MR DAVID THOMAS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 2799, 14 October 1892, Page 3

MR DAVID THOMAS.

Mr David Thomas reports upon me stock market for the week ending Tuesday, r Kv""i .__The usual weekly stock sale , Sas he'd at the Tinwald yards i where \ .■^m <«heet) were yarded. My etTylm^etXut 15OoLep, 12 pig^ and 21 head of cattle. The entry was an average one, all classes of sheep being fairly represented. The attendance was good, but very few local graziers made fny attempt to purchase to any extent, and a 8 the?e was nothing really prime m the freezing line the ex port *>OT *J° were m attendance from Ch™*clY£t were inactive; consequently very little rnTmaSn was displayed m the compeUtronThroughouttheday. Merino wethers predominated m the fat pensu and sold from 9s to 12s 3d, inferior as lowas 6s. Crossbred wethers sold up to 17s was the top price obtained. Cattj,e.This market on Tuesday was very quiet, and seemed as if the bottom had been knocked out of it; and why, I cannot tell, as cattle both north and south of us are brim/ing far and away more money than can be obtained for them here. My principal [sales were as follow :~- Sheep-Merino wethers 6s Bd, 78 4d ; fat merino ewes 8s 4d ; merino ewes and 100 per cent of lambs 13a 9d ; crossbred ewes and 100 per cent of lambs 16a, 18s, 35," fat crossbred wethers 17. ; first cross four-tooth ewes and wethers 16s 7dj second cross four-tooth ewes and wethers 17s , croisbred hoggets 12a, Us M-J^-JW baconer S £l *s 6d, 7 store* 16s, sow m pig £116s. Cattie-yearhngs { M, cows ki milk £3 17s 6d, calves 9s, ±-1 12s. HOESJB MARKET. On Saturday laetl heldmy usual weekly horse sale at Bullock's arcade, where 18 horses were entered, of which I sold 10 The bulk of the entry was made up of hacks of all descriptions, evidently sent forward with the hope that some gui eless shearers would purchase them. But times .are not what they were, and shearers evidently prefer riding good hacks and something they can dispose after the season is over. Consequently on baturday there was little or no demand for the class termed shearers' hacks. All the draught horses entered were easily disposed of, and I could have sold a dozen more if they had been forthcomxng. Anyone having good draughts should send them forward now as there is a strong enquiry for them. Later on the entries will be larger and buyers will have plenty to pick and choose from. Consequently as the entries are now small and the demand good, owners have a better chance of disposing of their consignments.

Captain Jackson Barry lectures m the Orange Hallthis evening. It was a "white gloves" day to-day I wish Judge Ward—there being no District Cour* business for the sitting. This morning, on the certificates of two iredical men, Messrs Thomas and Harrison committed a lunatictothe Sunnyside Asylum. Our obituary column to-day records the death of Mr William H. Smith, of Tmwald, who has for some considerable time oeen suffering from a painful and incurable disease to which he succumbed this morning. Mr tomith arrived m this province with his parents m 1851, and at a very age^weut to Seek his fortune on the diggings. He spent several years m Otago, and was fairly successful, and eventually married and settled down close to Ashburton, where he has resided for nearly twenty years. The funeral will take place on Sunday. " Civis" writes as follows m the Otago •*' Witness" :—"Depend upon it Mr Fish wfuld rather be met and maltreated than Joe be met at all. Nobody knows better than lie that the one thing needful for a public wan is to get himself talked aboutwell, if possible, but better ill than not at all ' And how admirably he succeeds his whole career doth testify. Omitting altogether his achievements m the past, consider how effectively he has kept himself m evidence of late. Thanks to pickles m Wellington, eggs m Dunedin, andlish everywhere, there is to-day no man m the Colony more widely Known and talked about than himself. His friends call it fame, his enemies notoriety-but what sin a name ? Be it what it may it s the breath of nostrils, and he could not live without it His speech to the mner circle of his admirers was a work of art. A modest review of his own achievements, a passing w effective stab at Mr Pinkerton, a fierce defiance of Sir Robert, a plaintiff reference to thltotf* of public life, and a touching allusion kith a tear is his voice) to the SSSc cirule-all was most excellent m £Twav andii it doesn't top the votes for theS'orarelLtion, the spirit of prophesy ins m not m me."

who made a sensational statement to the police a short time ago, has instituted proceedings for divorce.