Five Minutes in Jackson's Wanganui Sale Yards

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 24, 9 August 1884, Page 3

Five Minutes in Jackson's Wanganui Sale Yards

_- -"♦"- ~ — In Wanganui it is. pleasant to_;notice that the "turn in the tide" has had an agreeable effect on the minds and temperaments of the business people there. Five minutes in. Mr F. R Jackson's auction yards went far to show that the increased prices obtained for stock of all kind., and the decided upwards tendency inthe.. markets were .as .emollients "to minds diseased" from a long period .of. monetary' depression. There was no excitement in the bidding, but a firm business like 'determination was visible, which to one accustomed to sales of this kind .was a better indication of soundness in the market than the blustering bidding of" mere speculators. Mr ' Jackson has quiet, style, with him which is very and while he is able to give an accurate statement of the merits of a beast he keeps within fair limits and allows his customera to form their own opinions and give, them expression by their bids. The various pens and yards appear to be well and carefully kept while the arrangements are so perfect that visitor** can inspect the various, lota in comfort without being hustled by the crowding of the spectators or compelled to wade in unnecessary uncleanness. Many country settlers and farmers were present, whose cheerful and confident manner- pointed them out as men well satisfied with the present, and to whom the future had no terrors. Should any Wanganui tradesman, who is fortunate enough to read these lines, ~feol the *" emptyness of things below" are giving him cv tendency to sadness or want of confidence in the' present or near prosperity of Wanganui, let him spend five. or ten minutes in Mr Jackson's yards on the occasion of. a stock sale, and we confidently affirm that he will absorb as much animal magnetism as will briphten him up and send him back to his business. " another and a better, man.",. Confidence can be taken in at the pores.