STOCK AND STATIONS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 126, 2 October 1877, Page 2

STOCK AND STATIONS.

At the yards, on Wednesday, 6654 sheep were offered, and sold at good prices. Best cross-bieds went to 18s 6d, medium weights and quality sold at from 14s to 15s. A line of prime merino wethers reached 12s; inferior do, 9s. A few fat lambs were brought forward, 14s having been paid for one lot of Downs. Our quotation for mutton, for the week, is 3d per lb. The number of cattle yarded was 517, chiefly stores. Best quality reached 32s 6d per IOOIbs ; medium, 30s.

The land sales on Thursday amounted to 9784 acres, as folio a's: —Ashley, 944; Sohvyn, 1291 ; Akaroa, 640 ; Ashburton, 175 5; Geraldine, 175 ; Waimatc, 5001,— realising £19,568. The land sales for the month of September amounted to 75,593 acres 1 rood 26 perches, as follows : —Aahley, 7603 alr ; Selwyn, 5846 a 26p ; Akaroa, 4235 ; Ashburton, 22.191 ; Geraldine, 6341 ; Waimate, 29,377,— realising £151,187 5s 6d.

Messrs H. Matson and Co. report on the Canterbury live stock market, &c, for the week ending Thursday, September 27,1877, as follows :—At the Addington Market Yards on Wednesday. 517 head of cattle, 6654 sheep, and 74 pigs comprised the entry to hand. In best quality beef competition was keen, and for heavy weight bullocks £16 to £17 10s was realised, and to £14 for lighter descriptions. The highest price realised for cross-breds was 22s per head, and merinos to 12s 6d per head. Our entries comprised 402 head of cattle, 3477 sheep, and 53 pigs. Our principal sales in cattle were three bullocks at £16 10s to £17 10s, five at £12 10s, two at £11 ss. 12 at £10 15s, £13 ss, to £14, 16 head stores at £4 15s, 12 at £7 8s 6d, 25 at £4 17s 6d. 18 at £3 12s 6d, 9 at £5 ss, 7 at £5 103, 16 at £4 17s 6d, 12 at £5 12s 6d, 15 at £4 10s, 11 at £5 7s 6d, 12 at £7 10s. In sheep our principal sales were 326 cross-breds at 17s 6d, 17s 9.1, to 18s 9d per head, and 362 merinos at Us (3d, 12s to 12s 6d, 7(55 cross-breds at 14s 6d to 15s per head 333 merinos at 10w and 10s 6d, 142 cross-breds at 14s 6d to los 6d, 200 shorn lambs at 13s, 634 cross-breds at 13s, 13a 6d, to 14s, 100 cross-breds, ver} r prime, at 22a per head, 208 merinos at 9s 6cl, 106 croas-breds at 12s 3d, 139 hoggets at Bs. V'id I. iinbs, —We auctioned the first of the ■c.-iinun at 12s, 14s, to l&t per head. In piirs we cleared our entry of 53' at from 10s G(i, 12s 6d, to 14s 6d each. Wool, Sheepskins, Hides, and Tallow.—At the ordinary weekly sale of the above, we catalogued 2452 sheepskins, 60 hides, and 72 bags of rou#h fat and tallow. Best butchors cross-breds brought. 6s 6d, 6s 9d, 7s to 7s 3d ; second quality do, 5s 4d, 5s Bi, 6s, to 6s 3d; medium, 4a 6d, 4s 3d, to 5s Id ; inferior, 3s lid to 4s 4d. Best merinos sold well at ss, 5s 4d to 5s 10d ; second quality, 4s 3d to 4s 10d ; inferior and country skins, of the latter of which there was a quantity, 3s 2d, 3s 6d, 3s lid, to Hs 6d ; polts, 3d to Is each. Salted hides were knocked down at ; green 3jd \ calf, 3£d per lb. Rough fat sold freely at 2|d to 3d per lb for dry well saved, inferior fetching +o 2|d for better sorts ; taliaw, 28s per owt, a few bales of etatbii wool, B|d to B|d per lb. Horses-:—At Tattbhsall's, 93 horses were brought to the hammer :—Young Glasgow, >.a'i] at 105gs. Young Wellington, by jScotoh Jock, was sold at 75 guineas; /Prince Arthur, at 50gs; a half share in Major, at 40g.J; the entire pony, Miracle, ?X 50gs ; and one or two others at to 40gs each. A consignment of heavy Clydesdale horses we had no difficulty in disposing of at from 50gs to 55gs 60gs to 66gs each, making an all round avsrage of 55gsenoh ; medium weight do, £40 to £%5. young , stock of this class wiintaining the high values they have of late commanded. The remainder of the entry comprised the usual assortment, and which may be quoted as follows:—Carriage hordes and superior hacks, £25, £28, to £32 each ; light weight do, £15, £18, lo £v,2 ; weeds £12, £10, ,clown to £5 each.