AUCTIONEERS’ REPORTS.

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 34, 18 November 1893, Page 12

AUCTIONEERS’ REPORTS.

The N.M. and A Co report as follows on the Invercargill markets for Tuesday, 14th November ;

Owing to the very wet weather a number of stock did not get forward, but for what came forward there was a very good demand, the bulk of the stock changing hands at good prices. Crossbred ewes and lambs brought 11s 2d. Good dairy cows with strong demand, £7 6s to £7 17s 6d for best, and £4 10s to £6 for others; yearlings, 25s to 35s ; good steers, £3 10s; fat cows, L 6 10s to L 6 15s ; store cows, L2 10s to L 4 ; a lot of young pigs at Bs 6d to 14s 6d j and a large assortment of furniture at good prices. Pat Cattle. —59 entered. Very little demand ; nearly the lot passed at auction, although sales were made privately. Heavy bullocks brought £l l ; others, £8 to £9 ; light, £6 to £7 ; cows, £4 1 is to £7. Store Cattle. —169 yarded, mostly cows and young cattle. Pretty good demand at late prices. Pat Sheep.—s 42 penned. Very dull sale. Best wethers brought 17s ; others, 15s 6d to 16s 6d; shorn wethers, 12s to 12s 6d. Store Sheep.—lsß4 penned. Fair demand. every lot cleared at 13s to 15s for store wethers ; 10s 6d to 12s for hoggets ; cull ewes and lambs, 11s; cull hoggets, 6s to 8s ; and a few shorn hoggets at 6s for very small sorts.

Skin Sale. —Very large entry and good demand, clearing every lot at full prices, Rabitskins.—Very few offering ; small lot brought B|-d per lb. Hides. —Our entry consisted of poor quality, which brought lid per lb. Rough Fat. —lls 9d to 14s per cwt. Horsehair. —ls per lb. Wool. —We offered several small lots, in bags, and sold fleeces up to 7£d per lb; pieces, 4|d per lb; bellies, 3fd; locks, 2|d per lb, Private Sales. —There is still a good enquiry for store cattle and dairy cows. We have placed several lots during the week. Wyndham Sale, —Owing to show day falling on usual day, the sale will be a week earlier. We trust buyers will note the alteration, as we offer a big line of cattle on that date.

The J. Q-. Ward Farmers’ Association report for the week ending 14th inst: — We held our fortnightly stock sale in the Junction saleyards to-day. There was a medium entry of fat and store sheep and cattle, and a large attendance of farmers, butchers, and others interested. There was a noticeable decline in values of fat cattle and sheep. Store cattle sold at full rates, and the demand for store sh?ep was limited, except for the better class of wethers and hoggets. Fat Cattle. —59 herd yarded, principally bullocks, with an odd pen of heifers and aged cows. Prices ruled fully 20s to 30s per head lower than last sale. Rest bullocks sold at £8 to £11; medium to good, £6 to £7 15s; heifers and cow beef, £5 to £8 10s. We quote beef at 25s to 27s 6d for extra prime medium weights. We sold on account of various vendors, 25 head at quotations, and privately during the week a line of prime bullocks at £9 Bs. Fat Sheep. —About 550 penned, comprising wethers and maiden ewes, about 200 of which were shorn. Medium weight wethers in the wool brought up to 17s; shorn do, 12s 6d; ordinary to good, 12s 6d to 15s 9d ; shorn do, to 11s. Store Sheep.—About 16JO penned —all sorts. For cull lots the demand was slack, but well-grown hoggets, in the wool, and forward-conditioned wethers sold fairly well. We sold about half the entry, on account of various vendors, as follows : —476 4 and 6tooth crossbred wethers at 15s Id ; 300 hoggets at 6s 5d for culls to 11s for medium; 65 aged ewes, with lambs at foot, at 11s. Fat Lambs. —Very few penned. We sold light weights np to 7s 6d. Store Cattle. —170 head yarded, principally one and two-year-old steers and heifers, with an odd pen of dairy cows. The demand was brisk for young cattle in forward condition, and also for ycung dairy cows in full profit; aged sorts were rather dull of sale. We sold dairy cows at L 4 15s to L 6 15s; store’do, at L 3 to L 4 Is ; one and two-year old steers and heifers at 37s to L2 10s. Skins, Hides, Tallow, &e. —At our weekly

sale on Monday we offered a medium catalogue to a full attendance of buyers, prices ruling on a par with last week’s sale. FulL woolled dry skins brought up to s£d per lb.; dead skins from 3£d to 4|d ; hides, to 7s 6d; tallow, to 18s; rough fat, to 11s 6d; horsehair. Is ; rabbitskins, lid per lb; green sheepskins, from 4s to 4s 7d.

Horse Market. —At our weekly sale in the Prince of Wales saleyards on Saturday we offered a large number. The attendance was large and the biddingbrisk for young draughts ; aged sorts were hard to quit. We note a goott demand for young wellbred mares and firstclass hacks, at full rates. We sold, on ao» count of Mr. James Ross, a shipment front Melbourne, and very favourable comment® were made on the way Mr. Ross had brought his horses before the public. They were int the pink of condition and every lot sold at from L 25 to L3l for young draught mare® and geldfngs; aged do, from Ll sto L2110s; also on account of various vendors, draught mares to L 26 ; geldings, to L 22 10s ; light harness, from LlO 10s to L 6 ; hacks (only weedy sorts offered), from L 5 to L2.