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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1015, 3 December 1883, Page 2

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■ • ■ Ashburton Guardian Office, Monday afternoon; Mt-T, Bullock reports of the Horse Market for: the .week ending Saturday. Dec. isti—- - 44 horses were brought forward for the day’s | very dull market was again experienced, there appearing to be veiy little demand at present.for any horses. Some sellers will persist 1 in placing higher reserves than they are : really worth, otherwise more would change bands, and consequently a number of very useful medium draughts were turned out unsold. Out of the total entry of 44 only I* were sold, vis—Medium aged draughts, of an inferior desCtiptipn, Lj 53 to Lg; light harness horses, L 7 ’ids to L 8 10; 3-yeor-old colts, of alight description, 2 at Lio each? others from L 7 15s to Lg; hacks, of a light description, Lg 5s to Lio; iiiferior do, I4to L 5. Landed properties Previous to the usual weekly horse Sale 1 beld a sale of town sections and rural properties,. and although the biddings were not very ' spirited I succeeded in selling the whole of the •■properties offered, excepting one secti n, at the.-following, prices, viz—T.S. 85, fronting on Mbore street, LllS; do 412, Moore Street, L 76; Town sections 506 and 507, each #-acre, comer of Harland and James streets, Tinwald, L2B; rural section 31467, • situated .in the-Mount Somers Road District. containing 200 acres (light land), 30s 6d per '■ acre. I also sold privately T.’S. 1224, Have"lock street and Wakanui road west,Her XSS ; ■ *ldts : II ■ ind 12, suburban district of Al-lentpn, .near the> Woollen Factory, at L2l each; Total of land sale, L 621. Alfred Harrison reports his weekly sale as follows:—Saturday, December I —Horses: A fewhadkswsre disposed of. Cows sold well, •i prices ranging from L$ to Lg with a good en- ■ quiry, , Pigs are still high, all lots selling at I gpqct prices. . Fowls, as" .63 to 3s ; turkeys, 12s 'per pair ; spring cart, Ll 7 ; tea, 2's guaranteed. Produce—Potatoes are very low and difficult td move-in any quantity, 40s per ton ; chiefc wheat, 3s for’good sample ; oats, feed, JjsgtL,,, Furniture and sundries sold well, and .-ah entry of ioo pairs of. boots found a ready "purchasers at prices undoubtedly favorable to DUyers, the balance of another 100 pairs will be sold next Saturday. The attendance was a large one, ’a good one and a lively one. - On Thursday; November 27, 1 sold the household famifare 1 and effects at the residence of Mr Yapp, when every lot offered sold satisfactorily