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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1244, 3 May 1884, Page 2

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’ Ashburton Guardian Office, Saturday Afternoon. ■, Messrs Matson, C*x and Co. report on the £ 'Jjfac stock market in the Ashburton district for f the week ending April 30th as follows:—On - Tuesday, at the Tinwald Yards, we held our ? • Usual weekly sale of sheep, cattle and pigs. v-‘ r" The attendance of farmers .was good, and had been fine, the>e would have., been ffT a much larger gathering. ihe catalogue for V the&day was a large one, fand comprised s;' . sheep of mostly good quality, but we cannot S, * note any improvement in values. In pigs, a *’ ■' lat&V entry came forward than we have seen i- "■ ■ for some time.past, and were all sold at good a ? ‘ values. :In cattle, there was a fair entry, but i■ ' owing to the downpour of ram which took > ’ "place at this part of the sale, very little business was done. We quote mutton from 2#d t’- to *Mdi>er ,lb; beef, at ; l6s to 1 7s fid per <r KOblbsi sold on account of C. Sargisson, - - ■ I. Grigg, J. Johnston, H. T. Smith, W. Nor- * lie, Prebble. J. Ford. C C. ' ' Primmer, W. Manson. A. McLeod, C. CampbeU. A. J. -Houston, C. G.Hawdpn, J. Hamp- ’ ~ ton/ J.'Oshotne, K. ; Horsey, W. Millar, J Clark, J. McCormack, H. Cullen, S. Knox, / „ Aimettßros., T- Crossen, D. Ryan, W. Haw- ; - ld&/kb;, the foll6wingt-72 fat merino ewes, ' fisfid; 56 cross-bred lambs, 7 s Ild i 4? fat crossbreds, 15s ?<*; 3° merino ewes, 5s gd; 32 - old merino ewes, 2s gd; 4S cress l red wethers, ” T . 12s fid; idd merino wethers, gs gd; 172 cross l ,;i , bred two and four-tooth ewes and wethers, 12s : . jd; 202 crossbred ewes, 7 s 8d; 206 crossbred «wes and wethers, 13s 2d t ; 126 crossbred old ; ' ewes, in lamb, 7s 6d; 150 crossbred ewes, in ; 1)1 mK 8s; 69 two-tooth crossbreds, irs 2d ;80 crossbred lambs, gs 3d; 285 menno wethers, } ■ forward condition, gs; 3 Leicester rams, 2%gs. In pigs, 10 small pigs, 10s ; 10 stubblers, Li •' «; 10ditto, Li is; 12 porkers, Li 10s; 3 'I Berkshire sows,' L 3 14s each; 1 pig, 10s; 10 K weaneis, 8s 6d. In cattle, fat cows, L$ 2s 6d "' ’ to IXl2s fid; fat heifers, L4toLs $s ; twoycarild steers. L2 13s to L 3. On baturday ■’ '■ we beld'a clearing sale of horses and contracr tor’s plant at Tattersall’s, at which most satis- , jr'factory prices were realised. Horses, light, ' trap and draught, from L 7 to Ll 4 ; medium s’ i dnUUtbU from Ll sto L 23. iJSsrs Fricdlander Bros, m conjunction vT ! - - ".with Messrs R. Wilkin and Co (per Mr -F. C. .Tabart, auctioneer), report on the live stcck market for the week ending April 30th, as fol- '■ ’ lows :—Large entries of all kinds of stock L '■:.' were sent forward to the Tinwald yards for the ’ week’s supply. Considering the bad state of ' - tbe weftther the attendante of buyers was fairly ’ good, and competition brisk in several classes * 7, j ■ gf sioek^sarine-tegc-^«rtry—at->:totc.sneep - pnA cattle prevented any improvement in ’ .values being recorded by the auctioneers •i ’ doing business. Our entries for the day com- £ prised 2,696 sheep and 15 head cattle, of whice we, placed 4x3' merino ewes at Ss gd, !j 7 loo*crossbred ewes at 10s, 3 00 ditto at 10s, i up ditto at gs. In cattle : S s t Mrs a t L 5 i.5 s > jjßeilers at L 5 2s 6d, $ young head of cattle at 30s. We quote for mutton from to r beef at 16s 6d to 18s per loolb. < Privately during the week we placed 1,082 ¥‘V merino ewes at 8s ; 277 crossbred ewes at 8s i), dd. 2SS merino ewes at 6s gd each.