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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XIX, Issue 3203, 27 October 1876, Page 2

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MR FREEMAN It, JACKSOS'S PORTNIGHTLY REPORT. Thubsday, October 26. The shipping trade has been brisker during the past month than it has heen for some time previous, as a glance at my export returns will show ; hut as tho summer approaches, I do not anticipate this will keep up. Beef is not very plentiful, but mutton we have in abundance. The sale to-day was not so well attended as *4sual, owing in a measure to the ..mall supplyNf store cattle I had to offer ; for^em is still unsatisfied. Beef ~""~ was of good quality and large, and made about 22s 6d the lOOlbs. My next sale will be held on Wednesday, the Sth Novembei*, instead of Thursday, the latter day beTng a general holiday. CATTLE.— -65 head only came forward. Some of the beef pens were passed in at the auction, hut were placed after the sale at quotations. Pat cows, from £8 10s to £9 10s ; bullocks, from £9 10s to £11 5s ; store heifers and steers, £6 15s ; yearlings, £3 3s; . Sheep. — 737 were penned, aud all sold as follows :— Pat owes in wool, 9s 9d ; wethers in wool, 10s to lis 3d • shorn ewes, 8s ; shorn wethers; lOa-j— owoo— «»y<*r-lTnirtJH — HTTow" condition, 7s 9d the couple ; fat lambs, 6s 9d. Horses. — The yard was well supplied. A few sold from £5 to £16 10s. Exports.— 2o9 cattle ; 1,740 sheep. Messrs Barns & Wilson report having held, yesterday, a most successful sale of household furniture and effect?, the property of W. Trimble, Esq. The attendance was good, bidding 'spirited, and first-rate prices were realised throughout. Messrs Beckett & Hammond, of Marton, report wholesale produce selling prices : — Oats, 3s 9d to 4s ; barley, 53 61 to 6s, scarce ; flour, £16 10s to £17 10s ; chaff, £5 to £5 10s; bran, ls Ocl per bushel; carrots, £6; potatoes, £S to £8 10s ; rye grass (Canterbury), 8s 9d to 9s; cocksfoot, 6|d to 7d; market dull ; prices rule slightly higher. [BY TELEGRAPH. J Dunedin, Oct 26. Bradshaw reports : Sales— Colonial Bank £1 Us 6d ; National Insurance, £1 4s; Standard Insurance, 12s ; Mosgiel Woollen, £i 17s 6d. Buyers— Colonial Bank, £1 Us ; Nation.il Insurance, £1 3s 6d ; .Standard Insurance, 12s ; Mosgiel Woollen, £l'l7s 6d. Sellers — Colonial Bank, £1 12s; Mosgiel Woollen, £2.