AUCKLAND CATTLE MARKET.

Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1112, 9 August 1879, Page 2

AUCKLAND CATTLE MARKET.

Mil. A. IIUCKLAND'S AVEEKLY BEl'OllT. . Ai. 'Remuera on -Thursday dairy cows at calving wore m 'usual number, and ab loavo-* valuo.*-. Store c-ifcfclo fairly represented, and iti gort v l inquiry at. liifco rate.- 1 . Fafc cattlo iv moderate 'supply ;■ 110 head yarded. Trices .advanced fully 20s per head on lasb Aveok's prices, and Avero steady afc 30s to 32s Gd the lOOlbs. Pigs Avere nutiicrous, aud m -demand at lalo quotations. .F<ifc sheop were yarded m less number than' for some time, and .bctfc«r Avorfch. from Is to 3s per head. No store sheep offered. , MESSRS nUNTER AND.^OLAJST S WEEKLY i HEPOBT. Horses. — We quote : Hacks, .-Go 15s to £18; medium draught, £16'15s to £27; heavy, £32 15s to £3S 10s. Cattle.— Dairy stock are m steady demand, a.nd good animals are saleable at frem £10 to £13, .but coarse, lowconditioned animals A7ere nofc iv brisk demand. Stores sold very freely at quotations, ahd there was a very perceptible advance m the price of fat beasts. We quote dairy cows from £8 to £10 12s Gd ; weaned calves from £1 16s to £2 8s; yearling steers, £3 to £3 6s Gd ; one and a-half ahd tivo-ycar-old steers, well bred, £5. to £5 los : throe-year-old steera, £6 to £7 10; workiug bullocks, £10 each; two-year-old heifers, £*i to 5 ; store cows from £3 5s to £o 7s Gd ; beof, 27s Gdjra 30s per lOOlbs. Sheep. — There Avas a good muster of sheep at Newmarket. Prices ranged from Is 8d to ls lOd per 81bs.