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Waikato Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6736, 10 June 1905, Page 2

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NGARUAWAHIA STOCK SALE.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, reports:—At our Ngaruawahia monthly stock sale on Friday, June 9th, more than the advertised number of cattle were brought forward. The competition for all classes was brisk throughout,and with the exception of three pens, everything was sold whilst at auction. The forward bullocks elicited brisk bidding and realised from £6 14s to £Q 18s; 3-year-old steers, £5 2s 6d to £0 10s ; 2 and 21year • old steers, 16s to J£4; Several pens of fresh conditioned cows sold well at from £3 18s to £4 8s ; store cows, £2 to £2 15s; 30 cows in calf, .£2 9s to £4; cows and calves, to j63 10s; quiet 15 to 18 months heifers, £2 7s 6d; heifers in calf, ; 6trong calves, £1 2s 6d to j£l 17s; yearlings (mixed sexes), 7s; a fair number of dairy cows offered and sold at satisfactory prices. Heifers and cows at profit, ,£5 to .£6 103; others a few months off, XI 53 to £5. MESSRS ALFRED BUCIvLAND AND SON'S REPORT. Horses.- At the Haymarket on Friday last we had an average entry. The demand was not quite equal to the previous week. Aged and worn draughts, £3 to £ls 5s ; buggy horses and good hacks, .£l6 10s to .£26; light harness and ordinary hacks, £5 2s 6d to JEI3 10s.

Hides. Skins, Tallow, etc.— Hides: Ox, 4Jd to s|d ; cow, 4d to 4gd; kips, 4£d to 4|d; calf, s^d to ofd; horse, 7s. Tails, Is 6d dozen. Tallow, 15s 6d to 20s lid. Bones, ss. Skins: Best butchers', 5s to 6s; country do., 4s lOd to 5s 7d; small and damaged, 2s 2d to 4s 5d ; shorn lambs', 2s 4d.

Grain.—Maize: Supply not equal to demand. 3s Id ex wharf to 33 4d ex store. Oats, in full supply: prices unchanged. Algerians, 3s to 3s 3d; inferior, 2s 6d. Fowl wheat, 3s 4d. Chaff, £4 10s to <£s 10s. Bran, <£s. Sharps, £7. Pig meal, £6 10s. Straw, £3 ss. Hay, .£3 to £4.

Dairy cows were well represented at Remuera on Thursday. Prices for those at profit were from £5 to £8; store eows, 35s to 55s ; calves, 30s to 355; three-year-old steers, .£5 17s 6d. Fat and young calves, in full supply, sold freely. Small were from 3s to 8s ; medium, to 18s ; heavy, to 48s; 90 sold. There was an average yarding of fat cattle of good quality, which met with a ready sale at late quotations, ox beef selling to 203 the 1001b, cow to 2ls. Steers ranged in price from £7 08 to £ll 15s; cow t s, £3 to £7 7s 6d; 230 sold. A draught of 33 steers from Messrs Reed brothers, of Waerenga, averaged £lO lis 9d, and 16 steers from Mr John Harris, of Waiuku, averaged £lO 93 4d. Sheep penned short of requirements met with keen competition, best wethers selling to 27s Od ; heavy ewes, to 15s 9d; lighter weights, mixed sexes, from 17s 6d to 23s ; best lambs, 16s 6d to 23s ; small, 7s 3d to 10s 6d. Pigs, scarce, sold freely: small to 10s; porkers in keen demand up to 365; baconers te £2 14s. Roosters, 2s 5d ; hens, Is lOd each.

FROZEN MEAT. NAPIEK, Last Night,

The C.C. and D. Company cable; "The frozen meat market is weak. North Island mutton has declined one-eighth of a penny. Quotations are as follows: - Canterbury mutton, 4|d; Napier, Wellington and North Island, 3gd. Lamb, first, 3fd ; seconds, s|d. Beef: Hinds, 3Jd ; fores, 2jd.

ADDINGTON STOCK MARKET. CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday,

At the Addington Yards the entries of stock, except fat sheep and fat cattle, were only fair and there was a moderate attendance. Beef showed a recovery in values. Store sheep did not meet with quite so much inquiry, and fat lambs were about the same as the previous week. Store Sheep.—There was a small entry, consisting chiefly of wethers. Owing to the break in the weather they did not sell so freely as of late, 'l'he principal sales were 363 two and four tooth wethers, at 17s 9d; 571, at 17s; 52 two-tooth, at 14s 3d; 63 hoggets (wethers), at 15s; 100, at 143 91; 24 (shorn), at 14s Id ; 107 at 13s 6d and 139 aged ewes, at 13s Id. Fat Lambs, There was a moderate entry, which sold under good competition at late rates. Tegs sold at J9s 6d to 22s ; lamb weights, 17s to 19s; lighter, J6s to 16s 9d.

