AUCKLAND LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2110, 16 January 1886, Page 2

AUCKLAND LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

Messrs. Huntkb and Nolans Weekly Report. — Horses : There has not been anything eventful in the market during the week. Tbe number offered for sale last Friday was an average one, and there was -no material alteration in value. About an ' average number changed hands at the ;previous week's rates, good, sound young "animals of every description selling well. .we quote hacks at from £3 to £14 ; light ' harness, from £7 to £15 ; medium draughts, from £15 to £18; heavy draughts £25. v Wool, hides, and skins : An average number were pitched, Hides we quote at " from 2d to 3§d per lb ; wool, 5d to 52d ; •kins Is 9d to 3s 4d. Fat cattle : The "number yarded at Newmarket on Tuesday Was not so plentiful as on previous week, ! but other descriptions have been in usual numbers, with prices unchanged. At Pukokoho monthlj sale, on Wednesday. there was a very large market of cattle <* ~«11 descriptions, prices ruling same as on previous month. Sheep : The Newmarket -Yards were well filled on Tuesday, with no ■.alteration in value. We qaote : Fat ""wethers, from 7s to 14s ; fat iambs, from 5s to 10s 3d. ' Figs were plentiful ; unaltered in value. Mr Alfred Buckland's Weekly Report.—At the Haymarket on Friday, January 8, loose hay was in full supply; it brought from 2s 9d to 3s 9d the cwt delivered Oats, from 2s Id to 2a 4d the bushel. Hot-ao stock was brought forward in full number, but were dull of sale, particularly two-year-olds of medium strength. At the bide and skin sale on Tuesday, hides ranged from 2£d to 3jd the lb ; tallow, 13s to 13s 6d the cwt ; sheepskins, from Od to 2s 9d each, and several bales of wool brought from 5Jd to 6£d the lb, being a higher average than was obtained at the larger ■ales. At Kemuera, on Thursday, dairy cattle near their calving were in full number and required ; good animals near calving sold freely at from £7 to £8 each. All other descriptions of stock were at lower values. Fat cattle at opening of sale maintained last week's values, but fell towards the end from 5s to 10s each. Sheep were also lower in price from Is to 2s each, and lambs much lower, the general price toing from 5a to 7s »ach. Pigs and calves at late values. Messrs G. W. Binnet and'sons report. At our usual weekly sales held on Tuesday last, hides sold briskly up to 4 1-1G per lb for heavy well conditioned ; medium, 2^d ; inferior, damaged, and cut, 2d to 2Ad ; calfskins, well taken off, sold freely up to 3^d per lb ; sheepskins, full woollcd, from 3s to 3a 4d ; dry pelts, 2d ; salted pelts, sid each ; lambskins, 9d. Tallow brought from 11s Gd to 14* (id the cwt. We quote: good tallow, fit for shipment, at 14s (id per cwt ; inferior, at 10s to 11s Gd per cwt.