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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1024, 17 August 1883, Page 2

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Ashburton Guardian Office, ■ii-r;' ';' 1 'Friday afternoon. TFe following is the Christchurch Corn Exchange report for the week ending Friday evening the 17 th inst. There is no change to report in the state.of the grain - market, values in all lines of produce continue as-be-fore.—Wheat : Good milling samples, 4s to 4s 2dseed samples, 4s" fid to 4s gd per bushel; second quality, 3s 3d' to 3s gd : per bushel; ■ »’ehick' :- 2s - 3d! t'®‘'‘2s Bd, delivered in Christchurch.—Oats; Good, stout milling, 2s ~ • jt6 2s<3d pqr-bushel; feed quality, is gd to is */ 1 -r’ldT—Barley V First-class malting, 4s 3d to 4s fid per bushel; feed and second class malting, ’ ’ 2s’4d to :3s m, delivered in Christchurch;— . Grass Seed : formers’samples, 3s 3d to 3s gd per bushel ; , machine dressed, 4s to 4s 3d, •_ ■ delivered: in Christchurch. —-Potatoes-: 3° s to ‘ 32s fid at country stations. Cheese , and Butter: 4d to the former; gd to gj£d for the latter, r

r Messrs Miles and .Co, .per J. T. Ford, re- : bbri id follows Ashburton—At this market on- Tuesday last we had a very large entry of sheep, all, of whiqh changed hands, readily at satisfactory prices. The total, number of our f. '- entries wap''<2,o72, and were bn account of Messrs Harper, McKenzie, Moore, Hight, Grant, Giddings, Foster, and others. Privately during the week we have sold Mr Stanley Bruce’s farm at Ashburton at Lio per acre, jt; I,,We have' also made sales privately of 600 fat Crossbreds on account of Mr W. B.- Clarkson ; • 7 goo fat_crossbreds on account of the Mount ■* '. Ipdmas, station ; 250 fa,t,. crossbreds and . ’ merifabs on account Mr James Gough; and ri'3so store 1 crossbreds'' on account' of Mr P. Grant, all at prices' equal to qur quotations. Messrs' Robert. Wilkin and Co. report : At the Addington Yards on Wednesday, T /q&gfi sheep and 236 head of cattle were yarded, jf ii ln fatrisheep a’good supply came forward, a large proportion of which were fit for freezing 1., purposes.-.jThqldemand was fairly- animated; 7 ' l for best quality lines,. )and every lot offered found, buyers at prices fully .eqyal io. last week’s ' ratie^-r 1 l r dt limited supply to hand, '■ 'ihe- bdlk composed Of second and medium -... quality isqrts, 1 and; owing to the short supply, competition was keen throughout the sale, and lor prime, quality pens -there was an advance ' of fully Ss per roolb compared to last week’s prices* Vife sold >. prime crossbred wethers, from'Messrs, Partridge and, Edwards’ estate, at from 18s to. 18s gd each. Cm account ’• of other owners, good quality mixed crossbreds’at from 14s‘to 15s gd; fat merino wethers from 8s togs 2d; crossbred ewes, in —lamb, -at -14 s; prime steers 'at Lg each. —At our sheepskin sale on Thursday a large entry came forward, including some prime lots-of butchers’ and frozen meat skins. A line of Mr J.,- Rqsewame’s crossbreds realised 5s Bd, being the top price for that description;is Sd was the highest price for skins from the iactory; for a heavy lot of Messrs J. and R. Southbridge, we catalogued 3,713, and disposed of all but a few lots of dry skins, which we were compelled to pass in owing to the late hppr, at rwhjclr 'out sale- commenced. We sold-cfidptry crossbreds it 4s 4d, 4s yd up to £s rd;*countiy nmripos, 4s rod, 5 s 4d, up to 5s gd for a line of heavy double fleeced skins; batchers’ crossbreds,l4s fid, 4s. rid, 5® 5d up to £s 8d; butchers’ merinos, 4s, 4s sd, 4 s tod, and-5s fid, ■ the latter price.for an exceptionally fine lot gf'Mr J. C,' Wason’s skins. ; Fat and tallqw—We ; £pld fat at, from zJ-jjd up-tq for gpgdiciean; from, the country.... Hides— Green, 35£d ; wet salted, 2^d ; cut and damaged, 2#d; taffskins, 3% d.