CHRISTCHURCH MARKETS.

Press, Volume L, Issue 8582, 8 September 1893, Page 3

CHRISTCHURCH MARKETS.

. ■ «c» SKIN SALES, &c The weekly skin sales took place. The auctioneers' reports are aa follows :— The New Zealand Land Association, Limited, sold a large catalogue of skins, hides, and fat at the following prices:— Beet crossbred, 5s 6d to 6s Id; medium do, 4s to 5s 2d ; best merino, 3s 9d to 4s 4d; medium do, 2s 3d to 33 Id; dry crossbred and dry merino, various prices equal to fully 4d per lb; rough fat l£d to lgd per lb; hides and calfskins, lfd to 4d per lb. Tone of market—Good competition ; prices equal to last week. Messbs Pyke axd Co. sold 753 skins, 16 hides,, and 18 packages fat at the following prices :—Best halfbred, 5s to 6s ; medium do, 3s 6d to 4s 6d; best longwool, 4s 9d to 6s; medium do, 3s 6d | to 4s 3d; best merino, 2s 6d to 3s 3d; dry crossbred, 2s to 4s 6d; dry merino, Sis to 3s 6d; rough fat, l£d to lfd per lb. Tone of market — Fair. Mb F. C. Tababt sold 3935 skins, 37 hides, , and 56 packages fat, at the following prices : — Beat halfbred 5s 6d to 6s 3d ; medium do, 4e to 5s 6d; best longwoola 5s to 5s 9d ; medium do, 4s to 5a 3d ; best, merinos, *3s 6d to 4s sdj medium do, 2s 9d to 3s 6d ; dry crossbreds, up to 5s 2d; dry merinos, up to 4s; rough fat, per lb, l£d to l|d. Market slightly depressed, i Messrs Miles and Co., Limited, sold 381 ! skins, 17 hides, and packages fat, at the following prices :—Best halfbreds, up to 5s 6d for lines ; best long wools, up to 63; best j merinos, up to 4s 3d ; dry crossbreds, to 4s 4d; dry merinos, to ss; rough fat per lb, at last week's rates ; hides and calfskins, : lfd to 4d per lb. Market firm. Messrs Acland, Dudley and Co. sold 200 skins, 8 hides, and 10 packages fat, at the following prices :—Beat halfbreds, 6s to 6s sd; medium do, 4s 10d to 5s 6d; best longwoola, 6s 7d to 7s ; medium do, 5s 6d to 6s; best merinos, 3s 6d to 4s; medium do, 2s lid to 3s 3d ; I rough fat, per lb, l£d to l|d; bides and i calfskins, lfd to 4d. Messrs Wilsoh I and Sons made a fair start at Rangiora Market at the following prices:—Medium halfbred, 3s 9d to 4s 6d • dry skins, 2s to 3s 6d. PRODUCE SALES. Messrs Wilson and Sons, at Rangicra, seld grass seeds, 3s 6d for best, 2s for medium ; chick wheat, 2s 3d ; cocksfoot, Id, inferior; oats, 2s 3d; potatoes were low, 4s to 6s per sack ; quantities merchandise sold fairly well. PIGS AND POULTRY SALES. Mr H. B. Sobenskn reports as follows: —Number of pigs sold 49; heavy baconers, I 425; light baconers, 35s to 40s; light ! porkers, 193 to 25s ; stores, 11s to 13s; i weaners, 7s to 10s. Tone of market moderate ; not much life, except in weaners and stores. Number of poultry sold 598, as follows:—Heavy roosters, 2s 9d to 3s od and 7s choice; light roosters,2s to 2s 6d ; old hens, Is 9d to 2s 3d; young hens, 2s 3d to 3s, 4s for better class ; ducks, 3s to 3s 6d; geese, 6s 6d; tur'teys, 7s 6d hens to 18s gobblers. Tone of market a little easier than the last two weeks, but fair prices on the whole. MX JAS. E. NICHOLSON, A well-to-do Farmer of FlorcncevQU, IT. 8., : : Canada, suffers for seven long years with CANCER OF THE LIP. Agonizing torture relieved, Disease Cored. "I am 65 ream of age, and until 1384 had always enjoyed'good health. About that time, a little bud bunch, like a. wart, appeared oa my lover lip. Finally, the bunch gathered, broke, and formed a sore; then it began to eat into the flesh; The Cancer—lor that is what the docton finally caßed it—kept getting worse and wone, year after year. It caused mc great pain and nneaefnew. Daring the last year, I would wake twenty tunes in a night, suffering: intensely from twitching pains. 16 was as it my ficsk was being torn from ma by pinchers, bit by bib

At laifc, I \xz*ix to take Ayer*a Ban»pariHa. .In the coarse at s> -sreek or two I noticed a decided improvement. Tke tvritcMng «o<l the Miss were wy'much lea, and the acre began io look healthier. In tluee months lay Up b«SB to heal, and, alter wing the SarapuCla tordxiaoßUis,tbe last trace ol tb« Cancer dieKppeutd, and left very little tear. , *— J. E. KiCHotaoa, SloreaceTille, X. 8., Canada. SarsaparNßa (Hoe ourvci ethers, wilt Q«r%. jr^u.