LATEST MARKETS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 4064, 10 June 1882, Page 2

LATEST MARKETS.

I BY TELEGRAPH, j AUCKLAND— Yksterdat. Produce.— Butter (fresh), 9d to lid per Ib. j ■alt, 8d tolld; eggs. Is9d per doz.; bacon pro* Tincial, 6i. to 7d.; hams,Bdto9J ; Cauterbnry do., bare 8d ; potatoes, £3 5s to £3 10s per , ton ; onions, 4s to 93 per cwt. Fodder.— Mr. Alfred Buckland reports that at the Haymarket on Friday (Jane 2) fodder was in large supply, and brought from 2s to 4s 9d per cwt. ; small loads, 15a to 29s ; and straw, Us to 23s per load. Horse Btock. — Mr. A. Buckland reports that at the Haymarket yards on Friday (June 2) the yard was completely crammed with, horses, the majority of which were from Wanganui, and consisted of active medium draughts, broken and unbroken. The bidding was brisk throughout the sale, and with very few exceptions all were disposed of. Medium draugh, unbroken, brought from £13 to £30 . 10s ; light draught, broken, from £17 10s to £42 ; light harness horses, £13 to £20: heavy ' hacks, £15 to £20; light hacks, £5 to £12 each. The hunters and racehorse (Maori) were not sold at the hammer, but are open for , private sale. [ Wool, Hides, Skins, &c— At the Hay- ! market on Tuesday (June G) hHes were plentiful and brought from 3d to 4d per lb.; ! calfskins. 2jd to 2j'i perlb.; sheepskins, Is9d , to 4s lid each; tallow, 23s and 23s 6d per cwt. Cattle, Sheep, <fee. — At Pukekone on. '. Wednesday (June 7) there was a fair muster t of cattle, with the usual attendance of buyers, , but there was no alteration iv values. — At ; Remuera on Thursday (June Bth), i large number of dairy cattle were yarded. For 1 those calving late prices were sustained, but heifers and backward cows were at lower i values. Store cattle were yarded in limited j numbers, and without alteration in price. , Fat cattle were in full supply, and large well- ' fatted stock maintained last week's values ; ' but large cattle (if not of choice quality) and green steers were lower in price. The sheep , market was well supplied with good wethers, and prices were steady throughout at barely , 3 I per lb. Pigs of good quality were abuu- ■ dant, and prices ranged, with quality, from i 2Jd to 3£d per lb. l Share Market. — Bank of New Zealand, , £23 155; National, £3 18s; Colonial, £2 10s. Loan and Mercantile Co., £6 ss. Insurance: 1 New Zealand, £4 ; South British, £2 18s 6d; . National, 31s ; Standard, los 9d ; Colonial, • 10s; Union, 229. Union Sasb and Door Co., £8 10s; Bay of Islands Coal Co., £9 ; Auckland Timber Co., £6 14s; New Zealand Ship1 ping £5 ; National Mortgage, Co., 30s ; New * Zealand Timber Co., £6 ss. ' WELLINGTON— Yesterday. Produce, &c— Flour, £12 to £12 10s j oatmeal, £17 to £17 10s; potatoes, £3 to £3 10s per ton; oats, milling. 3s 9d to 4s; feed, ' 3s B>i to 3s 9d ; maize, 6s. ; cheese, 6d. ; [ hams and bacon (Canterbury), 9d. to lOd ; country-cmed, 6d.; fresh butter, Is Id; salt butter (first-class), 10d.; eggs, 3s per dozen ; 1 onions, £6 per ton. CHRISTCHURCH- Yesterday. Prices still continue firm, but business reremnins inactive. Wheat, best samples, ' 4s 101 to 4s lid per bushel, and other 1 desoriptiousfrom4s3d to4s6da bushel. Flour i is quoted at £1 1 10s a ton, and oatmeal at £16 a ton. Oats are worth— good milling, 3s 3d ', to 3s 4d ; and feed at 3s to 3s 2d a bushel. Per . barley the prices are — for good malting 4s 6d to : 4s 7d ; for feed, 3-5 6d to 43 3d. Cheese ia i qaoted at 5d a lb.; butter, 9+d. to lOd. Hams and bacon in cloth, 7£d. to 8d ; , potatoes, 363 to 37s 6d a ton; onions, $d per lb. Live Stock.— Beef is quoted— prime, at 203 per lOOlbs.; seconds, 17s 6d per lOWbs.; mutton, 2|d. Pigs, from 15s to 335. DUNEDlN— Yesterday. Live Stock.— Prime beef, at 20s to 22s 6d per lOOlbs.; mutton, 2£d per lb. Produce. — Nothing" special to note this 1 week, though business is active. Wheat is quoted at from 4s 7d to 4s 9d per bushel. Oatmeal, £17; potatoes. £2 15s per ton ; oats, milling, 3s Id to 3s 2d: feed oats, 3s to 3s Id per bushel ; cheese, od; bacon, rolled 7^d.; hams, 10J.; sides of bacon. 7id (grain fed) ; fresh butter, favorite brands., Is 4d ; good ordinary butter, Is 31 per lb.; eggs, 2s per doz.; good salt butter, in keg, Is 2.1 p«r lb. Advice to Mothers I—Are1 — Are you broken in your rest by a sick child suffering with the pain of cutting teeth ? Go at once to a chemist and get a bottle of Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. It will relieve the poor sufferer immediately. It is perfectly harmless and pleasant to' taste, it produces natural, quiet sleep, by relieving the child from pain, and the little cherub awakes "as bright as a button." It soothes the child, it softens the gums, allays all pain, relioves wind, regulates the bowels, and is the best known remedy for dysentery and diarrhoea, whether arising from teething* or other causes. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup is sold by Medicine dealers everywhere at Is. l£d. per bottle. Manufactured at 493 Oxford-street, London

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