AUCTIONEERS' REPORTS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 589, 7 March 1882, Page 2

AUCTIONEERS' REPORTS.

Mr A. I. McGregor reports that at the sale on Friday Inst nt Brooks' Yards, Henri of the Bay, about 80 head of cattle were yarded, nndsvere mostly sold nt fair prices. A considerable number of the slock was dry cows. -Those in ai ything like condition easily found buyers; p>or and aged are almost unsaleable for anything beyond the price of the hide. Calves and young stock found ready purchasers at fair prices. A few heavy colts were offered, but did not come up to owners' expectations, and wore passed in. Now that ploughing will shortly commence on the Plains, the Christ church market will be found a much better ■ one than the local market. I sold for various clients a lot. of average cows in profit at from ,4*3 17s Gd to £2 17s 6d each, and a line of 1G calves, half of them rather poor, at 15s each ; n lot of steers, rising (wo years old, at ,E2 17s; dry cows, medium fat. Nt from £a 15* to ,£4 10s ; seven head at from 50s to 47s 6d, and fliioihcr let of five at 50s. Owing to the prnnH teod hnrvwt not being quite finished, the fttlendnnco of !»<»yf;is wna not so large as might huw i mi expected.

At my usual monthly yah; -;f furniture, &c, in the 'Town Iln!l 0:1 Saturday, the virion* Utt-i went oil' fniil) well, and the •riudi-.Mii.o. •l-i.()v:..ili not numerous, were injent on »i"!.'Hi'liiViiness, U. Mafsnti and Co. report on the ■ ."-■!vt , ; -!«.;'k Market, etc.. Lor the week end i!'> Tin , .."v!■«/,, Marcli 2nd, 1882, as fol-i-i-.v. : -1 ■; '.V-i.w nifarket at Ad■■■l'-;'\-':- ; !■•■•,•..!-..-.: largest entry of all -. ,: -it , ': ■ .•■:! ]i:':.vo i-ecil penned at »■■■: '.'■■ ■ -.; /)i' iiv.;."!y *ior;tfis.. In sheep, t a:-■■:■. ■- cf tin* fiUHstier were stoix-H— ,':vi v cw*p—aged, and of ;m .. it/;--;, ■i'fKcrijrtion. TIIO attendance was '■Jjfiu'i, the niuns i\v, usual, the trade being •vo' ; . r:-:| rosentcii, but for ttoros there wan f'.u ,'ibßoiK'O of infiiiv purchasers generally U> he found at sales held in tho country ■iJi.jliicUi and breeding centres such aw .■ia!ii>iirto;!, Ariiberjsy, etc. Despite thin, iioiv'jvor, nc.tfly every lot was cleared, pri.cea g#nr-ra!ly being satisfactory, and ftcjunl to late quotariony. Out of an enrry of over 20,000 sheep yarded on Wednescjp.y, tlis s-upply of twtitton M - as comparatively Kiiudl, and last week's price was i'tllly inaintniried. Good equal mixed croyshv-'dH (thero were very lew wethera ■in. <)r3 inaiket) brought 10s Gd to 12s ; weights, 9s to 10h ; fat merino volJwif-, 7ii to Sβ, or about equal to 2d per ib. Amongst other lines of stores, we j;Jaced a lot of Jomioolhed crossbred ewca

at 11s 3.1 ; about 1000 aged do. 7s G■! to Km; merinos. 3s to 4s. Jn fat cattle the heavy supply had the effect of creating ■I (iiiliiit'ss of Ipiilp. and prices were marked by a downward t'-ndanry. Out of an entry of about 170 head wiibinitted by ourselves t'i< j re wen - , liow-ver, not more than a couple of sm dl lines unsold, ho tliHton the whole the sale must be considered a very successful one. The i»est steers brought from £7 10s to £9 10s ; light weights? £5 5s to £7. In stores it was late before the auction commenced, and towards the clo«e there was a scarcity of buyers. We, however, disposed of from 300 to 400 head of mixed classes eiiher nt miction or privately. Alter the sale useful fines of two or three yw.r-ojd mixed cattle brought from £4 to £4 15s, younger ages proportionate prices. In pigs the largest entry was penned we have ever seed at these yards. IVici'S consequently ruled about 10 per centlower th.-in 3 we.ks since, but at this quotation we believe every lot was placed. Fat lambs still sell readily at good prices, a grand line sent to band by Mr K. G. Wright topping Hie market at 9s 3d. The totals yarded for the rlny comprised 10.135 sheep, 10% head of cattle and 814 pigs.

Messrs It. Wilkin anrl Co. report: — There was an average at tendance of hujersal the. weekly sale of sheepskins, &c, which we held' on Thursday in our New Zealand Wool Stores. Tlw competition was spirited, causing a brisk sale and a clearance of all lots olfered. 1749 skins were catalogued :—Butchers' crossbred pelts, three fourths woolled, 2s fid. 2s 10d, 3.4 2<l ; do do, half to threefourths woolled Is 10d, 2s 2d, 2s Gtl ; do do do, small, Is 4d, Is 7«1, Is 10ii ; do merino, woolly skins, 4a, ss. Gs ; do do do pelts, three-fourths woolled, 2s 4ii, 2s Bd, '2s lid ; do do do, half to three-fourihs woolled. Is (id, 2s, 2s 4d ; do do do, small, Is, Is 3d, isGd ; country crossbred, woolly skins, 3s 2d, 3s s'l, 3n Bd, 4s ; do do pelts, throe-fourths woolled, la 7d, 2s 3d, 3s 2d ; do do do, half to Ihree-fourlli.s woolled, 7d, la, Is 7d ; do merino, woolly skins, 2s 4d, 3s, 3s Gil ; do do pelts, half to three fourths wool ed, Is Gil, la 10(1, 2s 4(1. Fat find tallow—There was a good attendance of buyers and keen competition. 83 packages were catalogued, and all sold at prices in advance of last week's rates. Fat—Best quality, clean and well saved, to 2gd per It) ; second quality, from 2£d to 2-g-d per Ib ; nothing sold under that figure. Tallow— A small lot of good quality was disposed of at 28s Gd per cwt. Hides damaged, weighing 551b.s and over, at 3d per lb ; hides damaged, weighing under 551bs, at 2£d per lb.' Calfskins, sound, at 4d per Ib; do, cut and damaged, at 2d per lb.