AUCTIONEERS’ REPORTS.

Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 28, 6 October 1894, Page 12

AUCTIONEERS’ REPORTS.

The J. G. Ward Farmers’ Association of New Zealand report having held their fortnightly stock sale at the Invercargill yards on Tuesday. The entries in most classes were rather over the average for the season, and although the attendance was not large the sale throughout went well, and nearly all yarded sold at fair prices. The highest price reached for fat cattle was L 9 10s and for extra heavy fat sheep 18s 2d. The total entries were 869 fat sheep, 2624 store sheep and hoggets, 41 fat cattle, 132 store do, and 21 pigs. We sold our entry of 184 fat sheep at Ils r 2d to 12s and 12s 10s to 10s 3d. We entered 1542 store sheep and hoggets, and sold all as under: —748 ewes and wethers at 10s 9d ; 260 at 11s 6d, 110 ewes with lambs at foot (a good line) at 12s lOd, and other lots as above. We entered and sold 19 head fat at L 8 2s 6d, LB, L 7 7s 6d, L 7 and small heifers at L 6 I7s 6d to L 5 7s 6d, 1/7 12s 6d, L 8 os and L 6 12s 6d Store cattle (74) —25 prime forward well-grown bullocks, L 7; medium small steers, L 4 10s to L 5; dairy heifers and cows, L 5 to L 8 ; yearlings, 25s to 355. Pigs—ype sold 10 slips at 33s each. Horse Market —On Saturday we had over 50 entered in all classes, and best young draughts sold well at LI 8 to L 22; medium sorts and aged, LlO to Ll 5. Hacks are still dull of sale unless well-grown young sorts.

We held our regular monthly stock sale at the Winton yards on Thursday. There was a large entry, mostly made up of hoggets, of which the greater number had been fairly well wintered, and looked well. There was good demand throughout the whole sale, and even prices ruling from start to finish, which has been rather rare in any district during the last few months. There was a much larger number of cattle yarded than usual, including a number of cows. The demand for cattle, however, was not as good as in the sheep department, and except for a few best cows which realised £5 10s to £7, and a pen of good fat cattle which brought £7 ss, there were no special prices to report, other lots bringing fair current rates. Our entry for this sale was 2000 sheep, mostly hoggets, and excepting 10 ewes with lambs at foot, we sold every lot at full value. Following are prices ruling for some of the principal lots, viz. 140 hoggets at 11s, 210 at 9s, 300 at 11s, 140 at 7s Bd, 132 >t 9s, 100 at 11s, 135 at 7s lOd, 56 at 7s 3d, 70 at 9s, 170 at 8s Id, 33 at 6s Id, 85 at 7s lOd, 82 at 9s 3d, 75 at 7s lOd, and for 2-tooth ewes and wethers —130 at 11s lOd, 23 fat ewes at 12s 10d, pen fat wethers (mostly 2-tooth) at 11s 4d, and all other smaller lots at above rates. If ’ comparisons were necessary to show that values are improving as the feed comes we might mention that nearly 1000 of the sheep sold at Winton were 'offered at Thorubury last week, and passed in at quite Is each less than they realised.