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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1054, 21 September 1883, Page 2

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• *- ■ . . •' —; Guardian Office, , * ;i , Friday afternoon. The following is the Christchurch Corn Exchange report for the week ending Friday evening, the. 21st inst The principal feature of the week, ; and the aaly one which is deserving of police* is- the persistent continuity ,of depression which pervades all trades, and more particularly; the g rai ". J ra^ e / s £ le ® classes of produce are difficult to effect, so that itfsyihgatty with this, Valdes may be said to he a shadeeasier. —Wheat; Good milling samples, L iod to 4 s pei- bushel, delivered at Christchurch ; seed quality, - 4 s 6d to 4 s 7d P' r bushel; second quality, 3sdo 3s 6d per bushel; chick wheat, 2s 3d to 2s6d per bushel.—Oats; Bright milling quality, 2S to as- id per bushe , fifth.,) feed quality, is gd to is lid per bushel. —llartey LF.irst-class malting, 4s 3d to 4s 9 d per. bushel; iced quality and second quality mall&g,‘ J^htftJ to 3*. ’Wiper bushel.—Grass Sdsd . Farnibrs’ samples, 3s 3d to 3s gd per bushel; machine dressed, 4s to 3s 3d per bushel; cocksfoot, to 4%d per lb. Potatoes : 25s ta 27s -fid per ton.—< Cheese and Buttdr: \%d to Sd fbr the former, 8d to ofrd foe ithe latter. Messrs i Miles and Co. report upon the live stock market for the week ending Thursday, 20th September, as follows :—Addington At the >yards.-on. Wednesday there was a full market of tat sTieep, which as a whole were far above the'Average quality for this season of the year rin fact in tarth'fht sheep and beef a bettersupplyas regards quality could hardly be desired. Notwithstanding that there was so large an- entry ot fat sheep the competition was from first to last thoroughly good, and we have-tp record an advance of from is to is od on the rates obtained a fortnight since, prime mutton realising fully P er Tat Cattle: In thib clsss entries were but light. The quality, however, was as a whole better than has been this.season,. and for the, best coaSt&hientsJ : ndfebly that from Mr P. C. ThreWdld, realising fully up to 28s per loolb; medium quality from 22s 6d upwards. Pigs were in very short supply, -but seemed fully up to the detnand, with a slight decrease in values. The[ .quality, however, was scarcely up to the usual-standard. Fat Lambs : A small num-bcaoal-i-varded, with prices about recent quotations.’ ’S:or-> c heep : Very few on offSr, but prices show liuie 01 -0 i ;i , mvi-mcnt on late rateiu Wfe sold a. line of crossbred ewes, in lambi at ys, ; Store Cattle : Limited supply, increased demand. The quality of the various lots being rather indifferent as to condition, values were difficult to obtain 1 / and the transactions of the day in thisb> class can Scarcely be taken as a criterion. The totals yarded for the day were 5,780" sheep, 413-cattle, and 62 pigs. Of the various consignments special mention must be made of Mr J. Studholme’s fat wethers, and those of Mr .D. M'Lean, of Albury. They elicited keen competition, and were ultimately purchased -for freezing. Mr Threlkeld’s fat bullocks:were much admired and spiritedly bid for, and as showing that the trade fully appreciate* stock which has been thoroughly fattened agd brought before them in good order, they realised without exception the top price for the day. The fat heifers from the Levels estate al o reached good prices, realising fully 25s . per ; loolb. —Ashburton : On Tuesday, last; at Ashburton, there was only a small market, and prices showed but little tendency to a rise in values. Fat sheep were sold.at about 3d per lb., store sheep at about recent rates.. Privately during the week we sold/fOri aticonnt Mr G. Burgess, a line of merino wethers at 10s, on the larm.