HAWKE'S BAT STOCK AND STATION REPORT.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3557, 2 December 1882, Page 3

HAWKE'S BAT STOCK AND STATION REPORT.

During the last month very little business has been done in stock, prices being too high for purchasers, and sellers having such an abundance of feed that they are able to hold their stock and will eventually get the prices asked. Tho country is loooking splendid after the late rain, and although it has retarded shearing it has made abundance of feed everywhere ; consequently every class of stock should be in good condition and there will be very little difference between the price of fat and store stock. A large acreage haa been shut up for grass seed and is looking well, and if the weather keeps fine for harvesting will yield very good returns. M. R. Miller and Potts report with myself that transactions in sheep are very limited, and beyond a few lines to Gisborne and Wanganui very little business has been done, owners preferring to keep and fatten their stock.

Cattle —There is more enquiry, but the demand has not affected the prices very much as yet, although we believe that in another month the prices will have risen considerably, especially in store steers, this being the class of cattle most in demand at present. Several mobs of fat bullocks have left the district by land for Auckland and Wellington, also one or two cargoes every week by sea to Auckland and Dnnedin. Present quotations are for.

Cattle.—Pat bullocks, 17s 6d to 20s; cows, lGs to 17s 6d ; store steers, yearlings, £2 5s to £2 17s 6d ; 2-year-olds, £3 10s to £4 5s ; 3 years, £4 10s to £5 10s. Heifers yearling to eighteen months, £2 2s 6d to £2 15s; 2-year-olds, £3 to £4. Cows, £4 to £7 ; dairy cows, £6 to £8 ss.

Sheep.—Merino wedders, for 2 and 4tooth, 7s to 7s 6d each is demanded; 6tooth, 6s 6d ; fresh 8-tooth, 5s 6d to 6s. Merino ewes, 2 and 4-fcooth, 9s 6d ; 6-tootb, 6s 6d to 7s ; 8-tooth, 5s to 5a 6d ; aged, 3s to 4s. Crossbreds, fat, lis 6d to 13s : stores, 2 and 4-tooth, 9s 6d to 10s 6d each ; 6-tootb, 10s ; 8-tooth, 9s to 10s each are the prices asked- Ewes, 2 and 4-tooth, 9s to 9s 6d ; 6-tooth, 8a 6d to 9s; 8-tooth, 7s to Bs.

Horses, unless good of their class, are almost unsaleable. Medium draughts, £25 to £30; heavy do., £40 to £50; light harness, £15 to £25 ; good hacks, £20 to £25 ; ordinary do, £10 to £15,

M. R. Miller, Stock and Station Agent. Napier, December Ist, 1882.