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BURNSIDE STOCK MARKET. Wednesday, May 17. Fat Cattle.—l7o were penned. Prices were very firm at rates ruling a fortnight ago. Best bullocks, £l6 to £l7; extra, £lO ss; medium, £l4 10s to £ls 10s; best cows and heifers, £l2 5s to iH ss; extra, £lO 12s (hi; medium, £8 10s to £lO 10s; others, £5 15s to £S. Eat Sheep.—2 800 penned. Really good soils advanced 2s to 3s, and medium Is to Is 6d. Best wethers, 30s to 345; extra, 36s 9d; medium to good, 25s to 28s 6d; light and unfinished, 20s to 23s Od; best ewes, 27s to 31s; extra, 36s 6d; medium to good, 20s to 24s 6d; others, 14s -6d to 17s 6d. Fat Lambs.—B43 penned. Competition was keen at last week's rates. A small pen of extra prime realised 50s 3d; best, 19s to 255; medium, 16s to 18s Gd. 1 Pigs. Small yarding. Competition was very good. Best baeoners, 105s; medium to good, 75s to 85s; best porkers, 70s; medium, 60s; slips, 23s 6d to 28s; suckers, 15s to 17s 6d. DUNEDIN PRODUCE MARKETS, j Donald Reid and Company, Limited, j report as follows: Oats.—Prime milling, 2s 3d to 2s 3id; i good to best feed, 2s 2d to 2s 3d; in- I ferior to medium, Is lOd to 2s Id per ' bushel (sacks extra). Wheat.—Prime nulling velvet, 5s Id | to 5s 2d; Tuscan, etc., 4s 3d to 4s 6d; I tjest whole fowl wheat, 3s lOd to 4s; i medium, 3s 6d to 3s Oil; inferior, 2s 9d ' to 3s 3d per bushel (sacks extra). i Potatoes.—Best table potatoes, £5 to • £5 ss; medium to good, £4 10s to £4 15s; j inferior, £3 10s to 45s per ton (sacks ex- ; tra). j - Chaff.—Best oaten sheaf, £3 15s to £3 j 17s (id; choice black oat, to £4; medium j to good, £3 5s to £3 10s; light and (lis- j coloured, £2 15s to £3 per ton (bags ex- • tra). | I