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REMUERA STOCK SALE. (By Telegraph.—Special to Waikato Times.) AUCKLAND. This Day. Messrs Alfred Buckland and Co. report: —At Remuera, yesterday, there was a full market of beef, which sold well up to last week's quotations. Steers made from £6 10s to JEI2; cows, ill- 10s and i>S 12s Gd. Sheep were in full supply, and met steady competition at slightly lower rates. Wethers sold up to 26a 6d; ewes, to 27s 6d ; hogget?, to 21s 3d ; laoibs, to 255. Pigs were in usual supply and sold extra well. Porkers sold to 255; baconera to 525. MARKET PRICES CURRENT. Waikato Times Office, This Day. The following prices for the current week are quoted by the Hamilton trades people to-day:— Bacon, per lb—Cambridge, wholesale, 8d ; retail. 9d to lOd; Canterbury rolls, wholesale, 8d ; retail, ( Jd to lud. Hams, per lb—Cambridge, wholesale, 8d; retail, f Jd to lOd ; Canterbury, wholesale, 8d ; retail, 9d to lOd. Eggs, per dozen Wholesale, ; retail, lid. Dairy butter, per lb—Wholesale, 9d; retail, lid. Factory cheese, per lb Wholesale, 7d ; retail, tld. Onions. — Retail, 2d per lb. Table potatoes—Local, wholesale Xl2 per ton, retail 15s per cwt.; Southern, wholesale .£1.2 10s per ton, retail 15s per cwt. Chaff per ton—Wholesale, £4; retail, JEI 10s. Sharps, per 1001b—Wholesale, 63 9d; rotail, 7s. Bran, per 1001b Wholesale, ss; retail, 5s 3d. Oats (Southern) per bushel Wholesale, 3s 3d ; retail, 3s sd. Fowl Wheat, per bushel Wholesale, 4s id ; retail, 4s Gd. Maize, per bushel Wholesale, 4s Id; rotail, Is Gd.
AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET. Farm and Diiry Produce—Butter, factory, Is, farmers' sepirator or diiry butter, 8i per lb; fresh og?s, 8d per dozen, wholesale; cheese, farmers', 5d to sad lb ; factory, medium, Gd, loaf, 6jd. Flour Markot. -Flour, local, wholesale, jEO 15s (less discount); wheatmoal, 15s; bran, 1601b, £'i 15^ ; sharp?, 2001b sacks, ■£!• 10s ; oatmeal, £ll per ton, 25's. Grain. Oats, B tirade,2s 7\d ex store ; Algerian seed, hj; White Tartar, 3s 2d; fowl wheat, 3s 81, e.x store, sacks included ; Southern milling wheat, 3s 6d to 3s 7d, f.0.b.; socks extra ; maize, 3s Id for wholesale lines on the wharf. Potatoes.—£l2 10s ex store ; Cp-to-Date seed, £ls ton; Northern Star, 25s cwt; Australian Burbanks £ll 10s per ton. Chaff. —Local, £5 ss. ex store, Onions.—Californian, 143 to 15s per owt; local, 10s to 12s. MESSRS U. W. BINNEY AND SON'S REPORT. On Tuesday wo submitted average catalogues of hides, sheepskins, tallow, eto. liifios.- -Market tirin. Ox extra stout, 7jd to 81, stout Gjd to 6d, lifcjhL aid to Cow best liues sijd to o£d, good s£d to s£d, kip i J to s|d; calf well lliyed, G.f I to 7d, out 4£d to 5d ; stags •td to per lb. Sheepskins.—Market firm, with keen competition. Green and salted, extra large up to 10s 81, large 8s Gd to Gd, medium 7s Gd to Bs, small 5s Gd to Gs Gd ; dry skins large 7s <id to medium Gs to 7s; small, Is Gd to 5* Gd each.
