AUCTIONEERS' REPORT
Mr Peter Williams (for Friedlander Bros.) reports for the week ending Tuesday, 23rd August, 1887 :— Cn Baturday, 20th mat., we held our weekly sale of horses. The entry was not large, only 5 horaea were entered. We sold at the following prices : — k irst-claes draughts, £26, f 29 ; medium, £17 10a : hiok, £8 10s. We bog to oall special attention to our sale of Mr Gawn's horses for Saturday next. Poultry.— Fowls, 2s to 2s 6d per pair. Produce — Potatoes, 36s to 42s per ton ; flour, 18s 6d per bag ; oatmeal, 3s 6d per bag ; bran, 4s 6d per bag ; apples, 3d to 3Jd per lb ; cheese, 3sd per lb ; primo mutton, 2d per lb ; bacon, 4£d per In ; hams, 5d per Jb ; caroase pork, 2d to 3d per lb ; beef, 2d to 2£d per lb : onions, Id to Ud per lb. ' We also sold on account of Mr Alpheus Hayes black pine firewood, m short lengths, 26s to 30s; manuka, 36s per cord.
At the Aahbarton yards on Tueiday, the 23rd lost. , m consequence of the very bad wGather, the attendance both of hnyers and a took was very small, only &fO sheep and 34 head of cattle oame forward. BJostly all the pens were tamed oat. One l|ne of orotabred ewes m lamb fetohed 7s 9 i ; fat heifers, £5 to £6 ; springers, £3 5s to £4 10a : 18-month steers, £0 6s ; heifers, £1 7» 6i : yearling steers, £l9s ; oalvea, ljjs Od.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1645, 25 August 1887, Page 2
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246AUCTIONEERS' REPORT Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1645, 25 August 1887, Page 2
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