ASHBURTON LIVE STOCK MARKET.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1365, 8 October 1886, Page 2

ASHBURTON LIVE STOCK MARKET.

Messrs H. Matson and Oo report;—On Tuesday las'; “one of na” visited, this much maligned city of the plains and found it in a much baopler mood than we were led to expect ; there was rain certainly and mud galore, but our farmers on* answer to the query, “ Well, how are you ? ” “ How are wo 1 Right aa a trivet ;if only let alone. Some people want to eat the egg before it’s laid. Give us this wool season and this harvest, and th-n—" “Well, what then?" “Oh, never mind ; it sometimes hardly pa} a to speak one’s mind. ” ‘Phis was the universal and happv condition oar city man found the Ashburton farmers in, and it is need* less to say he admits that a very short time of quiet will restore to v ; gor and robustness, the moat measley farmer in the district, only don’t ask him just now to perform impossibilities. Our sales at the Ashburton Yards comprises—For Ur J, EToare, 30 fat crossbred wethers at 11s; for Mr W. J. Sutton, 108 crossbred hoggets at 9a 41, 103 at 6a 5d ; account C. Miiler 275 crossbred hoggets at 6s 7d t 40 at 2s 41; account Mr Jameson, 481 crossbred 4-tootha at 10s ; also resold through farmer’s folly at lli for private buyer ; account James Tasker, 14 crossbreds at 10s; account John Kemp, 850 brossbrei hoggets at 6s 6d. Cattle—We yarded 156 bead for various owne gj They were chiefly young and grass not being « forward, biddings were alack. Another fourteen days will alter this. Same day privately, 1000 hoggets at 7s 6d each.