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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 978, 25 June 1883, Page 2

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' Ashburton Guardian Office, Monday afternoon. Alfred Harrison reports his weekly sale ak follows Saturday, June 23: Very few horses were entered and very few changed hands, reserves proving too high. Cows sold pretty wclh.aU being cleared. Figs sold wfll* every pehbemg tinned out sold, though prices were Oot quite' so firm. Fowls, 2s id to 4s §9 per pair; turkeys, 7s to ros per pair; carcase P^ri| r . .tq'4d per lb, one carcase weighing 3431M-kold at 4d, equal to L 5 14s 4d, weights about ISP to aoolbs are in good demand at Produce—'Potatoes, 50s per ton; - oats, zs 6d, slow of sale ; chick wheat, about I*' fid to Is gd. A consignment of 30 cases apples, sold wol, A large quantity of harness and sundries found a ready sale. Tnere was a large attendance, but, as on several previous sales, there was a dullness and want of tone quite beyond my powers of persuasion to circumvent.' (•.'MrTt Bullock reports of the Horse Market for , the week, .ending Saturday, 23rd inst;— ToCre was a urge entry of horses for Saturday’s sate, vizi' 45. and more than an average attendance of country settlers and others, al- . though "the biddings were not keen. More than half the entnes were sold, and more would have changed hands but some of the sellers still persist in placing reserves above What horses are really worth, this applies rkiore particularly to those of a light descripfiOh’which are very little in demand. For draughts of a good' description there W*e ■’.mote ; buyers than sellers, in fact, anything like good young draughts changed hands at very satisfactory prices. Out of the tpslhuthber entered (45) 25 were disposed of at the following prices, viz :—Good draughts, Lay, L 27 los; medium draughts, Ll 4 10s, Ll 5 ss, Ll 7, Li 7 10s, Lig;,do» of a light description, Lio, Ln 10s, Ll 3; aged do, Lyrto Lip; 2-year-old colts of a- light description, Lio.ios, Li 1, Lis ss; 4-year-old d6i‘ Lfi lSs to Lio 5s ; hacks, not very good, L 5 to L 5 155; good saddle horse, L 8 lOs ; scrqbbers as low as L 3. Dray, harness, etc., at satisfactory prices. Landed PropertyJ-During t&e week I deposed of Lot 25, East Town Belt with Cottage thereon, for the sum of and T.S. 828, Cox street, fin; L 55 .: ( - Tie Sydney Markets'New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report of the Sydneymaikets, under date June 14, as follows: 1 Wool 1 The usual weekly sales have been fairly well attended, and all good parcels of scoured meet with a ready market at prices equal to our last quotations.—Sheepskins : The better descriptions remain firm, while inferior are slightly easier. We quote—Well-woolled skins, fid to yd per lb; short, 3d to 4d per lb; Pelts, 2d to 3d per lb.—Tallow: The market is active, ondalTparcels coming forward meet with brisk competition. We quote for prime mutton, L 37 t0X.38 per ton; best beef and mixed, L 35 to Xddper ton; medium, L3l to L 33 per ton; inferior;. L 27 to L3O per ton.—Potatoes : The market is glutted, and sales, even on a small scale, are difficult to. make at our quotations, viz., sound derwents, L 3 10s to L 3 12s fid per ton, bags included—Oats: Several large parcels have been brought under the hammer since our last report; but as. the aspect of the market seems to indicate a continuance of Heavy supplies at low rates, there is an entite absence of speculation; and though a small amount of business has been done at the undermentioned figures,’ no appreciable decrease in stocks has been effected—Prime feed, 2s 5d to 2s yd per bushel ; inferior, 2s id to 2s 3d per bushel, bags included.—Bran : - Continues in request at is sd to is 2j£d per bushel —Hops: We ,ave no iriiprordriient to'report, in fact, as might be anticipated, the favorable accounts received regarding the English crop, have rather weakened our market, and it would be difficult, at present, to induce business without' a concession upon our quotation, which must meantime be regarded as “nominal.” Prime Nelson hops, 3s fid to 3s gd per lb d.p. ' DAILY memoranda.