AUCTIONEERS REPORTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10752, 13 May 1898, Page 3

AUCTIONEERS REPORTS.

AUCKLAND.

MESSBS. AIMED BDCKUND AND BOSS' WEE* BEPOBT.

Jt*£ ***»»** meadow ,ia y* 3s od to 3s 9d; oaten sheaves, 3s 6d the cwts pressed hay, £3 10s to £4;' guano, £3 10 I blood manure, £4 lOsj 'W £6 5 8 the ton; oats, 2s 9d to 3s; make, 2s 10d in SBwheat, 4s the bushel. ' ' iS ' On Friday horse stock, in average supply. were at late values. Medium draughts Sed in." £13 to £20; light harness, £5 5s to £8 10s; pg, horse, and harness, £34; spring carts, £6 15s to £10 each. ' g On Tuesday, for the allotments at KichfourXSS of WaS n ° iddin S' The house and pe ition; £500 was offered, but £600 was rewithdrawn from Bale; the other was fairly competed for up t0.£250, which, hlg I n"7 aS FT™ 1 ' * remain unsold. Hides, fully represented, were at lower values, about id the lb. Prices for sound ox » uumS ed fiw w from .i d t0 4 W; a «ho«« picked hide, bjd; cow hides, 3d to 32d- calf- ,"* L** £ th dozen tallow, from It mw? d > ; b ?-' . 3s 3d the cwt ; H « and 6id the lb; skins in full number and improved value, mostly ranged from 2s 6d to 3s od each. Jamf%\ °"? aturda «m yards were well filled with cattle, which met a numerous attendance, and sold freely throughout, the falling rain assisting the bidding At Eomuera, on Thursday, dairy cows, yarded in full number, were at late values. 1 hose at profit wore from £3 12s 6d to £6 17s M each. Store cattle, in usual number, were in better inquiry. Fat calves, abundant and of excellent quality, were required. Prices ranged from 8b to £117s each; 80 sold. Fat cattle in average number (200 yarded), sold steadily throughout the sale at from 17s to 18s the 1001b; steers brought from £6 to £8 10s each; cows, £3 to £6 17s 6d. Sheep in average number (1600 yarded). Fat sheep at improved values. Fat wethers were from 8s to Us 3d each; store wethers, 6s 9d; fat owes, 6s to 12s; store ewes, 3s to 6s. Fat lambs, in short supply, were from 8s to 9s each. Pigs, in moderate supply, sold freely. Porkers were from 15s to £1 9 each; 68 sold. ' MESSRS. HUNTEB AND NOLAN'S BEPORT. Grain, seeds, horsefeed: Supplies have riot been in excess of requirements, and the previous week's values were maintained. We quote: Maize on wharf, 2s lOd; feed oats, 2s 9d; seed oats, 3s 2d; chaff, at railway, £3 15s to £4; ex store, £4 2s 6d to £4 10s; bran, £4 10s to:. Horses: The numbers brought forward have been large, and a good many changed ™, Wo quote: Heavy draughts, from £13 5s to £23 12s 6d; medium draughts, £8 to £13 2s 6d; light-harness, £3 5s to £12 7s 6d; hacks, £4 2s 6d to £8 ss. Wool, hides, skins, end tallow: A large catalogue was gone through. For hides, there was a decline in value of from id to id lb. Wo quote Stout ox hides, 4Jd to sd; medium, 3{d to 4d; steer and cow, 2Jd to sad;5 a d; calfskins, 2d to 4d lb; sheepskins, Is 6d to 3s 9d; lambskins, Is 5d to 2s 9d; pelts, 6d to Is 4d. Wool, didl of sale, inferior fleece, 4Jd to 5Jd; lambswool, sd; pieces, 2Jd to 3Jd; bones, £3 5s ton; tallow, 10s 9d to 12s 9d ewt; horsehair, Is Id to Is 2Jd lb. Cattle: At the Newmarket Yards, on Tuesday, there was a very large muster of fat stock, no doubt owing to the scarcity of cattle last week, and the consequent rise in prices. The bidding for prime quality was vory keen. Wo quote: Prime oxen, from 18s to £1 por 1001b; medium fatted oxen, 15s to 17s; cows, 13s to 15s; steers brought from £4 12s 6d to £10; cows, £3 10s to £6 15s. Dairy and store stock in average numbers. Dairy cows brought from £3 10s to £6 12s 6d. At Pukokohe, on Wednesday, the yards were again well filled. Dairy cows brought from £3 5s to £6; dry cows, £1 5s to £2 2s 6d; grown steers, £3 5s to £4 Is; two to three-year-old steers, £1 15s to £3; calves, from 7s 6d to £1 2s 6d. Sheep: Scarcely the average number wore yarded at Newmarket on Tuesday. Competition was brisk, and well-fatted sheep roso Is a head on last week's quotations, Fat wethers sold at from 8s 9d to 13s 6d; owes, 6s 6d to 10s 9d; store owes and wctliors, 5s to 7s 9d; lambs, 3s 3d to 8s 9d. Pigs: More plentiful than for some weeks. Porkers, from £1 to £1 17s 6d; weaners, 4s 9d to 17s,

