STOCK REPORT.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 247, 24 October 1872, Page 9

STOCK REPORT.

Messrs Wrioht, Stephekson, ancf Co. report for the week ending 19tb October, as follows :—: —

Pat Cattle. — There was a fair supply, 50 head being yarded. Our sale* consisted of 32 head, at £7 to £12" ss, equal to 23* per lOOlbs , for good quality, and 25s for middling do. Fat Sheep. — 600 were penned. We sold 130 half-bredr, good quality, at from 18s to 21s. Other sales were 300 merinos, fair quality, at 12s 3d 2 The balance were turned out. Wo also sold privately 300 merino wethers, on station, at 3sd per lb. We quote prime quality half-breds, 4£d per lb. ; do merinos, 3f d to 4d.

Store Cattle. — Well grown bullocks are in good demand. We quote bullocks, 3 to 4 ye.trs, £3 10s to £4 ; mixed lots, 45s to 50s.

Store Sheep. — No transactions.

Station Property. — G-ood stations are in request for delivery either before or after shearing, and first-class properties meet with a ready sale at full market rates. We have to report havinig sold, on accouut of Captain J. T. Boyd, run No. 131, containing 32,000 acres of country, with 10.000 mixed sheep in wool, anrl 1-000 head of cattle, at a satisfactory price ; the purchaser being W. A. Toltnie, Esq., of Dunedin.

Horses. — The demand for good heavy draughts and strong upstanding light harness horses is well maintained. We quote first-class draugts, £45 to £50; medium do, £25 to £30; good hacks and light harness horses, £18 to £25 ; medium do, £10 to £13 ; light and inferior, £4 to £G.

Wool, Sheepskins, &c. — The telegrams via California merely confirm the news already received via Suez, as to the high rates rulihg at the close of the July series of sales. At our weekly sale of wool, sheepskins, &c, on Wednesday, there was a very large attendance of buyers, and prices ruled considerably higher than last week. We sold seven bales of scoured wool (a mixed lot) at Is B|d per lb, and 2000 sheepskins and hides, as follows : — Merino station skins, 2s 5d to 6s Id each ; do green do, 5s lOd ; half-bred station do, 7s 6cl to 9s ; do green do, 9s Id ; hides, 15s to 18s. A small lot of tallow at 20s to 30s per cwt.

Giain. — Wheat is steady without alteration in value. We quote gopd Samples 5s 3d to 5s 4J per bushel. Oats are in fair demand for shipment at 2s to 2s Id for feed, and 2a 2d to 2s 3d for milling qualities.