MARKET REPORTS

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17788, 13 May 1918, Page 7

MARKET REPORTS

" TATTERSALL’S ” HORSE SALE: Thole was an entry of thirty-five horses at TattersalPs on Saturday. Buyers were present for good, useful draughts at medium prices, and a very satisfactory sale resulted. The horse market generally has an improved tono, and sale 3 are much easier to make. This has been tho case for some time'past. Among the transactions were:—Account client, four-year-old gelding £23, tlirce-ycar-old gelding £lO, five-year-old maro £lO IDs, seven-year-old gelding £2O; W. Ashton (Little Akaloa), aged maro £l2 10s; J. Ward (Okoka), five-ycar-old pony £9; H. J. Wntson (Papa■nui), aged gelding £l3; R. Kemp (Ricoarton), six-year-old mare £8; H. Shaw (Sproydon), eight-year-old gelding £25; C. MacAlo (Spreyclon), five-year-old gelding £1(1; client, aged maro £7 10s. Aged hackstand harness horses sold ,at late rales. • LEESTON. The stock salo_ at Lceston was well attended and entries of stock comprised 75 cattle, 106 fat pigs, 113 store pigs and a large number of sheep. Fat slook values wero very firm and there was a keen demand for good dairy cattle, resulting in very satisfactory prices. Tho sheep sales included tho following; 21 owes at 30s sd, 4 lambs at 235, 27. lambs at 28s Gd, 21 cull lambs at 14s- 10d, 44 fat ewes at 2?3 4d, 9 wethers at 23s 3d, 14 ewes at 18s, 40 fat .ewes at 275, 22 fat lambs at CGn lOd, 35 fat wethers at, 34s 6d, 10 lambs at 265, 78 fat lambs at 26s 2d, 72 lambs at 22s 3d, 63 owes at 32s Id, 47 fat lambs at 27s lOd, 7 fat'lambs at 263, 115 fat lambs at 28s. 72 fat lambs at 26s 2d, 32 fat ewes at 20s 9d, 26 fat ewes at 23s Bd, 14 fat owes at 18s 7d, 25 ewes at 25s 6cl, 31 ewes at 18s 9d. 55 lambs at 235, 150 wethers at 27s lid. 142, lambs at 2Ss Gel, 62 owes at 33a 9d, 53 ewes at 20a lOci, 41 ewes at 323 3d, 26 £-wes at 28s Gd, 25 lambs at 28s 4d, 6G lamb 3 at 24s to 24s 4d.

Bacon pigs brought 74s Gd to £5 19s 6d porkers from 50s, largo stores from 31s, small from 103. Forward cows made £7, eighteen-months hoifors £7 12s 6d, springers up to £l6 10s.

A. lino of 17 springers sold for Mr J, RusselS (Brookside) realised £3 to £l6 10s, a bull £ls. ASHBURTON. - Wheat.— The quantity offering, is gradually diminishing, 'and it soems evident that tho bulk of the crop is nov/ dealt with. Reports indicate that thrashing will be about finished in the next two or three weeks. A proportion of tho wheat coming on the market is of poor quality, being thin and weathered, and this is readily taken as vfhblo fowhvhoat at tho under grado price. Although sorno millers have nearly filled their warrants, there is sufficient demand for all milling wheat on offer. Oats.—The market is quiot, and little business is passing as between grower and merchant. Although values are nominally unchanged, buyers aro only prepared to operate at a reduction of several pence per bushel on rates that ruled a few weeks ago. Chaff.—Tho markot is quiet, and the demand much easier. Prime quality may be quoted at £5 5s on trucks; second class eumplos 90s. Low grade chaff is not wanted. NORTH OTAGO. [FHO.U Our. CORRESPONDENT. ] OAMARU, May 11. Wheat has continued to como _ forward fairly freely, though individual offerings nave, generally been small in bulk. A ‘few, however, ranged from 6CO up to 600 sacks each. Oats, both Gartons and Algerians, have boon offering from tbo country, but, though growers have been disposed to accept reduced prices, very littlo business has been dono. Sales have been confined to a few small linos of Algerians at 4s net, country stations. Merchants «ro restrained from doing business because of lack of storage space and shipping facilities, largo accumulations of oats sold many weeks ago being still in store awaiting opportunities for shipment. LAND SALES. In the New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Association’s land sale room at noon on Saturday, tho ‘estate ktiovfti as the Willesden Farm was put up for public auction. This farm, which has boon occupied by the Willis family for upwards of forty years, is in, tho Southbridge’district. The farm was divided into three lots. Lot 1, comprising 220 acres 1 rood 20 porches, together with tho homestoad. outbuildings, garden and orchard, was bought by Mr R. Gemmoll for £l3 per acre. Lot 2. ccmprising 211 acres 3 loads, wont at £3l. per acre, to Mr G. Hubbard. Lot 3, comprising 13.1 acres 1 rood 20 perches, went at £32 15a an acre, to Mr Moorhead. Jones, M’Crostio Company, Limited sold on Saturday, on behalf of a mortgagee, through tho Registrar of the Supremo Court, a property comprising 11 aoro, together with a. stone house of six rooms erected thereon, and situated in Monoids Bay, Redeliffs, to Mr J. F. Simpson, for £6OO. Messrs Pyno and Co., on behalf of the trustees of tho estate of the late Mr Philip'Martin, sold on Saturday a farm of 23 acres situated at Lincoln, and at present occupied by Mr J. Rowell, to Mr Thomas Henley (Lincoln), at £-13 an aero. J. B. MERRETT AND CO. POULTRY.—EGG S. An excellent sale Saturday. Good quality birds, good prices. . Table chickens 5s 6d to 9s 3d, hens 2s 9cl to 7s del, pullots 5s 6d to 13s, ducks 5s to 9s, turkeys 9s to _2Bs, all at per pair. Kegs—Fair demand. Firsts 2s Bd. Send for Circle rules. Sales Wednesdays and Saturdays. Crates loaned free for poultry. J. B. MERRETT, 2099 . 206, Tuam Street, Christchurch.FARMERS’ SALEYARDS. Tho Farmers’ Saloyards report a largo entry of all classes of animals and goeds at their weekly sale. Horses sold at £2O, £0 Cs, £2 17s Gd, £6, £8 10s, £2 15b, £7 15s, £5 ss, a Jersey cow (calved) £l2 7s Gd, fat pig £3 lGs, calves 5s Gd, and weanor pigs 14s to 265. Harness brought £3 16s, £3, £3 10s, £2 15s and 30s, traps £3, £2 2s, £ll 10s, yan £9 10s, spring drays £6 16s, £l6 10s, gate 20s, mowers 15s to 255, bicycles 25s to £3 Is, presser ?7s, hand straw press 20s, breeding fowls 10s to 17s 6d per pair, damaged wheat 18s Gd sack, S.F. ploughs £-2 10s to £4, guns 20s to 21s, seoarator £lls, 2J trucks oatshoaf 3s 5d to 3s 9d per Eack. t At Saturday’s poultry sale tho market was firm. Hens realised 3s 6d to 5s 9d, cockerels 3s 3d Go 10s, boilers 3s Gd to 5s 2d, small pullets 3s Id lo 7s 2d, geese 7s Gd to 11s-. CLARIDGE AND SMITH, Auctioneers. 43