AUCTIONEERS' REPORTS.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 386, 26 August 1884, Page 2

AUCTIONEERS' REPORTS.

Messr«(Tflcott,.Prenticejand Co. report having'sold at Wytt&ham sale yards on Wednesday : _2 pens of fat cows at L 8 5s and L 7 per head ; steers* 1-7 7s 6d } heifers, L 6 10s ; yonng steers, L 5 lls ; a mixed lot of young heifers at L 4,115; mixed crossbred and xieiino wethers at -12s 6d'. :; They alio report hftTing sold priTfttely, during the week, 300 crossbred, ev^es at

9?O? Mciraell (on behalf of the British and New Zealand Mortgage and Agency Company,' Limited),, reports for the week ending a2ndA«SUßt«.follpWS--r . 'Fit; : Btock-£-Cattie are in slightly better dsinandl. >" Our sales for the week have been 10>ullocks, L 7:10*;: 10* ; ,10 cow«,<L6 10s ; 9 head steers and heifers, L 5' lls. Bbeep-rWe sold 157 cr«»bred ewes and ; wethers, 16s 6d; 72 do do, Ha;: ,We %vote prime, beef, 25s ; ■tedium. 20a per .1001 b; mntton, 3d per lb. 'State Stock— Cattle ' are more enquired after. We sold 36 head 6t cows at L 3 15s ; and hate sereral lots under offer, Sh»ep of »U classes ara in good demand.— our sales have been 207 ' crossbred lambs, 9s 9d ; *00 Bused cronbredsl- 12* 6d. -•(irainT-W.e have to report the markat on *,' leyel ' with our last quotations, with a uligfifay * 'better ' demand for feed and good enquiry for seed oats< Our sales for the weekday,?, been j-^-Wheat— 366B sacks from food to "Very inferior milling at the following prices :*I2BO sacks good milling at 8s 3d per buah«l ; 1300>sacks inferior .to very inferior* 2b 4d to 2$ 8d per bushel, d^ljyeyad in Dunodin, sacks given in ; 500 do inferior, 2s $d,t.oM. afc'-BWf •,: 709. d0. d0. 2s Od to 2s Sa, lacks 7<J, fio.b, jfoyercargill Jetty; 100 do seed wheat,Bs't'oS> S'daceoiding toquality. Oats— Daring the week we hare placed several la'Tijerilines /under offep. Our . saiej have "Keen 100 sacks good quality, gs f.o.U Bluff ; and 400 sacks Seed at from 2s Id to 2s 6d, ex store, Invercargill.- Uarley — We have placed. ale\^ hundred sacks. .discolored lots, »t 2».i0& to 33 per bushel.

I: S. Simsbn reports having held a clearing* sale'' o£;. stock "and implements od account of ilessra Dickson and, Pagan of KJ./.jqw.on Friday, last, ,2iiud. Ovving to the f linf ayor^abie t we^iliec the attendance ■wrls'Tioti'Very i'arge." : A good many ' buyer* %iueuoU-<i, ."id the hor.seß realised very Badsfietorj^piiceSi,- He sold* -26 medium drau^ius u'yjia. L'M to L 35, or au average oi JUJJ^psr tiesii.;- ploughs (4).froin L 6 2a-6d to LL' 1O. J . ; barrow* (4;, iivm L 5 tv L 7 ; dray* (J}r f J- v »o T".o"~ns'to Xi'6 ; 'oil wiiggjii, 1.15 ; v : %Ki< cuaius, 35s to 55s ; iauliu • iia. AaasV ; 'is» 13 275; 's.«diile and oreebbinji, 45s to 60s ; riding- saddle 60s , covers, 12b 6d io lfo ; coiiaia and hamos 10s to 25>, He also reports having held a' stock sale at hif yards, Gordon, on Saturday 23rd. Small f^tgcrjiif^rfids.tfclilißed frdni Ids to 15s ; o{d' merino ewes, 6s t>d to.Os.fyl ,; cross bred lambs/ small, 6s 7d • liiilch cows, from' L 4 to L 5 5s ; and a quantity of harness at baiiafaciory pviccs. He also reports having sold privately on account of Mr D. Murray, 2UO jjjerino wetto (stwes) at 6s eacb,