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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue XXIV, 24 March 1902, Page 4

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ftaw Plymouth, bATtraDAx, Mahch 22. RETAIL PRICKS Batchers' meat—Prices as lately advertised. Farm and Dairy Produce.—Milk, 8d per quart; butter, dairy, lg; separator. Is per lb; cheese, 7d per lb; eggs, lg 3d per doz; fowls, 3s per pair; ducks—pair; lard, 7d; bacon, 8d to 9d; hams, 8W i a lb. ■*

Fruit Bananas, 3d per lb; cocoa-' nuts, 2d to U each; lemons, Is per dozen; oranges, 2s per dozeu; gooseberries, 4d pec quart; pine apples, 61 and 9d; cherries, Is per lb; pears id per lb; tomatoe 4d per lb; peaches 4d per lb; plnms 3d ptt lb; apples 2d per lb; apricots 4d to 6d per lb. fegetables.—New potatoes, Id pei lb. Breadstufts.—Bread, 6d per 41b loat cash « weekly payments; ?& booked. Firewood, from 8s to 12s per load Goal.—Westport(Brookdale), 425; Mokau, 28* Bone-dust (pure). £7 10s per ton. Plums, 4d to 6d per lb.

BUYING PRIOKB Butter.—Bsst dairy, 8d to 9d; separator, lOd per lb; cheese 4d and 4Jd per lb; eggs, Is Id per dozen; fowls, 2s 6d per pair; ducks, 3s per pair; bacon, 5d to 7£d per lbr bams, 6d per lb; lard, 4d to 6d; fungus, 3d per lb. MR MswrON KING'S WKEKLY AUCIION REPORT

Mb. Nbwto» Kino reports : Cattle.—There was a fair master at Wai-j

wakaiho on Tuesday, the majority being calves, for which bidding was brisker than the previous fortnight, and nearly every line was sold at the h-mmer. Calves made LI 5s to U 14s 60,18 to 20 months heifrrs L2 12s 6d, at era L 3 4s, mixed yea-lings L2, heifers in calf 1 3 14s to L3l7s 6d, springers hi 10s to L 5, store cows L 3 to 14 16s, fat cows L 4 5s toLS Is. Sheep—Cull lambs 2s lOd.

At Stratford on Thursday I held a cleiriog sale on account of Messrs Moatgomerie Brothers, who have sold their farm. The cows, of which there were about 100 in the herd, were su excellent lot being all young and comprising a good aumrer of Jerseys. Bidding was very keen throughout the sale and excellent piices were realised. Cows in milk male L 6 to Ll2 15s, the Htter being for a prize Holstein. half to three-quarter-bred Jerseys 18 to Ll2, pedigree do Lll to LIS, pedigree bulls L 9 to LlO 10s; he ivy trap horse L 26, light harness mare L2B; sows with litters L2 lis to L 3.

TIOEBSB * BTBVBNS' AUCTION JIBPORT. Mbbsbs Viokibs k Sums report a good master of stock in their Inglawood yards on Wednesday last, late piices being fully maintained. Calves made LI to LI 10s 6d, yeerlings L2 to L2 ss, 15 to 20-months L2 lis to L 3 2s, store cows L 3 to L 4, fat cows L 4 12s 6d. springers L 4 5s to L 6.

HUCKLAND AND SONS' WEEKLY AUCTION REPORT. (Special to News,) Auckland, March 21. Messrs Buckland and Sons report:— Hoises of a good class sold freely, at an advance in price. Aged and medium d'aughts made L2O to L 27, express horses 1,14 to L2O, good harness L 9 to Ll3, hacks etc., at last week's prices. Cattle were in short supply. Beef improved 2s per lOOlbs, steers snd heifers making 21s to 235, cows 17s to 19s. Dairy cows made L 3 10s to LB. Btores were at late values. Sheep were in average supply. Wethers brought 6s te 12s 3d, ewes 6s 6d to 12s 3d, fat lambs 8s to lis Kgs showed a lower tendency. Porkers made 80s to 30s.