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Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 146, 21 June 1901, Page 6

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AUCTIONEERS' REPORTS. MESSRS ALFRED BUCKLAND AND SONS' REPORT. Horses: At the regular weekly sale at the Huyniarket on Friday last we nail an average entry, and a good attendance of buyers. Very little business was done in draught stock, but all hacks and light harness horses sold freely at an advance on late quotations. Several vehicles and harness and a lot of saddlery and sundries were disposed ot, also a gig, horse, and harness at £29 10/. Good hacks sold up to £20; medium unbroken draughts, £14 to £22; cobs and useful light hacks, £4 to £10; aged and part worn horses, suitable for farm work, £8 to £14. Hay and straw: A good supply of the former, and prices lower, but straw was scarce nnd at high prices. Meadow hay, 30/ to 40/; clover, 35/ to 40/ the ton; struw, 14/ to 24/ the small load, and up to 40/ for twohorse loads. Hides, skins, tallow, etc.: We submitted a much heavier catalogue than the average. AH lines sold freely, and were cleared at late prices. Ox hides, 6d to 7d for best heavy, 4d to 5d for medium; cow, up to 4<l, 3}d to 3Jd for the greater number; calf, 2Jd to 3Jd lb.. Skins, at late values; eowhalr, 8d to* Sid; horsehair. 8d to lljd. Tallow, at late values, 20/ to 23/ the ewt for best, and 16/ to 18/6 ordinary; rough fat, lid to l*d per !b. Grain, etc.: Oats made a sharp advance down South this week, aud higher prices may.'be looked for loeally.Malze also ad'va,n.ced Id por bushel on account of short supplies. Prime chnff, scarce, but still at k>w prices; Inferior hard to quit. We quote — r.x store oats, 2/2 to 2/3, Inferior and damaged 1/9; maize, 2/7 to 2/8; wheat, 2/30; feed barley, 2/2 per bushel; chaff, £2 i.V to £3; Inferior, 30/ to 40/: carrots, 22/fi to 25/; bran, £4 10/; shnrps, £5 5/; hay, £2 10/ to £3 10/; straw, £2 15/ per ton; maize, ex wharf. 2/4 per bushel. At Pokeno on Monday there was about the usnnl number of stock yarded, and fair values ruled throughout, fat cows bringing from £5 to £0 each: dairy, £4 to £6; 18----months Rteera, £2 to £3; strong calves £1 to £1 15/. There was but a small muster of stock at Runciman on Wednesday, the time of the year nnd weather not being favourable, Trtfry TO ws of good quality -sold freely, .bringing from £5 10/ to £7 5/ each; backward springers, £3 10/ to £5 5/; dry cows. £2 10/ to £410/; strong calves were better worth, aud brought from £1 5/ to £1 15/; no grown' steers yarded. The Remuern Yards wen? well filled on Thursday with stock of all classes, which sold freply throughout, dairy cows bringing from £0 to £8 17/0. Few store cattle yarded; thoso. sold at lnte values. Fat and young calves, penned In average numbers, wore at late vnlues: fresh-dropped, 4/ to 8/; .medium, 12/ to 15/; heavy, up to 47/ each: CO sold. The beef pens were well filled with a prime lot of cattle, which Jfnllv sustained late quotations; 19/ to 23/ 1001b for steers' and heifers: aged cows, 16/ tn 17/; steers rancpd in price from Cfi to £11; cows, £4 to £7 2/fc; a draft of 30 steers from Mr Jns. Mnir, of. Wnlrangl, Rveraged £3 10/6: 230 sold. There was a better demand for sheep thnn of late, 'wethers brin.e!ng from 14/ to 17/6; ewes. 10/8 tr> 15/; lambs. 8/ to 13/6 eaoh; 1200 sold. TJie ndrortiso'd ewes In lamb bronpht from 9/6 to 1.1/8, Pigs, penned in fair 'numbers, sold f^efy. porkers brining from £1. to £1 10/; wearers, 7/6 to 11/ each; no heavy plga offered; 30 sold.