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Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2818, 5 August 1890, Page 2

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Th« fVaihtlo I'i'itts O.'hw, A 1 Oil' lay. AUCKLAND MA UK UTS. Mkssrs A. Buoki.and and Son's Wkkkly lliii'oiLT.—At tho 1 layiuarkot during the past, week, fodder has been offered in full quantity. Prices improved, and ranged from 2s ill! to Is the cwt.; chalf, .to 10s ; carrots, 2-h to 27s (id ; seed potatoes, .£4 17s (id the ton ; oats, Is 11.(1 ; narley 2s (id the b ishel. At the horse sale on Friday there wis not the usual number brought forward, but those offered sold well, and an improvement in values of useful stock is noted. Prices for active medium draft wore from £12 to 618 ; light harness and riding horses, [mm C 7 to £'10; a lady's phaeton, .£'2s; spring cart, £12. The hide and skill sale, held oil Tuesday, was the largest for many months, and late quotations were fully sustained throughout the sale. At Pukekohe, on Monday, and at Papakura, on Wednesday, a larger than usual muster of store rattle were yarded, and met with a steady demand, at fully late values. At Remuora, on Thursday, dairy cattle were plentiful, but dull of sale, and tho greater number remained unsold. Store cattle at moderata values; fat cattle in moderate supply, 2!0 yarded were firm at last week's quotations ; good ox beef steady at 18s ; cows, 15s the lOOlbs. Calves, plentiful, were in brisk demand. Sheep, m usual supply, were dull of sale, and, except small lots of choice quality, wore at lower values. Wethers ranged from 12s to 17s ; owes, Os to 13s oicli. Not many pigs yarded. Well-bred weatiers sold at 8s ; porkers, at lbs to Jos LMUII. Mkssiis Hlntkr and Nolan's Whkki.v Ul'.POlU'. — Horse leed, grain, hides, etc. ' A steady demand has existed, and supply sufficient. We quote: Oats, Islodto2s; maize, os 3(1 ; bran, £3 10s to £4 ; chaff, 62 to 83. Horses : There has been a slight increase in the number brought forward, but many more of a good description would have, found purchasers at advanced values. An average number were disposed of by auutiou at the 'Durham Yards on Friday. Competition was steady throughout the silo. Wo quote : Hacks, £1 Ids to £1) 7» li 1 ; medium draughts, £/ to £l(i. Wool, hid'os, and skins : An increased number of hides'were pitched at the Durham Yards in Tuesday, and there was an upwurd tendency in values for all descriptions. Sheepskins were plentiful, and wero sold at the ii evious week's rates. We quote : Stout ox, Id to lid -, medium, 2.1(1 to 3;4d ; light ox and cows, ljjil to 2.|d ; country skins, Is !ld {,(i ;is 21 -, butchers' skins, -Is to 5s lOd. Cattle, dairy and store stock were brought forward in small numbers. Fat beasts Biillicient for requirements. There was little or no alteration in value. There was barely an average muster at Newmarket on Tuesday. (!ood dairy cows t vere a shade higher. Fat lieasls again varied a good deal. Dairy cows sold at from £3 to £(! 10 s; ox beef from His to 20s per lOOlbs ; cow, lis to 17s (il. Some averages of steers wero —£7 15s. £7 5s lid, £li 12s lid, .£'« Is !M, £i Is, £5 15s, £5 12s (id ; cows, L'l 12s (id, £'l 7s (id, £3 12s 01, t.'i 7s lid, £2 '|.">s. Sheep were penned at Newmarket Tuesday in about usual numbers. The shipbonie. were in very bad older, which ilepios-il their price. Wethers sold at 12. to ISs. Pigs in short supply, and sold wmII. Mk Au-:\ani>ki; Aitkkns market report, for the week ending August 2 : —Produce of most kinds quitted in good quantities at satisfactory prices. The usual weekly sales have been well attended, with fair competition. Potatoes, table, have been in demand beyond supply ; larger quantities could have been quitted. The market continues firm with upward tendency. Prime Waikatos, £1; Taranalii, £1 to £1 10s ; Southern, £1 JOs; .Napier, £4 to £4 5--; Hobart seed are oagorly sought after at £1 to £1 10s; kidneys aro a (bug at £2 10s to £1 ; ne.v kidneys Id to li I ; Shepherd's, 3s to 3s (id cwt; onions have come in good quantities. Several largo parcels quitted at j'd to Id ; poor and secoud-eiass lots, Us to os fid per cut; chalf, dull at Is to Is lid per sack: oats, dull at Is il l to2s ; wheat, (good fowl), scarce at 3s to 3s 2d ; poor, 2s l)d to 2s lid ; bran, 3s lid ; sharps, Is ; carrots, both white and rod, have buen in demand, but none c.imo forward ; mangolds, plentiful and dull, at 20s toll ; kumeras, 5s to lis ; pumpkins, 2s lid to 3 s (id; maize, 3 s 3d, market bare; bacon and hams very plentiful, Rood quantity quitted ; prime bacon, 5d to fid ; pool- and medium, 3VI to IVI ; hams, piime, 51 to 7d ; poor, Id to IVI ; lard, 2d 1.0 3d ; ci.ecso (mild), scarce, at 4d to 4.U1; old and sharp, Id to 3d ; butter, prime, fresh, lI.VI to ls; other sorts, 11 to iIVI. Corned butter; Unsatisfied demand tor real prime quality at (id to 7d ; upwards of HlO kegs of this kind have been stored ; poor kind, almost unsaleable: eggs, failsupply, which fetched from Is 2d to l.s3Vi; liotiey, bulk, none; tins, small, 3d; sections, o. 1 , Ito Id. Apples came forward in g iod quantity, at 1 ,'d to 2yd ; lemons mot with better demand, lit Is to Is 2d. Fowls ill good suppl V- I'oor, oil and small lots revised Is 3 I to Is 5.| ; good ordinary. 1» (i.l tols 101; roosters and killing fowls, Is 7d to 2. 5 1 ; ducks, 2s to 3s ill; turkeys, heavy gobblei s, 5s to I'o b I ; liens and small g inblers, 3s Hd to Is 'J.l; geese, os lid ti 4s C. I ; piuei »n>", 101 t*» Is ; u<*n;uirs, lis to JLK I'iu's but f«j\v niiteivi}, l'riet.s ruled fl'i>lll 11.; li,l t,u L-U 01- A. salt! of fruit trill's iitid shrulu held on Tue-d ty, oil' h itisfacto!'iiy. A (puntity of household furniture and eilects ;iUo ft'tehed pood pric".- 4 . Mi-wiw Ms am and Anrnru'.s W'kkklv i'vKi'Oin , .--We hsmt tii'.* to inform the public licit \w. slia.l supply tlie nuwsp ipri wit!) out weekly irpoi't of silcs and pi • i ■: 1 • t.!: ■; I '.j:i t. () 'ir ill-t jdnrl'lO) >il-i oil ft id iy, t.lie .1 u!v. wis well uttended ;tirl sit i,sf:ici<iry pric. s nbt;t incd. Monday: S il<! of u!iii■ u *■ 1 Ihfj I'ltteudun . ! wa-i Vfji'y and competition keen. Tix day : Sal"! at Ivi'-n \ ale Uoad. nitun- i'.i!cd low. Wcdiu's'lay : l*'uniitnre

