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SHAKE REPORTS. Messrs Arthur Warburton & Co, report for the weekSales—South British Insurance, Ms; Accident Association, 2s; Bank of N.Z., £2l 10d; Mosgiel Woollen, 83s Gd ; Kaiapoi Woollen, £25 10s. Quotations -Banks— N.Z., £2l 12s Gd; Colonial, 43s cum div, Insurance—N.Z,, 755; South British, 50s; National, 20a Cd ; Union, 245; Standard, 13s; Colonial, Cs to 0s Gd; Equitable, Is 3d; N.Z. Accident, 4s fid cum div; Accident Association, 2s, Miscellaneous—Loan and Mercantile, £5 2s Cd; Land Mortgage, 25s Gd; National Mortgage, 24s ex div: N.Z. Shipping, 60s; Union Steam, Ll2; Mosgiel "Woollen, 83s Gd; Kaiapoi, L 25105; N.Z. Drug, 18s Gd; Napier Gas, Ijl2 10s cum div; Wanganui Gas, L1210s; Westport Coal, Gs Gd; Wellington Trust and Loan, LG la; Equitable Building, LG 2s; Wellington Gas, LlB and L 9; Manawatu Railway, 15s; Gear Meat, 70s. Messrs J. H. Wallace and Co, held their .second sale of fat and other stock at the Hutt Sale-Yards on Thursday last. They report as follows:—Fat cattle showed a marked improvement on last sale. We yarded thirty head fair quality ljullocks, and sold at from £7l2s 6d to £7lss, being an advance of Is Gd per _ 1001b on previous sale. Fat cows, medium quality, sold at from £4los to £5, We quote beef, prime quality, at 22s Gd; medium 20s per lOOId, Fat sheep—None were yarded; we placed privately, however, a line of mixed wetuers and ewes at 13s 6d; we quote mutton at 2d per lb, Store cattle—We sold 42 heads; cowsi'3 ssto £4 10s; two-year olds, £2los; yearlings in low conditions, £1 to £1 10s, dairy cows, i's, Horses—lnferior hacks sold from Ll3los to L 5 ss, Our noxt sale takes place on Wednesday, the 12th August. LOWES HORNS STOCK AND PRODUCE REPORT FOR JULY. the number of cattle sold during the month reached 300 hoad, the supply not reaching the demand, and prices improving, especially in store stock. Beef, still low, not going beyond 10s lOOlbs; fat bullocks from LG 2s Gd to L 7 10s; fat steers and good cows from Ls2sGd to L 5 10s: forward steers, L4lO to L 418; small steers, from 50s to Gss; store cows, 60s to GOs; heifers, 50s to Gss; yearlings, 30s to 355; weaners, 21s; dairy cows, L4los to LG. ' The number of fat sheep was limited, We sold some 400 under the hammer, and about the samo number privately. For good cross breds 13s to 13s Gil, and 14s for wethers off turnips, and 12s Gd for good wethers, but the merino strain showing. Fat owes ranged from 10s to lis Gd, or about 2d per lb, There were no store wethers on offer, but good enquiry for them, as also good ewes to lamb early. We quoto ewes in lamb from 9s to 10s Gd, and culled sorts much lower figures, and difficult to sell,. Graziers report feed plentiful, and a few early lambs are already dropped, but the weather is proving very unfavorable to young lambs,

Horses have been plentiful, but mostly of an undesirable class, few good useful horses coming forward. For good draught horses broken from L2O, and Ll3 to Lls for medium farm mares. For unbroken youug stock for farm work from L 8 to Ll2. Saddle horaea were in abundance, but buyers shy, and their prices ranging very low, from L 5 to L 9, being paid for plain tat serviceable horses, and from L 8 to Ll2 for light harness kinds, Pigs nl| very plentiful, and we report prices for (fees lower then for previous month, good porkers selling freely from 20s to 30s, but all lines of small pigs selling badly from 5s for weaners to 10s to 13s for stores. Ferrets sell readily at 7s Gd to 10s, In produce the rates have varied little since last month, In oats the figures are still low for feed sorts,'.but wheat has improved a little which is partly duo toa demand for seed samples. fWe placed several parcels of oats, tile prices ranging from 2s 4d to 2s Gd for feed and 2s 8d •to 2a 9d for seed. Wheat has made to 3s Cd for poisoning purposes, and seed to 4s and 4s 3d : for beat samples for seed. In fowls wheat the price's rango from 2s 4d to 3s, according to quality. Chaff.—For good sound oaten we have obtained 60s per ton, retail, and'sos to 55s wholesale. Horse Carrots made 4s per sack, their figure wholesale, being, 50b per ton. In poultry our sales , were very limited, and consist mostly of fowls, their figures ranging from 2s 9d to 3s 6d per pair for ordinary sorts: ducks 4s 6d._ Fencing wire is selling freely of late, prices ranging from Ll4 here, .. In bacon our sales have been confined to

local-cured green; haras and, aides making 7d Pf., e mar ket for this produce being glutted at preoent. Opj sales of agricultural implements have been very brisk, which might be expected from the season of the year, We learn froin good authority that the area of cultivation will bo considerable more this season than last, many new plots of land being brought under the plough, wheat crops will predominate. Mostly all the turnip crops have proved successful this senson which is attributed to the absence of a dry autumn, which is invariably accompanied by the fly. Potatoes are moving briskly, rate, about the same as last month, excepting for early seed, which have risen from 4s to 5s 6d per cwt; table sorts still command7os per ton, wholesale,