AUCTIONEERS’ REPORTS.

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 20, 12 August 1893, Page 12

AUCTIONEERS’ REPORTS.

The J. G. Ward Farmers’ Association report, at Invercargill sale yards on Tuesday, attendance good. Only medium entry of stock. Fat cattle were decidedly at a premium, cows bringing up to £ 1 10s. Sheep. —Slight advance on last week’s prices. Best wethers, 5s to 19s ; aged ewes, 12s 6d to 14s. Store Cattle —Quotations unchanged.

Special sale horses Otaufcau. Large gathering. Sale one of best for last twelve years, 18 draught mares and geldings averaging £26 each ; 2-tooth crossbred ewes in lamb averaging 15s; small hoggets and ewes, 7s and 8s respectively, and fat ewes 14s Bd. Offered 2000 sheep at Winton on 3rd, realising satisfactory prices. Special horse sale at Winton on 1 hursday. Attendance small but fair prices realised. Draught mares, £34 10s ; draught geldings, £9 10s.

A. A. Mac Gibbon (on behalf of the N.M. and A. Co.) report as follows — The most striking feature of the stock market at present is the extraordinary rise in fat cattle, prices having jumped up almost without warning to about 30s per hundred, and as everything indicates a scarcity there is every chance of even higher rates being recorded, unless as mentioned by some that Northern cattle may be brought down, but regarding this we are unable at present to say anything. Store cattle are in very active demand, buyers being down from Canterbury in quest of .any thing fit for fatening, so judging from appearances, Southland cannot supply the demand unless breeders do something very soon towards keeping up their herds. There is little to say regarding sheep—fat are always in demand for freezing—good hoggets can always find a market as also can

good ewes, but inferior sheep are hard to quit.

Land Sale.—We still find purchasers for good farms, and hope to place several in the course of a few days.

The Farmers Alliance and Supply Co., of N.Z. (Limited), report for the week as follows- ' ;: >

Sheepskins—We catalogued a fairly large number, comprising all descriptions. Good, clean, slaughtered crossbreds are worth from 4£d to s|d ; half-breds, 6d per lb ; merino, to 5-jd ; pelts to 2s each ; butchers’ green skins to 5s 6d; fallen 4d to 5d per lb. ' Eabbitskins—These (in sympathy with the London market) have declined a shade, but prices obtained arc still at a fairly satisfactory level. Prime thin pelted 16Jd; mixed weights, winters, 14|d to 15 J-d ; heavy pelted, 13d. Other sorts in proportion. : Tallow—Firm at late quotations. Hides—According to weight and quality, l£d to 3d per lb.

G. Froggatt reports for week ending, August 11th. • '

On Monday I submitted the usual largo catalogue to a fair attendance of buyers, and sold at the following prices:—Tallow, from 17s 9d to 18s 9d; rough fat, from 12s 9d to 15s 3d ; hides (best heavy), 16s 3d to £l, good, 12s to 15s 3d, inferior to medium, from 5s 3d to 9s 9d. Eabbitskins, winters, Is 3d per lb; others, lower, according to quality. Sheepskins—butchers’ 4s to 4s 3d ; country, best, s}d to sfd ; medium, 4d to sd. Calfskins, Is Id to 2s Bd, and hair, Is. Bones, 3s per cwt.

At the Invercargill yards I had a good entry of both sheep and cattle, and sold at the following prices:—Fat wethers, 18s 2d to 19s 5d (top price) ; ewes and wethers, from 12s 6d to 16s 6d; ewes in lamb, 12s 6d; hoggets, 9s 2d. Fat bullocks, from £ll 2s 6d to £ll 17s 6d (top price) ; speyed heifers, from £7 12s 6d. Some really prime cows were sold by another auctioneer up to £l3. Milk cows, best, £5 to £5 7s; others, £4 10s to £4 15s; bull, £3 10s, and a few store heifers and steers at £3 Is. I quote prime beef from 2-5 s to 30s per 100 lb.