j, ilt; at in tit, and b»in<,' unreserved, piico v/sirn ill favour of buyers. Thursday : Fancy side. Almost every line nil'enjd was sold. KiMay : i'roduuo side. Tim attendance wan very »»'l 1 •*icc^ very lair. (lood potato'..-; an; in dennnd at dutnand at JLT-I 10-*; Shepherds and kidney emptiieiN are u'ethn': few. We have :• -ild several tons pri v. i'•! val 1 10- t" f; '. 'Inferior quality dilli-jidt t<» quit at any pi\c\ New )n't \l.hL's with ready .sale - ri'uud, :>t,; l; kidn-ys uL Id to l!/l. <lood mqniries for first-ehiM butter and bi'ton. J't.idtiy :We have rcc^iv«*l several consignments arid quitted piivnU-ly at curient r.i tes but we have nut accommodation for e\hibitint? poultry at present; pleasiiutu this Auction prices this day : K iti\ii', potatoes, U 10.\ sacks in : inferior quality, U. 15s to 17, 5s ; Shepherd's, tM 10 >; kidneys,}:! to U 10-; now kidneys, Jd lo lid ; round, ;d : kumeras, .tTI 10s to I'.'/; onions, Jd : inferior, }d to .Id; foul \, lid it iJ I , sacks in; ".it-, N 10(1 to 2s 3d; niaiz<\ very scarce ; o.it'-u chaff, £3 ; cheese, ,'i!d ; fin.ih Uuttur, 7d l;n 1■; OVI ; salt, 2Ac I to (') i ; h mis 5d ; bacon, 4Jd to lid ; orange.*, •h to is )> ! per ease; lemons, H to Od per ti'i/ 'U ; pumpkins, 2s 2d t<j 2s Id ; flour, fj!); ontiniul, >»10,

