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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1030, 24 August 1883, Page 2

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,1 • = Ashburton Guardian Office, Friday afternoon.

The following is the Christchurch Com Exchange report for the week ending Friday evening, the 24th inst : —The market is still without animation, and no vital change has taken place in values during the past week.— Wheat: Good milling samples, 4s to 4s 2d ; seed samples, 4s 6d to 4s gd; second quality milling, 3s to 3s Sid; chick wheat, 2s 3d to 2sßd per bushel in Christchurch. —Oats: Stout milling of bright quality, 2s to as 2d flo.b; feed quality, is qd to Is lid delivered in Christchurch.—Barley: First class malting, 4s 3d [to as 6d per bushel, delivered in Christchurch; feed and second class, 2s 4d to 3s 9d» delivered in Christchurch. —Grass Seed: Farmers samples. 3S\3d to 3s qd pet, bushel; machine . dressed, 4s to 4s 3d.—Potatoes: There is little, or no business being transacted. Prices nominaTfly 28s 6d to 30s at country stations.— Cheese.and Butter; to 5d for the former; t£e .latter.

, JMessrs Miles and* Co.’ report on _ the live stock market,'etc., fol the week ending 23rd August, as follows ;—Tinwald.—At our regulate sate at this place but'a small entry came •'•forward, and prices' ruled at much about recent rates. We sold crossbred wethers at 15s to 15s 9d, and merinos at 8s and 9s 3d, \\ e quote fhuttoq at zjid per lb ; beef, 22s 6d per roolbi Privately during the week we . .sold a line of 1,200 merino wethers, on account of Messrs Sproti Bros., at 8s ; on account of -Mr>J. Holmes, 241 sheep for freezing at equal ..to zkd, per lb; and, on account of Mr J. ' Gough, 125 crossbreds at 16s, 125 merinos at s: i->.—Lands—We have also sold by private treaty, Mr W. H. Lane’s farm, at Ashburton, at L 6 10s per acre.