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Waikato Argus, Volume XIII, Issue 1344, 30 August 1902, Page 2

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Tiik Waikatu Abocs Office, This Day. AUCKLAND MARKETS. MKSSKS AtFBKD [SCCKLAND AND SONS report:—Horses: AT the Haymaiketall sons wrfe well represented, and latu vitm-s (u!!y mantained. Young heavy draughts, £34s oil to £37 10a. thu latter price being tor a three-year-old colt, unbroken, from Helensville ; medium draught and cart horses, £lB 10s to £23 10s; good hacks and buggy horses, £ll 2* Od to £'s 10s ; light harness, £6 5a to £l4 ; ponies and weeds, from £5 downward.* ; v>orn farm horses, up to £l3 10a : tax cart, £l7 10- ; buggy and harness, £■2o. Hay and Straw : Hay sold from 3a (Jd to 4a 3d per cwt., and l!ls to 28a per one-horse load; straw, 47a ptr waggon load, and 30a per small load, delivered. Hides and Skin : Stout ox, 5-Jfl to 5,Jd ; medium. 4§d to s£d ; lisht ox and cows. 3Jd to 4£d ; calf, ad to od ; horse hides, 5s to 7a each ; damaged hides, at late viilues ; tails. Is 01 per dozen ; horsehair, 1* .'i:\d-. tallow. 20a rid to 24s 61; fat. Ij}d ; "hones, 4a Od ; skins, best, butchers' up to 3s, dry and country Is to 2s 4d, interior and damaged Id to lid. Grain, etc. : Mai/." sold at 4s 2d for Sydney, but, unfortunately, owing to insufficient space, some buyers were unable to ship, and as Sydney market is (asier lower values may be expected here; oats, firm, at last week's prices ; chaff, scarce, £5 5a to £0 10s, ex rail ; carrots, 30a ; bran, in very short supply. £7 ; Sydney bonedust, £6 10a : guano, £4. The Remuera Yards were well filled with stock of all classes, which met with a ready sale. Cows at profit sold from £6 10a to £9 7" 61 ; backward springers, £4 15s to £6; fat and young calves, short of requirements, sold freely; fresh-dropped were from 3s to 8s; medium, 12s to 18s; others, up to 36* ; no heavy weights penned. Few store c.ttlo yarded, those t,old at late values. Fat cattle were well represented, and sold steadily throughout at from 24s to 30s per 1001 b for well-fatted oxen; cows and heifers, 20a to '2ss. Prices for steers were from £S 10s to £l6 15s ; cows £5 5a to £l2 10s ; 255 sold. Fat sheep, penneii in average numbers, were scarcely up to late values ; heavy wethers brought from 15s 10 19s Sd : lighter sort', 9s 6d to 14s 6d ; ewes, 9s (id to 15s 3d ; hoggets, 8s to 12s 3d; 1670 sold. Pigs were short of requirements, and fully kept late values, porkeis bringing from 25s to 35s ; heavy op to £'2 15s; small sold better than usual ; 80 sold. Poultry, la Id to 2s Id. SYDNEY SHEEP SALES. Sydney, August 28.—At. the Homebush sales all descriptions of sheep were in best request. .Prices showed a decided rise. New Zealand fetched 25a and 365.