MARKET REPORTS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIX, Issue 14609, 17 February 1908, Page 9

MARKET REPORTS.

HORSES. There was a medium entry of horses at Tattersall's on Saturday, and prices wero good. Best light horses brought < from £lO 10s to £l7, and others from £5 to £B. A few light draughts sold up to £2l 10s. PIGS AND POULTRY. Hens brought from Is 9d to 2s 4d, roosters from 3s Id to Gs sd, and ducks from 2s 7<l to 6s. There was a good entry of pigs and a very fair sale. Suckers and weaners brought from 8s to 13s, stores from 13s 3d to 28s 6d, and porkers to 355. DARFIELD. At Darfield market on Friday tho yarding totalled 2250 sheep and lambs, 900 of which wore in tho fat pens. About fifty of these were wethers and ewes, the balance being lambs, of which a few pens were of freezing quality. The remainder were little better thanforward stores. The yarding of stores consisted chiefly of lambs, with two or three lots of good young ewes, the bala.uoo of thft entry being potters. The attendance vtm small, particularly of freezing buyers. Graziera took most of the yarding of fats, but very few sales were mado in the store pens. Prices wero:—Freezing lambs 13s Id to 14s Id, light and unfinished 10s 4d to lis Gd, fat cross-bred wethers 15s to 18s, ewes 13s 2d, rape lambs 9s Sd, stores (culls) os 9d to 6s, two-tooth half-bred ewes 15s 3d, potters (merino) Is 2d. A lino of four and six-tooth half-bred ewes were withdrawn at 17s. ASHBURTON PRODUCE SALES. There was a good attendance at the produce sales held at Ashburton on Saturday, and the entry, which was of a varied character, was sold at fair market rates. The following prices wero obtained:—Poultry, hens Is 6d to 2e 3d, roosters 2s 6d to 2s 9d, ducks 3s 6d, all at per pair ; pigs, weaners 10s to 12s 6d, stores 13s to 15s, porkers 28s to 32s (id; produce, potatoes Id per lb, wheat (seconds) 14s 3d to 16s, peas (thirds) lis, Dun oats 9s (all at per sack), onions Id, tomatoes 3d to per lb, cucumbers 2s to 2s 6d per case, pi urns 2s 6d to 3s, apples Is 6d to 3s per case, apricots 2d to 3d; meat, beef 2id to 3d, mutton (forequarters) 2-Jd per lb. NORTH OTAGO GRAIN MARKET. [FHOat OUB CoRUESrOKDENT.] OAMARU, February 15. There lias been a fair amount of business doing in the grain market during tho week, which closes with a weaker feeling. The sales of wheat probably aggregate 10,000 sacks. For straight lines of Velvet, prices have ruled from a half-penny to a penny higher than for mixed lines or parcels of red wheat. For Velvet, with delivery in Oamaru, 4s 3d, 4s 3Jd and 4s 4d net have been given, a line of 500 sacks being taken at the lowest figure. Sales have also been made of this variety at from 4s 2d to 4s 3d net at country stations, the chief transactions being 780 and 700 sacks at 4s 2-1-d, 500 sacks at 4 a 2d and 600 sacks at 4s 3d, the last-mentioned lino being a very choice sample. A small parcel of Velvet was also quitted at 4s 2-Jd, less commission. A mixed line of 800 sacks of Velvet and Red Chaff was taken at 4s 2Jd not at a country station. For a parcel of 200 sacks of Essex wheat 4s 3d net at a- country, station was given, and for a small lot of Red Chaff 4s 2d, less commission at a country station, waG accepted. A <jcod business has been done in oats. Tho chief transaction covered a line of 1500 sacks of Duns at 2s 5d f.0.b., sacks in, equal to 2s net to grower at a oountry station For Gartens, from 2s to 2s Id net at oountry stations has been given according to railage, the largest lines being two of 500 sacks each, subject to commission. Lines of feed Gartons, 600 and SOU sacks, have changed hands at 2s Id and 2s respectively at country stations. For email lots of Duns, 2s net at country stations has been given, and Danish have been sold at a penny less. Some business is now being done in potatoes for shipment northward at from £5 net to £5 10s, less commission | at country stations. Stubble feed be- | ing now available, forward rape lambs | are in request. THE LAGMHOR ESTATE. SUBDIVISION SALE. One of the most successful land sales that has been held at Ashburton took place in the Oddfellows' Hall on Saturday afternoon, when 9514 acres of the Lagmhor Estate were offered in twentynine blocks. Over 600 farmers and others interested attended, and bidding was prompt and keen throughout the sale. The land averaged £9 5s per acre, and the proceeds of tho sale totalled £88,013. It is understood that the land realised an average of between £2 and £3 per acre in excess of the figure at which it was offered to the Government some eighteen months ago. Tho following are the details of the sales:— Lot I—los acres, in kale, £8 10s per acre, Mr David Teppett (Tinwald); Lot 2—llo acres, in grass five years, £l6 10s, Mr James Hampton (Tinwald); Lot 3—211 acres, in grass six yoars, £l6 10s, Mr James Hampton (Tinwald); Lot 4—260 acres, wheat land, in grass three years, £l6 10s, Mr James Hampton (Tin.wald); Lot 5—326 acres, in grass five years, £l2, Mr T. Lloyd (Rolleston); Lot 6—386 acres, in grass five years, £6 10s, Mr James Cow (Tinwald) ; Lot 7, 227 acres, in kale, £9 10s, Now Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Association; Lot 8—305 acres, in grass five years, £9, New Zealand Fanners' Co-operative Association; Lot 9—178 acres, in grass five years, £4 ss, Mr P. Stewart (Ashburton); Lot 10—366 acres, in grass, part three years, part two years, £4 2s 6d, New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Association ; Lots 11, 12, 13 and 14—721, 998, 640 ahd 236 acres, in tussock, £2, Mr P. Stewart (Ashburton); Lot 15—338 acres, part old pasture, part tussock, £4 7s 6d, Mr I. L. Emmerson (Hinds); Lot 16—794 part old pasture, part tussock, £4 ts Gd, Mr F. L. Emmerson (Hinds); Lot 17—403 acres, tussock, £3, Mr Smith ; Lots 18 and 19— 162 and 206 acres, tussock, £3, Mr T. Rollinson (Westerfield); Lot 20—315 acres, in grass four years, £7, New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Association ; Lot 21—156 acres, wheat land, in kale, £ls ss, New Zealand Farmers' '

Co-operative Association; Lot 22—195 acres, wheat land, in kale, £l4, Messrs Anderson Bros (Flemington); Lot 23 290 acres, wheat land, in Italian ryegrass, £ls 15s, Messrs Anderson Bros (Flemington); Lot 24—226 acres, wheat land, in green crop, £l4 15s, Messrs Anderson Bros (Flemington); Lot 25 253 acres, wheat land, in green crop, £ls, Mr W. Moses (Willowby); Lot 26 —315 acres, strong wheat land, in kale, £32, Mr James Quigley (Tinwald); Lot 27—350 acres, strong wheat land, in kale, £32. Mr S. Holland (Tinwald); Lot 28—280 acres, strong wheat land, in grass four years, £29 10s, Mr Thomas Woolley (Heriot, Otago); Lot 29—151 acres, in grass four years, £l9 10s, Mr Andrew Young (Ashburton). •