AUCTIONEERS' REPORTS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 619, 20 June 1882, Page 2

AUCTIONEERS' REPORTS.

Messrs 11. Matsoti and Co. report on the Live Stock Market, &c. for the week ending Thursday, June 15th, 1882, as follows :■—At yesterday's sale tliei'e wiis & I'iili supply of stock (storo cattle exempted), though in sheep we have had several hoavior markets during tha past month. Of inuttow, however, there was evidently moro than was wanted, several lots of fat nheep btfing turned out unsold, whilst prices, both thw; end laef* week, were marked by a weakening trade. Licbt weight and inferior quality cheep en tier most in value, really prime wethers yesterday selling up to lGs ; mixed lines of medium weigtit shoep, Vda to 14s. Jn Bton-s there wuru nr.t lumiy <"' olter, the deinuid being perliapa a little quieter. We can only account lor the slightdeprus aion in the tradn by the fact that the late Bftvere .i-tathcr limh destroyed a lot o turnios and other feed, and as a conse quenoe the markets have been overdono

with cheep. The sale of fat cattle lepresentod a specially large entiy, tho bulk of which were of the inferior elasn, though several lines (not.nbly Messi3 Chapman Brothers' cattle) were cqiml to anything w« have hn<\ in the ma-ket for several moulds. For the last-mentioned line preen rii'e.cl as bisjh as £11 10s, but generally sneaking ibe'e waa considerable apathy on the part of buyers, and biddings came slowly. For anything really pi'irie there was plenty of demand at values much b'gher in comparison than for inferior cattle. In stores there Wis not sufficient doing to caU for remark, and late ruling prices rama ; n unaltered. Ihe totals yatded for the day co'mpnsed 6169 sheep. Messrs Robert Wilkm and Co. report :— In our New Zealand Wool Store* on Thursday, we held the usual weekly sale of nheepskins. There was a large attendance of buyers. In consequence of the wet weather lately experienced, the skins were in bad condition, but pi ices ruled accordingly. Butchers' crossbred, larga, ss, 5s 6d, 6s; do do, medium, 2s 3d, 3s 2d, 4s Id, ss; do do, small, Is 4d, Iβ lOd, 2a 3d ; do merino, large, 4s 6d, 5s Id, 5a 9d; do do, second quality, 3a, 3s Bd, 4s 6d J country crossbred, large, 2a 10d, 3s 5d,45; dodo, hecond quality, Is 3d, 2s, 2s 10d ; do merino, large, 4s 7d, 5s 3d, 5s 10d: do do, medium, 2s 4d, 33 sd, 4s 7d. Fat and tallow—There was a good attendance of buyers, and spirited competition. Sixty-eight pkgs were catalogued, and all sold. Fat—Best quality, clean and well saved, to 2M per lb ; second quality, to 2{-d per fb; infenor, at per lb. Tallow, in small lots, at 2|d per lb for good quality, and 2fl per lb for second quality. On Tuesday last, 13th inst., we held an extra sale of wool in our stores, at which there was a numerous attendance of buyers, and a brisk demand for alt descriptions offered.