DUNEDIN SALE YARDS.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 44, 13 May 1875, Page 4

DUNEDIN SALE YARDS.

Horses.— There is a fair demand for good heavy ' draughts, and for upstanding saddle and light ■ harness horse's. No fresh imported stock has come ■ forward for some time. Heavy .draughts' are quoted at £55 to £65 ; medium do, £35 to £45 ; good - saddle and light harness horses. £25 to £30 ; medium do, £14 to £18; light and inferior, £4 to £10. . Stokk Cattle. For quiet, well- grown, thriving cattle there is still an active demand, and late quo- > taUons are readily obtained for this description, say ■ £5 108 to £6 10s for bullocks, and £4 10s to £5 for , cows. 100 head were sold last week at quotations. Store Sheep.— lnquiries are made for young 1 sheep, of which class but few are offering. Old v Bheep are becoming rather dull of sale. Wright; - Stephenson, and Go. quote cross—breds, 4 and 8- . I tooth, 128 6d; do, 2-tOOth, 10s to lis; do, lambs, 7a , to 8s ; merino wethers, 2, 4, and 6-tooth, 7s to 8s ti do ewes, 8s to 9s ; do. full-mouthed, 3s 6d to 4s 6d. ' At foregoing rates they sold 1000 2-tooth 'cro^s- ; l breds, 500 cross-bred lambs, and 2200 full-mouthed ewea. Maclean Bros, placed 2,000 ftillimouthed J ' ewes and 300 cross-breds during the. week,4t,quo- . , tations under-noted. 4 and 6-tooth eims-fireds at ,' lis 6d to 135.; . do, 2-tooth, at 9s to Jos fid.; Merino . ewes, 2, 4, and 6-tooth, 8s to -9s 6d^ fiiU-motfShed* l do, 4s 6d '; do wethers; 2, 4; and 6-tooth, 7s 6d to 8s 6d i fuU-mouthed, 6s 6d. , i •- ? -•.-- \ yt : .Fat'Shmp.— Again an over-supply has tb Jbe, ' reported.- 9700 were penned; of which a part had • to be turned out. Wright,,. Stephenson,- and, Co*. p sold 786 'merino ewes, medium quality, at' fxoiufk- ' 6d.toßff 3d } and 380 erosa-breds atlftfe? sTSfey:quote ! prime mutton 3d per lbj^medk#^; 2id. Private^ ■ they sold 400 eross4>«WM Ms 9d each. ' Maclean !■ Bros. so^soo:prl*ately aad at auction.; ..'-< <"... . { 1.) 1 : y&«s€K^&— Th^ 5* ron&cess' of the-' demand. " WH^hKS^titnsoD,' and' , Co. sold 6? head at— for* bullocks,. £8 6a:td £10, equal to 27s per 'looifor for prime quaUty, 'and Wed for L »edlafat4o.r Privately they r01d34 bead at equ«l to l- 25sj>«?lw)lbs. - - ■ > . •'■",-"« ? ' ,• Z. FATCAtvt;sftreingooddein^di' v 2oh^sard^i' ». and; sold at from 26s to 60s epch. - - . ; ]-„, : - 7: "[ I :.>;? <■:■"' Xate advices front 'Cattte&nry ; slate that ! tntf : weather tesjissufred ip^y^trr^^iJm^atm^ i. there i^ nothing to complain of,. but the reverse.-, V Iwero^havefrahcrieaH^^^ whiter in lair ©ofldltftir'with the aid dfgreeircrop^ L andthelj^irtraw.Btackfli^^ f '. the tfetmtry.i. Upon the whole, £ , ': seems to pervade the 1 stock market generally, «n3 > ■ the state of piu-alysl^in^*jwaich;tb.e sheep market: ! was thrown by the threatened outbreak or scab is" „ Mrln^jßvld^/J^ptomßiot^tKlng^ ove>eoiiiOA.t; t -ffleyfljrdj? f^^nmlttr of sh i and astteretwai ag^ iM*end«ride of b*y*r£tfiere • Wwa brisk competition j h^b^'dtmngr^ttiesSteon;; for* to di^gnu&ttf. at §», aot rea^ungtne owner's rowve. Foria-

ferior stores the price is nominal. Cattle (says the ' Canterbury Times '), as usual, command attention, and will continue to do so for several years at least, as the advanced price ia dtie entirely to a scarcity of cattle generally in the country, and not to the exigencies of the season. For some descriptions the price has advanced quite 100 per cent, as compared with the same date hst year, and ia no kind is the advance less than 50 per cent. Of course the description which has so largely advanced are cattle such as well-bred steers and two years old, which will come out aa beef during next season. Our quotation for fat cattle is 35s on the average, with every prospect of it going considerably beyond that figure as the winter advances.