Commercial. AUCKLAND LIVE STOCK MARKET.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 13, Issue 1108, 10 December 1869, Page 2

Commercial. AUCKLAND LIVE STOCK MARKET.

(Eeporfcs for week ending December S.) ME. AIiFBED BUCKLAND At the Haymarket, on Saturday last, oaten hay brought 55.; lucerne hay, ss. and ss, 6d. tho cwt.; old potatoes, 2s, the cwt. A double seated buggy, £31; a Hansom oab, MO. For the Poverty Bay horses there was good competition, the best among tbem bringing from £10 to £25 55.; inferior ones from £5 10s. Draught colts were lower in prioe, but no good broken draught horses were brought forward. At the Papakura sale there was a great muster of stock and a very full attendance, All penned obtained a ready sale at late prioes. Dairy cows were more plentiful than usual, and met with a better enquiry than at Remuera. , At Remuera, on Thursday, not many dairy oows were penned. There was no improvement in values. For the stores advertised there was a good enquiry, and prices for young steers and dry cows ruled rather higher. Fat cattle were penned in- full supply—l3l sold.' Prioes were' very equal throughout the sale, and highest at the iinish. Best quality at 375. 6d.; inferior, 35s the; 100 lbs. A larger than usual supply of fat calves brought from 31s. to 36a. each. The cattle ex Charles Edwards averaged £11 eaoh, and those by the John Perm £12 9s. eaoh. Sheep pens were all filled, and prioes were lower about ls. per head. Shorn wethers, ex Comerang, from Turanganui, brought 10a. 6d; mixed ewes and wethers, in their wool, from Bs. to 9s. 3d. eaoh; store ewes, 7s. 6d. to ,Bs.; store lambs from 6s. each. Fat lambs were in full supply, and brought last week's rates; a few choioe pens from 12s. to 155., but the greater number from 7s, to 9s, eaob, Pigs, both fat and store, were in larger than usual supply. Prioes considerably lower for all but small sized animals of good quality. OABEY, GILLES, HUNTEB, & CO. On Saturday last the Durham Sale Yards were well filled with horses, which, with few exceptions, were sold at extremely good prices, The Poverty Bay horses, ex Coomerang, brought from £6 12s 6d to £16, for riding haoks; and tbe shipment, ex Rifleman, from the Chatham Islands, wero very low in condition, but realised from £5 5s to £8 7s 6d eaoh; light harness have sold from £9 7s 6d to £14. Cattle.—The Junotion Sale Yards were not so well filled as upon previous weeks; prices ruled much ac during the past month. Beef were in small supply, and, if anything, the prices were higher than upon our last market day. Dairy cows very dull of sale. Store oattle were eagerly competed for, and brought higher prices. Calves and pigs met with keen competition. The following prices :—Dairy cows, £H to £11 17s 6d ; store oows, £5 7s 6d to £6 10.<; yearlings, £3 7s 6d to £4 12s 6d; calves, £1 12s to £2 17s Cd ; two-year-old steers, from £5 17s 6(i to £7 2s 6d; three-year-old steers, from £8 7s 6d to £9 12s 6d ; bullooks. £9 10s to £12 15s ; beef, 38s to 40s, up to 42.s Gd for primest quality. Fat Sheep.—-The yards were filled with all descriptions. Provincial fattened, sold at 19s to 22s ; Wanganui, half-bred, 14s 9d to 17s ; Napier; merinos, ex Star of the South, 10a to 12s Gd. Store merinos, ex Keera, from Napier, 8s to 8a Gd. \ Lambs were in plentiful supply, and sold trom 5s to 12s.