AUCTIONEERS’ REPORTS.

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 45, 3 February 1894, Page 12

AUCTIONEERS’ REPORTS.

The J. G. Ward Farmers’ Association, Ltd., report having held a clearing sale on the 26th ult. at Mr John Keown’s farm, near Balfour. The attendance was large, buyers being present from Garston, Nokomai, Lumsden, Waianiwa, Winton, and Gore, and the sale was admitted to be one of the most successful clearing sales ever held on the Waimea Plains. The farm of 400 acres was passed, not fetching the owner’s reserve. The horses were sold at the following prices : —45 draught mares and geldings at up to £3l; unbroken colts, £8 15s; 500 sheep—crossbred ewes and wethers up to 9s, fat sheep 10s 3d; milk cows £5, young cattle £2 7s ; pigs £1 17s 6d, A considerable number of horses and sundries were sold at satisfactory prices. W e held stock sales at Thornbury on 24th, Wyndham on 2 .th, and Gore on 30th nit., at all of which prices were about a par with those recently quoted, with exception of Wyndham, where northern buyers competing for 2-tooth wethers and ewes made an improvement in prices to the extent of Is per head.

Horse Market.—On Saturday we offered about 60 horses, including a shipment of draughts from Melbourne, and a consignment of light harness horses from Christchurch. The sale was one of the best of the season and we placed the greater part of the entry at the following prices:— Draught mares and geldings (best) L 26 to L3O, medium Ll 9 to L 25, light harness horses (in good damand, if reliable) at LlO to LIS 10s for medium —no first-class offering. To-day we will offer two lots of contractors’ horses, together with Jmplements and harness.