Tallow.- lUist mixed 2;!s (id ho 2ti (id, good 1?- i l<. seconds Ills to 2ls pur cwt.; rough f»t I id per lit. Bonos.—flood dry, ill- 15s pur ton. Cow Tails—lb 8d per do/an, FKOZEV MEAT. NA.PIEK. Last Night Tho C.C. and D. Company to-day cabled the following report on tho frozen meat market from London : "To-day's quotations are—Canterbury mutton, 3jd; Napier, Wellington and North [Bland, 3fi Lamb', first and pec mil, 4sd ; beet, hind quarters, 3^i; fuies, 2^d. ADDINGTON' STOCK SALE. CHRISTCHDR*U, Wednesday. At the Addington livn etook market, except in f*t cattlu and fat aheep, there were moderate entries of stock in tho yards and a good attendance. The salo of fat cattle was irre.-ular and prices easier, especially for priuie sort?. Store wethera Hold well, but moat of the linei of hoggets were passed in. Fat sheep showed little change in values. Pigs showed a still further rise in prices Store and cvttle met with a fair sale. Thd* entry of store sheep totalled about 2000, and they were mostly hoggets and wethers. Moßtof the latter changed hands, while only a few lots of hoggets were sold, the prices asked being abovH buyers' limits. Among the pales were 2tifi wothnrs at 20s 7d, 62 at 20r 6d, and 110 at 20s 3d; 760 hoggets at lf» 10d, 30 at 16s od, 105 at 16» 2d, »o<i 91 at
from 14s 8d to 15- Id. There was a good yarding of fat sheep, mostly halfbred and crossbred wethors, with a few pons of ewes, and several linos of merino wetheis. The sale opened dull and prices were rather weaker, except for prime heavy sheep, but improved towards the close, when graziers operated mote freely and took a number of lots of unfinished sheep. The range of prices was : Prime wethers, 22s 6d to 25s 9d ; others, 19s 2d to 225; ewns, prime, 20s to 23s 3d ; medium, 18s to 19s fid ; hoggets, 18s to 19s Id; prime merino wethers, 17s (id to 19s 9d; good, Ifis to 17s. 'I he yarding of fat. cattle totalled 275, a gord proportion being prime quality steer* and heifers, the supply being beyond requirements. The sale was irregular and prices easier, especially for prime quality cows, and second quality steers and heifers selling well up to the previous week's rates. The entry of store cattle was made up chiefly of small lots, of which two-year-olds were the best. There was a fair amount of business done at the following rates: —Yearlings, 265; 15 to 18months, 31s to 535; two-year steers, £3 12h til; two-year heifers, 12s 61; threeyear steers (few four years), .£5 7s 6d; three-year heifers, £1 los; dry cows, ill 13s to £3 111?. Dairy cows met with a fair sale up ,£8 ss. There was a good yarding of pigs, and those all round showed a still further advance Baconers made 50s to 755; porkers, 28s to 445; medium stores, 16s to 20s (a few to 245); small, 10s fid to 15s ; weaners, to 10s.
AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE MARKETS. SYDNEY, September 5. Wheat, chick, Us 31; milling, 3s 4d to 3s sd. Flour, £7 10s to £8; Manitoban, £l4 to .£ls. Oats, Tasmanian, Algerian milling, 3s 2" 1 ; feeding, 2a lid to 3s Id. New Zealand Gartons, 3s 5d ; TartariaDs seed. 3s 4d to 3s sa. Mai'/.\ 2s 91 to 2s lOd. Bran and pollard, 9td. Potatoes, Tasmanian, £7 15s. Onions, Victorian, £7 ; prime, £9; Japanese, £!' to £IU. Butter, lOjd. Cheese. sjd to £fi. Bacon, fid to 7{d. The above quotations are those ruling between merchant and retailer, and do not represent slightly lower values obtained by recognised broker. MELBOURNE, Septembers. Wheat, 3s 3d. Flour, £7 10s. Oats, Algerian milling, 2s 7d; Tartarian, 3s Id. Barley, 4b 3d to 4s 9d ; feeding, 3s 2d; Cape malting, 3s to 3s 2d; feeding, 2s 9d. Maize, 3s. Bran and pollard, 9|d. Potatoes, £fi 15s to £7. Onions, £6 10s. ADELAIDE, September 5. Wheat, 3s 2d. Flour, £7 10s. Bran and pollard, 10id. Potatoes, £9. Onions, £7 10s.
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Waikato Times, Volume LVII, Issue 8003, 7 September 1906, Page 2
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