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Southland Times, Issue 1677, 17 December 1872, Page 2

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D. Macrorie, auctioneer, reports .- — Tbere are just at this season a large number of sales by auction, daily almost, but, excepting in the premises next the* Southern Cross Hotel, it ii wonderful how little really changes hands. There a large quantity of miscellaneous goods find purchasers, who seom in every way to find the assortment attractive, bur when the loss on some articles ia commuted as against the small profit realised on others, the margin on the right aide must be inconsiderable. There having been a sale on Friday in the yards, it was not surprising that on Saturday there should be a email attendance, and only two lots entered. The one, an exceedingly powerful Clydesdale gelding,

aged, but sound, I sold for £30, and the other, a eood stamp of cross-country ha-jk, I refused by instructions £10 10s for, but £10 was subsequently accepted by the vendor at another yard. i Albion Yards. December 16th, 1872. I

At the Show Yard* on Fri lay, Mr H.E. Osborne disposed of a lot of 8 mixed steers at £3 6s per head, another lot of 41— among which were some large-framed beasts io poor condition — at £3 16s. A pen of Hampshire Down sheep, consisting of six ewes and one ram, sold for £2 10s each. A few horses, being low-class hacks and light harness horses, were quilted at prices which may be taken as an advance on the figures usually obtained for such animals. There were no buyers ! for good horses, and but few offering.