MESSRS. W. HUNTER AND CO.'S REPORT.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 12, Issue 911, 21 January 1868, Page 2

MESSRS. W. HUNTER AND CO.'S REPORT.

We have to report that, on Saturday last, about 40 horses were brought forward, A good many were sold ; a few good hacks were sold at from £7 to £8. A four- wheeled dogcart sold for £14 ss. Newmarket Sale. — On Monday there was a large number of cattle brought forward. Dairy cows wero plentiful, and sold at from £9 to £12 10s ; backward springers, from £6 7s Gd to £8 10s ; two-year old steers, £4 12s 6d ; three-year-old steers, from £6 10s to £7 17s 6d ; two-year-old heifers, from £5 to 415 10s ; yearlings, from £2 10s to £3 ISs each. Fat Cattle.— There was a largo supply, and of good quality; all in sold at good prices. Beef realised about iOs per 1001 b, Sheep Mahket.— There was a larjre numbor of sheep and lambs; all in sold at an advance on the previous wet-k ; half-bred*--, from 21s Gd to 30*s ; eomo half-bred ewes sold at las 'Jd each ; la tubs, from 8s 6d to lGs 9d,

Messrs. Driver, M'Lean and Co. thus report of the Dunedin stock market : — Our fourth annual sale of pure- bred stock, held at tho yards of tlio Agricultural und Pastoral Society, brought together n large

attendance of stockbreeders and others. The stock offered consisted chiefly of Merino and Leicester sheep, many of which were of a description not often to be met with in this market ; but buyers were not present in such foroe as on former occasions, neither was so much spirit evinced in bidding, and on the whole, the amount of business done did not come up to what might have been expected. We sold the Messrs. Katzenstein's imported German Merino rams, at 19 to 51 guineas. Several of the Messrs, Clapp's Spa-nish-Americans, at 20 to 31 guineas. Mr. Rich's Leicester rams at £6. Mr. W, A. Todd's year old hull, by Crofton, dam by Maori Jock, at £35. Messrs. Dodd and Thompson's prize oxen at £21 to £25. Mr. Hamilton's two handsome hacks, at £67 10s and £09 respectively, besides a large number of odd lots, which it is unnecessary to particularise.