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Temuka Leader, Issue 1275, 9 December 1884, Page 3

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auctions er.v REPO UTS. GEKALDINB. Messrs J. Mundell and Co. report sales for the week ending 1 Saturday, 6'.h December, 1884, At the monthly sale of slock in the Geraldine Ya>ds on Wednesday the quantity of stock yarded was not so large as was anticipated, owing to the heavy rainfall the previous day. Owners in some instances considered the weather 100 bad to yard stock, but as the day advanced the weather cleared un, and the sale result'd in their obtaining at auction considerably over owners’ values, the supply not proving equal to the demand. They succeeded in clearing every line saleable at the following prices : For light halfbred hoggets (shorn). 11s 4d ; S-vear-old steers, rather light, £4 15s to £5 ; 2-ye ir-o 'i steers and heifers, £2 12s to £3 5 ; yearlings, mixed sexes, £1 5s to £1 15s. Pigs—Small stores, 19s, At Winchester Fair on Thursday there was an average entry of stock yarded. They sold 12 3-year-oid steers, in forward condition, at from £7 to £7 los ; 10 2-yeav-old steers an 1 heifers at £2 12s to £3?s, I fat heifer at £4 15s. dry cows at £3 7s 6d. To those in want of first class stock they would ask them to remember Mr Wheelband’s sale at Temuka on Friday. TIMARU. Messrs Maclean and Stewart report for the past week ending Saturday as follows : Horses—A smMl entry, consisting of 25 draught and light horses came forward a' to-day’s sale. Tney have to report a very dull demand, and very low prices offering. The most of the lota were passed in. Tin y sold inferior draughts from £l4 to £l7 10s, and hacks from £6 to £l3 10s. Sheep—A good demand exists for store sheep, and a large number have chautred hands during the week. At the usual fortnigiilly sale at Washdyke on Tuesday, a large number were booked for sale. Their entries consisted of close on 2000 crossbred hoggets and 600 merino wethers. They placed the following lines ; —2OO crossbred hoggets at Us 9 1, 613 Half and three-quarter hivd hoggets at 10 s 91. 200 Southdown hoggets at J2s 3d, Private y they have also placed a small line consisting of 200 merino ewes, with lambs’, at a satisfactory price. Fat sheep—'They sold at Washdyke on the 2nd a small hue of about 150 ewes and wethers at from 13s 9d to 14s ; fat lambs at 3d. Cattle— Store cattle me in fair demand, and well-forward s'eers and heifers meet a ready sale. On Tuesday last at Washdyke they yarded about 160 head vaiious classes, and sold as follows, viz. 11 steers at £5 6s, 22 steers at £4 Us. 3 heifets at £4 17* 6d, 4 cows at £2 10-, 17 steers at £4 ss. Fat cattle—Prime beef is worth about 20s per 100ib. At Studholme on Monday last they sold a pen of 11 light-weight steers at £6 15s.

Skins 1 lie season is now over. Their last fortnightly sale held on Wednesday brought forward a small entry, only some 300 skins, which were sold at : Full-woolled butchers’ half and crossbreds, 5s 2d ; do merinos, 4s 6d ; farms’ lots, 3s to 4s 9d.

AUSTRALIAN MARKETS,

Adelaide, Dec. 5

The wheat market is quiet. To-day’s quotations are 3s 4d to 3s sd. Flour, for town brands, £8 os to £8 7s 6 1 ; country ditto, £7 10a to £7 15s, Sydney. Dec. 5.

New Zealand wheat, per bushel, is worth 2s lid, and New Zealand oats 3s Id ; rneize, 4s 6d ; Sugar Company’s No. 1 pieces, per ton, £3l,

ENGLISH. MARKETS, London, Dec. 5. Adelaide wheat, ex store, is unchanged at 35s 6d, and New Zealand ditto 30s Gd to 335. Adelaide flour, ex warehouse, is at 23s 6d.

The total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain is 178,000 quarters. Australian tal'ow, of average quality— Beef and mutton, 345. Prime New Zealand frozen mutton is now selling at sid to 541 per lb. Dec. 6.

Off-coast cargoes of wheat have been sold on the Continent for 35s 3t. Nine cargoes of forward shipment have been disposed of at an average of 355.