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Waikato Argus, Volume II, Issue 112, 27 March 1897, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

ThkWaikato Arous Office, Friday. HAMILTON MARKET PRICES CUR RENT Wholesale : Bacon, Gd per lb; hams, 7d per Hi; e2gs, la per dozen ; da ry butter, b'd per lb ; factory butter, Is per lb ; cheese (farm-made), 4id per lb ; factory cheese, 4\d per lb ; onions, Id to ljd per lb ; table potatoes (local), £3 10s to £5 per ton ; chaff, £2 17s 6d to £3 10s p.-r ton ; sharps, 4s 3d to 4s Gd per ewt; bran, 4s per ewt: oats (Southern), 2s Gd to 2s 7d per bushel ; oats (local), 2j Gd per bushel; fowl wheat, 3s 9d to 4s per bushel; maize, 3s 2d to 3s 3d per bushel. Retail: Bacon, 6Jd to 7d per lb; hams, 7id to Sd per lb ; eggs, Is 2d per dozen ; dairy butter, 6d to 7d per lb ; factory butter. Is 2d per lb; cheese (farm-made), 5.U1 to Gd per lb ; factory cheese, old to Gd per lb; onions, lid to lfd per lb ; tabic potatoes (local), £4 5s to £5 10s per ton ; chaff, £3 to £3 15s per ton ; sharps, 5s per ewt; bran, 4a 9d to 5s 3d per ewt ; oats (Southern), 2s 10.1 to 3s per bushel ; oats (local), 2s 9d per bushel; fowl wheat, 4s 3d to 4s 9d per bushel; maize, 3s 4d to 3s 7d per bushel. HAMILTON STOCK SALE. At the monthly sale, held in the Hamilton Borough Yards, on Thursday, an average amount of stock was brought forward, with a fair attendance of the farming public. The tone of the market was dull for everything, but calves and young cattle, which were in full supply, met tair enquiry. Beef cattle were in excess of requirements, and, unless choico fatted, were . difficult to quit. -• Very few dairy cows were in, and for them the demand was none too brisk. The sheep pens were full, mostly fat sheep, and those insufficiently fatted were invaluable, several pens being passed, but for choice sheep the demand was fair, three pens of ewes making Bs. Pigs were in better supply than usual and all sold. .trices were : Calves, small, from 14s; good steers, 19s to 25s ; eighteen months steers, £1 10s to £2 2s ; do. heifers, 28s to 30s ; empty cows, poor and aged, from 12s to 28s ; good cattle, £2 2s to £2 15s ; three-year-old steers, £3 5s to £3 10s ; stags, £2 5s to £3 15s ; hulls, £2 to £3; fat cows, small, from £2 15s ; good weights, £4 10s to £5 2s ; fat steers, £5 2s to £5 15s, a pair of use ful bullocks from Mr Barugh making the latter price ; dairy cows, £2 17s 6d to £4 16s. Sheep : Fat ewes, 6s 6d to 8s ; do. wethers, 8s 6d ; mixed sexes, 7s 8d ; fat lambs, 5s 4d to 6s ; store ewes, fresh, 5s 9d. Pigs : Weansrs, 6s to 8s 6d ; slips, ■ to 12s. Several horses sold at current rates. AUCKLAND MARKETS. . The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (Limited), report.—Auckland Wool Stores, March 24.—-We had a medium catalogue this week. Hides advanced on last week's rates ; skins in demand, but without quotable change. Quotations are : Hides : Prime stout ox, 6d to 6sd ; heavy stout, 5d to sfd ; light and medium, 3:Jd to 4j-d ; cow, 3-Jd to 3jjd ; kip, 3d ; calf, 4d to sd; stags, 2£d. Skins: Lambs, large, 2s 6d to 3s; medium, "is 9d to 23 3d ; pelts, large, Is 6d to 2s; small and medium, Is to Is 4d. Wool : Lambs, 5Ad to Gd ; crossbred in- , ferior, Medium, 13s 6L Cowhair, lOitl. Horns, bones, etc., at full rates. Oats : Only a moderate business doing, and prices of wholesale lines are a shade ■ easier. Potatoes: Market glutted with supplies from Waikato, and quotations are from £3 10s to £4 per ton. Onions: No great demand. Prices about as last quoted, say £5 per ton. Bonedust and blood and bone manure : In good request, the former at £5 10s and the latter at £5 per ton. Grass seeds, also selling freely. Messrs Alfred Buckland and Sons' Wekkly Report.