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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12479, 25 January 1904, Page 3

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New Zealand bald offic€ - Saturday evening. The sharemarket wo/" 11 to-day. In investment lines Bank/ New Zealands were, looked for at 735, nP^ m quoting. New ' Zealand Insurance.** 1 87s bcl > had buyers at 85s. National^" l ' o in demand at 21s, and South British I& 16. with sellers at 22s and £5 18s (/respectively. Taupiri Coals had buyers/ 16 M, without sellers. D S.C.'s, at 12s, v* inquired for at lis 9d. In mining line's ere of Komata Beefs offered Is 3d, sep I s 6d. Talismans were a trine firmer, fa™ advancing to 2s sd, sellers withdraw? after quoting at 2s 9d. Foi Waihi Oral Junctions 40s 6d was offered, no sella quoting. In other lines late piiees rule GKOPERS^AKK QUOTATIONS. The folio wi/ ore the quotations for butter and eggs the week ending January 30, fixed by th'jlairy Produce Committee: — Factory butt, best brands, lid per lb; farmers', srfrator or dairy-make, first grades, 6d; fond grades, sd; eggs, Is per dozen. J AUCfCLJD STOCK EXCHANGE. The followijnro Saturday's cloning prices, the business (lon&log nil:--

I G. a.. BtJTTr.T;, Chuiruian. I w. H. O. .Tchxstox, Secretary. 12 noon.tumary 2:!, V.-oi. ', (ILL AND DIVIDEND LIST. Divide*. Dae. N\Z. fin/ River I'lalo Land ■ Jlortca/ Co 7 p.p. Jan. 2C X.2. li:Jmre Co. 0 '1 U Now. HtknrjnjC'oal ... — Now. j Tairiv.i .pken Hilts 0 0 a Jan. 20 . Call? Due. Snnbeirjl January 15 0 0 1 Feb. i "s'ev.- OaWsford, January in ... 0 0 1 Feb. b Waiui Bill, January if ... 0 0 1 Feb, 10 I LONDON'. By Tebraph.— Association.—Copyright. I LONDON", January 22. Pheepsll Files: 4262 offered and sold. Merinos realised im par to 5 per cent, advance; Sue medium dssbreds, 5 per cent., cud coarse, 10 per cent, advice. Silver, ill 3-lGd per ounce. A stoppage of the Indian Gernment purchases has disturbed the , 1 market. ' Wcol: iry active. Best greasy merinos have advanced per cent. Best greasy merinos have advanced per cent. HAMILTON' STOCK SALE. Messrs.tcXieol and Co. report:—At the Hamilton sale 1 Thursday we had only a moderate tittendance the public, harvesting, no doubt, keepin;.' a miner of both buyers and sellers away. We yarded 40head of well-bred cattle, prices for all classes shving a slight downward tendency. One hundred al forty head of beef were penned, prices ruling fro 20s to 21a per 1001b and 18s to 20s per lOOlbfow beef. We qua: Fat steers, £7 10s to £3 10s; fat cows and heife, £■■> 10s to £G 15s; 18 months and two-year-old iteers, £4 lis to £4 13s; 13 mouths steers nd heifers, £3 13s; good calves, £2 5s tf.'l 10s; younger sorts. £1 15s to £2 Is; store e?s, £3 to £3 16s; springing cows and heifers/Co 10s to £7 10s. Thre/ hundred and fifty sheep -were penned, nmstiyfats, which were not in demand, sellers a!kii)sp-.iore than buyers were inclined to give; eves, M M: two-tooth sheep, 13s 3d; store lambs, 10° tclas 6d. Abut 50 pigs of really good quality were pennd, Sid met with a ready sale: weaners, lis to Is; lips, £1 Bs. XGARUAWAHIA SALE. Thi New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency om|iiny, Limited, report:—At our Ngaruawahia nontlly stock sale on Friday, January" 22, cattle a ere brought forward in larger numbers than usual st tins time of year, and we yarded over 700 bead (mostly well-bred calves, yearlings, and up to two and a-half-yuar-olds. Buyers were present from Morrinsville and most Waikato districts. Young cattle of all classes were required, and brisk competition existed until the conclusion of tho sale nth the result that almost every pen was sold at ■a satisfactory price. Several pens of three and t.iree and a-half year steers were offered, but buyers could not be induced to give sellers' reserves Well-bred calves realised from £2 .'ls to £2 10s-' younger sorts. £1 10s to £1 Ids; yearling steers, £3 -is to £3 14s; )P. months to three-year-old steers' £3 IDs to £4 8s; fresh cows and heifers, £3 l.'s to ';'.' His; fat heifers, £5 10s; quiet yearling heifers, £•-> os to £3 12s; IS months and two-year-olds £4 to £4 4s. _ Dairy stock offered in large numbers, ni.is.lv heifers at calving and a few months off. petition -was good and all sold, the best heifers, from Messrs. Lovell Brothers and other vendors realising from £5 5s to £G; backward heifers £4 10s to £5 ss; good dairy cows, £6 5s to £7 10s.

I Seller*. Buyers. BAVKS— I £ 8. d. £ s. d. New Zenlai - 3 18 0 INSURANCE! Ken- Zealaj 4 7 G 4 5 0 National 12 0 110 South Hri 1 : 5 IS G 5 16 0 FINANCIAL Is.'/, and /er Plate, new 15 9 — COAL— / Taunirl 3/e?, Limited ... — 0 IB 9 GAS— ' / Aucklai 14 G 0 14 3 0 SHIl'l'INt XortV.enBteam, p.-.ul up 0 IB 4 — XortlieraHcam, rem. ... 0 7 1 0 7 1 Devonpotferry i 1!) 0 — TIMBER— I,evland-<irien Co. Lid. 2 2 0 — MitchelaoCo U 15 0 — illSCELLAEOl'S— Avotvlale irk and Pottery 1 0 ,G 0 13 U V.B.C.. r.Ucd 0 18 0 0 11 '.i II.M. Ar.v, pref. ... — 10 New Zaili Drug, £2 ... 2 9 0 2 7 U Union Oil 110 — MINING— ; Knrauni j 0 0 •*'. — Kuraiuii-CBonian ... 0 0 5 — Maliara till, eon. ... 0 1 3 — May QiteeiExtwidod ... 0 0 4 — New Kclij 0 0 11 — Old Albyn 0 13 0 10 Victoria 1 0 0 5 — Cror.'n / o 8 B — Golden If, contributing 0 3 2 — Komnta }!* 0 1 G 0 13 Pride oNaihi 0 0 2} — Trtirua ihcn Hills ... 0 4 2 — Talism-nl'oiisoiidatecl ... — 0 2 5 Waidi J ft 7 G — \> F.fli United ... 0 0 2.J — Waihi dolidaied ... 0 13 0 11 W'ailii Cols 0.0 5 — T>"ai!ii Fjidod 0 2 4 0 2 0 V.'nihi ti;id Junction ... — 2 0 0 W'ailii S«>.i 0 0 0 — Hunker's ill 0 17 — iraki oeliold 0 0 G — Harbour ew — 0 0 3 Old Hauti, paid tip ... — 0 3 0 Old Haifa, contributing 0 3 7 0 2 11 Big Beet contributing... 0 0 G — Minerals^raited, pref. ... 0 2 9