PUERUA MARKET.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 14, 8 October 1874, Page 5

PUERUA MARKET.

The Pueriia Market Committee jieWve; 1 all praise for the laudable effortsthey have '1 put forth in order-to bring buyers and/sel-' | lers of stock into immediate contact with* 1 .each other by^the^i^lishrn^nt^f^a peri- | pdical, market in thetf district. * It is- to be -3 regretted thanhei^'exertion^in^f^wmatteriii ahavenbt hithefitQ.,me,t with the >full,' amount 1 of spccess they have, merited. At the Same '^ time their labors* Have not l?e'el v tjuitless* ;}i and perseverance, combined with the Hearty / co-operation ofthe- public, are alone nece's- ii sary to secure the realization of the objects, | they have in view. '' < ' '■' ' ' [* >| IS Tne &• • Pueriia markets is :alreafly.ifecog- H no doubt in time afford those substantial -1 advantages which have so long-flowed froni | similar institutions in the old country. " ' ,/J The market of Friday last^ was largely* ; :-J ?^ttende ( d - s by in ithe^ distriotjf and ,'l numbers from considerable distances* The | weather,"' however; 1 as *>alFktfbw, had for, 1 some .tim'ei - previous , been • very Wet 'and | stormy, and we are t aw ( are \th.ati..many who I had intended bringing %rwara J ltbck were,, | from this cause, prevented' from' getting;. fc| them mustered, and hence their absence.' % Nbtwilhstaridihgf.this drawback -i^bn^lder- f 1 a ble ftS d ftoffi fia-ttle, '. horses | and sheep, were upon the" ground. ''We t - I heard of sales of fat stock at L 6 ids, and* \-% stores at L 4 43 K a head. In 'the "horse/"' (% market there seemed to exist considerable -\ : ?s difference of opinion between sellers and 'M purchapers-as' to fhe' v*alhe£oi'^nstsnl^al2 ; and we^ heard, openly Aa few;jsales' being; M effected.., /£he sbeej) .were penned' at some I distance' 'Trbm^he^m^^ did /j not seem to be much in request. ' ' '' ''" ' : a , Between 3 and 4 o'clock Mr' Grrigor held, an auction sale, when a good many horses, were exposed. ; 'p ~ .„,...'. ' l - / In cbncYufemh $^wbuid- ? nW^ j tiojp .to the commutee,, /and it is that the p date of tfie market should be altered to, say, PL a-fbhnight'lateran the season. ' ' 'They have) 1 hitherto been unfortunate in having' bad -M weather on the market days, and cpnse*- '""Sj quently stock look" bad, and. the owners "do, | not pare to bring them forward. "This un- . -'4 ifavb^able we'athfer^niayjpirtly b&accalionea ••! by the equinpctial gales' which generally || occfirftheo,i'Bo^ might | be expected a little later ia the season. '% Besides;* the 1 gra>£wma*lme^be further I advanced, and stock Would look fresher. ', -| This suggestion-i s made in good part, | and we believe would be supported by the* ■■& MbHii>genelallyyiiieidWe|avJ jjtW I many express the opinion that the cnanga '$ Tff^-T^^a^ e Afejery benefi^J | effect upon the succeps of the market. <%