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Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 270, 12 November 1909, Page 6

COMMERCIAL.

MESSRS. ALFRED BU'CKLAND AND SONS' REPORT. Horses.—At the Haymarket on Friday last we again had a full yard. Aged and worn draughts sold at from £11 10/ .to £25, spring cart and light wagon class £18 to £24, buggy horses, and good hacks £13 10/ to £25. light harness sorts £8 to £18 15/, gig ponies and ordinary backs £3 to £10 10/, weed; all prices. The thoroughbred Don Cossack realised 21gu«, and the hunter Miss MagKie £25. At Pukekohe on Monday we held a special horse sale, and yarded over 250 horses of all classes. Unbroken colts, three to four years, suitable for wagon and express work realised from £25 to £32 10/, two to three years £12 10/ to £21 5/, light £3 12/6 to £11 10/, medium broken sorts lup to £25. cart horses £22 10/ to £32 10/. jfarm mares £20 to £28. those suitable for I creamery carts £14 5/ to £10, buggy horses land good hacks £12 to £20 5/, light harness I sorts £8 5/ to £15. Shetland ponies £11 to ' £15. ordinary hacks and gig ponies £3 5/ Ito £10. taxcart £16.

We had a full yarding of stock of all descriptions at Waiuku on Saturday. There was a large attendance, and competition keen for all classes, prices being In advance of those ruling lately. Dairy cowb sold at from £3 to £S 10/, fresh empty young cows and heifers £3 to £4 2/, store cows £2 2/ to £3 5/, fat cows and heifers £4 to £5 17/6, small fat steers £6 10/, three to three and a-hnlf year steers £4 17/ to £5 12/6, two to three years £3 12/ to £4 15/, yearlings to IS months £2 7/ to £3, mixed yeartlngs to £2 5/ good calves £1 1/ to £1 10/. small 13/ to 18/, small pigs 0/6 to 11/. porkers £1 1/ to £1 8/ —17 sold. Ponies £2 to £10, posts 1/ each.

The HelensvlUe Yards on Wednesday were well filled with stock, for which competition was good. Practically the whole yarding was cleared at ruling figures. At Remnera on Thursday dairy cows sold from £3 to £10, according to age and quality. Dry cows sold from £2 10/ to £5, empty cows and heifers £3 to £4 3/, bulls £4 to £10 5/. Young aud fat calves came forward in average numbers, and sold freely from £2 to £2 12/ —78 sold. There was but a moderate yarding of fat cattle. Prices were firmer, ox beef selling ito 22/ and cows to 20/ per 1001b. Steers ranged In price from £0 to £9 15/, cows £3 10/ to £7—320 sold. There was a full yarding of mutton and lamb. The former met with a steady sale right through. Lamb was easier. Wethers in .their wool sold to £1 0/6, shorn 12/8 to 10/6. woolly ewes to IS/, shorn 10/6 to 15/—IBOO sold. Five hundred and twenty-five lambs were penned. Prices were not up to last week's, being from 10/ to 16/. Pigs, In smaller numbers than usual, were better worth for all kinds—67 sold. Hides.—Ox o}d to 7d, cow sjd to Bgd, calf OJd to 83d. cut 2Jd to Otd, kips old to Od, horse 5/6 to 9/, damaged hides *d to Sid. Tallow.—22/6 to 25/6. Bones. —Dry, £4 15/ per ton. Hough Pat.—lgd per lb. Horsehair. —1/3 to 1/4. mane Dd. Skins.—Best butchers' 5/11 to 6/11, others 5,1 to 5/6, dry nnd country 4/1 to 6/5, small and damaged 8d to 3/2, lambs and pelts 1/4 "to 1/0, damaged 2d to lid. AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) SYDNEY, November 11. Wheat, 4/11. Flonr, £11. Onts, Tasmanian, Algerian feeding 2/, white 2/0 to 2/7. BaTley, Cape 3/ to 3/3. Maize, 4/3. Bran, £4 15/. Pollard, £5 15/. Onions, Victorian £0 10/ to £7. Cutter, 00/. Cheese, 7d. Bacon, Od to lOd. MELBOURNE, November 11. Wheat, 4/7. Flour, £10 15/. Onts. Algerian 1/10, feeding (offering In abundance) 1/3. Barley, malting. English 3/9, Cape 2/8, feeding 2/3. Maize, 3/8, Bran, lljd Pollard, 13Jd. Potatoes, £2 15/ to £$. Onions, £4 10/ to £5. At the hide sales to-day supplies were moderate. There was a good demand, aud prices were moderate. ADELAIDE, November 11. Wheat, 4/os. Flour, £10. Bran, lid. Pollard, 1/. MT. LYELL RETURNS. (By Cable. —Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 9.40 a.m.) MELBOURNE, this day. The Mount Lyell returns from October 7th to November 3rd Inclusive, show that 25.862 tons of ore were treated, also 17 tons of purchnsed ore. The converters produced 604 tons of blister copper, containing copper 056 tons, silver 60,4640z5., gold 1347 ozs. The half-yearly report of the company shows a net profit of £139,850. The dividend of fifteen per cent, and bonus of sixpence a shnre-pald in June absorbed £105,000.