COMMERCIAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1072, 12 October 1883, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Ashburton Guardian Office, ■ Friday‘afternoon. Messrs Matson, *Cox and Co. held their usual weekly sale- of sheep, cattle,; pigs, etc., at the Tinwald Saleyards on Tuesday, {October 9. The attendance, owing to the sale of Mr W. L. Orr’s stock and plant at.Methven, was very poorly attended. The entry for sheep was. rather in excess of late sales in stefei' ; sihd wCre mostly sold at satisfactory 'Thfert Was a large entry of store cat tle but the bidding, not reaching owners! reserves a gaUn pecti&% of: them; were turned out uu* rale as’rfwhole, espedlally in cattle, was very- dull, the following .prices were realised*:— Snbep : Fat crossbred wethers, 14s, 14s 6d to ifis 3d and 16s lod; merino wethers, Ip'.jid fo iss 6d; fat Lambs, ios fid to ioa pd ; «6re&, ' 2 ana 4-tboth crossbred, 13s gd; hoggets, gsfid, 12s 2d, 13s 3d and 13s gd| mixed crpssbred ewes and lambs, 93 fid; merino latoh'i |d. Cattle: Fat . cows, L7' 155, lg; ‘ 2-year-old steers, l 4 ssb L 3 iqsit' heifets; La Bs;6d; calves; 245; dairy cows.Lfi ios to L6.17s fid. ~ r ‘Meslrs IT. Matsdii and Co. report bn the last Wjeek’s; country- iralesi-LOh Tuesday last; at Lauriston, fpr>V. L. Opr. Esq,, who, havingsold ifls farin'/ i ! s : ieavinif Canterbury for the North Island, we held a clearing sale. ; There was- a numerous attendance of .the public from all quarters. The quality of the,stock belonging to.hß Oji.beingso-well known,bmore than a general' interest in the sale was evinced, and bSty&s in large numbers assembled upon the e9tater~The arrangements ofluncheoh, arid the stocUanUimplementswere simply pgtjfaltjpp. ..uThejsale slatted at 12.30, and half an hour before train time every lot was disposed of. The draught hprse stock was generally admitted to be the best' lot offered upon anyifotm! fo Canterbilryfbr years, andwheri we csn .quote L 35, L 40,. £45, Lso, LjjS, and. JJSor eachr.-it-may Ifo affpw.ed 'that such, was the pohiei,aiid young stocksold in tie ritfffe proportion. The Ayrshire‘cattle met with keen competition up to 15 guineas. In sheepMfojj'SbOrhoggets sold at from : 13s fid tq'SfJT^Jpef'description. The ! pigs and implemente sold welj.,. In fact; ,we may, say the arsale w*re perfect/ the stpek was ekcellent, the attendance, was, large abd'appivciative, the biddings brisk, the prices very good, and. while a general beam of satisfaction vras borne Upon thefaces of all present, yet a feeling; ofregret was universally expressed that Cantcrbnry.was about to looseso energetic a farmer ahd .worthy colonist as Mr Oriy who, ip ijhpir opinion, was leaving a certainty here fay a shadow in the “great fem-field” and ** scoria deposits ” of the North Island. qnd v Co: report upomthe live : fi>r. .the ..week ending Thursday, Otd ( ll, :-LAt the Addington yards on Wednesday there was, with the exception of store cattle, a very light entry of stock of all descriptions, the; -number yarded being—ji sheep _a! 'yery limited supply was penned, the qaality;befog, for the majority', anything but first-cuss. There was, however, some exceptionally. good consignments of magnificent heavy-wfeight sheep fold by'us,'the one from Mu F.JvR. Uldfield,! Temuka, and the other from;Mr Ml? Studholme’s Waimate estate —the former realising 23s’ fit per head, and the latter the top price for the day, viz., 245. The sHefbF-tfife' day was rather a dragging,one, and prices ' ! shffbfied tb ’the extent'of fully is per head ori'last Week’s rates. ,We quote mutton at from 2#d to 3% 8. per lb i 1 the woo 1 , and for one or two lines of shorn sheep at per lb. Lambs: A somewhat forger entry, with prices at;/about last week's, jrates, viz., to 15s, *to quality. Fat Cattle V A very small entry, and quality!-las ..die Whole veiy -inferior, and priefs. realised were with one or two exceptions, not exceeding 22s fid per too lbs*,' Bigs.-fSmali supply/ and! nearly all. being small. For such as were suited to the!? trade competition was brisk and prices satisfactory, fully-up to last week’s races. Store Sheep.—A, fodch'heavier entry than‘has been the case for some considerable time, a yery . percepribk.iin?p?DVement being apparent both in the demand and values. Cooss-bred wethers selling up to 14s fid and 15s ; crossbred. ewes Mid lambs up.to 21s; merino ewes. axwlli»TOiip : fb t2sVbrb?sbred hoggets, from lis 3d to 13s fid,;; Store Cattle.—A fairly ' large number came to hand, mostly of good quality, -bearing fovident signs of the severity of the. past winter. A considerable de'mand’wal’expprienced for good quality for-watd.-tfonditioned; 3-year-old steers and heifers, • and throughout, a marked improvemient in prices resulted. Sales ranged at for three-year-old steers from L 4 ios to L 5 xos ; 2-yearH>lds;-L3 : to‘‘'L4 : ros; yearfings at from 35stoL3, according to qaality; niileb cows at from L 3 ios tp L 6 ios. Tinwald. —At pur nsßtkl‘ride ait IHiS plaice, there was a fair entry of atobk for the-seafon, the numbers being 1972 sheep, 168, cattle, ’and 21 pigs, for .the , most part consisting of . stores. The attendance was’good and prices : satisfactory; mutton’, ’ best quality,.? raising 3Xd-per >lby--beef, little in and insufficient for quotations; store sheep in demand .and. sales at. foil rates ; stdfieJeatue difficult tb quit, several lines' being tamed out unsold. > . The following.is.the Christchurch Com, Exchangf ’-KSport - for the ’week ending' Friday evening the 12th insL ;—eßusiness during the y«y unimportant cbaracter.‘"Trahiactibns pavmg been confined principally to local orders,- with the exception of a slight advance in oafs. Values remain as before, —Wheat; Good- milling samples, 3s lod - to 45 per bushel, delivered in Christchurch j 2s 3d to 2s fid per bushel.—Oats; Prime milling, 2s, rtj toras 2d. per bushel,, f.o.b. ; brigMsnoH'feeihi llAid -toi E 2fs jf infdrior and difoolbred, isßd to is lod per bushel.—Barley.; First-class malting, 4s 3d to 4s fid per I bushel; seed and second quality malting, 2s 4d to 3s fid per bushej.--Grass SeedFarmers’ 3s ; gdper bushel; machine dressed, 4s to 4s Sd. per bushel j cocksfoot, 4H* to per lb.—-Potatoes; A better at.former rates, viz., 25s to 27s fid per ton, ‘ at 'country , stations within, 8 miles.— Cheese and Butter'to 5d for 'the former, find 7d to 8d for the latter. I ' a*r— -MtifA u.lT'. ■ ; 1