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Globe, Volume IV, Issue 455, 29 November 1875, Page 2

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Clifford and Roper report on their weekly sale of live stock as follows:—Milch cows, £1 15» to £9; calves, 15s each. Pigs—sows, 545; small stores, 15a to 20; stores, 20s to 265. Supply limited and demand continues good. Poultry—Fowls, 3s to 4s 6d, ducks, Ss 6d to 6s; turkeys and geese, none. Mr Aikman reports as follows on Mr Eobert Wilkin's weekly wool, skin, and tallow auction : About 3200 sheepskins, 66 packages tallow, and a quantity ot hides were catalogued and sold at prices about equal to those obtained the previous week. Station sheepskins, 6d to 7£d per lb; butchers' best do, 4s 6d to 7s 4d each; seconds, 2s Id to 4s each; pelts, 2d to 4d each; lambs, lOd to Is 2d each; hides —fresh, under 401 b, 4Jd per lb ; do, do salted, under 401 b, 4Jd per lb ; do do, over 401 b, 4jd J>erlb; calfskins, uncut. 6|d per lb; do, cut, ssd per b; rough fat, 3d to 2gd per lb; do very faulty, ljd per lb; tallow, 28s 6d per cwt; do, inierior, 22s per cwt. Dunedin.—Mr Henry Drirer (on behalf of the iTew Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company) reports, for the week ending November 24th, 1875:—Fat Cattle—l4o head in all were yarded at the sales, of which about 100 were sold. Best bullocks realised from £l6 to £l9 each ; do cows, £l2 10s to £l6, or equal to 45s per 1001 b for really prime quality. We yarded on account of Messrs M'Donald and Doring, a further draft of bullocks, fattened by John Grigg, Esq, ofLongbeach, Canterhury, and also a draft, on account of Mr John Vezey, fattened by Mr Thomas M'Donald, of Inch-Clutha. These two lots combined were the best cattle we have ever seen yarded in one day, and reflect infinite credit on both parties who grazed them. At the yards we sold 40 head, and have placed 50 privately. Fat Calves—Only a few came forward at the market and sold at extreme rates; good vealers being exceedingly scarce. Fat Sheep—About 2000 were penned, consisting of good quality cross-breds both in the wool and shorn. The former realised 18s to 21s each, or equal to per lb, and the latter 12s 6d to 13s, or 2sd per lb. At the yards we sold 600 in the wool and shorn at above rates. Fat Lambs—Only about 50 were penned, which brought 12s each. Really good well-grown lambs are coming forward vsry slowly, and are much more backward than in fcrmer seasons. Store Cattle—As formerly reported, there continues an active demand for store cattle fit f jr grazing, good bullocks selling up to £9, according to quality and condition; cows, £4 4s to £6. On Tuesday last, at Mosgiel, we sold 150 head at quotations. Store Sheep—Although we have ho ransactions to report, we are in treaty for the sale of several large lots off the shears. The weather during the past week has rather retarded shearing operations, consequently little wool has come into town. We offer a few small lots of the new clip at our warehouses this day, at two o'clock. From what we can judge with our present'examination of this season's clip, we consider it much better grown and sounder in staple than £he previous season. If our local buyers give us encouragement, to offer weekly small farmers' lots of wool, suitable for scouring and local purposes, we shall do so, and propose changing our present sale day to Wednesday, at three o'clock, wt.ich has hitherto been our wool sales day. After the arrival of the next Suez mail we expect to have our first wool sale, by which steamer we have ad vice of several buyers intending to visit us—one, a French buyer, who we hope will be at racted to do a large business by the display of fine sound combing wools, which may be offered to his notice both washed and in grease. "W e would take this opportunity of again impressing the attention of wool growers that foreign buyers, French as well as American, do not purchase pieces and locks, and, therefore, to obtain the competition of such buyers, fleeces must be well skirted and evenly packed, if gossible, with one description of wool in the same ale. Sheepskins—Some of our buyers being absent at our sale last Thursday, we have to report prices a little in favour of buyers. We sold green crossbreds at 5s 7d to 6s Id ; dry skins, at 2s 6d to 5s sd, according to quality. Hides continue dull, prices rather declining. We sold butchers' green at 20s to 2ls; light, at 15s 3d; medium, 17s each. Calfskins in good demand at 2s 6d to 3s 9d each. Tallow—We sold a few casks very inferior at 20s; no shipping parcels oflered. Grain—Wheat continues in pood demand; medium samples up to 4s (id; choice, 4s 8d to 4s 9d. Oats have been in greater demand since our last report, and some business done at 2s to 2s Id per bushel; holders are firmer; we think the market has seen the lowest point.