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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1031, 21 December 1883, Page 2

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f ': Ashburton Guardian Office, Friday afternoon. The following is the Christchurch Cora Exchange report for the week ending Friday evening, the 21st iust. ;—There has been no ■apparent change in the grain market during the past week, business having been confined principally to small parcels. There is still a fair demand for really sound milling wheat, buyers showing a' disposition to operate at ruling rates. Far other cereals the enquiry has .teen very limited. Quotations as fallows Wheat: Sound milling, 3s lod to 4s 2d per bushel f.0.b.; second quality, 3s 3d to 3s 8d ; chick wheat, is tod to 2s 3d per bushel Oats: Prime milling, 2s id to 2s 2d per bushel f.0.b.; bright short feed, is lid to as; inferior and disCbloured, is 8d to is lod. Barley : First-class as to 4s 3d per bushel; second quality, 3s adto 3s 6d; feed, is lod to 2s per bushel. Cheese and butter: 4#d'to Jd for the former; «nd 6j£d to yd for the latter, kegs extra. Messrs Miles and Co. report upon the live stock market for the week ending Wednesday, 19th December, as follows : —Addington : At thee yards on Wednesday a heavy entry of Stock came to hand, comprising 10,400 sheep, 439 xattle, and 94 pigs. - The mutton submitted consisted for the greater part of crossbred ewes, some of which were of only second quality; the demand was, however, large, and prices all round were extremely satisfactory, foe lines, fit for freezing were eagerly completed, and most of them fell to ihe nod of the exporter, the trade having to a large extent to content - themselves with the ewe mutton There- can be no question but that the present high 'fates are altogether attributable to the refrigerating operations, which have already seriously affected the quantities of the wether mutton which at this season usually come forward, and we note with satisfaction that by Ihfe January and following steamers the restriction as to the supplying of ewe mutton for export is to be removed. This is a step m the right direction, as [hitherto nothing but the primest of wethers have been accepted. The day’s quotation for mutton we place at to 3d per lb. Fat lambs: A I urge entry; the quantity, however, owing to extra requirements, not in any way depreciating values. Firgrttfe-A full supply, for the most part of good quality. Prices ranged from 2is to 235. pjgs Only a few.to, hand ; prices, however, n£d much about recent rates, namely, 25* to AO*. Store sheep-A very animated enquiry for shom hoggets, which were keenly competed for, at prices ranging from lis 3d to 14s; ewes and lambs up to 14s; merino do at from IDS to IDs 6d. Our principal sales were—66 at l?s 6d, 12 at 12s 6d, 33 at 16s 6d, 33 m 16s, 18 at 13s, 16 at 16s 9d, 125 at 15s, 70 at 145; lambs, 10 at 10s 6d, 20 at 9s gd, 7 at 9s. 6d, 8-at Its 3d. 17 at lis, 12 at 8s gd, II at Bs6d, M.«t Bs., Store Cattle A good t ntry to hana, prices showing a slightly downward tendency, foiwald.—We held our usual sale at this place on Tuesday last, when 26g cattle, 4865 sheep, and 22 pigs came to hand. There is an active enquiry for store sheep in this district, and rifeh'sales as were made were fully on a par With bur Christchurch quotations.