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AUCTIONS. TUESDAY, 17th AUGUST, At 12 o'clock. RW. OAPSTICK & CO. • have bsen favoured with instruc tions from Messrs Green, Godfrey, Thomson, and others to sell by auotion, at Mr Brown's, North-East Valley, on Tuesday, 17th August, at 12 o'olook, 2Q head superior dairy oows, near calving 22 nea< * mixed store cattle in forward condition' ]_g head yearling steers and heifers. Terms at sale. »DUNEDIN TATTERSALL'S. MACLEAN & CO.'S HORSE BAZAAR, With entrance from Grbat King street and Georgb street. MACLEAN &C have opened the above Horse Bazaar, and will hold SALES OF HORSES EVERY SATURDAY At 11 o'olook. The Yards will be available on other days of the week for sale 3of Stud Stock, Dairy Cattle, Farm Produce, Ac, as may be arranged. They are, conveniently Bituated — olose to the railway station, and in the centre of the busiest part of the city. For general accommodation the Yards are unequalled in the Colony, and the Auctioneers trußt their efforts to meet the wants of their constituents will be rewarded with success. MACLEAN & CO. D,anedin, 10th Augußt, 1880. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15th, 1880, ! , At 2 o'clook ! (The Day before the Show.) At the Corporation Yards, Adelaide, S.A. • STUD RAMS. W GORDON AND CO. • have received instructions from John Murray, Eeq., Murray Vale, to sell by auotion as above ■ g 0 of his noted oombing woolled merino , rams, aged 4, 6, and 8 tooth, the whole of which have been specially t aeleoted for his own use, and all, > except the youngest, have been ; uaedin his own flock, i The attention of buyers requiring rams for stud purposes is confidently called to this sale' of some of the very best picked rams in Australia, and they are reminded of certain results obtainable from this breed of sheep, Mr 'John Murray having kept them pure for the past 36 years, and so successfully as to ! take during the last 27 years' the following prizes at the ananal shows, viz. :: — j iThe whole of the Champion' prizes for i the beat single, ram, excepting six ! only. j■ < iThe whole of the First prizes for best ' pen of 4-tboth or over, exooptiDg sii , ' { , only. • ' , ' Also the following noteworthy prizes, viz : ! The Gold Medal for five besb combing ! • merino rams, 4 tooth ' or over, presented by His Royal Highness the , • . Duke of Edinburgh in 1867. j The Gold Medal for five b«Bt cembing merino ewes, 2-tooth,' also presented 1 ; by H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh, in 1867. The Silver Trophy, of the value of 150 < guineas, presented by Old ' Colonists , in England in 1873, for the best : combing woolled merino ram, which was taken by a graEsfed sheep competing against , stall and artificially 1 fed. The Silver Cup, presented by Meßsrs Elder, Smith, and Co. in 1873, for , ' the best five oombing merino ewes, i 2 tooth or under. Also a great number of first, second, and third prizes for rams, and also for ewes. The medal of the great Exhibition in London in 1862 was awarded to Mr John Murray for fineness of quality and Bi'ze of ram's fleeces ; as was also the gold medal of the South Australian Agricultural Society, presented by his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh for combing merino wool; and also the special prize cups of the South Australian Agricultural Society for oomb ng merino wool shorn in the years 1870 and 1871, besides that for the wool taken from grass-fed sheep in 1872 ; and also the first prize for fleeces shorn in 1873, 1874, 1875. 1876, 1877, 1878 ; and at the great Philadelphia International Exhibition in 1876 the medal, diploma, and report for six fleeces of choioe selection of oombing merino wool, of long staple and excellent quality, fleeces weighing over 151b. ' The six magnificent prize fleeces exhibited by' Mr John Murray at the Shows oi the last six years, though of less than 12 months' growth, averaged over 151b per fleeoe, and his exhibits frequently go to greater weights, the cix fleeces shown in 1876 average weighing over 161b Boz, and have ranged up to 221b for a single fleece of pure clean wool. It ia worthy of note that all these' ptizeß have been taken with (or from) sheep grazed on native pastures only, though they have many times competed against German, Frenoh, and Colonial-bred sheep, some of which have been artificially .fed and housed. Aleo, that the pasb three years the whole of his 2 -tooth's, except what he reserves fir Sfcnd purposes, have been sold twelve months in advance. T>OBERT BROWN, ACCOUNTANT, Woodsiixb, West Taieri. Tradesmen's books made up, kept, and balanced ; Partnerships adjusted, &o. 15ay