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Temuka Leader, Issue 1157, 6 October 1883, Page 3

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AUCTIONEERS’ REPORTS. OHHISTCHUHCH. Messrs Robert Wilkin and Co, report : At the Addington yards on Wednesday 4026 sheep and 487 head of cattle were yarded for the week’s supply.— Sheep—We sold a pen of mixed crossbreds at 30s each, and mixed crossbreds from 16s 6d to 21s ; good do at 14s 9d. Fat Lambs—Prime, at 18s and 18s 8d ; good and medium do, from 11s 6d to 13s. Good crossbred ewes, with lambs, at 20s ; small do, and in low condition, at 10s 9d. Cattle—Springers at L 3 each ; a draft of mixed two-year-olds, at L2 10s. Sheepskins, Fat, Hides, and Calfskins —An average supply came forward for our Thursday’s sale, which we cleared out, with the exception of one or two lines, at about last week’s rates. We catalogued 2580 sheepskins, 53 bags fat, and 84 hides. Country crossbreds were rather difficult to dispose of, and > some first rate Hues of half and thre°quarter breds had to be passed in owing to their values not being bid up to. We sold country meriuoes Is 9d, 2s 3d, 6J, 4s, 4s 9d, up to 5s 2d ; country crossbreds, Is 7d, 2s 3d, 3s sd, 4s, 4s 7d, up to 5s 3d ; butchers’ crossbreds, 4s lOd, ss, 5s sd, up to 5s 7d, the latter price being realised for a grand lino of skins from the Belfast Freezing Company, from sheep owned by James Little, Esq,, Allandale; butchers’ merinos, 4s Bd, 4s ild, 5s 2d, up to 5s 4d ; fat 2£d up to 2|d per lb ; hides, wet salted, 3|d ; dry salted, 34d : green, 34d ; cut and damaged, 2-|d ; calfskins, 3|d. ENGLISH MARKETS, London, Oct. 8. Consols have declined and are now quoted at 101|. New Zealand securities remain at the following quotations :

T> per cent 10.40 loan, 1034 ; 5 p* r cent 188!) loan, 105^; per cent 1879-1904: loan, 10l£; 4 per c«nt inscribed stock, ]ol£. The market rate of discount has advanced to 3| ; ibe Bank rate is at 4 per cent. Adelaide wheat remains at 45s 6d ex store, and New Zealand do at 40s to 445. Adelaide flour, ex warehouse, 335.

Australian tallow—Best beef, 40s ; best mutton, 41s, The catalogue at to day’s wool sales comprised 8900 bales. The market continues firm. The tallow and wool sales closed today. Greasy wools The decline suffered at the outset has been recovered. There has been a good demand for New Zealand wools. Fleece and scoured combing wools closed at about a penny lower than the prices ruling at the close of the May-June series. Good and inferior scoured are a Id to lower. Crossbreds are rather higher than at the close of the June sales.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, have received the following telegram, dated October 3rd, 1883 . Wool - Sales close firmly. The total quantity sold during the sales is 353,000 bales. 60,000 bales are held over for future disposal ; 170,000 bales have been taken for export. Combing washed has declined Id per lb since the close of last sales. Medium clothing, washed, have declined id to per lb. Market is unchanged for superior greasy, fine scoured crossbred, and fine washed crossbred. Medium and interior greasy, coarse scoured crossbred, and coarse washed crossbred have declined to Id per lb. The market is easier for long staple merino scoured and crossbred lambs. The market is firmer for fine greasy crossbred and merino lambs. Other scoured descriptions have declined Id per lb.

Good for Babies.— “ We are pleased to say that our baby was permanently cured of a serious protracted irregularity of the bowels by the use of Hop Bitters by its mother, which at the same time restored her to perfect health and strength.”— The Parents. See. An Unfortunate Man.— The following unique appeal was read at a recent meeting of the Southland Land Board ‘ The bearer, Lawrence Dwyer, deferred payment selector, Ryal Bush, is hard pressed in circumstances. His wife has been newly confined of twins. A previous birth, a short time since, was also twins and he has a small large family besides. He therefore hopes to be granted a few weeks further grace in paying up his arrears, and I think his prowess in the matter of increasing the population entitles him to a vtfcle sympathetic consideration.—J. Logan Wilson.’ The appeal (adds the Hews) had the desired effect, the Board after mildly quizzing the happy father, granting the •xtension prayed for.

Good Words.— From good authority. —* * * * We confess that we are perfectly amazed at the run of your Hop Bitters. We never had anything like it, and never heard.of the like. The writer (Benton) has been selling drugs here nearly thirty years, and has seen the rise of Hostetter’s, Vinegar and all other bitters and patent medicines, but never did any of them, in their best days, begin to have the run that Hop Bitters have. * * We can’t get enough of them. We are out of them half the time, * * Extract from letter to Hop Bitters Co., August 22, ’7B, from Benton, Myers and Co., Wholesale Druggists, Cleveland. 0. Be sure and see.