AUCKLAND LIVE STOCK MARKET. [Reports for week ending April 9.]

Daily Southern Cross, 11 April 1868, Page 2

AUCKLAND LIVE STOCK MARKET. [Reports for week ending April 9.]

MR, BUCKLAND'S KBPOBT. At theHaymarket, on Saturday last, fodder offered plentifully, and fully sustained, previous price* White olover seed brought 7*d; red olover, 6d to ?H ; « re S h 2< V°«# d pe u lb v , Rye «*"* 3s > cockßfoot, 6s 6d to 7s 9d per busheL Barley, 3s 3d per bushel. Horse stock were dull of sale. Draught hor«es brought £11 10a to £12 sa. Riding and light harness horses, from £2 15s each Store cattle during the past week have been in better request. All offered have found ready purchasers at last week's rates. Dairy stock of good quality are inquired for, but those offered have, as a rule, been mfenor description. Pat cattle liave again offered m excess of requirements, and prices have fallen 5a the 1001b. 30s the 1001b. was the ruling price on Thursday last for very choice animals. For sheep, the improved inquiry of last week was fairly sustained. Fat sheep, of good quality, were in short supply. Two-tooth half-bred ewes, in good condition, brought 15s to 15s 6d each. Pigs offered plentifully, but met with a good inquiry at fully late rates. J

W. HTOTBR AND OO.*S BBPORT. On Saturday lant there was a large number of horses ; the greater part were sold. Hacks sold at from £6 1 to £7 12s 6d each; one heavy draught horse Bold for £14 2« 6d. Maize «old fromSi lhfto

oio*sr, 10d per lb. ; cowgrass, lid. per lb. ; cW Jopt grass seed, 10s per bushel On Monday, at Newmarket, there vu a large number of cattle; young stock sold well: tkerswen no good dairy cows i Q the market : backward springers sold at from £7 to £8 each ; two-yw-old steerg r from to £5 ; one.»nd-»:lialf.ye»r»old steers, from £3,108 _to r £4 ; calves, from £1 13a to £2; yeariingvfrom £2 5s to £3 l»jr,iwo-yw*.old heifers, from £4 2s 6d to £5 each. Fat Otfcle-: -There w«s a good Btroply-j-aftiirwerß-■old at fully- iaat week's prices. Sheep Market : Ihere were a good supply of both sheep and lambs ; half-breds sold from' 14s to 21s 6d ; lambs, from )la 6d to 11s 9d ; a pea of store half-bred wethew sold for 9s 8d etch. • Pig Market; There was a Urge supply : newly all in were sold at good prices. Otahuhu Sale : There were not many cattle : ntarly all were sold at good pricei.