AUCTIONEERS' REPORTS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 579, 31 January 1882, Page 2

AUCTIONEERS' REPORTS.

Messrs If. Mftunn and (». report on the Live Slock Market, etc., for the week ending Thursday, January 20th, 1882. as f-jllows*.—ln' sheep about 3000 only were penned, ami of the c fully half were store-*. The *' trade." were, evidently not anxious buyers, and bad there been a full supply of mutton values must have given way to below )ate quotations. As it was, however, with the small quantity on offer, butchers in most cases had to make provisions for temporary rerp irements, and a few lines of good qualify fat sheep were earily disposed of at prices about As per head average over asr week's rates. A small line of extra prime cro-shrcd wethers. from Mr Broad foot's Sea View E-tate. Amberlcy. Mplied the market at A_s. various other lots ranging from Os M to lin per head. liirht weights 9s to 10-*. Of tho store •deep permed the bulk were breeding ewes, fur which a good demand was s-hown, and •sales made in nearly every instance ; aged crossbred-- brought 0s to 8h ; do. merinoes, to -h. Judiring by the enquiry already shown for I rced'mg t-heep, and the number that have been Sent out of tbe province for . hnl pnrpo-i**-, there is every proba' iti!v of the d-'iicnd tliiß se.'iKm being much in c.(ce-s of available supplies. Of fat lambs yesterday, there was just sufficient to satisfy the trade, and to insure a ready clearance at from 7s to 8s per head ; extra good at 9s 9d. In beef there was about half an average supply, tbe quality, with few exceptions, being inferior. Competition tlirniiyhout tha sale was especially brisk, ami every lot Hold, generally at an advance of fully *£1 per head over late quutotions, fresh conditioned stores having in some instances to be taken to supply immediate wants. Prime steers brought £8 to £{) ; medium and heifers -Hi) KM to C 7 lO*. The few store cattle on oiler were made up of a very mixed assortment, old cows strongly predominating. The late nin has caused a little better enquiry for young stock, and useful lines are rather more saleable than they were a few weeks since. Ihe totals yarded for the day comprised 3003 sheep, 229 head of cattle and 00 pigs.