Commercial

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1625, 30 April 1875, Page 2

Commercial

AUCKLAND OATTIiK MARKET.

Ma Ani-BBD BuoKLAvr.'s Weekly ReportAt Kemuera. on Thursday, the dairy cows offered were generally of Indifferent quality. Good animals ■old at extreme prices. Store cattle were in less than »ver»g« nunibers, with a steady inquiry at late yalues. Fat cattle in short supply ; - 140 head sold ; prices advanced considerably. Fat sheep in full numbers ; 900 sold ; l*st week's prices barely sustained Figs of good quality unusually plentiful; in demand at extreme values, j Prices given were : First-class cows, jEH ; medium quality, £7 10s to £9 ; dry cows, 60s to 90s ; 10 to 15-month-old calves, 35s to 50s ; fat cattle, 28s to 3 "is per lOOlbs; and a few choice cattlwere s Id at above the figure quoted ; fat sheep, 3_d to Sjl the It-; store wethers, longwools/14s to 16----each ; lambs, 9i 6d ; a?ed ewes, 9s each ; pigs of fair qu*>ity 4d the lb live waight. At the Haynurket on Friday last, fodder was in usual supply and steady demand ; medium qu»li y, 3s 6d to 4s 61: cinder loads, 6s to 7s 6d the cwt ; barley, 4s- the bushel ; Inferior rye-giass se.d, 3s and 3s 6d the bushel ; J inch bone dust, £7 15s and £7 17s 6d the ton ; chaff, the cwt; horse,-took in less supply than usual, with a steady demand at late quota tions At Waiuku, on Wadneiday, |here was the osaal mutter Of cattle about 80 head. For calves and yearlings a steady demand at satisfactory prices, but grown cattle in low condition were dull of Bale.

Slfir Arthur reports to-day:—fowls; Is 4d to 2s; ducks, Is 6d to ls 8d; turkeys. Is to 3s 6d ; potatoes. la to 4s 3d ; Canterbury potatoes, 6a; onions, Id te id; salt butter, IOJd to l«6_d..