HUNTER AND NOLAN'S REPORT.

Auckland Star, Volume IV, Issue 1206, 4 December 1873, Page 2

HUNTER AND NOLAN'S REPORT.

Horses have continued in good supply and corresponding demand. For sale by auction on Friday quite the usual number were entered. Buyers were in attendance, and notwithstanding that all offered wore from the immediate neighbourhood, nearly all in werQ disposed of at satisfactory prices, and a few of a still better class would have found ready purchasers. We quote :—Hacks, from £6 10s to £15 15s; light harness horses, from £15 to £21 10s each. Cattle.—There wasavery good muster of all descriptions at Newmarket, and considerable spirit evinced in the bidding. Fat stock were a shade easier, but all other descriptions were without noteworthy alteration in value, and there .was a steady demand, although there is a strong feeling that stores rule too high for theprospective value of fat stock to allow a sufficient margin for the grazier, and in consequence the demand was not quite so spirited at Papakura as for the last two or three sales, but notwithstanding there was a large muster, and Newmarket prices ruled. Weaned calves sold at from £1 9s to £1 15s ; well-bred yearling steers, from £2 10s to £3 Ss; yearling heifers, from £2 2s to £2 15s ; two-year-old steers, £4 to £4 15s ; three-year-old steers, from £5 5s to £6. Beef from 23s to 2Gs per 1001b. _ Sheep.—The sheep penned consisted principally of shipbourne wethers and those suitable for the butcher, being heavy weights ■were not in demand corresponding to those of a lighter description, and the stores had too much of tho merino, consequently prices for all descriptions receded at least 2s each, lambs in moderate supply selling at from 13s 6d to ISs each. Sheep from 10s Gd to 24s Gd. *

Pigs.—There was a fair muster, and good * demand at from 2M to 3d per lt>.