CHRISTCHURCH LIVE STOCK MARKET

Otago Daily Times, Issue 419, 24 April 1863, Page 4

CHRISTCHURCH LIVE STOCK MARKET

(From the Lyttelton Times, 18th April.)

Mess's Miles and Co. report an increasing demand fer stock.

Fat Cattle—The market is only scantily supplied. The high prices lately ruling; in Dunedin. coupled with the prospect of a very *hort supply for the Ciuistchurch market during th« winter months, have caused an advance in price. We now quote fut stock, fiffor the butcher, at s£d to 6d per lb. Wethers.—There is litile doing in store wethers. We have sold 2.000, from two-tooth to iuli-inouthed, deliverable on the Hurunui, at 21s per hen I.

Fat Wethers. Butchers well supplied for present use. We quote 20s to 28* pur head, and anticipate a good demand during the winter months, when stocks become liahter.

Ewes.—We have sold 2,000 ewes, deliverable witliin 25 mile 3of Chdstehurch, 'nixed aaes, from 2-toot!i to full-mouthed, at 31s per head ; 3i}o, from 2-tooth upwards, at 32s Cd ; also 600 ewe*, n mixed flock, at 30s; and 500. deliverable in the luck country, at the some price, 303. The demand for ewes is very gveait.: we have buyers for large quantities at 31s per hea-i, good quality sheep; and we have every reason to balieve that prices will keep up for some time. We now quote from 31s to 32s GJ per head for g-ood sh?ep, deliverable within a few days' drive from buyers' stations. Store Cattle.—There is a moderate demand ; but. buyers ure cautious <uid noi. disposed to trt-at at pr« sentiates. Tne rfcsnt meetim; hold in Duueiiu to memorialise the ffovwmnent to allow cittle to b>: imported from New South Wales, Queerisiaml, and Tasmania bus slightly tended to check purchasers iJie-e, but, it has not caused any alteration in ■prices. We quote L 8 to LlO, according to quality andjig-S; * St:i ion Property is much inquired tor. We nave sola 20,000 acres "i the Ktiknia. runs Nos 87 ami B*. fur the sum of 13.000 wt ca.b, 15,000 acres, near Titnaiu, at the rate of 1/.00 j.er l,olio acres, on the usual terms.

A Curious Yarn. —The inhabitants of Grumbling Gully may nor. have cause to continue grumbling, after all, at the devas aiiou caused by a late storm to their properties, for tlis storm appears by what follows, to have opened up a new ai,d lucrative source ofivo'ilth, to their astonished Cfa/.e, in the shape of gold and precious stones, vbic'i must surely exist in fouie quantity in that, favored locality. This won'ierful discovery was made as follows:--A lien (not a goose on this occasion) was purchased- by Mr Sell woo:), jeweher, Timor-street, fiom a man nnmed Symoiis, who lvsitlesiu the gully, which when killed was tuuiM 10 have secret!d in ibgizzard, no less than two dessert spoonfuls of diamonds, cr - stals, and other g3Uis, of tile purfst water, beides several small putiele-s.of (told —ijuita as mach of the precious metal ai first set people in a ferment about Otago. "I'he hypulhesia tuo.it f.-cntra!lv received is, that the god wns cirried dov?ii from tlie upj.-er part, of the town, by the force of the torrent, on ihat memoral le ni^ht whtiu the cabbage Kardeni of Happy Valley were for ever destroytd ; and that, this historic lien made her apr. htkctiovi f.oiu. the debris left bt-himi by theilood, — Warrnamboul /Sentinel, 2b'th JVlaich.