AUCKLAND LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2009, 23 May 1885, Page 2

AUCKLAND LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

Mil Alkkkd UucklamVs REroiir.— At the Hayinarket on Fuday, May 1."), horse stock were at Kite values. IL.ny draught from £20 to 30 guineas ; light hune->-> and heavy draught, fiom £ ( > to kl'u (Jr.un was sold in lar^ei <o,uuUty Uiau usna.l ; cuiilied beans, 3s iis ; mfei ior m.u/.e, fiom 2s Id to 2-* 3d ; good m.u/e, 3s ( )d ; wlic.it, 2s lOd ; black oats, 2s 3d ; shorts o.its, 2s Id tliu bushel ; nre yd str.iw, 40s ; preyed clovi i '» iy, £4 10s tho ton ; oaten slie.ives, 2s Jld tofwJJd ; meadow h.iy, 2s Jld to Is (id tin cwt. At the uiu.il sale on Tuesday, hides Hold bnskly. good quality ranged fiom 3id to3Jjdthe lb. ; t.vllow, 23s to 2"3s th cwt : pelts .md skins 8d to 2s e.ioli. Tin Halo of second-class timber at Rind's wh.nf on S.iturd.iy List wsw numerously attjnded, add coni|ietition kei-n ; prices i.ingcd fiom 5s 'M to 7s 3d the 100 feet. At Poknm, „ii Mond iy, 18th inst., a small muster of c.ittlc Hold rc.idily, the gri^iti'i poitinii l< residents in the distuct. At Diuiy, on Wednesday, store cattle were alho in le^-. nuinbi-r than a\er,i{,e, but with ,i full .it tendance of buyeis; juices weio wt-ll Hustamed, p.uticul.uly daiiycows of ,i good cla«s. At Keinucr.i, on Thursday, d.my cousat c.dvinff were in good demand , m.«iora.to .arrlv il« b.,.ugl,t from i' 7 to £<! cocli ; .store cattle dull of Hale ; fat cattle m average .supply and sold fieely ; Auckland fatted at 23i ; ship borne, 21s the lOOlbs. Sheep wen o punned in iihiul numbers, but were .it low \aluc, 70 wethers barely averaged 15s. Pigs were plentiful, and lower i.iten th.m for some weeks were obtained for them. Mkssks. Hun mi a.yd Nolans Wrkkli Rki-oiu I.—HoiHes1 .— HoiHes : but few have been brought forward. Those of a good stamp were Hold at the piovioiw weeks rates, but weeds wore coinp.uatnely neglected, (^uitc the usual number w oio entered for disposal by unction on I'nd.iy, at the Duiham yaidi. Bidding w.is hlow, and.v few lot-. did not hud purchasers, Good horses, however, maintained their v.ilue. Wool, Indus and pins : supply limited, and without alteration in value. Cattle : an aveiago number of fut and daiiy stock have bfen dlsoosed of, but them has nut been much doing in Htorea. At the Xuu market y.irds, on Ttiosd.iy, all horned stock weie in less than umul nunibci^. Fat bewts wore a .shade; lo.\er in value tli m on the pievious week. Daiiy cows sold at fiom £7 to £10; stores, unaltoii 'l iSheo|) : Tho Newmarket yaidn who will filled on Tuesday, but there was a dec line of Is pjr head on tho pievious week's values. Lainbrt sold at fiom 10-, to V.U each. I'igs in adequat<3 number*, and Kteady demand at from 2^d to 'S\d jier lb , live weight. Mi.ssus (i VV. Binney AND Co. report that, at their weekly H,vle on Tuesday of wool, hides, «kinn and tallow, hist class hides realised from 4d to 4/d ; liglit, 3d to 4d ; skins 8d to 1h 4d each ; felmongei's ]Hi\ti; 4s 3d to 4s !)d per do/.on ; tallow £23 to £23 10s per ton.