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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2802, 28 June 1890, Page 2

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The Waikato Times Qsc«, Friday. AUCKLAND MARKETS. Messrs A. Buokland and Sons' Weekly pout.—At the haymarket during the past week prices have remained at late values. Oaten sheaves, 2a 6d to 2a 9d per cwt. meadow hay, from 2s 6d to 3s Gd ; straw, 8s to 15s per load ; oats, 2s Id to 2s 3d per bushel; chuff, 3s lid per cwt. At the hide and skin sale on Tuesday a large number were pitched ; stout hides sold at 3.j;d to 3f d ; extra heavy, 4jd and ; medium ox, 2d to 3d ; light ox the same as cows, from ljd to 2d per lb; sheepskins, 3s Cd to 6s 3d; station hides, 2s Gd to 4s Gd each. Tallow, 17s 3d to 19a 3d per cwt. Wool, 5Jd to GJd per lb. At the horse sale on Friday most of the horses offered were sold ; good springcart horses sold from £12 to £16. Mr Goodfellow's colts brought £25 and £29 10s each; hacks, from £3 to £10. At the Remuera Yards no alteration in price for fat cattle from last week, the best at lGs per 1001b. Sheep lower in value. A large number of pigs were yarded ; the bacon pigs averaged £1 each; prices for rough pigs nominal. Messks Hunter and Nolan's Weekly Refoiit.—Seeds, grain, horsefeed, etc.: The demand for feed purposes has been steady, but little or nothing has been sold for sowing. We quote : Feed oats, at from 2s to 2s 2d per bushel; maize, 2s lid to 3a; bran, £3] 5s to £4 per ton; carrots, £2 to £3 per ton. Horses: The demand for horses of a decent stamp has continued, and there remained a demand for active horses suitable for quick draught and light harness. A fair number were brought forward on Friday at the Durham Yards, aud competition was good throughout the sale. We quote: Hacks, at L'om £5 to £1010 a : light harness horses, from £510s to £12; medium draughts, £6 to £14 10a. Wool, hides, and skins : Rather large quantities have been brought forward, and the demand has continued steady at the previous week's values, 5d per lb being the top price reached for extra heavy ox; medium, 3d to 4d per lb; light, lid to 2}d; cow, ljd to caff skins, 2|d to 4Jd; sheep skins (butchers'), 4s 6d to 5s sd; each ; country skins, Is 10d to 3s Gd each ; pelts, 10d to Is 3d each. Wool, in bags, to GJd the lb. Cattle: Sufficient have been brought forward for requirements, and a steady demand has existed for all descriptions, with a little upward tendency in the value of fat stock. At the Newmarket Yards, on Tuesday, there was an average muster. Dairy cows and stores were unaltered in value, but fat beasts were fully os per head higher in values, but prices fluctuated considerably at per 1001b., coarse insufficiently fatted steers selling at 13s, whereas top sorts reached 17s per 1001b.=s; cows, from 12s to lGs; some averages of steers were £6 17s Gd, £G 16s, £6 2s,'jEs 16s 9d, So 12s 6d ; cows, £5, £4 10a, £3 103, £3 7n 6d, £3 ss, £3 23 Gd. Sheep in leas than usual number were penned at Newmarket on Tuesday, and prices were higher about 13 per head. Wethers sold at from 13s 3d to 17s 3d; ewes, 11s 9d to 13s 3d. Pigs: Very few yarded. Porkers, worth 2Jjd per lb., livo weight; coarse stores very low in values. Messks Stone Bros.' Report.—Southern feed oats, 2s ; black, 2s ; Danish, Is 10d; White Tartar, 2s 3d; dun, 2a 3d; local, Is 10; fowl wheat, 3s ; maize, 2a lid ; crushed maizo, 2s lid. Chaff: Best oaten, 71s; bright straw (good), 00a. Flour: Bycroft's first quality, £9 10a; superfine, £9 ; Golden Gem, £9 10s; Diamond Dust, £9. Somerville's pure and guaranteed oatmeal, 25's, £10 per (20001b), and £11 10s in 7's, long to (22401b); bran, 70s ; sharps, £4 10; Southern hams and bacon, 8£ ; local hams and bacon, 7H Vinegar, Is 5d per gallon (casks in). Tea : Boxes, 14s ; halfchests, Is Gd pet lb; half-chests Indian 2s per lb. Bonedust: Auckland Tallow Company's £7 10 ; Runcorn, £7 10a ; Sydney, JI, £6 10s; Sydney SB over A, £6 10s; Ipswish, £7 sa; S. and G. Pure, £7 ; " Farmers' Friend," £0. Manila rope, 8d and 9d ; Europe, 7d ; New Zealand flax rope, 6d; cornsacks, 44 by 2f<i, 7s per dozen ; Bycroft's biscuits, 4d Gd and 9d ; currants, s£d ; pnhutukawa felloes, 10d ; red gum felloes, 72s Gd per 100 (rise of ss); ironbark spokes, 40a per 100 ; ironbark shafts, 12s per pair ; blue gum (assorted sizes), 18s per 100 feet. Kerosene (Light of the Age brand), Is 9d per gallon ; colza oil, 3s 9d ; clothes lines, NO3. 1, 2, 3, from 3h 0d lo Ss Gd per dozen. Coal and coke : Newcastle, 25a ; Queensland and Greymrmth, 60s. Saunders and Gilbert's soaps, £12 to £21; salt, black horse brand, fine, £5 10s ; coarse, £5 ; chef biikins: powder, lib, 17s Gd, and Jib 9s per dozen; McNish'e pickles, 8s Gd ; wattle bark, chopped, £10 10s; ground, £11; Bycroft'e cabin bread, £15; desiccated blood manure, £10.

[by temgraph—own correspondent.] Auckland, L'ist Night.—Produce market : Wholesale butter, prime fresh, 10d ; second quality, 8d ; third do., Gd ; cheese, good factory, 4d to 4£<J ; fresh egis, Iα 3d per dozen ; local cure, hams and bacon, ti/id; hams, 7!, d. Flour market "• Wholeaalo : Local rollers, first quality (sacks), £9 15s ; Stone 'lnnr, £!) 5s to £!) lbs ; bran, £3 10n ; Southern bran, £4 to £4 5s ; Southern oat.", 2* to 2.J Id: local wheat, Tuscan, Ms ; Southern wheat, 3s 21 to 3a 3d ; maize, 2s 10d to 3*; beam, 3s 3d ; onions, i's to £7 por ton ; potatoes, £3 lO.s to £3 10s par ton. AUCKLAND SHAREMAKKCT. Avf.'KLAXI), Last Night. I •-■. ink nf New Zealand, Imycrs, £4; . j\iit,ion;il Jiuik. hilars, "Mα fi'l; 'New Zeal;ind liisiiranue, buyer;-, IJ'.N !)d, sellers, 71s; iS(i'i'l') British iusiu'U'iCß, sellers, 31s; Cull.nial Insiiranco, sailers, 5s Gd ; Auck--1 and Ghs, buyers, £10i 10s, sellers, £11 d!il, £•") 15s new; Land Mortgage, buyers, 1"m ; Union S. S. Company, business done, £13 ; Northern Shipping Company, sellers, ■Is 3d.