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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 169, 16 July 1908, Page 3

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LIVE STOCK SALES. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantllt Agency Co., Limited, Hamilton, report:—A*, our Ngaruawahia monthly sale on Friday, we yarded 800 head of cattle, mostly strong calves, 18-month cattle, and dairy cows. Eighteen-month to 2-year-old steers realised from £2 15/ to £3 6/; empty 18-month to 2year heifers, £1 19/ to £_ 10/; fat and forward heifers, £3 15/ to £4 10/; forward 3-year-old steers, £5 12/6; strong steer calves, £1 16/ to £1 19/6; good calves, mixed sexes, £1 3/ to £1 9/; small calves, 14/ to 17/; bulls, £2 10/ to £4. Messrs. Mar- . tin Bros.' 35 dairy cows were a really good lot, and sold at from £5 10/ to £7;-4'aged cows, £4; dairy cows and heifers from other vendors, £3 to £3 15/; milk cans, 10^to 15/; spring cart, £6; small section of land, £25, At our Hamilton sale on Thursday, tha weather was again rough, and only a small yarding of cattle and 340 sheep. Competition was dull at the hammer, but we quit*, ted all the sheep and cattle afterwards at ruling prices, excepting a few 18-month heifers. Fat heifers, £5 10/; small fat steers, £6 11/; aged heavy cows, £4 15/ t» £5 10/; 2 and 3-year-old steers, £5 6/; strong good calves, £1 8/ to £1 17/; smaller sorts, 16/ to 10/; empty 18-month-old heifers, £2; dairy cows at profit, £5 15/; 120 fat and forward heifers, 18/6 to 19/; 140 store heifers, 14/6 to 16/; fat hoggets, 11/6; fat ewes, 14/; sows in pig, £4 to £5 of. The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company report as follows: At Ohanpo on the 7th inst. we yarded 320 head of cattle. Grown steers were lower in price. Fresh-conditioned four and four and a-half year steers brought £6 10/; three and a-half to four year steers. £5 10/ to £5 15/; fleshy three-year steers, £4 _V to £4 19/; 18-month! to two-year steers, £3 15/ to £4 10/; yearling heifers, £2; choice steer calves, £2 of, to £2 12/; mixed sexes, 29/ to 36/. We heid our annual Waihou dairy sale on the Bth inst., and yarded 250 cows and heifers. There was a large attendance and a good demand for young and sound cows and well-grown heifers. Choice cows made up to £G of to £9 5/; others, £4 15/ to £5 15/; aged and backward cows, from £_ . downwards; choice heifers, £5 to £5 10/J others, £3 10/ to £4 7/6. We held a sale of Curtln's dairy herd at Waltoa on Thursday, and have to report a successful sale. There was a large at* tendance and keen competition. The herd of 50 cows averaged £6 each, the best cows making from £6 to £9 15/. Pigs: Weaners made 15/ to 21/; sow, £4 10/. Milk cans, 7/6 to 16/. At Morrinsville last Friday we yarded 3000 sheep and 150 head of cattle. There was a large attendance, and ruling prices for sheep maintained. Beef, being short of requirements, sold readily. Fat and forward wethers realised 15/6 to 19/3; store wethers, 11/ to 18/4; empty ewes, 10/7 to 11/7; fat ewes, 15/ to 17/6; woolly hoggets, 9/9 t« 10/; shorn- hoggets, 7/5 to 8/7; six-tooth to full-mouth ewes, in lamb, 18/1; aged ewes iv lamb, 11/; fat steers, £7 5/ to £8; lighteif weights, £6 7/6; heavy fat cows and heifers,, £6 17/ to £6 19/; others, £5 to £5 12/; IS and 18-month heifers, £1 15/; springing cows, £5 to £5 12/6; backward cows, £3 15/ to £4; choice heifers, £5 to £6 5/; others £3 to £4 of. FROZE*** MEAT. •': •] (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) . . i NAPIER, this day. . The C.C. and D. Company to-day cabled the following rejf>rt on the frozen meat market in London:—Canterbury mutton, 4d_ " Napier, Wellington, North Island-, 3_d, Lamb: First quality, 5 _d; second, s_d. Beef I Hindquarters, 3_d; forequarters, 2_d. (Received 12.46 p.m.) -.-■.,. The American visible supply of wheat is 18,860.000 bushels. """,, Bank shares: Union Bank, buyers -£61""' 10/; sellers, £62 10/; Bank of New Zealand, buyers, £9 10/; sellers, £10; stocH £101; New Zealand Loan and Mercantile. £94. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., have received the-follow-ing cable from their London honse, regard-"" ing the wool sale, which opened yesterday: —"As compared with last sales closing . rates, prices are about 5 per cent higher for coarse crossbred, medium crossbred, and merino. Large attendance of buyers — and active competition." ... ..