AUCKLAND LIVE STOCK MARKET.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 14, Issue 1125, 8 February 1870, Page 2

AUCKLAND LIVE STOCK MARKET.

(Reports for week ending February 4.) ME. ALFBED BTCKXAND. "£f tlie^Ha^n3af^t'^M'-MMrday^ : 'ty^t > - i jnlfeSor horses were dull of sale-; good and young horses of al. classes met wjthra steady -demand ; f fiding horses from £12 to £15 L draught- stock from' £^s At Papakura, on Wednesday, there was a full muster of cattle-rJ^whea^jjenned. principally growing stock. Prices 1 obtained were higher than Jtiicse xutog-aLEemuera. _.C»lves, fr,om..eighi-io twelve months old, brought from £3 to £\ 17s. 6d.; etehteeo-^acnths old.catCle-Xronvf £5 m*. t9?JE6.i "4" ■ *At Bomnera, on Thursday, dairy cows/'atibeir profit, were better worth. Store cattle were in short supply, but without alteration in value. -• Fat cattle,in.u?ual supply— 97 head.sold. Vl'hejrwcaftof better than usual quality; and met 'with' a ready sale at from 32<. to SB.*, the -100 lbs., rising in value as the sale proceeded. Fat sheep were in fair sup* ply, but many of those penned were of middling quality only. For well-fatted sheep an improvement in price of about 3i*«.cash. was obtained Inferi"r sheep were more s«leahl?,;l)&t i ,\yiihott& much addition to their value. Lambs were in short supply, and spl4 higher, than for .several ./we%ks.^ On the following day 1 disposed of 52 heaittTpf ytßlfatted steers, ex Comerang from WhahganuUsat £40 : 5-9.* each.'.; ~V* ' A ■'■''">- .^f^|f||? ,At the sale of w.ool and flax held at the.Hayinar' ket yesterday, there was *a : numerous 'atlendarice. Much of the, wool hold was in bad order. Good wools, well gof'up, werein request, : and-19. Ib., being the highest price for this season, was obtained for two bales'of scoUred wool.^ Fleece wboi, wabhed, brought from 9d. to lojrl.: in grease, sd. to 7d. l^ambswoolrwalshediiOd; lab Tl3id; yitr 7d. to 9d. the lb. The, flax offered was of r more uniform Quality ""than heretofore. 1 There' was a sWady'demand at about 20s. the ton decline on last niouth ; s sale ; prices obtained were from £24 to £29 IC3'. but; the greater part realisea between £2,7 50.t. and £29 10s. the ton. For tew; there whs arduil sale; but all was quit ted at a reduction of from 2s. 10 3u. per cwt. on previous ratss; thegreaterpaWbringing 6.1. t<> 6s. fitb theewt. One parcel" of wudl an^ one of flax were passed; all others offered were sofa. Sale was affected for. 132 bales and 51 bags of wool, 30 CO'nsbf flax,'audls tons of ,-