LATEST MARKETS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 11659, 19 January 1901, Page 1

LATEST MARKETS.

[per press association.]

AUCKLAND— January 47.

[Telegraphed by special correspok-

TO THE TARANAKJ HJE.RA^D] . (General business is still fairly, brisk. Mdfee is a little easier. Potatoes are plentiful- Eggs have advanced a penny. Butter is down a penny. Quotations are as "follows : — Fresh butter: Firsts, Sd per lb; prime salt butter, 8d; ' seconds, 6d; cheese, local, 4d to 5d per lb; factory, sdto 6jd; eggs, 7d doz ; hams (in cloth), 8d to 9d ; bacon (in cloth), 5d to 6d ; roller flour, £7 10s ; maize, 2s 4d to 2s ssd (ex wharf); oats, feed, 2s to 2s 2d; wheat, 2s 6d to 2s lOd; fowl wheat, 2s 6d ; oatmeal (25'), £10 ; potatoes, 4s to 6s cwt. Wool, Hides, Skins, Ac. — Messrs 6. W. Binney and Bocklands' reports have not reached us this week. Horse Stock, &c. — Messrs Buckland & Sons' report : — Horses : At the Haymarket on Friday last there was an unsatisfied demand, which still exists for young horses of a useful class. The draught stallion Scotland Laddie, by Boyal Conqueror, sold at 40 guineas ; active heavy spring cart horse, £32 10s; pair waggon or plough horses, £19 each; light and staunch young horses, £15 to £20 each; aged useful and light harness sorts, £5 to £8; unbroken horses suitable j for 'bus or tram, £8 to £13; well-bred hacks, £12 to £16 each. .\Cattlb, Shkp,&c.-— Messrs A. Buckland & Sons report that at Bemuefa on Thursday cows at profit better worth from L 5 to L 7 each, no store cattle yarded, fat and young calves in full supply sold freely, a good muster of fat cattle #>f good quality were a shade lower in value, steers and heifers from LI to LI 3s per 1001 b; agid, 16a to 18s; steers were from L 6 10s to LlO 6s each; cows, L4to L 8 ss, 260 sold: fat sheep' folly maintained last week's values, wethers, 14s to 17s each; ewes 9s to 14s 3d; lambs, 8s to 16s 6d; for> well fatted lighter weights 6s 6d to 7s W; price* for

. mi j „|, * Well fatted porkers good; small and" store* pigs at low rates. Stock at Runciman om Wednesday sold at good values dairycows from L 5 to L 67s 6d each;: well-bred sri*ong calves I/I|S6» to LI 15a; yearling*, L 2 10s to L 3; fresh* conditioned grown steerft L 6 10s to UU 6s; 2 to 3 years, L 5 to L 6 J<fc> eky.cews* L 2 to L 3 ss; fat ewes, 12s 6d: small pigs^ 7s.— The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Liznited, reports as follows :—: — Cattle : *ft the Newmarket, yards on Tuesday dairy and store cattle* yfete .in full numbers, and met with a" ready sate; dairy cows sold from L 3 15s to L 7 ids: Store steers, L 3 5s to L 4 17s; beef in full ntftjbers met a brisk sale at an advance in rates; steers sold from 21s to 24s tho lOOlbs; cows, 17s to 20s? oxea made from L 5 10s to LlO 2s 6d; cows; L42s6d to L 7 12s 1 6d. Sheep in fnll ! numbers advanced in prices; wether^ soldi j from 12s 9d to 18s 6d; ew«, 9s «d to 14» i 6d; store wethers, made 11b; do ewes, 7s» &d t<x lls; hoggets, 4s 6d to 9»; kuofts^ from 7s 6d to 13s 3d. Pigs: Porkers soM from 17s to 21s; weaners, 4s 6d to 10s 3dV