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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2928, 14 August 1882, Page 2

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S, C. Times Office, Monday Evening. Messrs Maclean and Stewart report for the past week as follows : Horses —There is still a good demand for heavy draught horses, and prices offered are very fair values. They yarded on thu.urday 50 draughts, light harness, and hivks, and sJd 25 head at from £29 to £35 for heavy draughts ; from £lB to £24 for medium sorts, and for ordinary hacks, £8 to £l2. .On account of the owner, they sold after a very keen compe-, tition, the well-known trotting horse Cabby, at £3B. They have also sold privately during, the week a number of dranght'.horses at (the above quotations. On account of the estate ofW. Halsted, they sold a number of horses at the Washdyke last Friday, an 1 some of them being very good, brought high prices, one firstolaas gelding being sold at £42, and others at similar prices. Cattle. —Store are becoming in rather better demand, and as spring advances they anticipate a considerable rise in prices. Just at present, feed being scarce there is little doing, and .during, the week they have made no sales of im-. portahee. At the Washdyke.on (Friday last, on aecourit of various owners they sold about 35 head, cattle,, mostly cows, at from £2 to £7, ’ and a number of yearlings at 345. Fat cattle are becoming more scarce and difficult to be got, and in consequence prices have risen fully 2s 6d: per 1001 b during the week. On account of the Otipua estate they sold privately a small draft of their prime fat bullocks, one of them being a prizetaker at the show last year. These cattle were very prime and commanded a top value. On account of other, owners they have sold sundry lots at good values. Prime beef they quote from 22s 61 to 25s per 1001 b, according to quality. . : , Fhcep —There is still nothing doing in store sheep, owners who have any feed preferring to keep them till shearing. ■ They have ho difference in prices since their last report to quote. . Fat sheep are selling better, and are in fair demand at about 2Jd per lb, , Property—On account of the'owner, they on Saturday submitted at auction the Temuka Hotel, at present occupied .by Mr J. Ollivier. As this hotel .was offered without any restrictions whatever, and was to be sold free and unencumbered, the sale attracted a good deal of attention, and was attended by a large number of lona fide purchasers. After considerable competition, ‘the hotel and property which consists of half-an-acre, was knocked down to Mr Robert Fenton, Christchurch, at £2BOO, and the stock and furniture to be taken at valuation. The purchaser is fortunate in securing this valuable freehold property at the price, as without doubt it will increase in value every year. On account of, Mr. Thompson they offered a section of half- an acre alongside the above hotel, but the’ price not reaching the owner’s reserve it was passed in.

Messrs William Collins and Co., report a most satisfactory attendance at their regular weekly auction on Saturday. The entries were just enough for local requirements, consequently all lots hroijght the top figures of the season, as the undermentioned figures will 'show -Potatoes, 60s per ton ; onions, IJd per lb; ham, 7d ; bacon, 6d ; butler, Is 4d ; cheese, 7£d; fowl wheat, 12s per sack ; bacon pigs (a prime lot) fij-d to 4d per lb; sucking pigs, 2s fid to 8s each; turkeys, 10s to 12s par pair; geese, 10s; ducks, 4s; fowls, 2s to 3s; hares, 5s per brace; box tea, 14s ; kerosene, 14s per case; soap, half owt, 6s fid; sugar, 4|d. Household furniture, stoves, ranges,boots, chinaware, and a large and varied assortment of sundries,' were bought up during the day at a considerable advance on owners’ instructions. During the week they held a sale of superior furniture at their rooms, which drew a most select attendance of buyers, when all items entered were sold at rates exceeding expectations.

Messrs Southan and Stubbs report for their usual weekly, market and auction on Saturday as follows :—There was a very large attendance, chiefly country buyers, and the prices obtained were very- satisfactory throughout, Potatoes were in better demand and sales of a good quantity were made at from 48s to 56s per ton ; seed do, brought 84s to 140 s Ashleaf kidneys fetching the latter figure. Farmers’ pork— Only a small line was offered of exceptional quality, which was readily bought up privately at 3£d per lb; bacon, inferior, 3d to 4d; good prime, 6d to 7d ; ham, 7d to 9d; farmers’ flour, 501 b bags, 6a fid ; 2001 b bags, 20s; fowls’ wheat, 9s to 12s per sack; fowls, Is fid, Is 9d, 2s and 2s fid per pair; turkeys, 8s to lls. A quantity of beef, in joints, also brought very fair prices. Onions are rising in pricey sales Id to per lb. They also sold a large quantity of trees.- which, considering the lime they had been out of the ground, bliught very fair prices, viz. Ash, fid to Is per bundle; white maple, Is; variegated hollys, 8s per dozen ; specimen trees, 12s; spruce firs, 12s to 18s per dozen bundles; goveniana, 6s to 9s per dozen ; small ones in bundles, 18s per dozen bundles; tuberculator (pinus), in bundles of four, 12s per dozen; pinus iusignis, 3s to 4s; apple trees. 9s to 12s; cherries, 6s to 8s ; plums, 6s to 6s ; 3s; walnuts, 4s; filberts, 2a fid; dwarf veronicas, 12s per dozen bundles; variegated veronica, 6s per dozen. A quantity of second hand fundture brought medium prices, aa did a few lines of tweeds and coatings, concluding a very satisfactory day’s business..