AUCTIONEERS' REPORTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11842, 20 December 1901, Page 3

AUCTIONEERS' REPORTS.

AUCKLAND. NEW ZEALAND LOAN AND MERCANTILE AGENCY COMPANY (LIMITED).

Auckland Wool Stores, December 18.

Horses: A steady demand has prevailed for draughts of. a decent stamp at the: previous week's values. Quite the usual number were brought forward at the Durham Yards on Friday. Bidding fluctuated somewhat, but good sorts made full value. We quote: Heavy draught, from £26 to £38 12s 6d,; no extra heavy yarded; medium do., £22 5s to £>£*: light harness horses, £7 10s to £19 15s; weeds, £1 10s to £3 15s. . t . Cattle: : There was an average muster of dairy: and store cattle yarded at the Newmarket Yards on Tuesday, and a full muster of beef. Ox beef sold up to last week's quotations, from 20s to. 22s per 1001b; cow, 16s to 19s; steers brought from i£s 17s 6d to £9 17s 6d; cows, £3 15s to £7 17s 6d; dairy cows, £4 5s to £8 ss; empty do., £2 7s to £3 17s 6d; calves, £1 2s to £1 16s. Sheep: At the Newmarket Yards on Tuesday sheep were penned in less numbers than for some weeks, and showed a ' decided upward tendency in values. V Wethers made from 10s to 153 9d; ewes, 6s 6d to lis 9d. , Lambs in full supply.sold from ,7s 6d 'to 13s 9d; store do., 4s 6d to 6s 9d. Pigs: In full supply. Porkers brought from £1 2s to £2; weaners, 4s 6d to 10s'6d. At the special clearing sale' held at Mr. J. Weir's on Saturday, there was a very large attendance, and everything, with the exception of the sheep, sold well. The trap horse realised £20 ss; dairy cows, tip to £8; heifers, £2 5s to £4 15s; a tax cart, £15 10s; roadster, £13 ss; ewes and lambs; 8s 9cl to 10s Gel; wethers, lis 3d. ' : Hides: We submitted a- good selection on Tuesday, and, with the exception of cows, kept late values. We sold as follows:—Stout ox. 5Jd to 6£d; medium do., 4Jd to s|d; light, 4Jd to 4\d; cow. best lines, 4J,d: seconds, 38d to 4Jd; kip, 3Jd to 4d; calf, 3|d to 4Jd; stags', 21 d to 2Sd v Sheepskins: All lines of well saved: sold at good values, while bad!v saved pelts are slow of sale. Full-woolled, 2s to 2$ 6d; small and medium, is 3d to is 9d; > salted nelts, 7d to 9d; dry, 2d to 4d; salted lambs, 6d to 9d; dry, 2d to sd. .. .

Tallow: Best rendered, in small .packages, 22s to 22s 9d; seconds, ,18s to 20s.

Tails, Is 6d to Is 9d per dozen. Maize Market easier. Prime samples sellinc at 2s 3d on wharf for wholesale lines. Oats: Market firm at ?.s 9d on wharf for " B" grade in wholesale lines. «.. . Potatoes, £7 ner ton. Chaff is worth £3 2s 6(1 at. rail per track load. ;i MESSRS. ALFRED. BUCKLAND AND SONS' REPORT. v Horses: At our regular weekly sale on Friday last, at the Haymarket, there were more than the average number entered; the class, as a rule, was not good, and many'were. sold at small prices. There were, however, some very nice medium draughts; and heavy but?try horses brought in, and these all sold readily at £23 to ,£3B each; hacks and light trap horses, £9 to £15; gig and pony sorts. £5 to £8; unbroken weeds, 10s to £2 10s each; and Shetland ponies, £3 and £10; gigs, £9 to £12; sulky And harness! £12; a good horse, trap, and harness, £25; spring cart. £12 10s; harness. £3 . to £5 5s the set were . some of. the sales effected.