MARfvKT HVA'OKTS. Tun New /.aland .Loan ami Mercantile Company report as under Bki<i;.\nk, .1 uly 11th. — Wheat (free) : Two --rftiill N arc about dun from South Au-tr.dut for 1:!hj m-\v local mills. Prime Ntnv Zealand Tuscan may ho (nominally) ipiotfd '.id, but there aio no available in the market at present. Oats (dtity, '-d |<er b\i>h;-i) are a complete drnsr, ami tli*? iimkiit, us very heavily stocked. It is impossible t" sell largo quantities at nny"iciii i! a reasonable piice, and v.'u I.»'>n^:l V' fni; lior shipments iir' : 'iiwljil I '. I r smaM ?iits of I.'JOO saeks '_N (j.l tii \li ; 'M air- th<> ol?t;»in-I'-.t-jt'i' s {dntv, ir>s p.;r Inn): Uond il -ni.ni'l foi primr Circular Ib-ads fur seed ut !Jii, ii"t many offering. Xew /♦inlands arc in full -mtnjly at piTMin', aud worth up to i'i :V. I i-.il/.isi' (duty, od per lb.): Market iii .i,i:c, but. the local .supply i-i ample for all ufj'iiiemeu's meantime. (»ood qualities an! realising U to 1> lid. Cheese (duty, od pur 11».) i > very slow of sale, and concessions in pi ice have lainly h:<d to bo submitted to, owing to the competition i»f outsido impoiters. Stocks ate rather full at the 11;o;tii■ nt, aud 7.V1 i> Ihe best price obtain;ti: lor trad<; line.-; of pMioe niedrun size. 1i0.».f li t--, but small . i.■,uixy at 'id to Xjd. ittid b'it: ui (dufy, 'A I pn- lb.) : ModeI,:' i■ i;in | : I ii y for n: i• u:t (jua'.il ics (New Zealand) .tli up to 10', I tor bacon ami la for

bams, Ain-.i. July 11.™' Wheat : There linn p,,.< h j, littir 1 ltifie (■nquiry far wheat, and tVu*. '-f piime v/iioat have buen made ut 3s

7',(1 ..11 hticks, I'.'tt A<l«l-.Ue, (cruiwi weight, bags in'-'1 ii-!i." 1. Nt which H-inro I,lie. market is firm. Ottilia to tho b;ul weather in Kngland values have advanced ; sales. with n sre.tciil cog", being rep it.!<l at 3lii !!i. which U tlio liiglfst ti(?nro oliti.im*l this pros-nt isun. Under date Sth Ins', ntir Ij' mil l mi house- wired us fi' 1111«'s '.—"Tin' in ukct is In in. The wen 1 her ii unfavorable f ii- the i-i-'ip lieie. Victorian wheat is win-til o7s li 1 per (|ii ii-fcr. e..\ warehouse, and Adelaide will! it :i7s !l 1 pR" quarter."--O.it.s (.Intv -s per cent il) : New Zeal-m I feci icits meet with n slo-v salt; at 2s 1(1 t-> 'Js til 1 p-M- bushel, iii h .nil, gro s weight, bags includod.-Put.iti.es (duty 20s per ton): There is an improved demand. Sales have been made sit t'4 to £-1 Oil, in bond, I'ort Adelaide. We expect the market to advance. . Mhmiol-unk, July Hi.—Tlie interruption of cable communication has materially affected our market for wheat during the past week, buyers having shown some hesitation in operating at the advance recently established. Piiiim wheat, however, has remained tirm at 3s 9.W to 3s lOd, the latter price having been paid at auction today. Pending the restoration of tele i'l-apliic communication with England, the cours-e of values in our local market must nece-sarily remain very uncertain. Since our last the Loch Shiel has cleared for London with 8000 bags of wheat and 100 bao-s of flour, while the mail .-teainor Lidiria nl<o took 1020 bags of flour for the same destination. Our deliveries of who it and flour by rail during the past week show an increase of 10K2 bags over those of its immediate predecessor. The receipts at Spencer-street, Melbourne, out-stations, piers and sidings, cover 1X,"83 bags as against Hi,li2o bigs to hand during t.ie corresponding week in I8S!I. Our gross receipts by rail at tho above-mentioned stations from the Ist of January, 1890, to the 12th of July are returned at 834,772 bags of wheat and flotu-as compared with t)li(i,(i7(> bags to hand during the same period last yen-. Our exports to date from tliQ port ot Melbourne cover 3-4,241 tons of wheat, or its equivalent in flour. Wheat: Some improvement in the demand for prime milling, nnd to-day we realised up to 3s 10 1 ; while feed and medium l"t.s sold at 2s !)d to 3s li.V.l.—Flour: Demand slightly letter, and sales effected at_l'S to £8 2s (5d for stme; and up to £!l 5s for roller, in trade lots.-O its: A fair inquiry for Algerian and stout nulling, but other sorts rather dull of sale. To-day we sold Calcutta, Is lid ; Algerian, 2s 2.W ; and 2s 5d for Tartarian.—Birley: Fe :d descriptions dull, but malting in rather more request. To-day we placed feed sorts at Is lid to 2< 3,1 : and medium maiting at 3s 3d to 3s (51. No prime malting offered, but we quote 3s !I.VI to 3s 10.J. —l'eas : Sales have been nude at up to 3s 3d, owing to scarcity of maize,—Maize in short supply, ami quoted at 4s (id for old. Bran : Sales have been made at illd, with only small inquiry.—Pollard has been taken at lOd.