—At the Haymarket oaten sheaves have ranged from 2s to 2s -■ ■: (id the ewt; guano, £3 10a; bonedust, £5 to £6 10s ; pressed hay, £3 10s ; potatoes, £2 ; chaff, £3 103 the ton ; maize, 2s 9d ; oats, 2s Gd ; rye grass, 3s to 5s 6d ; cocksfoot, 7s 6d the bushel; alsyke, 7d ; cow grass, 8d ; red clover, 7d ; white '. clover, lOd the lb. On Fiidoy horse Rtock iu moderate supply were without alteration in values. On Tuesday, hides improved iu value. Ox hides were from i ". 3jd to sjjd ; cow hides, 3d to 3.Jd ; kip, 3d ; calfskins, 3id to 5d the lb ; tallow, lls'3d to 13s 9d ; bones, 3s 6d the ewt; rough fat, Id the lb ; peltß, 4d to 2s 4d ; lamb skins, 10d to 2s 3d each ; lambs' ■wool, 5d to 6d ; fleece wool, 5J:d to 6id ; locks and pieces, 2d to 3id the lb. "At the special sale, held at Glen Innis, ou • Monday, the tine weather occasioned a numerous attendance. Prices were satisfactory throughout. The steers in large draughts b'ought from £4 14s to £6 17s ; heifers, £3 5s to £3 Pis Gd ; cows, £4 5s each. The four-year-old horses brought from £25 5s to £35 us ; aged horses, £7 5s to £l6 15s apiece. At Remuera, on Thursday, dairy cows yarded numerously, and were slow of sale ; those sold brought from £3 to £5 10s each ; store cattle in full number, and were at lower values than for several weeks ; the steers advertised brought from £3 to £4 7s 6d ; young dry cows £2 2s Gd to £2 12s 6d each ; calves in usual number, 43 sold, were required and kept late values.' Fat cattle in full supply, 228 yarded, were at lower values, and brought from 16s to 17s the 1001 b ; steers ranged from £5 to £8 ; cows, £3 to £5 each. Sheep yarded numerously, and fully maintained their late vt'lues ; wethers ranged up to 12s 9d, ewes 12s each ; lambs also sold well, and brought from 6s 9d to lis each. Pigs yarded more numerously than for sonic months, and sold freely throughout; heavy pigs from 32s to £3. porkers 18s to 30s, weaners 5s Gd to 7s each. Messrs Hunter and Nolan's Weekly Report.—Grain, horscfeed, seed: The supply has been sufficient for requirements of a steady demand, with little or no change in value. We quote : Maize on wharf, 2s 7d ; ex store, 2s lOd ; feed oats, 2* Gd ; seed oats, 2s 9(1 ; bran, £3 16* ; oateu chaff, £2 10s to £3 ton ; Canterbury ryegrass, 4s Gd ; Poverty Bay, 5s (id to Gs Gd ; cocksfoot, Gs to 7s Gd. Horses in large numbers have been brought forward and fjtind purchasers at prices slightly in favour of the vendor. There were a good many submitted by auction at the regular sale at the Durham Yards on Frday. Competition was good throughout, but no marked change in value. We held a special sale on Wednesday of a shipmeut from Sydney, at which there was a good attendance and brisk bidding. We quote : Heavy draughts, frvim £ls to £36 ; medium draughts, £ll to £IS ; light harness, £5 10a to £18; hacks, from £t 10s to £2l ; weeds, 20s to 50.5. Wool, hides, skins, tallow, bones: Moderate quantities weie pitched at the Durham Yards on Tuesday. There was a brisk demand, and little or no alteration in value. We quote : Extra stout ox hides, skl to G.ld ; stout ox. 4}-d to 5d ; steer and cow, .'};Sl to 3vd ; kip, 3d to .'lid ; calfskin-, 3d to -lid lb : hone:-, L'3 5s ton ; tallow, 13s to 14s lid ewt : sheepskins, Is Sd to •!-, ; pelts, Is 3d to Is 7d ; lambskins, Is G<l to 2-s 3d ; wool fleece, 4Ad 10 Gd ; lambs wool, oh\ to (3d ; pieces, 3s<l to 4d

