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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 67, 18 March 1908, Page 9

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— CAMBRIDGE STOCK SALE. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. Limited, report:—On 1 ridav the Villi iust., at Cambridge, we ottered" the largest muster of cattle for some time, yarding over 700 head of all classes. Ilu.-ers were present from Tauranga, le Puke, liikutuia, Taumarunui, Tirau, and neighbourhood, and we report a successful I sale The beef pens contained HO odd prime steers and young cows, aud they were all quitted at the hammer or afler- ' warns, excepting one line, at ruling prices. ' 'lhe best steers realised from £S 3/ to £0; lighter weights, _fi to £7 7/6; young cows , and heifers'. £1 .V to £0 2/(5; aged heavy rows '.:; 15/ to £1 l<>. The 150 well-bred ; two to three-year-old steers from Taupo were a choice lot and realised from £2 IV , to __,■ two to three year-old sleers from other sellers, £3 5/ to £1 19/; choice 13- ---! mouth steers, £2 10/ to £.'1 3/; fresh-condi- : I tioued cows £2 2/6 to £.! 10/; store cows •| £1 7,fi to _1~10. ; bulls, £2 10/ to £4 o/. . i An c\tra large muster of calves, and all ' those really strong and well-grown sold '! readily at from lb/ to £7 5/; others, 12/« ■ i in IV The dairy ot 12 cows ou account I of Mr.' Semiiieus sold at £4 10/ each; good dalrv cows at calving. £8 5/ each. lour I luindreel and eighty woolly lambs averaged ! s.ti each. Pigs were yarded In large numi hers, but were at lower values. Slips. 14/ to-£l 1,; weavers, B/R to 8/; small pigs 4.-. NEW ZEALAND LOAN AND MERCANTILE AGENCY CO., LTD. Horses: On Friday, at the Durham Yards, ivc had an average entry which sold 1 ; at ruling rates. Heavy draughts realised i I from £21 I<V to £M 13/; medium do.. £1S I IV lo £:>1 15/; light harness horses, £S 10/ ! t.i £17 lit/: hacks, £7 .">/ to £ll>; weeds, I j7l IT,/ to _7. 12 >'.. The racehorse Henry ' j llavelock realised 25g5., Nephrite bringing . I logs. , j At Pukekohe on Wednesday we had an ' I average yarding of slock which sold under 1 ! good competition at late rates. Dairy cows - j sold at from £4 5/ to £8 15/; do. heifers, i I £71 10/ to £7 10/; emply rows, £2 2/6 to ■ ! _:'.: calves, IS/ to £1 7/; two to three-year-old steers, £2 12/ to £4 15/. There were ' no grown steers yarded. Beef, of which i there was a good yarding, sold at Newi market rates. Cattle: At the Newmarket Yards on Tuesday, fat stock were penned in full numbers, ' and mot a brisk sale ut improved rates. ; Oxen sold tn 2:'./. and cows to IS/ to 20/ . ! per loOlb. Steers sold at from £5 10/ to £.'.) 17/t>: cows, £4 5/ to £7 13/; dairy ! I cows. £:'. 15/ to £7 10/; do. heifers, £3 to ' £0 10/; empty cows. £1 15/ to £3 2/; calves, 'j 15/ lo £1 11/. The fat cattle were all j light, weights. .' I Sheep were penned in usnal numbers at ' 1 Newmarket ou Tuesday, and sold at an adl vance on last week's rates, wethers realising from 17/6 to £1 .1/6; ewes. 13/6 to 19/6; well-flitted lambs, 10/6 to IS/<5; other sorts, 4/ti lo 9/. Pigs: Porkers sold at from £1 1/ fo £1 18/: weaneys, 4/ to 12/6; baconers, £2 2/ to r £3 6/. 1 i We held our second sheep fair of the 1 season at Otahuhu Yards on Thursday, 1 1 when we yarded .1200 sheep and rams. There was a large attendance of buyers, 2 I and prices were from 2/6 to 4/ per head > 1 higher. Ewes sold at from K/6 to 17/6: . I wethers, Li' 6 to 17/; lambs, 5/3 to 11/6; _! Lincoln rams, to ogs.; Romney rams, to 3 I r»gs.; English T.eire«;ter rams, to 2?igs.; Border Leicester rams, to 3gs.; Shropshire . rains, to 3gs. . I Maize: Very little is coming in, and that which has arrived sold at 4/5 on wharf for 1 wholesale lines. The market is now bare.

Wheat is in good demand at 5/1 ex store ' for wholesale lines. Oars are very Arm at 2/S c.i.f. for wholesale lines. Chaff: Local is selling freely at £5 10/ for best quality. Southern is in good demand at £6 10/, ex store. Butter: First-grade is selling at lid; second grade, 10id; milling, at lOd. Cheese is selling at sid and 6d. Fungus is selling at 4Jd. PRICE OF COCKSFOOT. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHEISTCHTJECH, Tuesday. The demand for cocksfoot from the North Island has resulted in prices being* very high and firm, and a local merchant's sale of a line of 161b seed at !)d is the highest , ngnre recorded for some years past. ! SIZE OF GRAIN SACKS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) OA_tIAEU, Tuesday. A conference of representatives of the faouth Island chambers of commerce, which met here to-day to consider the Governments regulation respecting the size of grain sacks, decided to recommend that a sack .Sin by 24.in be adopted. This, it was believed, would hold 2001b of flour as well as of gram. It was also decided to ask the Prime Minister to allow the carriage of grain I In sacks carried over from the present seaI so U , u , l( j t0 communicate with the Australian chambers of commerce asking that a similar size of sack be adopted there