MESSRS. G. W. BINNET AND SONS' RETORT. On Tuesday wo offered a large cataloguo of hides, sheepskins, tallow, bones, etc. Hides: Prime and extra. stout ox sold freely from 5Jd to 6Jd lb; stout, 4Jd to Sd; medium are again easier, and sold from 3{d to 3Jd; cow slow of sale from 3|d to 3id; picked, up to 3Jd; calf not wanted, and difficult to place; stags, 2d to 2Jd; damaged bides, nominal. Horse hides wanted; sales from 3s 6d for small to 7s for large. Sheepskins: Competition brisk, and sales in favour of vendors. Local green and salted longwools, from 3s 3d to 3s 6d each; crossbreds, from 2s 9d to 3s 4d; small crossbreds and halfbreds, 2s 6d to 2s 9d. Country dry sound pelted sold at equal values. Tallow. No shipment parcels \o hand. Good lines are worth 14s 6d to 15s cwt; good ordinary, in broken packages, 13s to 13s 6d; inferior, 8s to 10s; rough fat, Id to lid lb. Hair: Horse, Is to Is 3d dozen; cow tails, Is 3d to Is 4d.

Bones: Best dry, £3 15s ton; wet, £3 to £3 ss. Horns wanted. No sales to report. Bonedust: Emu, £5 15s to •£& ton; Sydney, £5 10s to £5 15s. NEW ZEALAND LOAN AND MERCANTILE AGENCY CO. (LIMITED). Auckland Wool Stores, May 11,1898. At our sale yesterday wo had the usual largo catalogue. For hides the market was weaker, except for prime heavy hides. We sold heavy 6tout ox, 5d to 5Jd lb; medium stout ox, 4d to 4Jd; light, 3Jd to 3Jd; cow, best lines, 3{d to 3-jd; scored, 3d to 3|d ; picked, 4d to 4id; stags. Id to 2Jd ; kip, 2Jd to 3Jd; calfskins, sound, 4d to 4Jd, Sheepskins Large, 3s to 3s 9d; medium, 2s 3d to 2a 9d. Tallow: Medium rendered, 13s to 14s cwt; picked for tanners' use, 15s 3d. Bones: Present price, £3 10s ton, with good demand. Horns and hair at late rates. Oats: Arrivals have been very heavy, but as the Southern markets are firm last week's quotations still hold good, viz., 2s 6d and 2s 6jd, c.i.f. Maize: In short supply from our Fast Coast districts, but a shipment of 500 sacks has arrived from Gislwme, which was sold at 3s on the wharf. Price quoted ex store is 3s Id, with hardening tendency. Chaff is still firm at £3 15s to £3 17s 6d at railway. MASTERTON. Messrs. Lowes and lorns' horse sale report:—At our horse sale Inst Saturday wo had a large entry, embracing all classes, including soma consignments from Hawke's Bay of really fine heavy draughts, active farm horses, and horses suitable for spring dray, farm, or town work. Purchasers were prerent from Canterbury, Wellington; and other districts, and, with the good quality of the animals, we had spirited bidding throughout, only a very small proportion of tho catalogue failing to sell. First-class heavy draught mares and geldings ranged from £24 to £29; good farm sorts, £18 to £22 useful spring dray or express sorts, £12 lo £17 light harness, £8 10s to £11; a fow useful hacks made prices from £6 to £3 10s. JOHNSONVILLE. Messrs. Freeman R. Jackson and Co. report. Johnsonville, May 3:— cattle were in usual supply. Some very fine bullocks were yarded; large-framed oxen, thoroughly prime, were not in equal request to the lighter and more handy weights. The former sold at 13s, and the latter at from 14s to 15s the 1001b respectively. No cows were yarded. Heavy oxen made £6 15s to £7 10s; others, £5 10s to £6 7s 6d; light bullocks, .fatted, £3 2s 6d to £4 15s. Sheep were in average supply. Heavy wethers made lis; good wethers, 10s: fat ewes, 6s lid to 8s 3d; light ewes, 5a 9d to 6s; lambs, generally inferior, made 6s 6d to 7s; poor, sorts, 4s to 5s 3d. Of pigs there was a moderate number, chiefly heavy weights,-. which sold at from £1 13s to £2 9s; medium baconers, £1 4s to £110s. ,;,.','-. , HAWERA, MANAIA, AND STRATFORD. . The Egmont Farmers' Union i (Limited), Hawera, report:—At our monthly horse fair on the 30th ult. a large number of horses came forward, and those of good class were keenly competed for, whilst others 'were neglected. We quote:-Draught horses, ' £20 1 to £24; light harness horses, £8 10a to £16 ss; hacks, £3 to £12 10s; screws, 10s to £1 sa. , We held our Manaia sale on the 3rd inst., on account of the Hawera Races clashing with our regular sale day. The entry of stock was small, and likewise tlie attendance, but most of the stock changed hands 1 at prices slightly in advance of late quotations.'; We quote:—Two to 24year steers, £2 10s to £3 7s; fat cows, £2 17s fed to £3 3s; springers, £2 17e 6d to £3 10s; weaners, ! Ss ; to ■ 10s. "i At Stratford,' on ; the 6th icrt., the yards were well filled with cattle of good quality. • There were several lines of forward steers yarded, which wore not advertised. ..The attendance was good,; and, with the exception of the forward steers, every pen ; changed: hands before ' leaving ' the yard. We quote:—Forward • steers, £3 - 10s • to £3 19s;'2-year "steers; £1. 16s 6d to.£2; ■, dairy cows and heifers, £3 to £3 Es 6d; store COWS, £1 4s to £118s; cows and calves, £1 6s to £1 12s; 15 to.lß-months, 18s.to£16s; : yearling steers, £1 to£l Ss 6d;'wean.ors, 6s to 9s. -.■-,,•:

