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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 87, 11 April 1906, Page 7

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■ NEW ZEALAND LOAN AND MERCANTILE AGENCY CO.'S, LTD.. REPORT. Horses continue in steady demand, the average numbers being brought forward, l'he attendance at the Dnrham Yards was Sood. Heavy draughts sold at from £26 to £35 10/. A pair of medium draughts sold at £62 the pair. Light harness, £1 10/ to £19; hacks, £5 5/ to £17; tax cart, £10 "•0/; spring trap. £1-4. At the Newmarket Yards on Tuesday dairy and store cattle were yarded in nsua> numbers. Dalrv cows sold at from £4 .10/ to £10 10/; empty do., £1 15/ to £3 4/; calves, 15/ to £1 6/. Beef was yarded la Average quantities, competition being keen ap to last week's prices, oxen selling to 22/ per 1001b, cow 10/ to 19/. Steers sold at from £6 5/ to £9 17/6; cowe, £4 to £7 lf/6. Sheep were yarded in average quantities at Newmarket on Tuesday. The quality was not first-class, wetfiers selling at from 15/6 to £1 3/3; ewes, 14/9 to £1 0/9. Lambs, in full supply, sold well at from 13/8 to 17/9. Figs: Formers, IT/9 to £2 2/; weaners, 5/6 :o 14/: baconers, £2 4/ to £3. Oats: Oats have advanced In the Sonth, md are now worth 2/5 ex store here. Maize: Maize is firm at S/6 on wharf lor wholesale lines. Chaff: Stocks in town are very light, and sales are being made at £4 at the i*all. Potatoes: Good quality selling . freely at £9. Butter: Butter is in good demand at 3d for prime separator, and B*d to Sid for medium to poor. Cheese: Market is lightly stocked. Prime factory Is worth s|d. Gum: Demand for superior white and black has eased slightly. Medium and poor blacks are selling freely, bnt same quality in whites are not selling. We submitted a large catalogue of hides, skins, and tallow on Tuesday, all lines be?ng keenly competed for. Hides: Market arm. Prime ox, hone offering; extra stont ox, Bsd to SJd; stout do., "Id to 7Jd; medium do., 6Jd to 63d; light.do., >§d to SJd; cow, best lines, 5Jd to 6d; good. '4d to s|d; stags', 3Jd to 3|d; kips, 5Jd to ifd; calfskins, 6d to 6£d; damaged hides, :*a to 42d. Sheepskins: Market firm. Best butchers' Telts and lambs', 3/8 to 4/; country pelts tnd lambs', 3/4 to 3/10. Tallow: Market firm. Best mixed, 22/6 -,o 23/; good, 21/ to 2*/; medium, 19/ to 20/3: -econds, 17/9 to 18/3: rough fat, Ud to l}d. Bones, £4 15/. Cow tails, 1/fe per dozen, aorsehair. 1/3 to LTf. For Bronchial Coughs and Colds, Woods' 'Jreat Papjrermist Cw» l/» * */» P»* «*■