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Temuka Leader, Issue 1542, 20 January 1887, Page 3

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AUCTIONEERS’ REPORT, TIMARU. Mr E. R. Guinness (for the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Limited) reports for the week ended Saturday, Jan. 15th, 1887, as follows ; Cattle—The Waabdyke yards were well filled with prime beef on Thursday last, the demand being very limited, our local butchers having supplied themselves privately. Bullocks brought from £6 to £6 16s; heifers, £4:los to £5 6s. We quote 2is for prime quality, and 17s 6d per lOOibs for medium stores. Store—A very large entry of this class of stock forward on Thursday at the Washdyke yards. Although there was a fair attendance biddings were very alack, and the bulk of the yarding bad to bo turned out un- ■ sold. Fat Sheep—The market is over supplied, and no improvement in values is likely to take place for some considerable time. At the Washdyke yards prime quality wethers brought 6s to 6s 6d ; fat ewes, 4s to 4s 9d j IJd to l£d per lb may be taken as present quotations for mutton. Stores—The demand for all classes is only limited, with prices still very low. At the Washdyke yards we sold good three-quaiter-bred 2-tooth at 4s each ; crossbred ewes, 2s ; 4 and 6-tooth crossbred ewes brought 2s 9d per head. Sheepskins—We have bad no sales by 1 auction, but privately have disposed of over 1700 pelts and lamb skins and ' several bales of station skins. Factory pelts, 10d to Is; factory lambskins, Is 3d 1 to Is 6d ; butchers’ pelts, 6d to 9d ; lamb ’ skins, 9d to Is ; station skins, 5d to s£d ' for well preserved good quality merinos. f Hides—Heavy weights are in good 1 demand, Best dry, well trimmed, 601 b * and over, 4Jd ; 50 to 601 b, 3£d to 4d ; 1 light and inferior, 2£d to 3d ; cut and 1 slippy, 2d. |At the above prices we j have quitted all on hand, 7 AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. i _____ 1 Melbourne, Jan. 18. J The Melbourne Manager of the i National Mortgage and Agency Com*

pany, Litni'c<>( New Zealand reports on flie I real gt!*i" market as follow* : - ' In the local tnj.iket prices of wheal were fairly wintainefi at 8s lid to 4s, Barley, quotations are nominal at 8s 6d to 4a Bd. New Zealand oats—Feed sorts are steady at 2s lOd to 8a; milling sorts are in moderate demand at 8s to 8s Id ; under bond are quiet at 2s Id to 2s Bd. ENGLISH MARKETS..; London, Jan. 14. ■Australian leather is quoted at The total quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,800,000 quarters, being 170,000 quarters less than last week. New Zealand mutton is selling at 4Jd to 4|d. Jan. 17. Adelaide wheat is 6d lower, viz., 88s 6d ; Adelaide flour, 28s; New Zealand wheat, from 84s to 88s. Australian tallow —Beef, 255; mutton, 29s 6d. Antwbbp, Jan. 17, At the colonial wool sales prices were unchanged, compared with those realised at the last London sales. According to an English Exchange a great sensation has been caused at Dunkirk by the untimely and unexpected return, after 17 years’ absence, of three married fishermen. They had been cast away in Greenland, where they hare been (so says the story) held in captivity by the natives. Like three Enoch Acdeoe they have returned to find three Philips 1 in their places, or, as the report puts in, “their wives in the meantime bad taken other husbands.” 1 "Bones on Oobns." Ask for Abells' " Bough on Oorni.” Quick relief, complete, permanent cure. Corns, warts, bunions, At Chemists and Druggists. Kemptbornr* Prosier and Co., Agents, Ohristehureh. 8 After three days* trial James S. Gibbons, charged with burning down his factory at Onebunga, was acquitted. " Bough ok Itch."—" Bough on Itch ’’ cures skin humors, eruptions, ring worm, tatter, salt rheum, frosted feet, chilblains, r Itch, ivy poison, barber’s itch, Kpmpthorne Prosser & Co,, Agents, Ghristohnrob. 8 The. Gisborne police have taken pro* ceedings against a man named Baldwin for brandishing a loaded revolver when drunk, and threatening to shoot a man. i Not a. fiiVBKiGX. beverage, but. a medicine, with curative 1 properties of the highest degree, containing no poisonous drugs, They do not tear down an already debilitated system, but build it up. One bottle contains more real hop i strength than a barrel of ordinary beer. Physicians proscribe them. Rochester, U.8.A., Evening Express, on American Hop , Bitters.