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Timaru Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4549, 27 May 1889, Page 2

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Timaru Herald Office, Saturday evening. AUCTIONEERS' EEPOKTS. Messrs Graoie, Maclean and Co. report For the paat fortnight, as follows : — HOBSE3. At the Timarn Horse Bazaar, on the 18th mat., our entry comprised a few good draughts for which there waa a good demand. To-day we submitted a consignment of 10 draughts, on accoant of Mr Robert Ferguson, of Lawrence, Otago, and sold them at satisfactory prices. We have enquiries for hacks np to weight, and upstanding harness horses. We quote medium to good draughts at from .£l-4 10s to A'2s, aged JB'J to £10. Hacks— Medium .£3 10s to XI I, light and weedy £lto£S. 'SHEEP. At the Wa3hdyke yards on the 10th, and again this week, the entries of fat sheep wero small and not equal to tho demand. Stores, however, were well represented, and a large number changed hands at improved values. Wo aotd on account of tho New Zealand and Australian Land Company, Messrs M. Gentlemtm, J. Millar, A. Grant. A. iSrowu, W. Grant, C. Bonrn, J. Greig, and others :— lOl fat owes at 9s, 70 2-tootha at 10s, 2'JO crossbred lambs at 8s 9d, 70 merino ewes at os, 038 merino wethera at 3a ■Id, 00 merino wethera at Bs, 209 half-bred ewe 3 at lta Gd, 18 do at 0a lOd, 109 2-tooths at 12s M, 200 crossbred owes at ss, 101 do at 63 (id, I>l ewes and wether 3 at lls lid, tf) half-bred ewes and wethers at 11s 3d, fiO 2-tooth wethers at 12s 3d. We have also placed privately 22(1 fut an- store aheeD, viz., 200 crossbred store ewes, 260 do do, 393 half-bred lambg, 000 fat crossbred ewes, and 826 freezes. At Mokikihi we sold 300 merino ewea at 33. The fat pens have been very thinly occupied of late, conseqnently all lota coming to hand lit for the local trade have met a ready sale at oqnal to 17s 61 por lOOlbs for prime qnality. There is little business doing m stores, yardings being principally made up of yearling 3 and o-year-olds, for which tho demand is limited at present. We Bold 7 bnllocka (small) at .£1 17a Cd, G primo heifers at £V, 2a 6d to £6 In Cd,B steers at £i 15s to .£t2s6d, 7 heifers at £2 153, yearlings 25a, calving cows at .go 1 to £6 7s Gd. CWNTP.T SALE. We held a clearing sale on tho 15th mat., at Makikibi, on account of Mr John Br.rke, who has sold his farm. There waa a largo attendance of local farmers, and the sale generally waa highly satisfactory. Messrs William Collins and Co., auctioneers and prodnco merchants, report a fair amonnt of bnsincss during tho week m all classes of produce, excepting milling wheat, which remaina m a very depressed condition, and from the present outlook likely to continuo no. Aa previously notified by us, wheat from California is beginning to arrive m our only market, viz., .Sydney. Tho English and Continental markets show a dowaward tendency. Tho neit qnestion is, What aro wo to do with onr wheat ? Perhaps those who advocated storing at the beginning of tho season can tell the growers Just fancy a farmer refusing 4a, 3« lid. and 3a Od a bushel direct from the threshing mill. To the buyer we must aay it wax gambling and nothing else to refuse those prices. To-day milling wheat could have been bought at 2s lOd to 3s, tho large buyerg actually refusing at tho.-ffl figures soveralbig lilies. Oats are m good demand at 2a 3d to 2a 5d for Danish, milling 2a 6d to 2s Bd, fowl wheat la Gd to 2b Gd, according to quality. We shall be offering at onr next proditco sale about 4000 buahela '.oi fowl wheat. Timarn Derwont potatoes, 60s to Gsa por ton, Oamarn do, Bos per ton ; fowls, 2a to 3s G<l per pair ; haros, 2n per pair ; carcases pork, 3d to IJd per Ib ; fat rtheep, ss, carcase* equal to li'l per lb ; carrots, 3"n per ton ; Swede tnrnipif, 27s Gd per ton ; 1 dray load oaten sheaf chaff, Is 9d poi* bag.