AUCTIONEER'S REPORT.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1713, 16 November 1887, Page 3

AUCTIONEER'S REPORT.

Mr Peter Williams (for Frledlander Bros ) reports for the we?k ending Tues day, 15th November, 1887 :— On Saturday, the 12th inst, we held our weekly sale of horses, Ac, at our East street Horse Bazaar. There was a small entry, owing to tho farmers not having returned from the Chrietchurch Show, and very little business was done. Only a few aged horses were sold at low prices Poultry. — Ducks, 33 3d per pair. Produce. — Dorwents>, 2s Gd to 3s 3d per bag ; bran, 4s 3d to 4s 6d per bog ; fowls' wheat, 2s 3d per bushel ; oats, Is 6d per bushel ; flour, 18s 6d per big ; oatmeal, 2a 9d per bag ; hams, 6d per lb ; bacon, 4A-d per lb ; cheese, 3d per lb ; tea, 12a fcid per box ; mutton, 2d per lb Furniture and Sundries at fair pricss. We also submitted to auction the privileges of the Aehburton Spring Meeting of the 23rd and 24th inst. The following are the prices obtained at per day, viz., N« 1 publican's booth, £7 ; No 2 publican's booth, £12 ; No 1 confectioner's booth, £2 10a ; No 2 confectioner's booth, £2 ; right of games, £1 6a ; horso yardß, £1 lls ; old grand stand, 16s. At the Ashburton yards on Tuesday, the 15th inst, about 2600 sheep and 81 head cattle came forward. There was a fair attendance oi buyers, and the prices obtained show an upward tendency. Fat orosßbred, shorn, 7a ; m the wool, 8s 9d to 12a 6d ; fat merino ewes, sa ; crossbred hoggeta, 7* 103 ; 4-tooth orossbred wetherß, 9i 6d to 10a 6d ; merino ewes, 70 per cent of lambs, ss ; fat steers, £4 to £6 f fat cowb, £4 to £4 176 6d j springers, £3 10a to £4. Statistics show that about G,ooo,OOOdoj worth of Amerioan agricultural machines have been aold m Germany m the past 10 years. The heaviest steam hammer m the world is the 150-ton hammer ereoted last year (1886) at Krupp's works, Essen. At the Cookerell works (m Belgium) there is a 100-ton hammer built m 1885. These are the only ones 100 tons and over. Creusot is an 80-ton one. The British Government have had for some time past been sitting, as a select Committee to inquire into the proposals for a national scheme of Provident Insurance against pauperism. The Committee point out that the inquiry practically narrowed itself into an examination of the soheme formulated by the Rev. Canon Blaokley, which had manifestly impressed itself, whether favorably or unf avorably, upon the minds of witnesses, to the exclusion of all other proposals. In stating that they are unable to reoommend the adoption of this soheme, the Committee re. marked that Canon Blaokley's proposals, though m the opinion of the Committee they appear objeotionable m some rospeotg, and impracticable m others, contain more valuable suggestions, and seem to be based on more extended knowledge than any of the otbe ■ohemes which have been brought under tfaei attention.