AUCTIONEERS’ REPORTS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2500, 9 May 1893, Page 4

AUCTIONEERS’ REPORTS.

The Canterbm/ Farmers’ Co-opera-tive Association, Limited (per J. Mundell, auctioneer), repou on the horse market as follows : —At Tattersall’s, Timaru, on Saturday, owing to the continued heary rain, the entry was sma 11 and sales hard to effect. We yarded and offered under the hammer 32 horses, all classes, and succeeded in placing a few at prices satisfactory to vendors. Our quotations are : heavy draughts, young and sound, £l9los to £2O 10s ; light, young and aged, £6 7s Gd to £0 10s; hacks suitable for export, £l4 lOs to £ls ; weeds and aged horses almost unsaleable.

Messrs Guinness and LeCren report having held their usual weekly sale of horses at the Timaru Horse Bazaar on Saturday, when their entry comprised 28 head of all classes, conspicuous amongst them being Mr Morgan O’Brien’s string of 10 first- class draught mares and geldings. Owing in a great measure to the wet weather prevailing lately, and the consequent temporary suspension of outdoor farm work, competition at auction was not very lively. Notwithstanding this, however, they succeeeded in c 1 earing, both at Auct’on and privately, the whole of the draughts and most of the light horses entered. Mr O’Brien’s lot realised weUup to his expectations and other lots fully up to .owners’ values. They quote medium to good draughts at from £l6 to £23105, aged and inferior £6 to £10; hacks only a few entered, good sorts sold up to £l2 10s; light and w eedy £4 to £6.

CHRISTCHURCH MARKETS,

The New Zealand Farmers’ Co-op-erative Association of Canterbury, Limited, report for the week ending Friday, May 6th, 1893 ;

Wheat—The continued wet weather has interfered with deliveries and the quantity coming forward has been very small. The tone of the market is decidedly firmer, especially for Hunter’s th’s description being in request by millers. We quote prime Tuscan 2s 9d to 2s lOd, velvet and Hunter’s 2s Bd, second 2s to 2s 2d f.o.b. Oats—The market for this cerorl shows further weakness, and export buyers hold aloof, milling Canadian Is lOd to Is lid, short feed is 9d, duns and Danish Is Bd. Barley—Very little is now offering, and quotations are unchanged.

Peas —Blue Prussians are taken for export at 3s 2d to 3s 3d, f.o.b. Beans—A good proportion of the crop will suffer from the rain, and the easier feeling in prices which was apparent has been checked. The market close at 2s lid to 3s f.o.b.

Rye Grass and Cocksfoot have merely nominal business at last quotations. Potatoes—The Sydney market has been adversely affected, and business is only practicable there at a relatively lower level than local values. There is a fa : r enquiry from the North Island, which tends to steady prices. We quote May deliveries 45s to 47s 6d, June 47s to 60s, f.o.b.

Cheese has steady demand at 4£d to 4|d, butter, prime fresh 8d to 9d, salt 7d, eggs Is 6d, bacon and hams 7b to 7&d, beeswax lid. MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. London, May 5. New Zealand 4 per cent inscribed stock 104|; 8J per cent. do. 96J. Frozen mutton, first quality, 4d per lb ; second quality, 3s 13/16d; lamb, s£d. About 1200. carcases of the Coptic’s cargo, chiefly Lyttelton mutton, is damaged. New Zealand hemp, fair quality, £23 10a per ton. New Zealand long-berried wheat is firmer at 30s ; South Australian is firm at 33s 3d; Victorian is also firm at 335. An Auitralian wheat cargo has been sold at 30s 6d.

The American visible supply of wheat is 950,170,000 bushels. Melbourne May 6.

The Government Statist announces that the total imports of Australasia last year were £59,100,000, and the exports £64,293,000.