Fat Sheep.—There was a fairly heavy yardinsr, including some very prime lines of wethers, which sold at slightly increased rates. Otter classes of wethers and ewes brought about the previous week's values. The uage of prices was:—Prime wethers, 22s to 2f)s; extra, to 20s lOd: medium, 19s 6d to 21s 6d ; light, 17s 7d tq 19s ; prime ewes, 19s to 22s ; extra, to 255; medium, 17s 6d to 18s 9d; aged, 14a to 17s.

Fat Cattle . The entry numbered 195, and was mostly of prime quality. There was a number of lots passed at first, but bidding improved, and the passed lots were afterwards 6old, a good clearance being effected at improved rates. Eight steers from Messrs H. D. and J. F. Buchanan (Kinloch) made £9 10s to .£l2, and ten steers from Mr A. Biidling (Lansdowne), .£8 12s 6d to £lO 12s 6d; and 13 steers from Mr G. Geddings (Fernside), £7 to £8 10s. Other steers brought £0 12s Gd to £lO 2s Gd heifers, £5 7s 6d to £7 2s (3d; and cows, £4 7s 6d to £7 12s 6d, equal to 19s to 21s f>r prime. A few extra at 225, and cows and inferior, 15s to 18a per 1001b. A fair entry of veal sold at 7s 6d to £3. Store and Dairy Cattle. —There were only a few lots of store cattle penned, and little demand. Calves sold at 7s 6d to 13s ; 18months, £1 13s; 2£ year steers, £4 2s 6d (passed); dry cows, 29s to £2 17s. Dairy co#g were in brisk demand, and best sorts sold at £8 to £lO 17s 6d, and others £4 to £7 10s.

Pigs.—There was a medium yarding, which Bold irregularly. Heavy bieonera

were in better request, and porkers were easier, while there was a dull demand for stores, which were mostly small. Light baconers made 35s to 40s ; heavier, 45s to 56s (equal 3Jd to 4d lb); porkers, 23s to 32a (equal 4d to 4jd lb); medium stores, 15s to 22s 6d ; slips, lis to 14s ; weaners, 5s to 10s.

DUNEDIN STOCK MARKET. DUNEDIN, Wednesday.

Ac Burnside market 208 fat cattle were yarded, principally unfinished steers and heifers, with a number of well-finished bullocks. Anything but prime did not sell as well as last week. Extra good bullocks, £ll 10s to £l2; prime, <£9 103 ; medium, £7 15s to £8 10s ; inferior, £6 5s to £7; best cows and heifers, £2 to £8; medium, £5 15s to £Q 10s; inferior, £4 5s to £4 15s.

Fat Sheep.—One thousand seven hundred and eight were penned. Wethers were in good demand at advanced prices, but old ewes were difficult to 9ell. Best wethers, 23s to 255; extra, 27s 9d; medium, 2ls to 228; inferior, 18s to 19s; best ewes, 19s to 238 6d; medium, 163 to 17s; inferior, 10s to 13s.

Fat Lambs—Four hundred and fifteen yarded. Prices were same as last week. Best, 12s to 18s Gd; medium, 15s to lGs; inferior, 13s 3d to 14d 6d. Pigs.—One hundred and seventy - four penned. Prices were much the same as the previous week. Suckers, 3s Gd to 8s ; slips, 9s to 14s; stores, 16s to 245; porkers, 25s to 36s ; baconers, 38s to 445.

DUNEDIN GRAIN MARKET. DUNEDIN, Wednesday

Wheat.—The market for prime milling is, if anything, firmer. Medium, however, is hard to place. Prime milling, 3s to 3s 2d ; medium, 2s 9|d to 2s lid ; best whole fowl wheat, 2s 8d to 2s 9d ; broken and inferior, 2s 51 to 2s 7d, sacks extra. Oats. —Prime heavy Gartons are sought after but ho'ders are uot inclined to sell, except at an advance. Prime milling and seed lines, Is to 2s 21; good to best feed, Is 7d to Is B}d ; inferior and medium, Is s£d to Is 6sd.

MARRIAGE. GILLETT-COATE j.—On May loth, at St. Matthew's Church, Auckland, by the Rev. E. W.Gillam, John Arkle Gillett, eldest son of Richard Gillett, Esq., Kirikiriroa, to Margaret A. M. M. Coates, eldest daughter of Mr Isaac Coates, J.P., " Wairere," Hamilton.