' WANGANDT. Messrs. Freeman K. Jackson and Co. re-port:-At Waverley 1 on Friday stock was largely in excess of advertised numbers. We had a full yard of cattle. For these there was a better demand than of late, though prices did not advance. - We cleared the entry. Sheep sold readily. Store ewes advanced in price, but others were without change. Handfed mixed weauers mado 8s 6d to 10s • yearlings, 16s j 15 to 18 months, £1; yearling steers, 19s; hand-fed weaner steers, 9s 9d--well-bred 2J-year steers, £2 10s; good 2J-year steers, £2 ss; 3-year-old bullocks, £3 to £3 ss; store cows, goud quality, £l'l7s; forward cows, £2 7s 6d; store ewes, 2s 9d to 4s Idwoolly lambs, 5s Bd. At St. Hill-street on Weonesday, a good supply of stock cams forward. Of grown store cattle the entry was made up of female stock, but there was no demand. Weauers sold fairly briskly. Dairy cattle were required, but those on offer were either too old or heifers in poor condition, so prices were low. For sheep the requirements lay in the direction for store ewes and wethers fit for topping off rathe! than for breeders. The former made their value, the latter, we thought (quality considered) went in the buyers' favour. Pigs, in moderate numbers, made late rates, with perhaps an inclination for porkers to be somewhat easier. We quote:—Cattle: Springing heifers, in poor condition, £115s to £3; mixed weaners, 8s to 12s 6d; poor sorts, ss; forward and store cows, £110s; store cows, 17s. Sheep: Good breeding ewes, 5s 3d; culls, 3s 3d; cull empty ewes, 2s 7d to 3s; fat ewes, 7s sd; forward ewe 3, 7s Id; store ewes, 63 4d; fat and forward wethers, 83 6d; fat wethers, 9s; twotooth wethers, 6s 9d. Pigs: Pork pigs, 14s to 18s; smaller, 12s 3d; small stores, 5s to 7s; slips, 2s 6d; small baconers, £1 ss; large baconers, £1 18s. On Saturday we were successful in disposing of Mr. Walker's farm on tho_ Brunswick at £2 19s per acre, by auction, which, all things considered, was deemed a satisfactory price, The sections in the Mount Desert property wore also offered, when two sections were disposed of, a frontage at £160 and one of those at the back, containing 14j! acres, at £35 per acre respectively. Since then wo have disposed of another section at £152 10s per acre, the remainder being for private sale at reasonable prices. Wo also sold privately the Aramoho section offered the same day.