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Temuka Leader, Issue 1182, 4 December 1883, Page 1

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AUCTIONEERS' REPORTS. TIMABU. Messrs Maclean and Stewart report for the past week ending Saturday as follows : Horses—A small entry of draught and light horses were to-day booked at their yards for sale, only 85 having been submitted at auction. The quality was.poor with few exceptions, and there was but little demand, and low prices were ruling. They placed about 15 head at the following pricps :—For fair and. medium draughts, L 22 to L2B ; light and inferior Rbrts, Ll 6 to L2O ; ordinalyhacks, LlO to Ll 6. Sheep—-A good demand exists for almost all classes of store sheep, and a number of Hots are likely to change hands: as soon as the shearing season is finished. Prices asked by sellers are high,.but as feed has become so abundant, and the certain market for prime mutton at a high figure, owners are getting very full rates for their store Isheep. They have bad no auction sales during the week, but report private transaction! , pending. Fat sheepGood crossbred wpthers are worth about 15s, or equal to 3d per lb, at which quotations several lots have changed /harids: ■'■■'• Cattle—Store cattle, hitherto a drug .in the market for some time back, are at last being enquired for, and there is now a good demand for almost all kind? with the exception of old cows, which are still unsaleable at anything like failvalues. Three-year-old Bteers and heifers are worth from L 3 10s to L 6. according to condition ; yearlings and two-year-olds, from L2 to L 2.105. Fal cattle—These are much the same value as last week, viz., about 25s per lOOlbs for prime beef. Wool and Skins—Their usual auction sale was held last Wednesday, but as the season is nearly at an end, and farmers being. busy shearing, a smsll entry was catalogued. About 600 skins and a few bags and bales of wool were sold. Prices were rather lower than at the last sale, several buyers being absent, on account of the opening wool sale at Christchurch. Good medium skins fetched from 3s to 4s ; ordinary mixed lots, 2s 6d to 3s ; sundry lots of wool from 6d to 7£d per lb. AUSTEALIAN MARKETS. Sydney, Nov, 30. New Zealand wheat, per bushel, 3s 9d ; New Zealand oats, 2s 2d ; maize, 3s 3d. Sugar Company's No. 1 pieces, per ton, £34. Adelaide, Nov. 30. Wheat remains at 4s 6d. The competion is active, and country rates are given equal to Adelaide prices. Flour —■town brands, £lO to £lO 5s ; country ditto, £9 10s to £9 15s. The freight market is dull. Freights to United Kingdom from Adelaide—Sail - ing, 38s 6d ; ditto from out ports, 40s t0425.6d.