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Waikato Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1593, 27 June 1903, Page 2

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Aeods Office, This Day. CLEARING SALES. Messrs McNicol and Co. report At Mr E H. Grey’s clearing sale, held at Maungatapu on Thursday, furniture and implements sold-well. Crossbred ewes in lamb 11s Gd, Border Leicester ewes IJgs, Border Leicester rams 17a 6d to 2*gs, unbroken horses £5 to £lO. At Mr A. Thackeray’s clearing sale, held at Manawaru yesterday, there was good competition for all stock. The dairy cows were a really choice lot, in good condition, and made up to £ll 5s ; the 63, including the 18-month heifera m calf, averaged £7 IBs Gd 5 bull, £7 15s . calves, £1 13a to £2 4s ; hacks, £3 17s to £5 16s ; draught foal, £6 los : aged medium draughts, £lO 5s to £ll ; un* broken geldings, rising three years, £3O 40s j buggy. £ll ; waggon. £ls ; pigs. 9s 6d for woaners, £1 fas for slips, £3 10s for sow.—On account of Mr Frank Alley, we sold immediately after 18 good dairy cows and heifers, prices tanging from £5 10s to £8 ss, averaging £6 10s ; calves, 335. J CLEARING SALE AT TAMAHERE. The New Zealand Loan and Meiucantile Agency Co. (Ltd) Report.— On Wednesday we held a clearing sale at Xamahere on account of Mr M. E. Bagnall, and though the rain came down incessantly during the whole day, there was a largo attendance of settlers from all Waikato districts and neighbourhood. The 75 dairy oows.(mo3t of them carrying second and third calf) were keenly competed for, the best cows ranging in price from £6 12a 6d to £8 15a, a few aged and inferior cows making from £4 10s to £6 ; bull, £6 ; calves, from £1 2s to £6 7s; hoggets fetched 9s ; draught mares and geldings, from £l7 to £25 ; aged draught mace, £8 10s ; light harness mares, £l7 10s and £ls ; drays, £8 and £S 10s : harrows, £2 10s and £3 10s ; disc harrows, £9 10s. The balance of the farming implements, plough harness, etc , all realised full value. The engine, chaffcutter, and dairy plant were not sold, and ate still for private sale. HAMILTON STOCK SALE. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co- (Ltd.) report: — Cn Thursday at our Hamilton sale fat cattle were yhrded in full cumbers and of choice quality, and were keenly competed for, every pen being sold, with the exception of four head. Twenty-niuo choice steers, from Mr Jno. Allen, of Waiogaro, 2 J years old and bred en the farm, realised from £7 11s 6d to £8 I7s, averaging £8; fat bullocks from Mr J. Height, £lO ss; 14 steers, from J. G. Penniket, £7 14s and £8 2s Gd ; 12 steers from Jno. Gordon, £7 to £8 ss; 14 choice heifers, from A. Main, £1 to £8 2s; fat cows and heifers from other sellers, £5 5s to £6 10s. On account of the rough weather the fa.t_ sheep advertised were not brought forward. Fat hoggets, 9s 9d ; 100 store hoggets, 6s 9d to 7s Gd ; coarse rough pigsg4s Gd to 10-; no weaners offered. There was a yarding of dairy stock. Mr Napier’s cows realised from £5 14s to £7 5s ; heifers, in calf and in full milk, from Mr S. Knight. £5 5s to £6 15s. Not a very large number of store cattle were entered, but all sold at a slight advance on recent sales. Fresh-conditioned cows aud heifers, from T. "Wilson, Waingaro, and other sellers, £4 to £5 3s Gd ; yearling steers, £3 4s ; heifers, £2 5s to £2 16s ; strong calves, mixed sexes, £1 12s to £2 3a ; small calves, £1 5s to £1 9s ; IS months old steers, £3 11s. The horses, drays and harness on account of Johnson Bros, were all sold. Aged draught geldings, £2B 10s to £35 10s ; tive-ycar-old draught, £34 10a; 2 medium draughts, £25 each ; drays, £ll to £l4 10s ; harness, £2 10) to £3. Several useful draughts and light horses from other sellers brought from £7 17b Gd to £l6. AUCKLAND MARKETS. Mr J. Jones reports as follows : Poultry : Roosters la 9d to 2s Bd, hens Is 5d to Is lid ; ducks, 2s Id to 3s; geese, 3s to 3s 9d ; turkeys 7s "to 9s 9d, poor, 6) to 6s 9J, hens 3* to sa. - Pigs, 8s 9d to 14s. Butter, Sd to Od ; keg 7i, box Sd to B,jd. Eggs, Is 7d to Is 9d. Bacon, Sd to 9d ; hams, 1 to 9d ; farmers’ hams, 7d to 8d ; cheese, 6|d ; roll bacon, 8d to BJd ; potatoes £4 5s to £4 10s, local £3 5s to £3 10s, Canterbury kidneys £7, magnums £5 to £6, Early Rose £5 to £5 ss, Up-to-date 5s to 6s ; onions, 5s to Gs cvvt; pumpkins, 3s to 3s 3d, kumaraa,.ss to Gs Gd ; carrots, £1 5s to £i 10s. Oats, 2s 4d to 2a 5d ; maize, 3s lOd to 4s 2d bushel: wheat, 4s 4d to 4s 7d ; bran, £5 5s ; sharps, £6 15s ; chaff, £4 10s to £5. Fruit: Apples, 4s to 5s Gs ; pears, 5a to Gs Gd; tomatoes, 3s to 3s 9d ; walnuts, sid. Haros, Is Gd to is 9s ; rabbits, 7d to Sd each. Messrs Alfred Buckland and Sons’ report. —At Romucra on Thursday dairy cows sold from £6 to £ll. Few store cattle yarded ; those sold at late values. Eat and young cattle, short of requirements, sold freely ; small wero from 5s to 8s ; medium, 12) to 18s; heavy, up to £2 15s ; GO sold. There was an average yarding of fat cattle, which sold well up to last week’s values. Steers ranged in price from £7 to £l2 17a Gd ; cows, £5 to £9 10s. The sheep pens were well filled with a good class of mutton. Beat wethers sold up to 18s ; others, 12s to iss ; ewes, 10s to 16s each. There was a small muster of lambs. Best sold up to 12s 6d ; others, 5s 6d ts Ss. A few of this season’s lambs, from Mr Jas. WaK lace, of Papatoitoi, averaged 13s 3d. Pigs, scarce, sold freely.