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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 965, 9 June 1883, Page 2

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Ashbobton.Goakpian Office, Saturday afternoon.; .. Messrs Friedlander Bros report on Tuesday’s ■ lejune 5, 1883 We were rather, surprised •Cfeing such a small market on Tuesday last, especially in sheep. Only one small line of ■ fot sheep were yarded, and the price realised i u was inadvance of previous quotations. Store • sheep have not altered in, values since last Sold ’rates. We sold on account .of Messrs L. E. Corsbie, !. Carter, •"Giorge Cote, George Grice, C.' Jepnson, etc., via;—193 merino wethers at 3s gd; rip woolley sheep at 10s yd, 64 2, 4 and 6-tooth ' ortubred ewes at I is, 250 crossbred lambs at Sid. Cattle—l heifer, Ly ss; r bullock, ys fid; 2 fat cows at Ly; 2 steers at L 4 165,; 2 heifers at Ly Ss; 1 heifer, L 4 15s. WdMff ,boe;ifine joCGaptain Cook’s pigs in ana disposed of them all. ,xfj .‘’i Messts Matscm/Cox and Co. report on the ~ Uve’stpck: market for the Ashburton district /!!i forihe week ending June Bth, 1883, as; fol•j.. < JaerSV-rOn Friday last we held a clearing sale a -for Messrs.,Davies 8r05.,.0f a farm of 574 " wares,' good land, well’watered, with .water power flour mill upon it. The weather, was most unpropitions, still as the afternoon drew - on a fair concourse of farmers put in an, ap- , . pcarance, and the sale may be considered satisut. n Th e f arm> however, did not sell,and irt-i;]. Is now in our hands for sale by private treaty. . Crossbred sheep brought 12s; merino ewes, 5 s .J J3d I McCormick reaper and binder, L 23 ; drays, LS to Lio 10s; buggy, L2010s; horses, Ls,'Lio, L 23, L2S losand L 32; harness, i.r ♦ XttoSd’to-Lu; cows, L 5 Ss,- L 6 ss, Ly 2s fid toLIOSs; yearlings, Ir ns each, andimple-. meats <as per description, everything being cleared except a line of merino wethers. On 7/<t;Tuesday,' at the Tinwatd yards, we held our pSttal WPekly sale oflive stock, etc, for,the I, ; Ashburton district. There was a very small 'catalogue'of stock exhibited for the day’s; re*U‘) ‘ipiiicments, and we consider sheep for turnips yx« a shade higher in price than last week. We * full and broken,mouth crossbied ewes at it is 2d, and half-fat merino wethers, 150 and —’Cflflf.’at 6sßd to 6s lod each. The total yarded ;.,,;iC«oId not'have exceeded 1,200. There a -.better eqtry in cattle, but a considerable por!'J!tion was made up of old cows and poor calves, oils ‘We 1 fold* in beef— 1 at L 8 12s fid, 1 atLy 15s, ,yi i ifr,two-year-old steers at L 4 53, 2 cows at Ls, and 3 ditto at LS 10s. In store, cattle the transactions were not worth quoting; any that , were sold were at such a price as must prove s■' • J Tumdiis , tb th’C producer. Yesterday we held a clearing sale of a farm of ijy acres, situated near Waterton, also two stores in Waterton, the property of Henry Hudson. There was a good attendance, but neither the farm nor the store were sold, although for both we have several enquiries, and we expect to do business .privately. The live and dead stock brought - fcrprices, as follows: —Horses, Ly, Ly 10s, rXg, Ll2 los, 2at Liy, 2at L2s, 1 at L 26, 1 atLl3 and lat L2O; 25 bacon pigs at Li 19s ■' ’63 each, I sow at L 3 10s fid, 11 porkers at Li ■ fid, 29 ditto at from ys 3d to 15s fid; merino wethers, 8s fid; crossbred L- mbs, 9 s merino ewes and large line crossbred lambs, vifithdrawp ; cows, L 4 to L 6 10s; harness, Li c flSMto L3TOS: spring cart, Ly 15s, nnd implements and sundries as per description. The Com Exchange report for the week: ending Friday evening, June 8 The grain , trade continues in the same inactive state; hvalhes in’'nearly all lines are unchanged with inlM exception ot wheat, which may be quoted sludf caaer. Wheat: Good sound Tuscan, '4ssa'tb4s , sd per bushel, f.0.b.; other wheat, *s2d to 4s 4d, f.o b.; second class samples, t for milling, 3s fid -to 3s gd per bushel; chick . wheat, as3<Tte ( 3S per bushel. Oats: Bright ’ * samples, 2s to 2s id per bushel de- ■ Uvcred in Christchurch ; feed quality is 8d to Is lid per bushel Barley: First-class malting samples, ,4s 4d to 4s yd per bushel; feed and secofid-cjgss malting quality, as 4d to 3s fid per delivered in ChristchurchBeans _ The', former are worth 4s jd to 48 4d per bushel,-To.b.; the latter, 3s to is gd per bushel Grass Seed; Farmers’ samples, 13s fid to 3s gd per bushel; machine dressed, 4s to 4s 3d per bushel; cocksfoot, per 11?. Potatoes: Blue Derwents, 30s to 35s per ton at connfrv.statTon, 'according to time and mannenof delivery ; kidneys, La 15s to L 3 per ton. Cheese and Butter:—sd to for the former; udidJisforthe latter.