STOCK AND GRAIN REPORT.

Mataura Ensign, Volume V, Issue 249, 24 April 1883, Page 2

STOCK AND GRAIN REPORT.

Green and Souness report haring held a salt of sheep at their yards, O-oreon Wednesday last, whon the fol» lowing lots were sold :— 2OOO merino awes, full and broken mouthed, at from 2s 8d to 3s 7d per head ; JIS crossbred «WM, fat, 9s 7d to 9s 8d do; 130 old merinos* %i tt «ach ; small lot of orossbre d ewes at 4s 6d. They . _ aid a laic at Lumsden on Thursday, 19th, when they cold a number of hacks and light harness horses, at _o_44toklß; good milking cows brought up to 4716 i; yotmg stock from 30s to 60s; pigs, fowls, duels, Ac., all brought good prioes. Leasehold sections asd a quantity of household furniture, olothing, &e..a1l ■old well. On Saturday, 91st,, they had a large sale of horses and contractors' plant, at the yards, Gore. There was "a good Attendance of buyers, and 16 draught horses were sold at from £19 10s to £31 10s per head ; 5 hacks from £8 to £14 10s; 4 yearlings and 2 year old draughts, from £S to £8 each ; 6 3-year old steers. £4 par head; 4 heifers, .£lo 10s the lot; 4 calves, 16s •aeh, Implements sold at— 2 drays, at £30 and £18 donble-fuarow plough, £10 10s ; all tho harness sold well O. and ft' wish' to "draw attention to the sale of Mr Macdonald's draught horses at Gore, on Saturday; also sale of _r Moore's farm, stock. Ao., on Monday, April 30th, nta» Waimea. • Grain .-yery little doing in wheat. Oats : They have bought <»v«ral hundred sacks at Is 6d per bushel on truokaattJore. these were nearly all sparrow*bills The market is glutted with this kind of oats. They lav* etrqaftiM ton long Tar. » barley. TJhoj* J_vo pUc^a<pa*nttty Wgood bright malting _ fis pox bushel o& tracks _" Goto ■„ . .