AUCTIONEERS’ REPORTS

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 18, 29 July 1893, Page 12

AUCTIONEERS’ REPORTS

A. A. Mac Gibbon (on behalf of the National Mortgage and Agency Company, Ltd.) reports having held their fortnightly sale at Invercargill Yards on Tuesday, 25th inst. Fat Cattle—ll 7 head yarded, consisting largely of half fat bullocks and cows, only a few pens of really prime fat cattle being forward, outside buyers taking almost half the entry. Butchers again had to pay big prices for anything prime, the last pen offered bringing £1 a head in advance of rest of sale. Best bullocks, extra heavy, £lO 6s ; good, £8 to £8 15s; ordinary, £6 10s to £7 10s; fat cows, £8 5s to £8 10s for best; good, £6 10s to £7 10s ; lighter, £4 15s to £5 12s 6d. Fat Sheep.—A large entry, 2536. Of prime freezers, which owing to heavy rain were rather slacker than usual, six very heavy sold up to £1 Is 6d ; 17 to 17s 6d ; ordinary weights 15s to 16s 6d, Esves, best, up to 13s 7d. Store Sheep.—l6o7 entered. Sale pretty dull all through. Hoggets, good, to 10s; culls, 4s 8d; ewes, to 4s 8d; full-mouthed ewes in lamb to 9s 6d; store wethers, 11s 6d to 12s 6d. Store Cattle.—About 90 head yarded. Dairy cows, good, brought from £6 10s to £7 ss; heifers, £3 12s 6d to £4; yearlings, 22s 6d. Ago d number were turned out unsold. At Wyndham sale on Thursday, 27th inst., about 600 or 700 sheep, and about 30 head of cattle were yarded. Fat cows brought up to £5 10s; dairy cows, good, £5 10s; others about £2 7s 6d. Forward conditioned wethers brought up to 13s - On Monday, 24th inst., we offered and sold a large catalogue !of skins. Bidding was brisk. Crossbreds brought from s£d to 6d per lb; lighter skins, 4£d fabbitskins, mixed lot, llfd per lb. Hides. —A good selection offered, and >vas sold at 2s-d per lb. - - ■•> !! ; V,.i “' •>' ■ .... Tallow—Scarce and competition keen for all lots coming in. Quotation same as last week.

H. Carswell and Co. report having held their fortnightly sale at the Invercargill yards on the 25th inst., to a large attendance of buyers. The entry comprised 117 head fat cattle, 91 store do., 2536 fat sheep, 1607 stores. Fat Cattle were in good demand, notwithstanding the large entry; prime bullocks from £7 10s to£lo ss; fat cows, from £6 to £8 2s 6d. We quote prime beef from 22s to 25s per lOOlbs.; medium and inferior, from 17s 6d. Store Cattle —Entry was small and vendors’ ideas were too high to encourage sales. There is good demand, however, even at extreme prices, for all classes of stores, dairy ■cows being specially sought after. These sold at from £2 10s to £3 5s ; yearlings from 35s to 455. Store bullocks in keen demand but on account of vendors, reserves no sales of any consequence. . Fat Sheep—Ordinary freezers, from ISsup to 16s 3d ; heavy wethers up to 21s 6d; fat ewes from 11s to 15s. Store sheep—Bidding for these was slack, "chiefly bn account of the i weather. We sold the followirg wetliars from 13s to 13s 6d; old twcs in lamb at 9s ; a l.ne of 3000 hoggets, medium, at 10s. We passed several lines unsold; '■ ' Oats —We note a demand springing up for seed samples. Quotations from 2s to 2s (id. Ordinary feed, wayside stations, from Is to Is 9d j millinjjTrom ls Gd to. Is IOJd ; bags extra. Ryegrass has better inquiry at from 3s to 3a 6d, specially dressed, 3s 9d.

Land—We sold section 18, block 11., Grladfield estate, at a satisfactory figure. At auction on the 15th inst. we sold section 6, 131 acres, on Birch wood Estate, Mataura Island, at £7 per acre, and sections 7 and 8, 2000 acres, at £7 10s per acre, and have other sales pending.