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(BY TELEGRAPH.) AUCKLAND, August 23. Mr Buckland reports— Fat sheep, short supply, slightly higher in value, prices have ranged from 3£d to 4d per 1b ; noggeta, in low condition, 8s to 9s each ; fat cattle, 32s to 36s per 100 lbs ; 42 steers averaged £10 3s each.
CHRISTCHDRCH, August 23.
Market quotations — Fat cattle, £10 to £16; light weight heifers, £8 to £10; steers, £6 to .£6 10s ; sheep, cross-breds, 6s 6d to 7s 2d. Business in the grain market has been quiet during the week and there have been few sales. Trade in beer and spirits has been brisk,
MELBOURNE, August 23. Flour, £10 12s 6d ; wheat. 5s 2d to 5s 3d.
SYDNEY. Aumiflt 23.
The markets— Case brandy, 325; bulk, quarfcera, 63 ; rice, £11 10s to £12 10s ; New Zealand wheat, 4s lOd to ss ; oats, 4s 6d to 4s 9d ; tobacco, Raven and Cable, Is 6d to Is 7d.
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Wheat, 5s 4d.
NEW PLYMOUTH. August 23.
At Mr Courtney's cattle sals 153 head were yarded. Calves, £2 17b 6d to £3 3s ; yearlings, £3 7s to £3 17s 6d ; small two-year-old steers and heifers, £4 10s to £5 ss ; store cows, £4 5s to £6 ; dairy cows, in calf, £1 to £8 ; springers, £8 to £9 10s ; working . bullocks, £26 10a.
DUNEDIN, August 23.
Produce quotations :—Oats, 3s lOd to 4s j wheat, 4s ; barley, 5a to 5s 5d ; pollard, £6 ; bran, £5 10s; flour, £10 10s to £11; oatmeal. £20 ; potatoes, £6 10s.
UAMAKU, August 24.
Best milling wfleas, ob ya j oats, 3s 8d to 3s lOd ; malting barley, 5s Id ; flour, £11 to £11 10s ; oatmeal, £20 ; pollard, £5 10s.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5161, 24 August 1878, Page 2
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