STOCK AND STATIONS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 104, 17 July 1877, Page 2

STOCK AND STATIONS.

Flour is saleable, with a good inquiry, at £17 to £17 10s for guaranteed f.o.b. ; brail, £4 ; sharps, £5. Dairy Produce continues very dull. Butter, 6d to 8d ; cheese, 5d to s£d ; hams and bacon, farmers' cure, to 6d, factory. 7d to 7£d in cloth. Messrs H. Matson and Co. report on the live stock market, &c, for the we )k ending Friday, July 13, as f0110w5.—255 head of cattle, 2451. sheep, and 55 pigs comprised the entry for the week at the Addington market yards. Biddings wore dull throughout the day. the butchers, having ample supplies from the show week, operating with extreme caution. Our entries comprised 192 head of cattle, 1140 sheep, and 39 pigs._ In cattle, we cleared most of our entries ; stores at .full prices, whilst for the beef a reduction had to be submitted to. In .sheep, Mr. D. O'Callaghan's Romney 2 tooths nifulo 14s 9d per head, Messrs "Bruce and Ooe's cross-breds 13s 6d to 13s 9d Mr. Prebble's 13s, and sundry lines from 9rf, 10s 6(1, to lls Gd per head. We look for good prices for both fat cattle and fat throughout the season. Sheepskins, hides, and tallow.—On Thursday, at our wool stores, the catalogue comprised 197G sheepskins. 50 hides, 64 bags and kegs of rough fat and tallow. Competition was brisk throughout the sale, and the quality of the nkins was exceptionally good. Best butchers' eross-.breds, Gs, 6s 3d, 6s Gd, to 7a one!) : second qualities, ss, 5a 3d, 5s Gil, to 5s 9d ; medium, 4.5, 4 •; Od to 4s 9d ; ordinary to inferior, 3s to 3h 10d ; best merinos, 4s, 4s 2rt. to 4s 5d ; second quality, 3a, 3s 3d, to 3s Gd ; inferior, 2s to 2s 10d ; country skins at full prices, in proportion - to quality. Salted hides bought in at 4|d ; green, 3£d ; and calf, at 6d per lb. Rough fat sold at 2d, 2£d, 2-j-d, 2fd, to 2£d per lb ; cuke fat, 2|d "to 3{d par lb ; ca.sk tallow, inferior, 26s per cwt. At Tafteivall's, on Saturday, 93 horses were catalogued, including shipments from Otago. Biddings were alack throughout the sale, except for superior animals, of which we wold several nt from £45, £55. to £,62 10a pvr head ; buggy horses and kicks of moderate quality, at .£ls to £25 ; unbroken stuck, from £18 to £25. We have a lage damarid for superior plough horser for breaking up purposea.