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Temuka Leader, Issue 1803, 16 October 1888, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

AUCTIONEERS' REPORT. TIMARU. Messrs Grade, Maclean and Adam report for the past fortnight, ending Saturday, as follows: — Horses At the Timaru Horse Bazaar to-day only a few goed draughts were entered. These we sold at from £22 to £3O, and medium at £l2 to £l6. Hacks and light horses: There is but little demand for the iute’ior class offering, and very few sales effected. Sheep—At Pleasant Point, on the Ist insi, there was a medium entry and a good demand. We sold for Messrs Fanning, Cummings. Clelland, and Miller, 125 wethers at 13s lid, 36 do at 13s lOd, 73 do at 13s 6d, 61 ewes and wethers at 11s 6d, 200 crossbred hoggets at lls to 12s. At Washdyke, on the 4th inst, the entries of both sheep and cattle were small. On the llth inst., the fat sheep to hand were barely enough to supply the local requirements. Hoggets were well represented, but only a few lots changed hands. We sold 37 crossbred ewes at 14s Id, 36 do at 12s 9d, 100 do at lls 6d, 78 merino wethers at lls 6d, 152 hoggets at lls 6d, 89 fat ewes at 13s 9d, 50 do at 14s lid, 118 crossbred hoggets at 13s 3d, 150 do do 10s 6d. At Winchester, on the 9th, we sold 274 hoggets at 10s 9d.

Cattle There has heeu a fair amount of business doing in fat cattle for the local trade at equal to 20s per lOOlbs. The demand for stores up to the present time is hot up to our expectations, but we anticipate a considerable improvement as feed becomes more plentiful. We sold at Washdyke 6 bullocks at £7 l2s 6d, 8 heifers at £6 12s 6d, 2 cows at £6, 4 heifers at £5, 15 steers and heifers at £4 l7s 6d, 11 2-year-olds at £2 17s 6d. At Pleasant Point we disposed of 35 head j at—for calves 16s, 2-year-olds, £2 7s j 6d to £2 16s, dry cows £2 to| £3 ss, fat heifers £4 13s 6d. i Skins—There was a full muster on the 3rd last,, and prices obtained were in advance of the, the former sale. Best butchers’ skins sold at from 5s 6di to 5s lOd, country skins at for full-; woolled 4s lOd, ss, 5s 3d, to 6s Bd,| Mackenzie Country merinos at sid; per lb. | ENGLISH MARKETS. London, October 10, An Adelaide cargo of wheat has been sold at 425, and a cargo of August shipment at 42s 6d. | The wool series closed to-day with | the market firm. The number of bales catalogued since the opening! was 285j000, of which 104,000 were : sold for export and 130,000 for homei consumption. 10,000 bales were held! over for next series. October 11. ; New Zealand mutton is quoted at; s*d per lb; Australian 4|d. Beef isi quoted at 4d per lb. j