AUCTIONEERS' REPORTS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 599, 11 April 1882, Page 2

AUCTIONEERS' REPORTS.

Messrs 11. Matnon and Co. report on the Live Stock Market, etc., for the week end ing Thursday, April Gth, 1882, as follows ; —Yesterday's Addington market asjain presented a large supply of stock, the en'.ry of sheep being a particularly heavy one, whilst of fat cattle there were just sufficient for the day's requirements. In Store Cattle—Of a comparatively large number yarded a few lines had to be turned out (inoold, but this was the exception and not the rule Of about 12000 sheep punned there was a fair proportion of mutton, both merino and crossbred, ( nt owing to the full market, butchers operated with more than usual caution, and values wore a shade lower all round. •On account of Samuel Benley, E*q., we sold 1300 hig framed Rommey ewes and wethers, at from 12s 3d to 13s 6d per head, a lino of 560 lambs, account the came owner, t>eiiii> soil at 8-) fier head Pat iro-iHiireds. ,'iccoiint oilier owners, brought 1 U to 12s til ; litfht weight. 10s to 10* 6 I pur head : niurinnH at 10s. .■ In stores we submitted 3000 of various c'assoy, the bulk of winch wi?re sold, 'lhe continued dry weather and great ucarchy of feed is beginning to have some slight effect upon the drin uid for store sheep, and we coi>i lerud prices .is ruling yesterday were certainly marked by a downward teii'lfMipy. The totals yarded for the day comprised 12171 sheep, 690 he'id of cuttle, mill 302 |jigH. Taking the sheep S'de all lliroiigh, and connidering the es-iiews-ive entry, we look upon the day's t)fUiM4':ii".MK OB Inking very B!ilinffictory, though (jj'i'.'«H iih 'mfcnti mentioned, were a tiille morn in h>vuT i»f buyers. In beef Uierc wunn ifiir. ..try uf jnrliHVrentquality, with fcnrcely ;> ! ; >c ~!' ;-<.«>>| t; ( »j-t]e fn the ynrds. J-Victs rauutd r n-,n £'5 ?0+ ! fx*r i'.'.dit weight hcifeitj vp 1o f'V V>- Prr fi-nod one heifer jrujrij; *<v •" r'.T2,, j-n; ■■;. •»:-' flic; loin nt, f> of f.rr.r, :?;o lo< to Ml pftr heftd. 'Die tieinarni w;ii? bf'.'vi , '-hnri for weeks pi'.Kt, iato raloii i>vn>g more than fully maintained. In stores we can report nothing satisfactory* During the day \\e offered on nc'otrntoL various clients about 300 head, chiefly yearlings and two-year olds, and though t r ade was worse than we have Been it at any market this season, yet owners had evidently made up their minds to face the difficulty and submit to ridiculously low prices rather than hold their BN»c'k over to a nenror approach or' winter, in id as a eonsfqiiuiKio two-thirds of our entry worti placed at prices as per desori|)Mon. •