DUNEDIN LIVE STOCK MARKET.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 209, 9 August 1862, Page 4

DUNEDIN LIVE STOCK MARKET.

Messrs. Driver, Maclean & Co. report:—Our yards have been quite empty during the week past, it being almost impossible to get fat stock te town in any thing like fair condition, owing to the fearful state of the roads in the interior. Should the weather continue severe, we must expect an advance in price of fat stock.

I^Fat Cattle.—The supply during the week ha* been far short of the demand, consequently the trade have very small stocks on hand. We have no change to make in our last quotations :—Best bullocks, L24 to L2B; second do, Llo to LlB ; inferior do, LlO to Ll4 . best cows, LlB to L22; second do, Ll3 to LlB ; inferior do, LlO to Ll2. We sold a lot of very fair cattle, ex Rebecca, from Wellington, at average of LlB 10s per head. Fat Calves are verv scarce, and much wanted, at from L3 10s to Lo.. "

Store Cattle.—But few fresh lots offering • quiet well-bred cattle are much inquired after, at from Lll to Ll2 (mixed sexes and ages, deliverable in the province.) We have disposed of over 400 head at these prices.

Dairy Cots and Working Bullocks are saleable at high prices, depending entirely upon the quality, age, and condition, say, (from Ll4 to L25 for former; and L35 to LGO per pair for the latter. Fat Sheep.—Good quality wethers continue very scarce, in fact there are none in the market. Prime heavy weights would readily bring 35s each ; second quality 30s o 32* 6d ; inferior, 28s to 30s. We have sold all tbat came to hand at these prices. Store Sheep.—We have a good demand for large-framed acclimatized wethers and young breeding ewes, but few are offering, and transactions limited. Station Property.—Wo know of numerous buyers for good fattening runs, with but few holders disposed to sell. Horses.—Having so few fresh lots in the market of_ late, it is quite impossible to name lowest prices. Good hacks and heavy draught horses and ma?es are much wanted. We have sold the lot per Cosmopolite, from Hobart Town, at very satisfactory prices, August 8,1862.

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COSMOPOLITAN CLOTHING MART or sale with goo-Iwill'of lease, kc. ' His tailoring and clothing trade, which is second to none in Dunedin, he confesses to have been most lucrative to him during the !a>t five years, and to any one who will give ordinary attention" to it, with tho first-rate connection it has, cannot fail to make a Bure and speedy fortune. Terms liberal. For further information, apply at the Robin Hood Hotel. ! TO ARCIHTECTS, THE Provincial Government of Canterbury. New Zealand, being about to erect a LUNATIC ASYLUM on Section No. 159, on the Lincoln Road about 2| nubs from Christchurch, invite Architects to submit designs for sueh edifice. The building to be capable of accommodating 50 patients—say 33-males and 17 females,--with all necessary offices: bath-rooms, reception-rooms, and Surgeon-Superintendent's residence; and to be .«o arranged that a portion could be erected, complete in itself, for the reception of half the above number o atients The design to comprise the modern improvements usually found in such buildings, with careful arrangement* for classification, light, warmth, ventilation sanitary arrangements, and efficient security and' vinervision. fhe material used is left to he suggestion of the Architects,—stone foundation being in any case indispensable, and well raised above thc ground-line. The drawings required will be a black plan, showing sewage and water drains; a plan of each floor, and a roof plan, at least two elevations and two sections—all drawn to a scale of 8 feet to au ineh; also a perspective view finished in outline—Sepia, udian Ink, or Pencil—no view in colours will be admislble. Thedrawings to be accompanied by a specification of a general character, and an approximate estimate of the cost of the whole ; and tlie part proposed to le first built. The Provincial Government offers the sums of £100 and £50 respectively, for the best and nccond bent esigns, which, in the opinion of their advisers may be most worthy of such premiums. Designs receiving premiums to become the property of the Government. Information can be obtained on application in riting, of the Provincial architects, at tlieir offices Stone .Buildings, Gloucester-street, Christchurch; and esigns to be sent on or before the Ist day of Sejfmber next, addressed to the Provincial Secretary. No design of the Provincial Architect will be placed in competition. THOMAS WM. MAUDE, _ Provincial Secretary. Christchurch, May, 1862. Military Butchery in Persia.—A letter from Teheran/dated the 18th ultimo, In the fain/ Herald has the following:—On the 27fch ultimo, fifty-five Turcomans were brought up here e.s prisonera rind shot m barracks outside the town. l!hey were tied up to the wall by their hands and a detachment of one hundred men fired upon them at forty pa^s with sueh bad practice that the detachment had to be changed six times, and nearly 4000 rounds of ammunition were expended before the poor unfortunate WTetches were slaughtered. The whole aflair lasted nearly an hour and a half, and several of the victims received as many as thirty shots before their lives were bulletted out of them. So much for the firing ofthe regular Persian troops. The Musher-ed-Doulcp (who was ambassador in England), made an ineffectual