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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2946, 4 September 1882, Page 2

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S. 0. Times Office, Monday Evening.

Messrs E. Wilkin and Co. report for the week ending Friday Ist Septemer, as follows :

Horses—There was an average entry on Saturday last of fair to useful sorts, in addition to n, quantity of drays, harness, ploughs, Ac. The attendance was not large, but the bulk of lots submitted changed hands at satisfactory prices. They note a little improvement in values, and quote—Good draughts, from £3O to £36 ; ; useful farm horses, £lB to £25 ; hacks, from. £l2 to £ls ; light and inferior, £5 to £B. Cattle—Pi iime beef may be quoted at 275: 6d, medium 20s, per 10011 b. At Washdyke yards, on Monday last, there were only a few head of second-class quality, but these brought good prices. Store cattle—The yards were full. Their entry consisted of over 90 head of various kinds. The attendance was not large, and biddings were very slack, consequently most of the lots were turned out unsold. Good forward stores are saleable at reasonable rates. Through the week they placed a few lots at satisfactory prices. .Sheep—The market is somewhat easier. Prime fat sheep are from Is to Is 6d per head below last week’s rates, and transactions are limited- The local demand is fairly well supplied for present requirements. At Washdyke ya>rds they sold 104 half-bred wethers at 14s fid, 100 crossbred ewes and wethers at 12s, Store sheep— Little or no business is doing in this class of stock.

t kins—On Wednesday, 30th August, at their wool sale rooms, they held their usual fortnightly sale. They catalogued over 1350 skins. All the buyers in the district were in attendance, spirited biddings being the order of the day, resulting in a clearance of every lot at very satisfactory prices. Butchers’ best crossbreds made from 5s 3d. up to 6d 3d; second quality, 4s, np to 5s Id; best merinos, 4s 5d np to 5s 2d; second quality. 8s 6d up to 4s 3d; dry and in* ferior, Is 6d up to 3s. Bides—The market is about the same as last week. They catalogued 71, and sold at an average of B|d per lb. Country Sale—On Tuesday, 29th ult., at Mr J. G. Maokay’s Spring Bank Farm, they held a very successful clearing sale of sheep, cattle, horses, &c. The attendance was large, and keen competition for every* thing. Sheep—62 crossbred ewes in lamb, 11s; 46 crossbred hoggets. 9s; 81 cnll hoggets, 6s; 126 merino wethers, ss; 425 merino ewes in lamb, 6s. Cattle—Tearlings, 88s; 21 head milch cows, from £4 up to £lllos. Horses—l 4 head, consisting of medium draughts, hacks, and un* broken colts and fillies, brought from £7 10s to £l4loa. Four quarter-acre sections in Morton township, Pleasant Point, brought £2O each.

Messrs Maclean and Stewart report for the past week as follows Horses—Over 60 horses were on Saturday entered at their yards for sale, the greater number being fair good draughts, and the balance light harness horses and a lew hacks. They report a slight falling off in the demand for draughts, and prices rather lower than at the last few Saturday’s sales. They sold altogether 37 head, at the following prices:—For good draughts, from £3O to £37, the latter price being received for a first-class farm mare, (the property of Mr Gillespie) ; for medium draughts, from £2O to £2B ; ordinary harness horsess, £l2 to £l6.

Cattle—At the Washdyke yards last Monday they entered for sale about J6O head store cattle, and sold a proportion of them at—Steers, from £i\ 3s to £5 log • cows, from £6 to £7 16s ; heifers at £5. They report the demand still quiet for ali kinds of store cattle, feed as yet being very scarce. Fat cattle are keeping up in price and may be quoted at from 23s to 25a per 1001 b. y

Sheep—Fat; At the Washdyke yards on Monday last they yarded a prime k o t of 250 halfbred wethers, which sold 14. nd ®‘° ro ,®^P- TjMre *■' ye* no great demand held tlaeir »ia good oreub’lSV 0 n ™d'(o‘i 4 IT- > " iMI ™ 1 ’ ’*» 83 i on Muttoy, ottered on ‘ Watkins, a compact freebffld. larm, adjoining the Levels railway station, consisting of 103 acres, all in crop, but the property was passed in, the price onorea not* reaohing the owner’s idea. On aoooant of the same owner, they also ottered on Saturday a number of sections in James town, South Bangitata, but then was no competition, consequently they were withdrawn from sale.

Messrs William Collins and Co. report a most satisfactory attendance of buyers at their regular weekly auction on Saturday. The entries were largely in excess of local requirements, consequently eot*a of the lots sold suffered diminution in price on former quotations, Derwent potatoes brought 45s per ton; seed kidneys, 7s per cwt; onions, 9« for picket samples, inferior lots 4s 6d par cwt; fresh butter, good Is id per lb,faulty 8d to. la; rolled bacon* fid, flitches 6d ; hams 7s ; bacon’ p% O , 3d ; farmers’ flour, IBs per sack; miUm?* 24s ; fowl wheat* 10s Bd to 12s; canaries, 6s to 10s; fowls (young birds), 8s 6d per pair; ducks, 3s 6d to 4s; turkeys, 14s, hens 5s to 7fl. Furniture, boots and clothing moved off during the day at fair rates. A large Hue of oats and barley found a purchsaw: at 2sß|d for oats, and 3s 2d for harden bags extra.

Messrs Sonthan and Stubbs report iox their weekly market and auction on. Saturday as follows There was a very largo attendance, and for good lines a brisk competition, Lapstone kidney seed potatoes were in fair demand, and sold afr. from 8s to 10s per bag \ blue demerit, scad; 60s per ton; red dements, 48s to 66s ; early suffles, seed, 84s ; Myatt’s ashleaf kidney, up to £7 4s per ton j onions, lsd per lb; fowls’ wheat, 9s, 10s, and 12s per bag; according to sample; farmers’ flour, at last quotations ; bacon, re,illy prime, found buyers up to 7d, inferior 3d to fid ; hams, inferior to finest, 4d to M per lb ; fowls. 2s, 2s 3d, to 3s 3d per couple ; ducks, 4s to>4» 6d ; geese, 7s to 9s per pair ; box tea, 14s to 15s ; halfchests, Is 6d per lb; kerosene, 14s to 17s per case; maizena, 6s per doz ; tinned oysters, 6s per doz; also several other lines at good prices. At their tree sale they quote a few lines, being the close of the season they were not in much demand Macrocarpa,6s per dozen bundles; veronica, 3s; 'blue gum, 8<; spruce fir, 3s ; pinus insignns, 4s; jeSery pine, 4s ,* cherries, 12s per doz. On Monday last they also report a sale of household furniture and effects, law books and office furniture, when the prices realised were far beyond expectations.