DUNEDIN.

Southland Times, Issue 1672, 6 December 1872, Page 2

DUNEDIN.

Meeirs Wright, Stephenson & Co. report, for the week ending 30th November, as follows :— Fat Cattle.— The cattle offered this week were mostly of good quality. 48 head were yarded, of which we sold 32. Bullocks brought from. £6 5s to £9 12s 6d; cows, £6 to £8 7s 6d, equal to 23s per lOOlbs for good quality, and 20s for middling do. We also sold privately 25 head, at £6 15s round. Fat Sheep.— 4Bo were penned. We sold 140 shorn balf-breds, good quality but light -weights, at 10s 6d to Us. Other sales were 315 merino wethers, shorn, at 6s 6d to Bs, and 25 do, in wool, at Us 6d. We quote prime half-breds, ■horn, 2id per lb ; do, merino, 2d per lb. Store Cattle. — Well grown cattle are in good request. We quote bullocks, 3 to 5 years old, £3 10s to £4 ; cows, £2 15e to £3. Store Sheep. — We have enquiries forjhalf-brede and merino wethers, but owing to the general prevalence of shearing, very few holders are offering any. We quote half-breds, 2to 6 tooth, 6s 6d to 7s" 6d ; merino wethers, 4s 6d to 4s 9d. Horses. — Our market is very bare of good upstanding hacks and light horses, for which, as well as for good young draft colts, there is an excellent demand. We quote first-class draughts £50 to £60 i medium do, £25 to £30; pood hacks and light harness horses, £18 to £20 ; medium do, £12 to £15 ; light and inferior, £3 to £6. Sheepskins, Hides, &c. — At our weekly sale on Thursday there was an excellent attendance of buyers, and all the lots catalogued, comprising 1400 sheepskins and hides, were quitted at satisfactory figures. The prices obtained were — Station half-bred skins, 7s 5d to 8s 6d ; do merino do, Is 9d to 5b lid ; green half-bred do, 8s lOd to 93 5d ; do merino do, 4s 8d to 7s ; bides, 18s 3d to 19s. Grain.— There iB no alteration to note in -wheat, which is in good request at 5s 6d to 5s 9d for first-clsffs samples. Oats are somewhat easier in the absence of demand for shipping,-and may be qsoted at 2s per bushel for feed, and 2s Id to 2s 2d for milling qualities.