Within three years we expect to see over 250,000 sheep

< sold by catalogue in one halt hoar. Sit <Mjncan Bjlutherford deservesthethanka the herd of the Amuri woo! kiugs^V l sales, with Mr Wm. Buss of fin'™! , " numbered some 25,000 *heep f Canterbury Horse Market-As we n™. dieted, good horses are in demand £S we agaiu assert our conviction th«?h^ W(I ' discount-" An animal without a fri *d? pur sales on batuntoy | ast composed m horses, including a line from Mr G F Bullen Kaikoura, ah of hich met wifh spinted competition and good and s7. factory prices. Mr Bullen's » V( >Z ,s ' for a line of 3« medium per head. The snme time, the «Jj money, the same trouble, and the s*™ judgment expended upon a heavier A? Bcnptioa of horse just *t this period would have netted 25 per cent mi money. Our farmers are on the war path 9 They are beginning to recognise the yk tues of the soil of New Zealand Th entries were very fairly competed for but the ordinary screw and the halt, lame aT blind were consigned to render more ! trance fees to the sale ring of TattewuH- '■ Grain ..id Produce l .auctions are a great success. Tim* fir ■ solvent of all things, has cracked tTe ± I of opposition, and each Saturday, whethei M m person or by representatives, the corn * kl »p°f Canterbury will shortly assS i and aid these sales of farmers. , producJ f Sydney has two sons of Erin here with tha I needful sovereigns, if farmers are not too hard in the mouth. We closed for 12,000 bushels wheat for a SouthbrtdS client to a city buyer at a fair v ffi also, 50 tons of onions at £51(h Ber VZ , ' Country Sales-On Tuesday *The?d. most satisfactory clearing sale for Messrs Maddison Bros., of Prebuleton Thek? teudanre was good, and biddings reraindtd one of by-gone years, when bids came™ quickly that it took an artist to know who really was the last and best bidder May it continue. Horses sold *t »n £ £29 pigs, sheep, and implements brouttht capital values. Wheat sold at 3s 7d •of tt 2s Id; peas, &c, &c, sold well ' tß> Wool, Sheepskins. 