DUNEDIN LIVE STOCK MABKET.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 557, 30 September 1863, Page 4

DUNEDIN LIVE STOCK MABKET.

Driver, Maclean and Co.'s report for the week ending 30th September: —

This market has been well supplied with Fat Stock during the past week, and only moderate prices were obtained.

Stores (both cattle and sheep) continue.. in active demand, with nut few lots of-either offering,. We are able to report the following arrivals by sea :—-318 fat sheep, ex Onerust, from Melbourne; 680 do do, ex Corio, from Napier; 185 head cattle, ex Hydra, from Gippsland; 68 head do, ex Margaret Jsliza, from Twofold Bay; 36 head do, ex Swordfish, from Gippsland. The last named vessel experienced very severe breather, arid lost nearly half of her original cargo. The cattle were very crime, and ; heavy i weights. Both the Hydra and Margaret and Eliza landed their stock in splendid condition, the former without a death on the voyage.

Fat Cattle. -110 have been yarded during the week; the trade, bring iairly supplied from previous sales, were not inclined to buy largely. We are now, however, able to state that most of the late shipments have been worked off, and the ma ket is in a position to receive its usual supply, and we anticipate an ad vance upon late prices. We have sold 55 head, ex Hydra, at LIB 10* to L 2 5; 36 head, ex Swordfish, at L15t0L24; and 20 head, various lots, at LI6 to L2O: We cannot quote sales over 60s per lOOibs.. Fat Calves. —None yarded. Very saleable at L 4 to L 6, according to size and quality.^ Store Cattle. We hays to notice a further improvement in the demand for strong, healthy cattle. As this is the most suitable season for putting in *tock, buyers are anxious to avail themselves of ■every opportunity, and we find no trouble indisposing of all coming to hand at full rales. Well-bred bullocks, from 3 to 6 years old, are preferred, of which' the market is now quite bare. We have sold the cargo, ex Hydra, from Gipps' Land, at 1L12103 ; ditto, ex Margaret and Eliza, from Twofold Bay, at Ll3 : also, 200 head, ex Oregon '(to arrive) from Gipps' Land, at Ll2 10s. We quote well-bred sleers, 2 years old and up•wards, at from LI 2to Ll4. Provincial mixed herds, at Llolos to Ll2 10s

Working Bullocks and Dairy Cows.—Workers ■continue plentiful. We notice however, a slight improvement in prices. Really first flass teams, fit for immediate use, are saleable at L6O to L 65 per pair; ■ordinary, L 45 to 150. "We have sold several pairs at these prices.

Dairy cows continue in good request. Quiet cows, in milk, or springing, are saleable at LlB to L 25. "We have said this week upwards of 30 head.

Fat S-HEEP.-The market has been supplied with KOO ve-y n:u'i "iry Vimlkts (:ii iuipo to!), lifially goo i iniiiio i en. t luas scirooj we cum .t expect many Provincial bri'<i sh: je}i i;i until after shearine. We sold 850, tx ! nerurt froui Melbourne, at 27s (very infrii ,r); 600 wethers, ex CVio, from p apier, realised 30.^ 6si. We quote minis mutton at about SJ per Ib.

; Stoke mikep.—We have numerous buyers for both ewes and we'hers, with but few lots offering, and .we tio not anticipate any material change in the value of this class of stock for some mouths to come. We have sold SUOO Australian ewes at 28s, delivered after shearing. We quote as follows :■ -Ems (in lamb and wool), H to 6-tooth, at 35s to 37s 6d. Weth&is \\n wool), 4 tooth to full mouth, 2ds to 31s txi. Im ported wethers, delivered alter shearing, 23s to 255.

;■_ ( oUiVTitz Sai.es —We sold at Tokomaiiiro on 22nd instant, Mr P Crows' dairy hml,■ consisting of cows, heifers and steers, at satisfactory prices. Station Properties continue very saleable, "with few offering. We will sell the Centre Hill Station by auction on Bth December, containing 40,000 acres, with TOGO sheep. Hobs.es (a* furnished by Messrs Milner and Learmonth j.—The tract c for the'past fourteen days has exhibited great animation, and any Iresh arrivals of horses meat vrith immediate purchasers at prices considerably in advance of our last quotations. The demand has almost entirely been upon light harness horses and packers, and there is every probability that it will exist for some months, taking into consideration the exodus of the population for the mining districts which is sure to ari-e from the reports of new rushes to the -different parts of ihe country during the summer mouths. Draught horses command at preseni but little attention. This is attributable in a great measure to the unsettled state of miners, but as soon as any of the reported rushes become thoroughly ■ established, cartage must go up. and consequently we may naturally expect a considerable advance in prices for this stamp. On the 18th instant the Onerusf, arrived from.Melbourne with 140 horses, 123 of which were consigned to us. On Monday we fold MiGeorge Henry's lot which sold st an average of L 35 per heid. The same day Messrs Smith and Mixn<Vs at an average of L2B per head. Ou Wednesday, Mr Dei-ham's lot of 44, all light harness and packers, averaging L 27 per head. Mr A. H. Barflett's sold at an average of L 35 per heat) on Saturday. Mr Win. Ormauby's at an average of L 29 16s per liead. Great demand still exists for packers and light harness horses. This mai-ket closes exceedingly firm, and prices have an upward tendency. Prices current are : First-class draught horses from L 65 to LBS; secondclass do dp.do L 45 to L6O; -inferior do do do L3O to L 3 5; young, active, and well-bred hackneys do LSO to 165 ; light harness and packers do L2B to L 4 5; inferior hacks do Llot > 130.'

DSIVER, MAOLBAtT AND Co, Stock and Station Salesmen, ;■; :■ ' . ~;. " ■ Dunedih, N.Z,

An Eventful Career—Probably few of the leading bankers in/London connected with. American or Mexican affairs but have heard of Colonel Albert G. Sloo. He > had,a grant of a railroad across the Isthmus. I first met Colonel 8100 in Cincinnati in 1840. ; At that tiiue (Win. Henry Harrison, who lived near this city); was running for the Presidency. He was so poor that he eouid not take his letters from the post office, and of course every village politician had a right to s»nd letters to the "Whig Presidential candidate. Sloo footed the hills, and gave General Harrison his letters. He wps elected. He only lived one month, but not long enough to reward Colonel Sloo for his energy. However, he got a mail contract worth '20(1,000 dols. or 300,000 dols. When Polk was elected, and after the war with Mexico, Hloo got a contract to carry the mail, worth 300 000 dols. per annum, between Mew York and San Francisco, just after the gold fever broke out, and it proved a mine of wealth. Twenty sea steamers were built on that contract. Tt was the foundation of two great steamship lines; one the Pacific, of which Howlin and Aspinwall we re managers, and the other line was engineered by George Law. Both concerns and their associates made millions. Sloe's contract also gave birth to the Panama Railroad Company. It made the fortunes ot all connected with. it. How about poor Sloo? He died in a cell of one of our station-houses. He had been picked up in tha streets by a policeman, and was locked up over night. He was very poor. The reflections in the cell of what he had been, and what he was then, were too much for him. His firmness gave way, and with a penknife he opened a vfin and bled to death.—" Manhattan," in Standard, June 26