Hay and Straw: Again/scarce, with little, demand. ' ' " : ' . j Hides , and Sksp.s, Tallow, . etc.: Barely an average amount of business done; the former sells freely at good prices, but Skins are at low values. Ox hides, 44d to 6d; cow, 4d and 4Jd for the greater number, and 3d to 3Jd: for others; calf, 3d to sd; stag, 2W and 23d; horse hides, 5s 6d each; cow hair 9d and liorse hair Is lb; tails, Is lOd dozen; tallow, 20s 6d to 23s for best, and 17s to 18s 6d for ordinary; fat lid lb. Sheepskins, 1 s3d to 2s for best, and 9d to Is 3d for lighter and country skins: lambskins, 5d to lOd; * pelts, 5d to lOd each. Bags and dumps of wool sold at 2|cl to 3d for crossbred, and 2d and 2Jd for wool. ?' . Grain, etc.: Maize, in fair supply, sold at 2s 3d and 2s 4d cx wharf; inferior grain, ex store, at 2s I'd to 2s 3d. Oats unchanged, but with an easier tendency. Chaff in demand at £3 ex rail, and £3 5s to £3 10s ex store; inferior, £2 10s to £3. On Saturday we held a clearance salt' of Mr. Wildblood's stock at the Mauku. There was a fair attendance, and satisfactory juices were obtained. '

