THE MILLS.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XVII, Issue 1350, 16 November 1860, Page 2

THE MILLS.

Wholesale.— Fine Flour, £22; Seconds, £20 Sharps, £9 per ton ; Bran, 1/6 ; Maize (cracked or whole) 4a. 6d. Wheat, Bs. 6d. Retail. — Fine Flour, 245. per 100 lbs.; Seconds, 20s. do.; Sharps, 11s. do.; Bran, 1/9 per bushel; Maize (cracked or whole) 6s. per bushel. Building Matkrials. — Boards and Scantling, per 100 feet, 14s. to 15a. ; Boaids, tongued and giooved, 21s. ; Shingles, 14a. per 1000; Palings, 14s. ; Posts and Eails, £3 to £3 ss. per 100 ; Bricks, £3 ss. to £3 10s. per 1000 ; Lime, Is. 6d. to 2s. per bushel.

At the Wangarei Monthly Cattle Market held on the 7th instant, at Mr. Rust's Yards, the attendance was very good. An entire third of all the Cattle shown was sold at good prices. Cows, with calves by their sides, fetched from £10 to £12. A lot of Heifeis, 20 months old, averaged £6 10s, per head. A fat Cow, the property of a native, found a purchaser at £12. No business done in Horses, although a few good Stock Horses were offered about £20. On Saturday last, at the Greyhound Yard, hoises were plentiful, but buyers were tew. Several two-year old colts and fillies were sold at from £7 6s. to £8 10s. A quiet pony was sold for £11 55. : and a plough horse for £20. Maize, brought 4s. 6d. per bushel. At the weekly sale of live stock, held by Messrs. Hunter, Cochrane, and Co., at Newmarket, on Tuesday last, there was a full supply of cattle of every desciiption, and with few exceptions, all offeied weie sold at satisfactory prices. The show of fat cattle was good, and good figured were realized. 5 bullocks fiom the coast averaged £12 9s. 6d. each, and others sold at prices ranging from £11 2s. 6d to £U 17s. 6d Dairy cows brought from £9 ss. to £14 2s. 6d. Store cattle were in demand, and the supply was equal to the demand. Cows brought from £6 12s. 6d. to £9 17s. 6d. A lot, containing 11 steers from the inteiioi-, went at £7 7s. 6d. each. The supply of fat sheep was below the average, and the figures were not quite up to those of the previous week. 2 pairs of working bullocks were sold for £21 and £22 15s. A lot of 19 head of cows, heifers, and steers, was sold privately for £123. Messrs. Cheeseman report an advance in the prices of all kinds of live stock sold by them at their Newmarket sale on Tuesday last, the 13th inst. Fat Steers and Heifeis realized from £8 los. to £11 17s. 6d. Dairy cows £10 and upwards. Sheep sold readily at from 19s. to 275. Lambs, at from 9s. 9d to 12s. ; and fat calves at £2 10s. each. A small herd of 21 head store cattle at £120.