen ; butter, dairy, Od to Sd per lb ; factory, lOd per lb ; cheese, 4?,d to nil per lb ; onions. Md per lb; potatoes, i'3 15s to £4 10s per ton ; chaff, £2 17s Od to £3 5s per ton ; sharps, 4s to 4i 3d per cwt; bran, 4s per cwt ; oats, local, 2s 3d to 3s per bushel; Southern, 2s 7d per bushel ; wheat, fowl, 3s (id to 3s !)d per bushel ; maize, 3s 3d to 3s Od per bushel ; beans, 4s per bushel. Retail : Bacon, 6id to 7d per lb ; hams, 7Jcl to Sd per lb;" eggs, 7d to Si per dozen ; butter, dairy, 7d to D<l per lb ; factory, Is per lb; cheese, 0d per lb ; onions, 2d per lb ; potatoes, £4 10s to i's os per ton ; chaff. .£'3 5s to £4 per ton : sharps, 4s (id to 4s Oil per cwt; bran, 4s Od to 4s !)il per cwt ; oats, local, 2s Od to 2s 101 per bushel ; Southern. 2s Sd to 2s9d ; wheat, fowl, 3s lOd to 4s 3d per bushel ; seed, 4s 0d to 5s per bushel ; maize, 3s 3d to 3s 7d per bushel. Remarks : Potatoes for seed arc still in (kin mil and very scarce ; onions : Ecarcc; chaff: market glutted; oafs: prices remain steady ; fowl feed : fair demand. McNICOL AND CO.'S SALES. At Paeroa, yesterday, the yards were crowded. Three hundred head of cattle, mostly stoics, were yarded, and prices were below those ruling at Waitoa last week. Nearly all the cattte yarded sold. "Wc quote : Fat steers, £5 15s to £0 us ; fat cows, £4 5s to £5 5s ; calves, £1 to £1 os ; yearling steers, £1 7s Od to £2 us ; cwo-ycar-old steers, £2 ."is to £2 15s ; eightccn-montbs heifers, £1 10s to £2 ; dry cows. £2 5s to £2 los ; shorn fat slier]), !)s to 10s ; fat sheep, in moo', 12s !)d to 14i ; draught horses, £lO to £2l 10s ; light hacks, £4 to £0 ; dray and harness, £l4 ; tip dray, L'o. At the Rev. F. (!. Evans' clearing sale at To Arolia co-day, there was a good attendance and everything sold at fair pric s. AUCKLAND MARKETS. New Zealand Loan axd Mercantile Agency Co. (Limited).—Auckland Wool Stores, October 21 : We catalogued an average quantity of hides and sk>ns '.his week. Competition active, and prices firm. We quote :—Hides : Prime stout ox, s',d to 6M ; heavy stout ox, 4J.il to 5Jd ; light and medium, 3d to id ; row, 3j!d ; calf to 41 ; kip to 2id. Sheepskins : Large, 5s !)d to (is Od ; medium, 4s 3d to o? (id ; light, 3s to 4s ; lambs. Is 2d to Is Od ; rough fat, 1] 1 per lb ; tails, hair, horns, etc., at full rates. Messrs A. Bucklaxd and Sons' Retort. —At the Haymarket meadow hay has sold for Is Od ; oaten sheaves, Is 0d ; pressed straw, 2s Od ; pressed meadow hay, 3s Od cwt ; maize, 2s 7d and 2s Sd ; oats, Is ltd to 2s 3d bushel ; chaff, £2 2s (id to £3 7s Od ; carrots, 20s : boncdnst, £0 03 ; guano, £3 10s ton ; maize on wharf, 2s 0d bushel. On Friday horse stock, yarded numerously, sold freely heavy draught, up to £25; medium draught, from £lO to £ls; 1-ght harness, £5 to £S each. On Tuesday 7, hides were freely competed for: ricked ox brought o.f 1 to Old ; stout ox, 4d to old; medium, 3d to 3,'d ; cow hides, to 3-'d ; calfskins, 3id to 4d lb ; tallow, 12s to los 3d; bones, 3s cwt; fat, lj-d to lj)d lb. Sheepskins kept their late values Longwools brought from 5s to 0s 7d ; crossbred, 3s to ."is Sd ; lambskins, Is to Is Oil each ; fleece wool, Bkl ; pieces, .'lid to s]d lb. At Pokeno, on Monday, and Drury, on Thursday, cattle were yarded numerously. Prices for all classes were at lower values than a month since, particularly that of grown steers. At Rcmuera on Thursday dairy cows at profit were yarded numerously ; values