COMMERCIAL. Waikato Times Office, Friday. AUCKLAND LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1753, 29 September 1883, Page 2

COMMERCIAL. Waikato Times Office, Friday. AUCKLAND LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

Mit Alfkkd Buckianivs Weekly Kkroiir.—At tho Haymarkct, on Friday last, fodder was in full .supply, but rallied in price, and sold freely from 5s to (is 3d per cw,t • oats, at last values, 2s 8d : maize, 2-> 9dtO 3s l<i i»<?i- bit.shel. The vehicles advertised sold freely at sa-tNfact )iy prices, bringing from €30 to £07 inch ; secondhand buggy, £20 ; horse, buggy and hariiais, £$5 j omnibus, £37. Hovso stock wove plentiful and sold freely. The entire, Clyde,' brought 37 guineas; medium draught stock, from £14 to £28, and the heavy draught entire, Lord Dalhousie, £150. On Tuesday, fodder fully maintained the values of the previous I'nday. Hides and skins were in full numbe. 1 . Hides barely maintained provious values, and ranged from lsd to 2£d per lb ; butchers skins 3s fid to 4s Id ; station skins, Is 3d to 3s fld each ; lambskins, 7d ; tallow, 27s to 38s per cwt ; bones, 4s (id ; crois-bred wool, 5d 3-10ths per lb. At Papakura, on Wednesday, the usual muhter of stock nut with a steady demand at fully l.>te valujs. At Eciinnero, on Thursday, the market was brisk throughout. Dairy and giown store cattle advanced 10s each, and fat cattle ranged fiom 2.^ to 2^ the 100U>^. Mfcoro Hheep wore also in better enquiry. Medium j quality ewes with lambs at side bi ought 18s and Ws 3d each ; mime f.it hheep, 3^ the lb. Lambs were abundant, and of veiy variable quality. Prices ranged from 2s (5d to 20s but the greater number from 9s to 14s each. Pigs, numerous and in good demand, particularly medium weight fat pigs. Averages were : 8 .steers, Kd. Allen, £8 % 6d ; 4 head oxen Robt. Fisher, £0 <5d ; 4 cows, £<i 5s ; 7 oxen, JftS. Taylor, £10 10s ; 24 steers, Waikato Land Association, £9 ; Gisborne wetl.ers, Jno. Allen, 17b 0d ; Waikato wethers, A. B. Suttor, 22s 3d ; wether hoggets, Ifis ; shorn wethers, Robt. Noble, 17s; Whangarei wetheis, J. and J. B. Powesland, 22s each. Mbsshs Husmu ash Noi,.\N T 'b Wbeki.y RkpobT.— Hordes : Tlie movement m the market noted last week has continued. A good many ship-borne were brought forward, and found purchasers at improved prices as compared with previous rates. At the Durham Yards on Friday, there was a large muster, and corresponding attendance of buyers, consequently competition w,ih epiritod throughout the sale. Hacks sold at from £7 10s to £1(5 5s ; medium draught*, from £18; heavy draught-,, fiom U 27 -h to £33. Wool, hides, and skins : Hulos were in limited numboi, and of inferior description, 2^l boing the maviiuum per 11). Skins Hold at fiom Is lOd to 3, 3d ; tallow, 2S-, nor cwfc. Oitfclo: Tho h.ii hwn limited, and demand bris*k, and ctuwjquonfcly piiee-. .id\«»ieod, the oxeoptioji puihaps being m stoio-., which only nuintciinod the i>ie\ious woek\ values. At Newmarket o.i Tue>day, dany and fat stock woio in le^ than uiu.il numbers, and requirements weie l.ugei, con-etmontly prices advanced— for cov,^ fiom 10>, to £1 j>er head, and 2-, to 3-, per 30011^ for beef, SO^btting lcwlily given for good quality. Store htuer-, of all ages in fu-sli condition hohi [well, but prices for female stock weie in favour of the pmch.iser. ttheop were scarcely yauk'd in average numbeis. Prices were a hhade higlier th.m tho pievioiw week. Wetlieis .sold at fiom 17s to 22s !)rl ; ewes, I.ls ikl to 17» M ; Limbs, thi- .-.oaion, 11s (Jd. Pign : Very few yaided, and prices high.