At Pokeno, on Monday, there was an average muster of stock and a largo attendance. Most of the stock yarded changed hands,. but prices ruled lower. On Tuesday last, at the Haymarlcet Auction Rooms, we held a sale of sections of land at aikumete, and farms at Waiuku. For the Waikumete sections, ranging in area from 4 to 6 acres each, competition was wot animated, and only a few sections were knocked down at the auction; the majority not reaching the reserve were passed, but are still; in our hands for sale. For the three farms at Waiuku the first_ offered was tho homestead farm, containing 370 acres, for which there was no bid. Lot 2, containing 134 acres, known as the old farm, was sold under the hammer at.£3 5s per acre, and lot 3, containing 181 acres, was passed, not reaching the reserve. ' On Wednesday we held our monthly sale at Rnnciman, when stock of all classes were well represented. Dairy cows sold freely, those of good quality bringing from £5 10s to £7; others, £4 to £5. Young stock were firm at late quotations; with few exceptions all were sold. Grown steers were at "lower values. At Kemuera. on Thursday, dairy cows, penned in average numbers, were required. Prices for tho?e at profit were from £5 10s to £8 2s 6d. Store cattle were yarded in moderate numbers, and fully kept late quotations. Fat and young calves came forward in full numbers; those of good quality sold freely, others were at lower values. Fresh dropped brought from 6s to 8s; medium. 10s to 12s; heavy, up to £2 Is; 70 sold. There was a good supply of fat stock, and all of real good quality, which fully kept late quotations—lß3 to 21s the 1001b for steers and heifers; aged cows, 16s to 18s. Steers ranged in price from £6 to £10 2s 6d; cows, £3 10s to £'! 12s 6d; 250 sold. A draft of 40 steers from Messrs. Wintle Bros., of the Tara, averaged £9 4s 9d each. Fat sheep came forward in smaller numbers, and improved on last week's prices, although quotations are not higher. Weighty wethers brought from lis 6d to 15s; lighter sorts, 8s to 10s 6d; ewes, 7s to 12s; 1000 sold. Fat lambs, yarded m less numbers, were better worth. Good sorts sold freely at from 10s to 14s 6d; others, 4s 6<f to Bs. The pig pens were well filled, and sold freely, baconers bringing from £1 15s to £2 ss; well done porkers, £1 5s to £1 10s; small pigs, unless of good quality, were dull of sale. MESSES. G. W. BINNEY AND SONS' REPORT. On Tuesday we offered an extra large catalogue of hides, sheepskins, tallow, etc. . Hides: Competition brisk for all good lines. Extra stout ox, from 5Jd to 6d; stout, from 5d to 5Jd ; medium, from 4Jd to 4gd; light, from 33d to 4id; cow, best lines, 4Jd; good, 4d; medium, 3}d; seconds, 3Jd to 3Jd; kips, 33d to 4d; calf, well-flayed, 3d to sd; stags', 2d to 2sd; damaged hides at Id to 2d per lb. Sheepskins: Well-woolled skins, from 2s 3d to 3s; small, 13 to Is 6d; pelts, green and salted, from 9d to Is; lambs, 6d to la; dry, from 3d to 6d; damaged, Id to 3d each. Tallow: Best, 21s 6d to 22s 6d; seconds, 17s to 18s; inferior, 103 to 12s per cwt; rough fat, lid to lid per lb. , Hair: Tail, lid to Is; mane, 7d to 8d; cow tails, Is 8d to Is lOd per dozen. Owing to the holidays no sale will be held to the 7th of January next. . , ' JOHNSONYHiLF- ' Messrs. Freeman R. Jackson and Co., in conjunction with Messrs. Abraham and Williams, report, on December 10, as to their Johnsonville sale as follows:—Entries of cattle to-day were confined to one line of prime quality bullocks, which .met' with a slightly better demand than last week. Ox beef made 20s, an occasional pen making 21s, per 1001b. In sheep we had an average number of good quality ewes and wethers. These were well competed for, the ewes selling at Is per head, and wethers better than last week. , A line of light lambs completed the sale. These sold freely. Quotations; bullocks. £8 12s 6d to £9; prime medium weight, £7 17s 6d to £8 l()s; small ditto, £7 10s to £7 15s; prime weighty ewes, 103 9d; good ewes, 9s 7d; we-, thers, 10a lid; best lambs, 9s to 10s 7d; light ditto, 6s to 7s 9d. MASTERTON. , ' ! Messrs. Freeman .R. Jackson and Co. report:— our horse sale 011 Saturday we had a good, entry.. The demand for draughts was not so good as at late sales, though we sold a fair proportion at satisfactory prices. ■ Good serviceable hacks sold well. We quote:—Good draughts, £28 to £37;' medium draughts, £21 to £27; unbroken draughts, £20 to £24; harness horses, £12 to £15; good hacks, £11 10s to £17; others, £5 to £8; weeds, £2 10s to £4; racehorse Raukura-, £14. HAWEfeA. ' The Egmont Farmers' Union, Limited, report, Hawera, December > 7:—Stock of all classes continue to fall .in value; and unless some improvement appear in the prices for frozen meats in ihe English markets, values locally will, we fear, still continue to recede, as prices asked at present are more than freezing companies are prepared to offer. On Thursday last, at our Glover Road Yards, a fair number of stock came forward, and although the attendance was large, bidding was -not keen. Prices were as follows: — Fat cows, from medium to very prime, £4 14s to £5.145; store sows, £3 5s to £4; 2 to 3-year empty-heifers, £2 15s to £3 17s 6d: 15 to 20-month steers, £2 10s to £2 17s 6d; dairy cows, £4 to £5. Sheep Ewes (mixed ages, shorn), with 100 per cent, lambs, 9s ljd. Pigs: Slips, 14s; large pigs, £1 14s. MANAIA AND STRATFORD. ' The Egmont Farmers' Union,' Limited, report:—llawera, Degsmber 14. At Manaia. on Wednesday, December 11, fully advertised number of stock came forward, most of which changed hands. Fat cows sold at £5 to £5 15s; 18-month to 2-year heifers, £2 to £212 a 6d; ; 18-month to; 2-year steers, £2 10s to £2 17s 6d • weaners, 17s 6d to 22s 6d; fat sheep (heavy), 10s 9d. At Stratford on Friday December 13, we submitted a good entry of stock, mostly empty heifers.'" There was a good attendance, and bidding was keen, resulting in every pen of stock, excepting one pen of store ; cows and one pen -of heifers in calf, being sold at the hammer or immediately after. Fat cows, £4 3s,to £4 16s; empty cows, £3 33 to £3 14s; : ,2 to 2J-year empty heifers, £3 4s to £3 16s 6d; 18-month < to 2-year heifers, £2 10s; to £3; lyearlin to: 15 months, £2 to ;£2• 5s 6d; 18 to 20-month , steers, £3 ; to £3 ss; heifers in calf, £3 12s 6d to £4 15s; dairy cows. £4 to £5 10s; i yearlings (mixed)", £1150 to £2 5s 6d; bulls, £3 to £5 103.