LIVE STOCK MARKET.

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1308, 29 May 1878, Page 2

LIVE STOCK MARKET.

Eoper’s Repository, Cattle Yards and Auction Booms reports sales for Saturday, 25th May Horses —29 entries. The greater proportion wore light draught, from £ls to £l2 10s. Weeds almost unsaleable. Vehicles—Good spring carts, £2l to £ls ; the demand is in excess of supply for secondhand carts and drays. Cattle—36 head yarded. Average milch cows, £l2 to £S 10s; calves, one to six weeks, almost unsaleable. Pigs—l7o yarded. Prices are steadily improving, suckers, 2s Gd to 5s 6d; small stores, 7s to 15s; stores, 17s to 31s. Poultry—Fowls, 2s 3d to -Is 3d pair ; ducks, Is 6d to 5s 3d pair ; turkeys, hen, 6s to 8s 6d pair; turkeys, cocks, 7s 6d each. Indoor sale of produce and miscellaneous goods fetched good values. Ploughs, harrows, and agricultural implements are of ready sale. LAND SALES. Messrs E. Walton and Co. held an important and successful land sale yesterday, at their rooms. The lots submitted were disposed of as follows; Quarter-acre section. No. 238, town of Sumner, £250; rural section 3615, Kangitata Island, containing 8 acres, £3 per acre; rural sections 3655, and 3456, and 3723, containing 5,3, and 12 a°res respectively, realised £3 per acre each ; rural section 6717, containing 36 acres, realised £6 per acre; rural section 29663, containing 380 acres, at Dnnsandel, was bought in at £3 per acre; quarter-acre section, in Sumner, £SO. The balance of Mr W. Wilson’s sections, on the Ferry road, sold as follows—Nos. 79, 97, 98, and 99, brought £SO per section; the Bedford row sections were sold as follows —Lot 5, £605; lot 6, £520 ; lot 7, £SOO. Sections in High streetlot 1, having a frontage of 15ft. to High street, by a depth of 52ft., realised £43 per foot, equal to £645 ; lot 2, same size, realised £46 per foot, making £676 ; lots 3 and 4 were withdrawn at £4O per foot. A section of land at corner of Peterborough and Madras streets was bought in. Four sections in the township of Sandridge, Sydenham, were also bought in, the two front at £52 and the two back at £3O. On Saturday Mr J. G. Bluett sold the Mount Torlesse station, the property of the Hon Colonel Brett, consisting of 21,000 acres of leasehold, including 530 acres of preemptive right, 742 acres of freehold, and 11,000 sheep of all ages, for £II,OOO cash to Messrs Dongald and Duncan Matheson. This property was sold privately ahont half an hour before the appointed lime for putting it up to auction, much to the disappointment of many intending buyers. He offered by auction, in conjunction with Messrs Jameson Bros., at their rooms, Christchurch, 476 acres of land, situated about five miles from the Ashburton township; but as this Bale had not been sufficiently made known, having been advertised only once or twice, it was withdrawn, and will he offered at a future date.