Cattle : Dullness has characterised the market. Average numbaro were brought forward, but the demand was by no means keen, and the previous week's values were barely reached. The Newmarket Yards on Tuesday were fairly well filled. For sonic pens there was good competition, but generally lacked spirit. At Waiuku the Saturday previous there was a large number of cattle yarded. Bidding was brisk throughout the sale, and Newmarket prices were readily given. Grown steers sold at from £i 10s to £5 17s (id : dairy cows from £3 os to £5 10s ; ox beef, 10s to 17s 6d 100 lb ; cow, 15s to 10s ; steers sold from £5 10s to £S 7s G.l ; cows, £3 12s Od to £5 7s Gd. Sheep : A good many were penned at Newmarket on Tuesday and steadily competed for. Wethers sold from 7s 9d to 13s ; ewes. 7s to 10s 3d ; lambs, Gs Gd to 10s 9d. Figs : More plentiful than of late. Medium weight porkers ranged from 13s to £1 7s ; heavy weights, C2 to £'2 2s ; weaners, Gs 3d to 7s Gd. FROZEN MEAT. The Nfc\v Zeal\nd Loan & Mercantile Agenov Company. Ltd., report under date, London, February 29th : With a change to wet muggy weather the demand during the early part of the present month fell away, and values for most descriptions of frozen meat have sinee ruled in buyer's favour. New Zealand mutton, in common with other descriptions, has participated in the general depression, and to-day's quotations mark a depreciation of from Jd to Jd per lb While stocks of Australian mutton arc fairly large the market has betm firm, the relatively low prices having undoubtedly been the means of increasing consumption. For some exceptionally prime sheep from the Western district of Victoria, to 2fd per lb. has been secured. Ordinary descriptions at the close show an advance of $d per lb on the month. Owing to a temporary fallin" off in shipments there, was a sharp rise in value* of American beef last week, values of Australian in sympathy being firmer. With a resumption of supplies, however, the position has not been fully maintained. Frozen lambs have met with more enquiry, in consequence of which it has been possible to secure rather more money. NEW ZEALAND DRUG COMPANY S MAN URRS. Kempthokne, Pbossee & Co. s NewZealand, Drug Company (Limited) manure price list:— ' Per ton. "A" Superphosphate (total phosphates, 40 per cent. ; solunlc, 32/34 percent. : ammonia, 1-i- per cent.) £o 2 6 "B " Superphosphate (total phosphates, 31 per cent. ; soluble, 26/27 per cent.), 2cwt. sacks 4 3 6 "C " Superphosphate (total phosphates, 46 per cent. ; soluble, 15 per cent.), 2cwt. sacks 4 9 0 Special Potato Manure. .. dlO 0 Special Turnip Mud ure .. 6 10 0 Special Rape manure .. .. GlO 0 Bonedust (pure), Steamed (pho3. lime 51 per cent., am. 4 per cent.) .. .... .. 6 10 0 Do. (pure), Green (phos. lime 51 per cent., am. 4 per cent.) .. 610 0 Do. and Blood (phoß. lime 35 / per cent., am. 4-£ per cent.).. 5 12 6 Special Root Manure .. .. GlO 0 Special Grass Manure A (for top dressing) 6 10 0 Special Grass Manure b (for per"manent pasture) .. .. 10 0 Special Corn Manure .. .. GlO 0 Speoial Maize Manure .. .. GlO 0 Special Orchard Manure a (for young: trees) .. .. .. 710 0 Special Orchard Manure b (for fruit formation) ~' .. 710 0 Special Clover Manure.. .. G 10 0 Special Onion Manure.. .. 7 10 0 Speciul Sugar-beet Manure .. 8 10 0 Sulphate of Ammonia .. .. 15 0 0 Coral Queen Guano, 2cwt. sacks, 64 per cent, phosphate of lime 4 8 6 Kuiiiit, original, sacka about 2 CWt 4 10 0 Per ewt Nitrate of Soda, original sacks about 2owt .. 0 15 0 Muriato of Potash,original sacks about 2cwt 0 1G 0 Sulphate of Potash, 95 per cent, original sacks shout 2cwt. .. 018 0 Sulphate ot Iron, original casks about Scwt .. 10 0 Per bag. Special Garden Manure, 14lb bags 0 1 G Per bag. Fowl Grit, 14lb bags, coareo or fine 0 1 G Pure Liuseed Oilcake, fine crushed, or, if required, crushed or in whole cake, Uowt. sticks, £8 5s per ton. riscount: All prices are less 2} per cent, discount for cash. Previous lists now cancelled. Prices subject to alteration without notice. Manures delivered free ou rails at side ing, Westfield. Coastwise orders delivered f.o.b. Auckland or Onehunga, Linseed oilcake delivered free on rails or free on board at Auckland only.