without alteration ; prices for those sold were from £2 10s to £0 12s Od each. Store cattle of nil classes were at lower values, and the greater part of the grown steers remained unsold. Fat and young calves in usual numbers were sold without alteration in values. Eat cattle in full number ; 240 sold kept last week's values, prices varying from 17s Od to 19s the 1001 b ; steers were from £6 to £'S los; cows, i'3 10j to £5 each. Sheep in usual number; 1200 sold scarcely kept last week's values ; wethers in their wool v.-oic from I*2* (id to 15s ; shorn, Ss to 10s; ewes in their wool up to 14s (id; shorn ewes, 7s 01 each. Lambs yarded numerously, mostly brought from 7s to 10s ; inferior, from 2s 01 to 5s each ; 340 sold. Pigs in moderate number fully kept last week's values ; there is a requirement for young sto:c pigs at extreme values. MessrsHt:>"TKß and Nolan's Wkekly ReI'ORT. —Grain, seeds, horse-feed : The demand, except for oaten chuff, has been steady, and sales have been made at little or no alteration in value. We quote : Maize, on wharf 2s (id bushel, ex store 'is Sd to 2s 9d ; seed oats, 2s 7d ; feed oats, is 3d to 2s -Id ; oaten chaff, Horses were again plentiful and in steady demand at the previous week's vahus. Large numbers were submitted by auction at the Dm ham Yards, and were disposed of under good competition. Heavy draught at. from £l4 to £2O ; medium, £!) 15s to £l7 10s : light harness, £4 12s Od to £l2 10s ; hacks, £3 10s to £lO 10s ; a draught of unbroken cults and Jillics suitable for light harness, .'-'5 l.">s to £J I 17s lid ; weed.-, £1 to £2. Woo', hides, skin-, tallow, bones : A moderate cata'ogee was gore through at the Durham Yards on Tuesday under a brisk demand. Wo s i|Uote : Extra stout ox hides, Oc'i to (Uil f lb ; stout, -kl to oil ; cow and Stcsr, ild ! to3.Jd ; stag, lid to 1/,'d ; calf-kins, :)]<\ to -H ; tallow, L'N Od to Us 3d cwt : bones, £3 to £:> ."is ton. Shiepskins: Heavy longwool, 5s 7d to 7s Id each ; medium, Is 7d to os 0d ; crossbred, 3s 2d to os Id ; small skins, Is Id to :5s ; lambskins, Is 3s to Is (id. Wool : Fleece, Old to Ovd lb ; pieces, 3j'd to fid lb. Cattle : At the Waiukn sale on Saturday there was a very large niusti r and bidding was brisk throughout, ail classes of cattle sel.ing fully up to Newmarket ratrs. After the usual sa'e we held a clearing sale of yir Alexander's liv .• and dead, slock, which brought very satis factory prices. At the cattle fair held at the Newmarket Yards on Monday Kilo he.nl of cattle were yarded, an 1 thu grown cattle were mostly in veiy fresh condition, lint no doubt the diy weather combined with tin; pric- of bet f made the graziers olnry of buying, consequently there was a drop of from His to los per head on grown steers. Wc (junto : Crown cattle at from CI 10s to L'!i os ; two to three year-old steers-, £2 is (id to CI ; empty cow.-, ami heifer*, L'2 to C.'l los : calves, £1 to £1 12s; fat cattle were yarded in average numbers at Newmarket (di Tuesday. Ox beef ranged from IS-s t> cow, I."h to 17- : steers range! from L'l los to i'il ; cows, f.'i I.js '' to.L'li Pis fid. Sheep:'] he Newmarket '. pens «ere well tilled on Tuesday, and steady competition throughout the tale, but prices Mere in favour of the purchaser. Wethers sold at from lis :',d to 17s .'ld ; nrxed sexes from lis to los (id ; shorn ) wethers at. from Ids to lis !),) : cue-. Ss J to (Is (i.l ; lambs, from os to IN (id : pigs, few yarded. t