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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXI, Issue 8959, 7 December 1905, Page 1

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[Bt Electric Tkleoraph.—Copyright. HOME MARKETS. (Pes Press Association.l Received December 7, at 8.59 a.m. London, December 6. At the tallow auctions 1605 casks wei - offered and 485 sold. Fine mutton, Z7; 6d; medium, 27s 6d. Fine beef, 29s 6'| : medium, 25s 6d. Copper—Spot, £77 2s 6d; three months. £76 12s 6d. Lead, £l6 8s 9d. Three shipments of Australian wheat sold at 31s 10yd, 32s 3d, and 34s 6d. Received JDece'mber 7, at 8.59 a.m. London, December 6. Sailed—Kaipara, for Lyttelton.

DUNEDIN MARKETS. By Telegraph. Dunedin, December 6. Fat Cattle.—l 79 were yarded. Price* were generally a shade in advance of l:\~t week. Best bullocks £9.10s to £ll, e:-:t;;-. heavy £l2, medium to good £7 10s to A, 15a, best cows' and heifers £B. to £9 15sotii.ers £4 to £7.

Fat Sheep.—l9l,a were penned. B'.'i ding was brisk, and values were about 1 ht- same as last* week. Befit shorn crossbred 21a to 23s 9d, medium to good 18'; to 80s, best shorn ewes 18s 6d to 225, me dium 14s 6d to 17s 6d, heavy ewes i wool 24s to 26s 3d, medium 20s to 23r>, Fat Lambs.—lß6 were penned. " Jits!, sold at 15s 6d to 17s, extra heavy 18s 3(',, medium to good 15s fid to. 155." Pigs.—loo wera yarded. Suckers soM at 9s to slips 14s to 15s, stores 19.i to 245, porkers 26s to 345-.

STOCK SALE. At the Rangiora Vnarket on Tuesday tinyarding comprised 900 sheep, 225 cattle and 100 pigs. Fat ewes 14s to 16s, fat wothers 15s 8d to 17s, fat lambs 12s tr, 15s Id, .'wether hoggets, unshorn 18s, shorn 14s to 15s, ewes and lambs. (aH counted) Bs, fat merino weth-Kfi 12s sd. Cattle—Beef made to 20s to 22s per 1001b, fat heifers. £4 10s to £5 6s, fat cows £5, store' Heifers £2 to £3 7s 6d, eighteen-months-old mixed cattle £2 life, yetrlings "25s to 32s 6d, small ca\v«s 7s tolls, springing heifers £3 ss, to £5 10s, milch cows £5 2s 6d, old cows 30s to. 50s. Mgs—Baooners 37s 63 to 40s, porkers 21a to 325, stores 14s 6d to 16s, weaners. 6s 6d to 10s 6d, suckers 4s to & 6c?.