LIVE STOCK AND PRODUCE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 239, 7 October 1903, Page 3

LIVE STOCK AND PRODUCE.

The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report that a large number of •horses were brought forward, and competition was brisk. Heavy draughts sold from £27 to £44 10/; medium draughts. £18 15/ to £31; light harness horses. £7 10/ to £10 10/; hacks. £5 10/ to £15 15/. AusterliU brought 150gs; Sentinel. 27gs. At Cue Newmarket Yards all descriptions of cattle were ■penned in full numbers, and sold at late rates. Ox beef, up to _7/ 1001b; cow, 10/ to 23/. Fat steers sold from £7 10/ to £13; fat cows, £5 10/ to £0 1.0/: dairy cows from £5 10/ to £0: store cows. £.'{ 15/ to £4 IS/; calves, £1 18/ to £.'1 1/. Sheep in usual supply at Newmarket on Tuesday. Fat wethers sold at from 15/0! to .",0/; P wes. 12/0 to £1 6/: hoggets, lu/i; to IS/: spring lambs, 0/0 to 15/0. Pigs met a ready sale, porkers selling from £1 is/ to £3; weaners. 12/0 to 10/: bat-oners, £3 2/0 to £! 3/. Hides sold at _d per II) advance. We quote: Prime ox, fijpl to 74d: extra stout ox. s_d to (!d: stout ox. fijrt to 53(1; medium, fid to fl.pl; light. 4id to 43d: cow, best lines, 4gd; good. 4d to 4_d: calf and kip. 3d In 4Jd: stag. 3_d; damaged hides. l?.d to 2§d. Sheepskins: Prices firm. Large salted and green, 4/ to 4/0; country- butchers' skins. 3/0 to 4/4; other lines, 2/ to 2/0: damaged. 10d to 1/0. Tallow: Rest ]in»s. 23/3; seconds, 18/ to 21/0: rough fat. Pal. Hair. 11:,' d. Tails, 1/4. Pones. £4 11/. Maize: Market is weak at 2/0 on the wharf, and we think thai before the week is out the price will ease a penny per bushel. Oats: I! grade are s'-lliacr nt 2/ on Ihe wharf. Wheat: Demand is small. Good prime samples are worth 3/10, e.i.f. Chaff: Southern dominating the market. Prime is worth £4 15/. sacks in. and

good loon I can be supplied at £3 10/ to £3 15/, sacks extra, ex store. Potatoes: Market very much weaker. Sah-s have boon made as low as £3 5/. Putter: Market linn, everything to hand finding a ready sale at prices satisfactory to the sellers. Prime separator, ftd to Old: poorer qualiliey. Srt to R.'d: factory, bulk, flirt; rolls. lOJrt. Cheese:' Little on the market. Medium are worth (lid; loaf, unprocurable.