Commercial.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 434, 13 February 1875, Page 2

Commercial.

Oapstick, Duthie & Co. report for the week ending Saturday, the 6th February : — At Mr Win. Tyson's sale, Tuapeka district. Cattle — 8 dairy cows wore sold as follows : £3 2s 6d, £3 12s 6d, £3 14s, £3 10s, £4 ss, £4 5s £4 15s, and £5, respectively ; and 8 yearling steers and heifers brought from 45s to 52s 6d ea'-h. Horses — Light hacks brought from £9 10s to £22 each; the draught horses were withdrawn from sale. Sales at our yards, Thursday, January 28. Cattle — 4 head of store cattle were all that were yarded, which realised £4 12s 6cl each. Horses — Sold, 4-year-old draught colt, £56 ; grey gelding, aged, £31 10s ; 5-year-old medium draught mare, £31 10s, one light hack, £17, respectively. At Mr Amos M'Kegg's "White House, Taieri Bridge Ferry, 29th January. Cattle — 36 head of store cattle and steers brought £4 each. , At our own yards, Milton, on Saturday, the 6th Feb. Horses — Draught mare and. gelding, sold as a pair, brought £100 ; light hacks from £15 10s to £25 each. Sheep — 77cros3bred and. merino ewes, 8s 6J; 18 L ewes and lambs, 8s 3d ; 24 merino ewes, 8s 8d ; 26 merino ewes and lambs, 9s 8d each. Our private sales have been : Horses -Pair aged draught mares, £75 ; one 4-year-old mare (medium draught), £35 ; medium draught ma^jg|aged,|£36. Shee*p — 100 cross-bred fat -wethers, 15s 6dj 44 merino wethers, 12s each. Wool. — JW, 2 bales greasy cross-bred 12d, 2 bales merino 10£ d; WC, 7 bales and 5 bags crossbred merino 12£ d ; EC, 5 bales crossbred 12|d ; RC, 6 bales cross-bred 12d ; TC, 2 bales crossbred 11£ ; TO, 3 bales and 1 bag merino 10|d ; HH, 7 bales cross-bred, and HH, 8 bales merino, 'l2d; HH, 1 bale pieces' 6d ; D, 3 bales washed 18d ; in circle, 1 bale crossbred grea«y 12d ; Fh over x, 2 bales^ crossbred hoggets 13d -, Fai over c, 1 bale" and 2 bags merino 12d ; bag black fleejes 9d ; IS, 3 bales crossbred 13d fleeces 9d ; locks and pieces 5d ; JS, I bale merino lOJd ; locks and pieces sd ; G-, 1 bale crossbred 16d ; IM 6ver HB, 7 bales crossbred 12£ d; ',MP, locks and pieces 4d ; WSC, 2 bales crossbred 12£ d ; PS, 2 bales 12cl ; M, 2 baleß crossbred, and M. 7 bales merino 12d ; M, 1 bale pieces 6d"; JM, 2 bales 12d. Oats.— lObags (old), 3s 8I ; 70 bags, 3s 6d per bushel (401bs). Wheat— fowl feed, 3s 6d per bushel of ;601bs. ,

The latest Parisian parlour pastime is the' " lottery alphabet," which it is said for downright fun cannot be excelled. The mode of playing it is thus described : — The letters of a dozen alphabets; printed on little squares of ivory or other material, are placed in a basket and shaken up. They are then distributed in equal numbers to the players, who arcibound, under pains and penalties as- rigorously applied as the..laws of -the Medes^jind Persians', to compose at le,ast one sentence, often a droll question, and a happy reply ; if unable to do so, if a rule of syntax or prosody be violated or no attention paid to the right placing of P's and Q% as far as the Academy has published its orthodox dictionary at least, after centuries of labor, the law must take its course. Some of the blunders, we are told, provide laughter for a month,