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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2739, 1 February 1890, Page 2

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The JFaikalo Times Ofice, Friday. AUCKLAND LIVE STOCK MARKETS. M.KSSUS A. BUOKLANI) AND SONH' WEEKLY E.bpori\—At the Haymarket duriog_ the past week fodder has been lower ; Is (id to 2s the cwt. have bean the ruling prices. Oats, Is lOd to 2s ; maize, 2s 9d to 2s lOd the bushel. At the horse market on Friday a larger number than usual were sold. Prices for useful horses in coudition ranged from £7 to £12 10s. At the hide and skin sale on Tuosday, damaged dirty and inferior hides brought from fd to 2d the lb, but sound large hides brought old values up to 2Jd for cows, and 4sd fur ox ; lambskins, Is 4d to Is 6d; pelts, Is to 2s 3d each; wool, iu bags and bales, from Gd to 7gd the lb. At Pnkekoho on Monday, cattle were yarded in full nnmbers, and met good sale, particularly for young stock. At Remuera, on Thursday, a small market of stock of all kinds fairly sustained last week's values, but fat cattle fell Is the 1001b as the sale proceeded. Messrs. Stone Bros. Report :—Southern feed oats, 2s 2d : fowl wheat, 3s 3d ; feed bailey, 2s Gd ; maize, 3s ; crushed maize, 3s ; chaff, best oaten, £4 10s j bright straw, good, £3 ; flour, Bycrsft's first quality, £10; superfine, £9 10s ; golden gem, £9 10s ; oatmeal, £12 ; bran, 70s ; sharps, 75s ; Southern hams and bacon, equal number, 8d ; Auckland dairy-fed, 7-Jd ; vinegar, Is 5d per gallon (casks in) ; tea, boxes, las; half-chests, Is Gd : haltchests Indian, 2s per lb ; bonedust, Tallow Company, £7 10s ; Runcorn, £7 10s; S. and G., pure, £G 10s ; farmers' friend, £5 10s ; Hobart palings, 5 feet, 15s per 100 ; manilla rope, 8d and 9d ; Europe, 8d ; cornsacks, 44 by 26A per dozen, Gs Gd j currants, ; pohutukawa felloes (all sizes); ironbark spokes, shafts (10 feet), bluegura shafts (10 feet), keiosene (" Light of Age" brand). Is lOd; colza oil, salt, black horse, fine, per ton, £5 10s ; coarse, £4 15s per ton ; clothes lines, No. 12 3, bluegnm, assorted sizes to arrive. Coal: Newcastle, Queensland, Greymouth ; coke. Agents for Saunders and Gilberd's celebrated soap; tanning chopped bark.

AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET. (by tklegbaph.—own correspondent).

Auckland, Last Night.—Butter: Prime fresh, 7d ; second quality, 5d ; third, 3d to 4d. Cheese, good factory, fyd to s|d ; eggs, 10d; lard, in bladders, sJ>d ; bacon and hams, Gd to Sd ; Canterbury bacon, new cute, sides, 7hd ; equal numbers, 7ld ; bare hams, JJ.fci ; clothed, id extra. Flour; Wholesale, local roller, first quality (sacks), ±!9 ss; second, £* s*; Southern, rollers, £9 th ; stono flour, £8 10d to £8 15s. Southern oats, 2t 2d to 2s 4d ; local wheat, Tuscan, 9d to 3*; Southern, 3s 3d to 3s 6d ; kidney potatoes, £2 ; maize, 3s ; local potatoes, £3; beans, 3s 3J ; onions, 3J per lb. WOOL SALES. (BY TELEGRAPH.— PUE33 ASSOCIATION.] WKt.LINGTON, Friday.—The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency held fcheir third wool sale, at which 1501) bales were catalogued and 1000 were sold, at pricPt; ranging from to lOd for fine crosafcred, and 6d to Bii for coarse. The bulk of the wool was purchased by buyers representing English firms.