AUCTIONEERS' REPORTS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 583, 14 February 1882, Page 2

AUCTIONEERS' REPORTS.

Messrs !!. Matson and Co. report on the Live Stock Market, etc., for the week end ing Thursday, February i)th, 1882, as follows :—At yesterday's -iddiugtou market about 7000 sheb-p were penned for the day's sale, fu'ly three fourths of which were, store-*. The noticeable absence of butcher's sheep can only be accounted for by the fact of farmers being too busy with harvest operations to pay attention to stock matters, and the " lucky few " who happened lo have mutton in the yards yesterday were rewarded by a ready clearance of all lots, atan advance of Is Gd to 2a per head on rrosshreds, 6d to Is on merinos. Prime crossbred wethers brought 11'? to 12s 9*l ; ewes, 9* to 12s; merino WHtlrWs 7s to 7s 9d. Kven at these prices half the trade were unable to supply tbem-fc-elves, and the comparatively large entry of fat lambs were qniek'y bought up as a substitute for mutton at. a rise of Is per head. The best lines brought as high as 10s, which price was paid for a few pens of grand quality s nl to hand by Mr 11. Overton. Medium lots 7s 0d to Ss ; inferior to 7s. In store sheep there was an exceptionally large entry of the most saleable consignments that have been limno-hf into the market this season. As

and of f.'-'out 3000 mixed o'a-ses offered by J us on Wednesday, there was only one KinfTl linrj u-i'bdrawn ; over 2000 merino vvclhi-r*- (smiel mouthed,) bi-in;-, placed at fn.m 4-i 5d to 4s 9d ; aged and crossbred (JVV to G-* 9d ; merino cull, to 3s Gd. As a whole tin* -been safe was the most sue-ress-ful h<-h! tor the I'-ist six months. ll fat cattle thee was a larger ••ntry than on the previous welc. For the best quality a g.od demand was shown, and nearly every lot sold at prices above the, nveraye of the past month's rates. Medium weight steers brought £1 to £8 ; prime heavy weights, £8 to £9 ; heifers, etc., £6 to £7 10s.' In the store cattle trade there is now more enquiry, the sliowe-y weather of the past fortnight and the opening up of the stubbles having brought a few buyers into tin-, market. As harvest further progresses there is every probability of the dem ml inc-iensi g. and we anticipate a better sale for store stock during the next three weeks than there has been for many months' past. The totals yarded for the day comprised — 7107 sheep, 269 cattle, and GO pigs.

Messrs Robert Wilkin and Co. report : — We h-ld the usual weekly sale ol sheepskins on Thursday in our New Zealand Wool Stores, at which there was a moderate attendance of buyers, and although the competition was dull at the commencement of the sale, yet as il advanced the biddings became brisk, resulting in fair values being obtained. A line of large well-preserved and good quality station iiierinoskins realised lis 2d ea- h. Butcher*-' merino fnll-woolled skins sold at .'ls and 3s Bd. Coi.ntry crossbred, large and fullwoolled 5s 5d to Gs 2d; dodo, medium, Ik 1 Id, 2s Bd, 3s 7d, 4s 6d, 5s 5d ; do do, small, Is Gd, Is lid ; do, merino large and full wooded. ss, 5s sd, Gs, Gs 2d ; do do, medium. 2s. 2s 9d, 3s Bd, 4s Gd, 5s ; dodo small, Is Gd, 2s ; lanoskins, large, 2s Id, 2s 3d. 2s Gd ; do, second quality. Is 7d, Is ltd, 2s Id ; pelts, large and early shorn, Is lOd, 2s, 2s 3d ; do, medium, lOd, Is 3d, Is 7d. Is 10(1 ; do, small, sd. 7d, lOd. Fat and Tallow—There was a good attendance of the trade, and keen demand ; 81 packages were catalogued, and all sold. FatBest quality, clean and well saved, to 2fd per lb ; second quality to 2£d per lb ; heated and inferior, none to baud. Tallow in small lots, and according to quality, at 20s Gd to 24s per cwt for cash, and at 2d per lb for small packages. Hides, sound, nt 4d per lb, and per lb for some heavy hides; hides, damaged, weighing 551b and over, at 3d per lb ; hides, damaged, -veighing under 551b, at 2_d per lb; calfsirins, sound, at 4d per lb ; do. cut and otherwise damaged, at 2d per lb. Wool—We have the pleasure of informing our clients that our next wool sale will be held in our stores on Tuesday, 21st instant.