AUCKLAND LIVE STOCK MARKET.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 13, Issue 1073, 10 August 1869, Page 2

AUCKLAND LIVE STOCK MARKET.

(Reports to Friday, August C) MR. A. BUCKLAND'S REPORT. At the Haymarket, on Saturday last, there was an improved inquiry for all descriptions of horso stock, but particularly for heavy draught. Those ex Hero brought from £31 to £37 each ; the carriage pair, £52. Unbroken medium draught stock from the Waikato, in low condition, brought from £9 ss. to £16. The damaged grain ex Eleanor sold at low prices : Wheat, 3s. 4d. the bushel; oatmeal, ljd. to 2d. the lb. ; bran 7d. the bushel. At the Triangle sale, very few cattle were penned. Several lots of seed potatoes were sold, and brought from 50s. to 755, the ton. About 50 head of cattle were penned at Papakura ; they were freely competed for, and good prices ruled throughout the sale. The especial sale of fat stock held at the Remuora Yards on Tuesday was fully attended by the trade. The cattle brought from 40s to 45s the 1001 b .; fat sheep, 14s. 6d. to 245. ; store sheep, 12s. Cd. All advertised were sold. The usual sale held on Thursday was fully supplied with dairy cattle; they brought from £10 to £16 each. Those at some distance from calving were rather lower than last week. Store cattle of good quality were more plentiful than for some time, and they met with ab.i k sale. Two and threeyear old steers brought from £8 to £9 each. Fat cattle of prime quality were in short supply, and brought from 40su-to^4ss~lhV 1001 b., but medium-qwrirtywere comparatively unsaleable, and were purchased by the graziers. A fair supply of good store sheep met with a ready market, half-breds mixed sexes bringing from 14s 9d to 15s 9d each. Fat sheep were in moderate supply, and scarcely so high in prices as on Tuesday, Fat pigs met with a steady sale throughout at full rates, and fat calves were at extreme prices. The sale of skins, hides, and flax held at the Haymarket to-day was numerously attended, and a much larger number of skins and hides offered than at any previous sale. There were not many buyers of sheep skins ; merino skins brought Is Cd each ; longwool skins, from 2s 6d to 3s 3d each. Hides were freely competed for — they brought 3£d per lb. ; calfskins, 4£d per lb. There were more buyers for flax than at any previous sale — prices for well prepared ranged from £18 to £26 10s the ton, the highest price being given for Mr. Spargo's. Tow was in less demand than at last sale ; it brought from £5 10s to £8 10s the ton. About 18 tons of flax and 6 tons of tow were sold. More attention is required by those engaged in the preparation of flax to its being properly washed and bleached, several of the samples sold being good in other respects, and selling at from £3 to £5 per ton less than it otherwise would have been. MESSRS. HUNTER AND CO.'S REPORT, There has been great activity in the horse market this week, anything like good animals readily changing hands at satisfactory prices. The Durham Yards were well supplied on Saturday with horses of an average stamp, which, with two j exceptions, wero sold, prices ruling higher | than they have done for the last month. No really heavy-draught stock offered. We sold hacks from £6s 2s 6d to £10 10s ; light harness horses, from £9 to £18 ; draught horses, from £19 10s to £27 10s. At Newmarket, on Monday, the supply of cattle was limited, large shipments being to hand. The graziers anticipated a decline in price, and consequently were reluctant to bring their stock forward. These anticipations were in a great measure groundless, as there was no material decline in price, and really prime animals fully maintained last j week's prices. At Otahuhu, on Tuesday, a much larger I number of cattle were brought forward than of late, and were quitted at fully Newmarket prices. At Papakura an average number of animals... were brought forward, and there was an active demand for dairy and young stock. Dairy cows sold from £9 17s 6d to j £121256 d; one-and-a-half-year-old heifers, from £5 to £5 12s 6d : two-year-old steers, from £6 2s 6d to £7 2s 6d ; yearlings, from £4 to £4 10s ; calves, from £2 15s to £3. The house and allotment, £60. The following is a list of prices obtained at Newmarket on Monday : — Dairy cows, of which there was very inferior quality, from £9 10s. to £11 155.; two-year old steeft, from £6 7s. 6d. to £7 ; three-year-old steers, from £8 to £9 2s. 6d. ; beef, from 35s to 475. 6d. per 1001 b; sheep (none of good quality)— half-breds sold from 10s. to 155. ; store Merino ewes, 10s. each. CABBY AND GILLES* REPORT. Owing to the large sales of beef last week, and the trade being partially supplied, the demand during the present week was dull,

and a considerable depression in prices was observable at the various sales ; a few vory 'prime lots reached 405., but the ruling figures for average cattle were 325. and 355. Store cattle, full-grown, are saleable at from £7 to £9 per head. Heifers, 18 months and upwards, are in demand, and sell freely, at £5 to £6 ss. Yearlings, are alsd much in reediest, and realise £# 15s td £4 eachi Dairy cOws changed hands at an advance lipdn last few weeks' quotations. The markets were overstocked with fat sheep, which libweveV, were all quitted, but at a decline Upon last week's prices. At the Junction Yards 6tt Tuosday (special sale) we disposed of 23 head of cattle 1 ox Keera, from Wanganui, at from £9 5s to £16 16s; also 400 sheep ex Keera and Storm Bird, which realised from 15s to 25s per head. On Wednesday 51 head of cattle were yarded, the balance of the cargoes ex Keera and Storm Bird, some of which were withdrawn, the demand being very slack owing to the trade holding large supplies : those sold brought from £10 153 to £12. The shipment ex Kate Grant, from Whangarei, brought £11 17s 6d to £14 2s 6d per head. Dairy cows brought £8 10s to £11. Fat sheep : 360 were quilted at 14s to 23s 6d each. "We also sold this week by private contract the balance of the Australian cattle ex Island City, 46 head at about previous rates.