STOCK REPORT.

Dunstan Times, Issue 949, 25 June 1880, Page 3

STOCK REPORT.

Mr Donald Stronach (on behalf of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited) reports as follows fertile week ending IGtlr .Tunc : Fat Cattle,were in short supply at Burnside to-day, when 131 head were yarded, of which only a few were prime. Bullocks realised up to Lid 15s, and cows up to I.S os. Wo sold a draft on account of Mr William Shand, at L 7 to LI I for bullock’s and LG 15s to LS os per head for sows. Wo quote as to-day’s prices 23s per 1001b for medium and 25s for prime; a few of the best pens fetched 27s Gd per 1001b. Fat Sheep.—so 3 cross breds and 330 merinos, were penned, the latter being stores. Inconsequence of the very small supply, prices showed a considerable advance on those of last week. The crossbreds sold at from 12s 31 to 10s per head ; the merinos werediot sold. We quote 3d per lb for prime mutton. Wool.—Wo have received the following telegram from our Lou-1 on oflice, dated 9th June; —“ The sales closed flatly at an average decline of Id to I.id per pounl on the closing rates of last series. The principal fall has been in cross-bred. Combine' washed and medium and inferior greasy are Id ; medium and inferior combing washed 1)dto 2d ; and scoured Id lower. Lambs’ market easier. Cross-bred greasy has declined 4d, and combing washed 31. Up to date 300,000 hales have been sold ; 25,000 bales have been withdrawn during the series ; 200,000 halos have been taken for export. Trade in the manufacturing districts is dull.”

Sheepskins.—At our weekly auction on Monday we cleared a full catalogue at prices equal to those of the preceding week. On the basis of this sale we quote butchers’ cross-bred skins, 2s 0 1 to 4s 4 I ; mirinos, 2s 3d to 3s lid ; station skins, 3s to os each. A few bales realised ojd per lb. Hides.—We can place all that come to hand at rates lading for some months past —viz,, 20s for butchers’ green hides, and 1 per lb for wet-salted. Tallow.—The demand continues fair at 2(is for well-rendered tallow, and Ids to IGs per cwt for rough fat. Grain.—Wheat : Wo report sales at last week’s quotations—say 3s lOd for go id milling wheat and 3s Gd to 3s 8d for good modi nm quality, at which prices there is a

fair inquiry ; fowl wheat dull of sale, as the supply is excessive. Oats: Tlie market is still inactive, holders being firm and buyers not inclined to advance. Quotations may bo given as before—prime milling. Is 5-1; and feed, Is 2d to Is 4d per bushel. Decent advices of the state of the English market have led holders to make inquiries with a view to shipment Home, hut the high rate of freight demanded acts as a doteiTiint. Bailey: Nothing doing.

H ISO 1£ L L A N liO U A Q. There arc foolish people who are worrying tuomselves about “Mother Shipton’s Prophecy.” Tliis frequently published yarn, purports to have been written about 1113, and in it were foretold railroa It, the admission to civil lights in England of the Jews, and of the cud of the world in I SSI. The whole poem or prophecy was written by Charles Hindley in I dud, and was a pure invention of Ins own, composed to insure the success of a business, and, after all, but one or two of the things name 1 in it have coma to pass. It was simply an ingenious and successful advertising fraud—American paper. A new Atlantic yacht race has been arranged but this time the vessels are to be steamers, and the winner will receive L9OOO. Four steam yachts are being built at Chester and Newburgh, in the United States, which, when completed, will race from Now York to •Southampton. The Stakes are 1.3000 each,’the winner to take the pool. The affair is mainly a sporting event, but it will unquestionably have a great effect on the languishing steamship building trade of the Slates.

A strange story comes from Hungary. A convict 23’ycars old, named Takacs, was hanged for the murder of two women. After the execution he ,was cut down in the usual manner by the hangman, and the medical man in attendance declared life extinct. The body, however, when brought under the influence of an electric-galvanic current by wayjof scicntific'experiment,'[showed signs of.life. After a fcwjinnrs, indeed, Takacs completely recovered, show in S violence towards his warders. Ho was delirious durina the night, and attached the warders. When conscious he complained of fearful pain, and asked for milk and water. At daybreak lie died, after havingTived twelve hours.

During a concert in the Circo do Divas, Madrid, recently, a madman, with an axa in ids band, forced his way through tiro adjoining gardens and into the theatre. He killed,‘ with four blows on the head, a doorkeeper who resisted his entrance to the stage, mounted thereon, barricaded himself with tables and chairs, 'and brandishing his axe, dared anybody to approach Idm. dhe police drew their swords, but ho wounded two of them who went within his reach, and defied the soldiers who were sent for. Eventually the officer, fearing he would make an onslaught on the audience, ordered one of his men to shoot him. He fell dead.