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Temuka Leader, Issue 1663, 22 November 1887, Page 4

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AUCTIONEERS' REPORT. TIMAKU. Messrs Gracio, Maclean . and Adam report for the fortnight ending Saturday as follows : Horses—Our entry on Saturday las! and again to-day was fairly good numerically, but the quality in both draught and iight horaca (with a few exceptions) was inferior and not in demand. Young draughts possessing substance and quality are enquired for and saleable up to £25. Our sales arc : —Medi am to good draughts £l6 to £22 10s, inferior £8 10s to £l2, hackney (medium) up to £ls 10.", light and weedy £3 to £6 10s. Cattle —At Pleasant Point, en the 7th in: t., there was a full entry of store cattle, and only only a few head of fat. We sold 52 head at—for calves 19s, yearlings 26s to 30.3, steers and heifnrs 2 to 3 years old £2 2s 6d io £3 6% store cows £2 10s to £3 10s. At Washdyke weekly sale wo sold 8 lie.«d fat cattle Rt .equal to 20s per iOOibs, an! 65 head stores for various owners a t_.for yearlings 21s to 265, 2 and 3-vcar-old steers and heifers £2 15s to £3 10.*, asd (privately) 10 fat cattle at quotation. Sheep—'At Pleasant Point, the entry was confined t .o a few stores, ani hut little business was don?. At Washdyke this welt fat sheep w«re represented by three small lots only, and consequently the local butchers did not get their wants supplied, Young store sheep off the shears fire io. fair demand. We sold at auction] and privately 36 fat ewes at 12-t 61, 300 shorn ewes at 8s to 8s 3d, 203 owes and lambs at 7s, 430 ewes and lambs anil 40 fat lamb?. Pigs—We huva disposed of ab nit, 40 at 8s 6d for winners, and 10s to 12s 6d for slips. Skins—At our regular sale on Wednesday. wo catalogued and sold 2200 at —for dry merinos 5d to 54ji per ib, tochers' crossbreds at 5a 5s lid, Prices throughout were ab:iUt equal to la.st.vaie. Hi(] es _W* have sold 78 chiefly country hides, at up to 3id per !b. Pat—R'Hi»h fat is coming to hand freely in small lo!s for which 6s to 9s, according to quality, is the quotation. At thessi prices wo sold 40 cwt, Oats—During the week we placed several lines, amounting to 1200 sacks, at from Is to Is 6d per bushel, sicks charged for. ATJ3TftALIAN M A RLLST3. MkLISOUUNE, Nov. 18. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company (Limited) in their usual weekly report, state that shou'd the present hopes of producers be realised, the Victorian surplus wheat available for export will not be less than 250.008 tons. Reports confirm thh uno f Qcial estimates tint tho South Australian crop is expected to average ten bushels per acre. Sydney, Nov. 18. New Zealand wheat ha', receded in vahia and is now quoted at 3s to 3s 3 i » bushel. New Zealand oats have also declined Id, and are now at Is 9 I to 2s 2d per buslie 1 , Mais- is about the S'Utje as Ust wetk at 3s 6d to 3s lid p»r 56!bs. Potatoes continue in full •-<npp!y, and command 18s to 20s per ton. Adelaide. Nov. 19. Wheat is steady at 3s GJ with slight improvement on the quotations of i»st week, f/lour is unchanged in value at £8 10* to £9 per ton. ENGLISH MARKETS. London, Nov. 19. ilia wintry weather lias hardened the wheat niarkt, and there is a general advance of 61. A simiUr rise has taken place on the Continent in I in Anvrici». Aus:nli<iu cargoes on the spot are qu-.U'd st 345, Two cargoes to arrive in Deoi'iobi-r liav been sold at 33» 61. A cargo of 60,000 qu triers, to arriv i'» Jimmy, has Uecij' Jispused of »»' 34.*. Elour is Gd dcurui. ,