AUCTIONEERS' REPORTS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 595, 28 March 1882, Page 2

AUCTIONEERS' REPORTS.

Messrs 11. Mntson and Co. report on the Live Stock Market, etc.. for the week end ing Thursday, March 23r1, 1882, as follows : — Yesterday's Addington marker was again largely supplied with ail classes of sheep, there being a fair average entry or mutton, sufnVientfor trade requirements, the balance, about two-thirds of the number, being stores. Sales for fat .sheep opened at full rates, prices being little, if miy, below lust week's quotations, and as high as 14? was in several instances paid for medium weight cross-bred wethers, irid up to 10h Gd for merino wethers. Average weights mixed crossbred sheep '•iiroughu about 12s per bead, merino wethers: 8s Gd to 9s Gd, nearly every line being cleared in accordance with these rates. In I'torea tho olna.s of sheep on offer wero not. jik good as for several weeks past, nged crossbred ewes, cull lambs, i'ull> and broken mouth merinos, etc., constituting the major part of the entry. Trade generally for store sheep is not quite as hii.sk, or rather buyers act more cautiously in purchasing old .sheep in face of the continued dry weather than they did a month tince. Notwithstanding this, we must report a very satisfactory clearance on Wednesday, scarcely a Hug remaining unsold at tho close of the auction, though in some instances slightly lower values had to be accepted. Aged crossbred ewes in fresh condition brought 8a to 9d ; two and four-tooth mixed crossbreds for grazing purposes. 9s to 10s 6d, according to size and condition ; full mouthed merino.?, 4s to i fw Id, at which latter prices wo placed co-ie upon sthousand in one lino of the

Mount Pleasant wethers. In beef thero was a fair supply, the quality as a rule being good. We do not quote any actual advance in prices, but rates are rather hardening than otherwise, and nearly all the beat quality lines were placed prior to the auction, som» at from £9 to £9 10s per htMid, the gi'in-ral qnot tions lieing i."7 10-<to'tß RNpi-i-iiead. In stores tradfis considerably depr sstvl, the demand having greatly fatten off during the past mouth. Prices, especially for yearlings and two year ohU are very much lower, and cattle of these ages are very difficult to quit at anything like satisfactory prices. Good lines of three-year old steers have not suffered in values as much aw those previously mentioned, but the store cattle market generally is in anything but a buoyant stale. In pigs th-re are K-sh coining to hand, and we consider ye>terday's entry especially for larger sizes, sold rather betli-r than they did three weeks or a montb since. Tlib totnl entry of stock was 11,409 sheep, 592 head of cattle, and 13G pigs.