COMMERCIAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 195, 8 November 1879, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

MosM'b Muiulcil mill Co., auctioneers, Geraldine, report their sales for the past mo’ th as follows : Draught horses, from £2O to £25 ; hacks, good sorts, £ls to £2O • woody and scrubby sorts, £6 to £9 ; cows, springing, from £5 to £7 10s; we quote beef at about 23s (Id per cwt. This line has a downward tendency ; 3 year old steers, medium stores, £4 15s fo £5 10s : 2 year olds, from £2 15s to £3 ss; Tcarlii g, 30s to £2. The market is much brisker in the store entt-.e during the past week. We would draw special attention of butchers and grazers to our sale on Tuesday 14 in.st. at Geraldine of fat and store cattle, us the quality in both classes are good.' Mr Alexander Stewart, Produce Exchange, George .street, Dunedin, reports as follows:

Outs, 2s to 2s 2d; wheat, 4s 9d to 5s 61; fowl’s wheat, 3s 6d to 4s ; flour, £l2 10s ; oatmeal, £l2 to £l3; bran, £5 5s ; pollard, £5 los ; chaff, £4; rye grass, 3d; cheese, 7d ; butter, B>l tb lOd ; eggs, Is hams, lOtl ; bacon, Bd. Messrs J. T. Ford and Co. report on the life stock market for the week ending Thursday, Not. 6, as follows ; —There was a very short supply of sheep sent forward yesterday at the Addington Market, and as the trade had to provide for a fortnight’s stock, the keenest competition prevailed throughout the whole of the sale, and prices went up beyond the previous week’s from 2s to 2s 6d per head and lots of the butchers will have to seek outside to carry them through to Nov. 19. The Yards were crowded with beef and store cattle and, with very few exceptions, line after line was placed at fair prices and with much briskness. The quality of some of the beef was very questionable, and it seems a pity that more discretion eannot be exeicised in yarding, as it would facilitate business considerably, °nd prevent comparative stores competing in the same class with fat. 32-40 sheep, 676 cattle, and 128 pigs were entered on the books of the different salesmen; mutton sold in fleece at 2fd per lb, and shorn at from 2d to 2idperlb ; beef at from 25s to 27s 6d per lOOlbs : fat lambs at from 7s 6d to 10s each ; porkers from 25s to 45s each. Young 15 months old cattle brought from £2 13s to £3 ss. Calves from 7 months old upwards from 25s to 35s each. Good steers for grazing purposes are in capital demand and quitted readily at from £5 10s to L 6 10s each. Our entries for the clay were on account of the Hon John Hall, Messrs Haydon, Sutton, Watson, Madclison, F. Tooth, Hartnell, Smith, Grieves, Wm Mori and, A. D. Allon, Maun, Philpet, Pinney, McCelland. Marshall, Slattoly, Webb, Pannett, Johnson, Osborne, S. Garfortb, Hanson and others, comprising 1210 sheep and 8 head of cattle. Mr Tooth’s crossbreds brought 12a 9d each all round. Mr Hartlar.d’s cross-breds from 11s to 12s each all round. The Hon John Hall’s shorn merino wethers from Ss 6dto 9s each. Mr Maddisou’a cross-breds went up to 15s each, and his fat lambs to 10s each all round. In store cattle we quitted aline of heifers, on account of Mr T. Sutton, at L 5 12s 6d each; also,on account Osbourne, at L 4 5s each*

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. REGULATIONS FOR THE LICENSING AND MANAGEMENT OF SLAUGHTERHOUSES AND INSPECTION THEREOF, AND OF CATTLE INTENDED FOR SLAUGHTER IN THE COUNTY OF GERALDINE, IN pursuance of the provisions of “ The Slaughter Act. 1877 ” the Bench of Magistrates of the County of Geraldine do hereby order as fellows, that is to say: — 1. Interpretation.— Wherever in these regulations any of iha terms mentioned in section 5 of the said Act are used, such terms shall, in the construction hereof, have the'meaning assigned to them hy the said section of the said Act, unless there be something in the context of subjectmatter repugnant thereto. 2. Fee for Slaughterhouse License. —There shall be paid to the Clerk to the Bench, in respect of every license issued by the Bench for a slaughterhouse, and in respect of every renewal of any such license, the sum of ten shillings.

3. Slaughterhouses to be kept Clean. —Every keeper of a slaughter imise shall at all times; keep f-lhe same, and the premises connected therewith, and the appurtenances thereto belonging in a clean state and free from offensive effluvia, and in all respect to the satisfaction of a- y Inspector appointed or to he appointed under the said Act ; and every such keeper of a slaughteriuDUse shall so dispose of the Wood, offal drainage, and other refusematter therefrom that the same shall not create a nuisance, nor be offensive to persons residing or being in or passing through the neighbourhood of such slaughterhouse ; and no keeper of a s'uiightcrhouso shall permit any blood, offal, drainage, or refuse-matter to accumulate in, upon, or .about the same or on the premises connected therewith, or to flow, fall, or be thrown, or put in to any river, stream, drain, or watercourse. Every person who shall commit a breach of the regulations shall on conviction thereof, bo liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

4. Fees fob Inspection of Cattle.— There shall be paid to such Inspector as aforesaid by every keeper of a slaughterhouse in respect of cattle slaughtered therein the foes following, that is say :

For all large cattle the sum c£ threepence for every head thereof, and for all small cuttle the some of threepence for every dozen or the fractional, part of a dozen head thereof : Provided that if, and wherever, the number of small eattle slaughtered in any one week in any such slaughterhouse shall exceed eight dozen head, the sum to he paid in respect thereof shall boat the rate cf threepence for every dozen head thereof up to eight dozen head, and twopence for every dozen head thereof above eight doz"n head. Made by the Bench of Magistrates at Geraldine, in the County of Geraldine, this first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine. Frank Guinnes, R.M. Wm. POSTLETH WAITE, J.P. Host. Fish, J.P.