Dairy cows may be quoted at from £10 to £12. Store sheep. — Enquiries for this description of stock ai'e more numerous. We have no transac tions to record, and at present, prices remain nominal. Horses. — There is a slight demand for useful draughts, but it is most difficult to move off light stock, in consequence of the large number of ill-bred animals lately brought to hammer. On Saturday we yarded the balance of the last shipment ex Bengal ; 23 head realised an average of £8 2s. Quotations are — For heavy dnmght, from £40 to £50 ; •> iddling do, from £25 to £35 ; good hacks, from £17 to £22 ; light un broken colts, from £7 to £12 ; light weeds, from £3 10s to £6 10s. A consignment of 26 head very useful horves, ex Ahuriri, from Wellington, landed on Friday, will be sold on Saturday next. Messrs M'Landuess Hkpbttrx, and Co., report that at their second stile of provincial produce held at their rooms on Wednesday last, there was a full attendance of the trade, but the bidding was not quite so spirited as at their previous sale Oats brought 2s 6d per bushel, and a parcel of wheat (270) bags, in bad condition, brought 3s 6d per bushel, while 4s 7d was refused for a fair sample of 600 bushela ; bran sold at lOd per bushel : and chaff at L 4 per ton, buyer supplying his own bags. The ' Oamaru Times ' of the 9th inst. reports: — "Business continues dull. In the grain mar ket quotations are as follows : — Wheat, market glutted, price (nominal), 3s 9d ; oats, no enquiry, 2d ; barley, good malting sample, 4s 9d ; seed, 5s 6d. Timartj. — The 'Herald, of April 7 reports : — A slight rise has taken place in the grain market for the last few days, brought about, no doubt, by the late favourable reports of the Australian markets. Considerable quantities of grain are daily arriving in town for shipment. For wheat, prices range from 3s 9d to 3s lOd for good samples, with considerable firmness. Oats we can quote from 2s 6d to 2s Bd, but the latter is a top price. Old oats are held back at 3s. Barley ranges from 3s 6d to 4s. Hokitika. 