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Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 337, 6 September 1898, Page 2

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The Waikato Argus Office, Monday. MESSRS Mc NICOL AND CO.'S CATTLE SALE AT CAMBRIDGE. Messrs McNicol and Co. Refori\—At our annual Cambridge spring cattle sale, held on Saturday last, we yarded 801 head of well-bred, quiet cattle. The 150 grown steers and 60 fat cows advertised from Patetere were a choice lot: the steers were nearly all five-year-old, well grown and most of them killar.le. The first six pens were heavy weights and well done, making from £7 to £3 : others from £5 5s to £6 5s ; fat cows, £3 7s 6d to £4 9s. The draft of three-year-old steers from Waimarama were a wellbred lot, and sold readily from £3 6s to £i 13s ; fat cows from neighbourhood, up to £4 15s ; one and a-half-year-old steers, 30s to 39s ; well-bred, but iowconditioned two-year-old steers, 425; strong steer calves, up to 25s ; steers and heifers (mixed ia pen), 15s to 225; smaller calves, 10s upwards ; well-bred two-year-old steers, in nice order, £2 15s ; backward springing heifers, to £2 17s 6d; empty cows and heifers, 35s to 435. Altogether 679 were sold, those passed being a draft of 30 well-bred three-and-a-half-year steers off turnips, and the balance low-conditioned calves and young stock. AUCKLAND MARKETS. Mr Richard Arthur's Weekly Report.—Business during the week has been brisk. Table potatoes (Southern), 8s to 8s 6d ; kidney seed, 63 6d to 9s 6d ; Derwent seed, 6s 9d to 7s 6d ; new potatoes, ljd to 2d ; white carrots, 25s to 30s ; red do., 30a to 35s ; pumpkins, good demand, 7s 31 to 8s 6d ; onions, to ]sd ; braD, 4s to 4s 3d : sharps, 5s ; feed oats, 2s 7d to 2s 9d ; seed do.. 3s 3d to 3s 6d ; fowl wheat, 3s 9d ; maize, 3s ; large supplies of fresh cut \egetables to hand and disposed of at satisfactory prices. Butter (fresh), 9d to to lOd ; fresh eggs, 7d to 7id ; honey, 2£d t$ 3£d ; fowls, Is 2d to Is Sd ; roosters, table, Is 6d to 2s Id ; ducks, Is 8d to Is lid ; turkey gobblers, 3s 3d to 4s 3d ; do. hens, 2s 3d to 2s 9d ; geese, 2s 6d to 33 ; bacon (local), 4£d to 6d ; hams (local), 5Jd to ?£d ; bacon (Southern), 6Jd to 7d ; hams do., Bsd to 9d ; small pigs, 5s to 7s. Mr J. Jones' Weekly Retort.— Poultry : Roosters, is 4d to 2s ; hens. Is 3d to Is 8d ; ducks, is 3d to Is 9d ; turkeys, 2s 3d to os 9d. Pigs, 7s to lis 3d ; butter, 7|d to 9d lb ; eggs, 7d to 8d dozen ; cheese, 5d to s£d ; bacon, 5d to 6d ; middles, to 6d ; bams. 6d to 7£d ; honey, 3d lb ; potatoes, 8s to 8s 3d ; kidneys, 7s 6d to 8s 3d ; onions, ljd to lfd ; pumpkins, 6s 6d to 7s 3d ; carrots, £1 10s ; swedes, £1 5s to £1 10s ; kumaras, 7s to 8s 3d ; oats, 2s 7d to 2s 9d ; bran, 4s to 4s 3d ; sharps, 5s to 5s 3d ; maize, 2s 9(1 to 2s lOd ; chaff, £4 15s. Fruit : Apples, 7s 6d to 9s 3d ; oranges, 3s 6d to 4s 3d ; mandarins, 6s to 7s 9d ; passion fruit, 3s 6d to 53 3d ; Cape gooseberries, to 4£d ; lemons, 4£d to 6d dozen. Messrs Alex. Aitkkn's & Co.'s Weekly Report.—Very large supplies of all lines came to hand to-day ; 43 coops of poultry were penned, aud, consequently, prices eased. Pigs, still rising. Dairy pork sold at 4d per lb. Potatoes, scarce. Hobart and kidney seed in great demand, and scarce ; supplies arrive again to-mqrrow. Onions, firm. Pumpkins sold at Ss 6d per cwt. Maize, easier. Oats and chaff, firm. Dairy butter in better supply, at late rates. Eggs, weaker and more plentiful. Fruit, in full bupply at high prices. Lemons, more plentiful and cheaper. Hares and rabbits, in great demand at prices quoted. We quote : Potatoes— Canterbury, £8 5s to £8 103 ; local Hobarts, 7s ; Canterbury seed kidneys, 8s 6d to 9s 6J; Hobart seed, 6s 6d to 7s 6d ; new kidneys and rocks, to Ifd lb ; onions (globes), £l4; locals, 13s 6d;'Friscos, ]4s 6d to 16s ; kumaras, £8 10s, wanted ; pumpkins, £7 10s to £B, 10s, wanted ; swede turnips, 35s per ton ; carrots (white and red), £1 5s to £1 15s ton; oats, firm, ex store, 2s 9d, c.i.f., 2s 7d ; hay, oaten, £5 to £5 15s; maize, 2s 9d to 2s lid, easing ; braD, £3 17s 6d ; sharps, £4 15s; chaff, £4 10s to £5; butter, prime dairy, 9d to bulk, 9id to 10id, scarce ; medium dairy, 83d; kegs pastry, 7d to 9d ;eggs, 7d to Ihd ; bacon, 6fd to 7d ; farmers', 4|d to o|d ; hams, 8d to 9d ; farmers', 7id ; cheese, to s£d ; farmers', 3id to id, wanted. Apples : Local, 401 b cases, best dessert, 7s 6d to lis 6d ; Tasmanian, 7s Gd to 9s 9d; dried. 4d to 5d lb. Honey, bulk, 2d to 3d ; sections, 3s 6d to 3s 9d; lemons, 3d to 6d per dozen, 4s 3d to 5s 6d case; mandarins, 7s 6d to 8s 6d. Oranges : Tahitis, lid dozen ; Poor Man's, 7s 9d to 10s 6d case ; St. Michael's, 4s to 6s ; Sydney, os to 5s 6d case. Bananas, lb ; bunches, Is 9d to 2a 6d ; pineapples, 3s to 4s dozen ; possion fruit, 3d doz; Sydney, 7s 6d case; Cape gooseberries, 4|d lb; shaddocks, Id to lsd ; tree tomatoes, 2d to 2Jd ; hothouse, b'd to 7d ; walnuts, 5d to 6d, scarce ; peanuts, 2£d to 2|d ; charcoal, 3s to 3s 6d per sack ; hares. Is 6d to 2s each, wanted ; rabbits, Is 6d to Is 9d pair, wanted. Poultry: Plentiful ; Roosters, Is 6d to 23 3d each ; mixed, Is 3d to Is lid; hens, Is 3d to Is lOd ; cockerels, Is 3d to Is 9d ; ducks, Is 3d to 3s lOd, plentiful; ducklings, 7d to 9d ; pigeons, 7d to 8d ; turkey roosters, 3a to 6s; hens, Is 6d to 4s ; geese, 3s to 3s 6d, wanted. Pigs : Suckers, 4s 3d to 6s each ; weaners, 9s to 13s each, rising.