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Temuka Leader, Issue 1974, 26 November 1889, Page 4

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AUCTIONEERS' REPORT. GERALDINE. Messrs J. Mundell and Co. report sales for the week ended November 23rd, 1889, as follows: At the Geraldine sale on Wednesday, the yarding of stock, especially sheep, was the smallest we have to repert at these yards for several months, holders of sheep, no doubt, having decided to shear and give themselves the full benefit of the prosperous condition of the wool market. The totals yarded for the day were —500 sheep, 48 head of cattle, and 26 pigs. Prices obtained during the salp were:—

Sheep—Crossbred wethers (shorn) lls 9d; halfbred hoggets (in the wool), 9s 4d. Cattle—Cows, springing and in profit, £4i to £3 10s; dry cows, £llss to 15s; 2-year-old steers, £3 ; calves, 10s.

Pigs—Small stores, 10s 2d to 6s 6d ; medium, 6s.

Clearing Sales—On Thursday we held a clearing sale at Orari, by order of the administrator in the estate o£ late Thomas Wadsworth, at which there was a large attendance of farmers and others interested. We effected a clearance of every lot advertised, at the following prices Lot 1, Maria Fitzgerald, at £3 5s per acre; lot 2, John Hanweci, at £7 12s 6d do ; lot 3, Watson Wilby, at £1 12s 6d do ; lot 4, Maria Fitzgerald, at £2 do. Live stock, farm implements, and effects all sold at satisfactory prices. Private Sales—D uring the week we sold a line of freezing sheep, in the wool at 17s; also a line of merino ewes in the wool, with 90 per cent, halfbred lambs at foot, at 8s Bd. TIMARU. Messrs Gracie, Maclean, and Co. report for the past fortnight ending Saturday, as follows: Horses At the Timaru Horse Bazaar medium to good draughts have sold at from £ls to £22; inferior and aged, £8 to £l2. Hacks and light harness: Medium, £lO to £l6 10s; light and weedy, £3 to £B. Sheep —We sold at auction and privately, 194 2-toothed wethers at 16s 4d, 40 merino wethers at 10s sd, 38 merino wethers (shorn) at 7s, 300 crossbred hoggets at 13s 3d, and have enquiries for freezers. Cattle—At Winchester, we sold 12 calves at 20s, and 10 head at 555. At Washdyke, 2 fat steers at £4 17s 6d; 2 do at £3 15s, 35 head young cattle at from 20s to 355, cows (dry) from 30s to 57a 6d, and privately 12 head fat cattle.

Pigs Very few offering, with a brisk demand for stores. At Washdyke, we sold 9 porkers at 355. Fat—All lots to hand, about 4 tons, have been sold at from 12s to IBs.

Skins —Since our last report we have disposed of over 1500 butchers’ and country skins, and notwithstanding that lellmiongers are at present busily engaged scouring, we have obtained highly satisfactory prices, viz., best crossbreds, 6s 6d to 7a 9d; second quality, 4s 6d to 6s; best merinos, 5s to 6s 3d; flight do, 3s to 4s ; pelts, 4d to 8d; lambs, lOd to Is 2d. Hides—There is a slightly improved demand for medium to heavy weights but inferior sorts remain unchanged, We sold 110 at full rates. ENGLISH MARKETS. London, Nov. 21. The total quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,800,000 quarters, and for the Continent 468,000 quarters. The American visible supply is 28,375,000 bushels. Tallow is advancing. Best mutton 25s 6d to 265.

Sheep and rabbit skins are advanc-, ing. Ox hides, Bid to 3fd per lb. Fifteen hundred bales of New Zealand hemp have been sold at the rates last quoted. Nov. 22. New Zealand four per cent inscribed stock is weaker, at 106.

Australian wheat, ex warehouse, 39s 6d, with market depressed. New Zealand long berried, ex store, 37s 6d.

Sugar, German beet,, lls 6d; Java cane, 14s 3d. The iron market is firm at 63s 6d.