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Waikato Argus, Volume IX, Issue 767, 29 September 1900, Page 2

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gj Waikato Akgus Offiob. This Day. MESSRS MoNICOL AND CO'S. SALES. Messrs McNicol and Co Report.— Our annual special spring horse fair commenced at Cambridge on Wednesday. 19th inst. The first hour and a half w, s taken up with implements, vehicles, sundries, etc., which, however, 9old better than usual. Farm waggons, £l7, £l9 and £25 ; buggies, £lB and £25 ; gin, £8; spring cart, £4 ; gigs and harness, £lO 15s to £l3 ss. Of the draught stallions Chancellor, made £45 ; Laddie, £l9 10s and Banker, £3O; the five-year-old Clydesdale, Just iu Time, brought up by Mr Hawkins, failed to reach the reserve, and the thoroughbred St. Crispin was also passed in. The uhbroken light horses were not so good as usual, but amongst them were some really good sorts and these sold readily. For the inferior sorts, there were offers which, in many oases, were refused, and we are surprised that these owners do not recognise that it costs do more to keep a good horse than a scrubber—at a time too when a good one pays for his keep ; good stamps, suitable for hacks, made £lO to £1.5 ; those that would make haudy stock horses or .station hacks, £8 to £l2 ; heavier class, adapted to coach and 'bus work, £l4 to £l9 ; the 'bus horses off Auckland roads, were a bit worn, but the majority would come fairly sound on tha Waikato roads, these made from £7 5s to £l3 for the better class aud others £6 10s downwards ; the 15 horses just overland from Gisbnme were a serviceable lot of cobs and harness sorts, competition was good, the lot averaging £ll ss. Amongst the local hacks, those from Wairakau,, were a choice lot, making £l4 15s, £2O, £23 10s, £2l 10s and £ls ; Geo. Kohleis got £3O for his weight-carrier, by Merrylegs II.; C. Lake's well known grey buggy gelding made £2O and the same settler refused £26 for his grey buggy mare. The draft of hack and harness horses from East Coast were brought out in saleable condition and sold readily, making from £7 to £2O 10s. F. W. Burnett obtained £24 for an upstanding carriage horse. A nice black mare, well paced and a stylish jumper, from J. Fisher made £27 10s. Geo. Hill, of Matahura, had a draft of strong harness horses that showed plenty of substance, which sold from £ll 5s to £lB. Prices may be quoted : Well-paced hacks, £ls to £23; exceptional ones, such as hunters or weight-carriers, £25 to £3O; strong, good • actioned carriage horses, £lB to £25; real stylish bus and tram horses, £l2 to £18; useful hack and stock horses, £8 to £l2. TakiDg the hacks and light harness lot right through, although there were some exceptionally good and better than usual, the average was barely up to the usual seen out at this September sale. One excuse for this may he that those that were picked and taken to the Transvaal would have been offered at this sale. The yarding of draught horses on Friday—all draughts were kept back till this day—was the best ever seen iu the district, and was really a credit to the Waikato. Starting at 9 a.m., the sale was continued all day with every horse serviceable and useful—not a bad one in the lot. Amongst the unbroken draughts were 27 eolts and fillies from Galatea Station, a draft that is seldom met with, all active, full of life and grit and in good heart—they were of the stamp suitable for bus, tram, or farm work. Competition was brisk, aud the lot averaged £lB. Yearlings made from £7 5s to £8 15s; two-year-olds, £l3 10s to £l9; four three-year-olds from J. Taylor, by Royal Conqueror, £3O to £36; three from Win. Douglas, by