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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9142, 25 August 1888, Page 4

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HAMILTON. . August 24.—Mr. John Knox held a most successful sale yesterday of fruit and ornamental trees, <fcc., at Mr. George Mason's nursery at Claudielands. The bidding was spirited, especially for the fruit trees, which moved off at satisfactory prices. CHBISTCHURCH. > August 24.—The Christ-church retail prices are: For fresh butter, Is Id to la 3d ;• eggs, lOd; cheese, 4d to 64; milk, 3d ; beef, 3d to B<lmutton, 2d to 6d ; pork, 6d to7d: ham, 6d to lOd ; bacon, 6d to 9d. For wholesale produce the prices are: Wheat, prime milling, 2s 9d to 3a ; wheat, medium, 2s 8d to 2s lOd : oats, milling, 2s Id to 2s 2d ; bright feed, Is lid to 2s; barley, prime malting, 4s Id to 4s 4d ; barlev medium, 3s 0d to 8s 9d; peas, blue Prussian, 2s (id

to 2s 7d ; potatoes, Derwents, 45s to 4 .s(kl . eount stations, onions, £4 to £5 per ton , butter, prun lOd to lid; second quality, 4Jd to 8d , cheese, sma loaves, 3Jd to 3Jd ; cheese, other sizes, 3d to Sid • hams and bacon in cloth, 6Jd to 7W , flour,fl £8 to £8 10s. Live stock prices are. Cattle, fat prime, 19s to 30s per 1001b ; fair togood, 16s to 18s 6d per stone; two-year-old heifers, ±-2 6s , steers, , three-year-old heifers, £3 3s: steers, £4 , prime sheep, fat, 2jd to 3d per lb; fair, 2d , store sheep, merino wethers, 7s 2d; four and :sue-tooth rr&asibrei:l wethers, 20s; ewes, Ps ; hoggetts, 7 ca to ,? 4a , ewes in lamb, lis to 12s; pigs, 3d to 3jd per lb.

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STOCK AND MINING ASSOCIATION. Auckland. AUGUST ii, 1888. Company. Business. Closing Prices. Buyers. Sellers. Rinks . £ 8 d £ s d Ne w Zealand - - 10 10 010 12 6 Colonial .. - — 8 * 6 — Insurance: ' . , n New Zealand — , — 4 i 0 4 1. 0 MISCELLANEOUS! „ . f , ' N.Z.L. & Mercantile — 4 ° 0 — N.Z.Land Mortgage - , ~ .» 19 J Auckland Gas, old — 10 16 010 17 6 KemptliorneProssor 20/ — — Mining : Cambria — - 01, 510 — — Saxon .. ~ 3/6 0 3 6 0 3 8 M&nukau .. , — - 0 2 0 — Mo&nataiari — — 0 b 0 „ ~ « Crown _ .. _ .j — — 0 „ 4 _° A. Saunders. C. Alexander, S. Tickers, J. F. Clarke, Tt. Frater, J. M. Lennox, D. B. McDonald, D. G. MacDonnell, Aitken CaiTick, H. Spratt, Francis llull, James Itoid, R. G. Macky. Joseph Newman, Chairman.