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Temuka Leader, Issue 1634, 15 September 1887, Page 4

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AUCTIONEERS’ REPORT. TIMARU. Messrs Gr.icio, Msclean and Adam report for the fortnight ending Saturday as follows: — H orseg —Ai the Timaru Horse Bazaar on the 3rd inst., and to-day, our entry was much under the average, hut there was a fair demand on both occasions for good young draughts. Values of these were well maintained. R 1 ediutn to good draughts realised from £lB to £2B, inferior £lO to £l2. In light horses only a few weeds were entered to-day, and sales were about nil. Cattle—At Pleasant Point on Monday only a few fat cattle came forward, bu' there was a full entry of stores, for which there was keen competition. At Washdyke on Thursday there was a slightly better demand for beef, hut not sufficient to cause improvement in price, which remains at 18s per 1001 b. We h’>ve sold d bullocks at £6 15s, d at £5 ss, 7 at £5, 10 cows at from £d to £5 16s, 6d head store cattle at from 87s 6d for yearlings to £3 12s 6d for steers. Sheep—At Pleasant Point there was a good entry of fat sheep, most of which changed hands at up to 13s for best. Several lines of crossbred ewes with lambi failed to find buyers. There was an average entry of fat and stores at Washdyke on Thursday, and business during the day was active. We sold lOd fat crossbreds at 11s, 117 at 10s 9d, dO at 10s lid, 31 merino wethers at 8s 9d, 67 crossbred hoggets at 6s, 80 at 7s, 52 at ds 9d, 517 at 8s 6d.

Pigs—At Washdyko we sold 6 porkers at 27s 6d each. Skins--At our regular sale on Wednesday we catalogued over 2000 skins, and have much pleasure in reporting a continuance of the full prices realised lately. Best Butchers’ crossbreds realised 4s 9d, ss, 5s 2d, 5s sd, 5s 7d, 5s 9d ; merinos 4s 6d, 4s 9d, 5s Id; country crossbreds 2s 61 to 4s 6d. Hides—Wo sold during the week 50 at from 3d to 4d pet lb., according to weight aud quality. AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. Melbourne, Sept. 14, The M'-lhourne Manager of the. National Mortgage and Agency Company, Limbed, of New Zealand reports on the local grain mailcel as follows : Shipping wheat is dull and irregular at 4s 6d to 6s; New Zealand oats, feeding sorts, are rather weaker at 2s lOd to 2s lid. Milling sorts are quiet at 2s lid to 3s. Now Zealand oats, under bond, are slow of sale at 2s 2s 2d.

Sydney, S« j p f . 5Aloug the wharves on Saturday the usual supplies were on hand. Trade was quiet and values still showed a weak tendency. Maize and oats were quiet. Onions and potatoes unchanged a' Friday’s values. Quotations are as follow: — Bacon-Dull. Hand-cured, 6d to 7d ; machine-cured, 4d to s|d; and New Zealand, Gd to 8d per lb. Oats Moderate inquiry. Prime feed sorts, 2s Id to 2s Bd ; inferior, from Is IDd per bushel. Barley—Neglected. Cape seed, 8s to 3s 3d; feed sorts, to 3s 3d per bushel. Bran—Slow of sale at 8.1 to B£d per bushel. Butter—Dull. Best, in keg, Is to Is 3d ; roll sorts, la to Is 2d; factory make, Is 2d to Is per lb. Chaff— On the wharves Victorian , sorts realised £4 to £5 per ton Ch ese —Good supplies. Colonial, 2d to 4d; loa f , 5d to 61; New Zealand, 5d per lb. Hams —Hard to quit. Colonial, 61 to 8d ; New Zealand, 10.1 to lid per lb. Lard— Q.uict sales. Best, in bladders, 3d to 4d per lb. Onions- Market uusettl d, at £3 to £3 10s per ton. p eag __Active. Common blue boiling sorts, to 4s 3d; grey sorts, 3s 6d per bushel. Pollard —Inactive at 8d per bushel. Potatoes Unchanged. Circulars, £2 to £2 ss; New Zealand, to 35s per ton. ENGLISH MARK HI US. London, Sept. 10. At to-day’s wool sales 12,600 bales were offered. f lhe tone of the sale was irregular. Sept. 12. At the wool auctions to-day 11,700 bales were offered. The tone of the market was steady but not aetwe.

"Bpchtt Paisa.”- Quick, oomplele ou'-s all annoying Kidney, Bladder and UrPiu-j diseases. At. ChemVs and Drued'ie. Kempthorne Prosser and Oo , Agents, Christ* ohnrch, 1 Two fisherm m found some hum m bones on the beich at tl e old pilot station, Veiling'-* n, on M'-nday. They are supposed to be the remains of Charles Day, who was dn wned by the upsetting of a boat on July 4th. An illicit «ii ; l h'R been seized by the police on Mi* Port Chalmers red, Dno-,-din, and two fur mens named O’Hogan have been charged with being in pn«a?a-ion of it. They have been remanded until Friday. Their farm is situated at Broadacre, near the Junction, North East Valley, and on their property b-ing searched by the Co lector of Custom*, accompanied by Sergeant O’Neil and Constables W -lker and Miller, a siiH-head and other distilling plant were found. There was Ido found a barrel containing about five gallons of whisky, two dem Johns containing, about one galon each, and a quantity of w.vh. The .vh le Wis t ken possession of by the Collector of Customs