same horse, £3O 10s, £4O 10s aud £4l; three from Woodlands. £3O 10s, £3l and £34 103; five from Jno. Jeffries, £ls to £24 ; two from fl. Waliace, £25 10s and £26 10s; two from Bowler Bros., £26 10s aud £27; one from Geo. Way, £4l; one by Lord Glasgow from H. Hicks, £32; filly front I. Coates, £2810s; colt from G. Jack £3O, others accordingly; £56 was the top price in the broken draught obtained for a seven-year-old mare by General Fleming and in foal to Lord Elderslie, bred by Robt. Noble ; £53 a five-year-old mare by the same horse from C. J. Storey made; £45 each for two brood mares in foal to Ulenlyon from C. Lake ; £47 10s for a mare from Rotoranei, and £4l for Jno. Hanks' mare. W. C. Morgan got £45, and J. Taylor £4O to £46 for three mares ; good heavy draught geldings, 4 to 7 years, from £32 to £4O; medium draughtgeldings, same ages, £'24 to £33 ; medium draught mares, 4 to 7 years, £27 10s to £36 : aeed mares, medium and heavy, £ls to £25; geldings, £lO to £22 according to conditiou and freshness. Altogether (546 horses were sold, 139 on Wednesday, 190 on Thursday, 24S Friday, aud 69 on Saturday morning. We did our best to find accommodation for all horses ; but there were so many that some were overlooked, and for any shortage iu this respect we apologise and thank thoowneis for their forbearance. . Buyers were present from nearly every part of the colony, Christchurch, Fielding, Pahiatua, Whangarei, Tarnnaki, Rangitaike, Te Puke, Galatea, Taupo, Thames, Waiuku, Poro-o-tarao, and in fact from every part of the province. At Ohanno, on Tuesday, 23rd inst., we yarded 700 of as nice quality of cattle as one couid wish to see, the grown cattle from Galatea Estate and yearlings from different local breeders were really good, competition was brisk throughout and practically every lot was disposed of. Dairy cows were not as good as usual, sold from £3 10s to £4 17s (id ; 3i-year-old forward steers from Galatea, £6 10s ; Mj.year-otd fat steers from the same place, £7 12s 6d to £!) 5s ; fresh steers from W. H. Maudeno, £5 15s to £7 7s 6d ; empty cows, heifers, £3 to £3 li)s ; 200 yearling steers of choice quality and wintered ou turnips, £2 12s to £3 2s ; smaller and younger calves, 35s to 465; yearling heifers, wc have not seen dearer, £2 to £2 14s; 2 to 2.>-year-old store steers, £3 6s to £4 10', according to breeding ; fat cows, £5 7s to £6 10s, but they were good. At the hogget sale on the same day wc yarded 1300 hosigets, 400 ewes with lambs, 250 fat and forward ewes and wethers, and with the exception of one owner's 60 wethers, all were sold. Hognets were much better than former sales, the majority being in splendid condition, and many fat. Best longwools made 12 6d to 15i 3d ; crossbred and lout-wool, not in auoh good condition, 10n fid to lis; • half-bred hoggets, 9s fid to 10s. The following arc the prices : Thomas Roslioroiigh, 12s lOd and 15s 3d ; 11. Burke, 14s fid ; F. Gibson, lis ; .1. Morrish, 13s ; .1. Moffat, lis 1 Id ; W. Itoihwell, 9s Cd aud 12s 3d ; T>. Monro. 10s (id ; J. Krippncr. 14s Sd ; Shaw Bros., 12s 4d to 128 Sid ; W. Wiiloughby, 10s 2d ; McMickftn Bros., Us lOd ; W. Reid, 12s; W. Chitty, 12* 3d and 13s 3d; fat aiid Wward ewe?, lis 01 ; store wethers, r.h lOd. KwfcH with lambs : 200 really choice, with early lambs, from Lochiel, 14s 6d ; J. Ryburu, las; H. Wells, 16s 1 Id ; others, 9s 0(1. At the Moanavalu cleuring sale held on Wednesday 26th, notwithstanding the wretched weather there was a large attendance—even if it had been a bright day th& vendors could not have hoped for a better sale, everything sold freely and quickly, and notwithstanding the long ilst th* sale was finished by 4 o'clock.

