STOCK REPORT.

Dunstan Times, Issue 973, 10 December 1880, Page 3

STOCK REPORT.

Mr Donald Stronadi (on behalf of the Now Z aland Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited) reports as follows for the week ending December Ist: Fat Cattle.—The supply was a full one at Burnside Yards to-day, 2)6 head having been yar.led. Prices consequently receded about 2s 01 per 1001b from those of last market. Bullocks realised from LG 10s to Ll3 2s 01, and cows J.O to LS IDs per head. We sold on account of the Now Zealand and Australian Land Company, Limited, from their Olydevale estate, 11' bullocks at 1.9 2s 0 I to L 9 12s 01, and 30 cows, at 1.0 15s to LS 10s; and on account of Mean's ■Smith an 1 Dornwell. 37 head of bullocks, from Sealown, at from L 3 17s 0 1 to L 9 5s per head. We quote prime be f. 22s 0d per 1001b. 1 Pat Calves.- Ten were yarded, and sold at from Us to 21s each. Fat Sheep.—The supply of 1475 head was readily dispose 1 of at slightly better than last week’s prices, the range being from 0s 9 1 to Us 3d per head. We sold drafts on account of Mr J. C Backhand at 9s, and Messrs J. an 1 S. Wilson at 8s 3d per head. We quote prime mutton 21 per lb. Fat Lambs —252 head were penned, which met wi hj good competition, and wore c.eared at /s 31 to 10-0 1. We sol 1 drafts on account of Messrs Backhand at Ss 3 I to 9s; and J. and S. Wilson, at 10s 3d to 10s 01. Fat Pigs —4O were disposed of at ISs to 47s each Store Cattle. —At Mnsgiel Yards, on the 25th instant, we disposed of 197 hea l of store cattle, on account of Mr Walter Miller, of Roxburgh Station, as follows Yearlings, steers, and bullocks, up to 3 years old, from 20s to L 5 15a; cows and h-ifers, from L2 10s to L2 Iss ; and cows with calves, at L2 12s 0 I per head. Stce Sheep —We have buyers for a con. siderable number of young cross-breds and merinos, aud have several transactions ■lending. Sheepskins.—We offered a fair catalogue on Monday, and eleare 1 the various lots at satisfactory prices, viz—Butcheis’ and sta tion cross-breds, up to 5s 10 I ; merinos, at 5521; lambs, to Is lOd ; pelts to lid; and skins at per lb, up to Hides—The demand is fully equal to taking off all supplies coming to han 1, at* late rates, say 3J 1 per lb wet salted, and 2'ia each for butchers’ green hides. Tallow.—We report sales at last week’s prices, at which the market is steady -say 25s for well-rendcre 1 tallow, and 15s to 10s per cwt. for rough fit. Grain. Wheat; Transactions in really prime samples r. -e very limited, an 1 quotations unchanged. W r e disposed of several parrels by auction last week, milling of medium quality at 4s 31 to 4s 41, and fowl feed at Is 3.1,1 to 3s Id Quotations for prime milling, 4s 81 ; medium. 3s Od to 4s 3.1 ; fowl feed, 2s to 3s per bushel. Oats ; We sold at auction about 2109 bags feed at Is 4d to Is 01, wnich we consider present market price. Inquiry for milling is very slack ; prime sam lies might fetch up to Is 9 1 per bushel. Barley : Demand is at present at a standstill and quotations would be only nominal.

The Brisbane correspondent of a Sydney paper, writing on the Chinese question, says “ The legislation of last year against the Chinese is gradually having the desired effect of driving the hated Mnngo'ian away. From Cooktown alone 889 left for China during the year, while only 54 new arrivals were reported. The excess of departures over arrivals for the whole colony was 903, but upon the goldfields there are at present 5235 less Chinamen then last year.’’

A good story is told from the Murray | district. A squatter’s wife had in her sc-r- ' vice a pretty housemaid and a good-look-ing Chinese gardener. With the natural astuteness of women, she soon found out that John was “ welly muohee gone ” on the maid-of-all-work. One evening, just about dusk, the lady thought she heard John’s dulcet notes in the front garden, and, softly raising the window, she popped out her head just to see what was going on. The Celestial cabbage raiser saw the head, took it for the housemaid, and, in the twinkling of a bed-post, slid up and kissed the owner thereof. John got six months in a New South Wales gaol, and the lady never thinks of the “stolen kiss ’’ without a shudder. The following will give our readers an idea as to how New Zealand is represented in some of the English newspapers : “Again and again we have warned the public not to subscribe to New Zealand loa"S The recently issue! budget statement of the New Zealand Government affords convincing proof of the folly of those who persist in believing that the only thing the Colony requires is an inllux of capital. It has had. capital times without number, and the one thing for Englishmen to do now in their own interests, is to avoid New Zealand loans as tney would the must risky mining enterprise. As has been shrewdly remarked. New Z ‘aland is in a position verging on bankruptcy, and to subscrilie capital for works or any other purposes is to throw good money after had. The ignorant or unscrupulous persons who continue to recommend emigration to New Zealand cannot be prevented from airing their views if newspapers can be found to give them publicity, hut let no sane man dream of going out to New Zealand or lending the Colony money until her finances are under proper control.—London Figaro If the fact can be demonstrated to a cook that tough meat may be made tender by softening the fibres with the action of a little vinegar, there will he no reason why she should hereafter send a tough steak to the table. If she can bo convinced that it is better to turn it over on a plate containing a little vinegar, sa'ad oil and pepper, four or five times in a couple of hours, instead of trying to make it tender by battering it with a rolling pin or cleaver, and so forcing out all its juices, she must be obstinate indeed if she prefers the latter method, and the sooner her services are dispensed with the better for the temper and stomach of her emnloyer. A story has gone the round of the papers that a wil l , cut to pieces by the maker, was put together airain by a relative, ami on proof of the insanity of the mutilator had probate granted for it. It is a fact that the will of Mr Ferguson, the west of Scotland millionaire, which made scores of fimilies rich, besides providing a la-gc fund—some million and a half—for church purposes, had been snatihei out of the lire by Ins housekeeper. In addition to reducing the Victoria poiioe hor-cs lib of oats per day, the edict has gone forth that the poor animals are to wear their shoes for a longer period than formerly. Special attention is called to the pricelist of the llodanow Manufacturing Company of Boston, published in these columns. All those wishing to secure an excellent ■and correct timekeeper are recommended to address themselves to this old and reliable firm. No further evidence of the invariable good quality of their mamitac turos will be required beyond the followms facts : The firm was established in 1649, and since then have gained prize medals at the exhibitions of London, Paris, Vienna, etc., for excellence of manufacture. They are appointed, by warrant, watchmakers to the Queen of England, the Prince of Wales, the Emperor of Russia, aud the Bey of Tunis ’ Holloway’s Pills— Wrongs made right, i Every day that any bodily suffering is permitted to constitute rendeisit morecertnin to become chronic or dangerous. Hollowav’s purifying, cooling,, and strengthening Pi'ls are ivell adapted for any irregularity of the human holy, and should bo taken when the stomach is disorded, the liver deranged, the kidneys inactive, the bow-els torpid, or the brain muddled. With this medicine every invalid can cure himself, and those who are weak and infirm through imperfect digestion may make themselves strong and stout by Holloway’s excellent Pills. 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