The furniture hail the most part bccu,iu use for years und made full value, tno implements hud been eared for and were iu splendid order, and this to a great extent assisted prices, unionist the. lot Champion drill, £'2o 10s; Deeiiiig hinder, £27: Duncan grubber, £8; Cambridge roller, £2O 10<: tip drays, £6 10s and £10; farm w>ggon», £7. £2(5 10< and £l7; single buggy. £l9 ; Miltier's safe, £10; woolpicvss, £ls ; D.F. plough. £2 10. sto £10; tine harrows, £tto£4 7s Gil; chain and flexible harrows, £3 '2s (id to £5 10s. '250 diy ewes, almost all mutton, 14s 6d ; ewo hoguets, i4s; wHher hoggets, 13s; cull hoggets, lis lid; ttli'il Lincoln owes, 20s; stud Lincoln rams, 17s 6d. Dairy cows sold well—£9 15s. £S 18s, £9, £4 15.', £4, and £4 17s 61 ; shorthorn bull*, I'2, 10 9, 9£ and 9 guineas. The 18 draught horses were in grand trim and sold readily, two best mares madi; £49 each ; other mares made £3O 10s, £3O, £2B, £2l, £27 10s, £25, £2l 10s. £lB, £l7; gelilines made £24 10s. £25, £26, £27, £2O 10s, £l3 and £42 ; an unbroken draujjht filly, £4l; the hacks told exceptionally well-£22 10s, £l7, £l4, £.lO ss, £lO, £ll 10s, £l2 ss, £lO 15s, £l3 ss; buggy pony, £l4 10s.

AUCKLAND MARKETS. Messrs A. Kuckland and Sons Weekly ' Report. —Horses : At the Haymaiket on Friday last entries were hardly up to the avoraae, though a fair number changed hands at full values. Competition was keen for all classes, if young and sound. Draughts sold up to £35 ; medium active horses. £lB to £25; hacks and bugyy horses, £9 to £l2 ; the mare Trixie, £l7; pony guineas; draught entire Lord Fife, £6O, j were among the sales effected. Hay and Straw : Less than the usual amouut of business done ; meadow hay, scarce, aud sold a little better, 2< 6 i to 3s Cd per cwt. being the prices under the hammer; straw, better worth, and wanted. Grain : Maize improved iu value, selling at 2s 4d ex wharf, in wholesale lines; oats, uuchanged; chaff, ex rail, £2 15s ton; manures at late values. Hides, Skin?, Tallow, etc. : A larger catalogue of hides and skins than usual, and of better quality, sold at late values. Tallow, scarce, and second-class only ; cow hides sold freely tip to 3fd for best, and 3d to 3-Jd for medium ; ox, up to sd, but 4d to 4-|d were the ruling prices; calf skins, 3;J-d to 5d per lb; sheep skins, 3s 6d to 4s 3d for best woolled, green and salted ; lighter, 2s 6d to 3s 6d; lamb skins, lOd each ; tallow of medium quality, 15s to 16s 6d cwt; rough fat, l : J-d lb ; horse hair, Is 2d lb ; bones, 5s cwt. There was a good muster of stock at the Pukekohe Yards on Monday, most of which was sold at good values. Dairy cows were from £4 to £6 each ; dry cows, £2 15s to £4; strong calves, £1 to £1 15s; yearlings, £2 to £2 15s; grown steers, £5 to £6 15s; fat cows, £5 to £B. There were about 30 well-bred bulls yarded, aged from 10 months to two-year-olds, which sold from £3 10s to £5 17s 6d each. The Remuera Yards, ou Thursday, were faitly well filled with cattle of all classes, which met with a readj sale, excepting dairy cows ; those were at lower values. Prices for cows at profit ranged from £3 to £5 5s each. Fat aud young calves, in full supply, were requires. Fresh - dropped, 43 to 8s each: medium, 10s to 14s ; heavy, up to £2 10s; 80 so|d. The store pens were well filled with cattle, but mostly young steers and dry cows. Two and a-half year steers were from £3 8s to £4 5s each; dry cows, £2 10s to £4 ; strong calves, £1 to £1 15s. Fat cattle, yarded in average numbers, were better worth, and brought from £1 to £1 3s 1001 b. Steers ranged in price from £6 2s 6d to £9 17s 6d each ; cows, £4 to £7 ss. There was a good muster of sheep, aud all of real good quality, which sold freely. Heavy wethers brought from 18s to £1 4s each ; lighter-sorts, 15s to 17s 6d; ewes, 14s to 18s; 1050 sold. A truck-load of wethers from Mr G. Bull, of Waingaro, averaged £1 Is each. Spring lambs, penned in fair numbers, were at late values, and brought from 8s 3d to 13s each ; 100 sold. There was a larger muster of pigs than usual, and they receded in value. Good-conditioned store pigs were from 10s to 18s each ; heavy, up to £1 15s ; small, 2s 6d to 8s 6d ; porkers, 17s to £l7s ; 200 sold.