Commercial.

Clutha Leader, Volume IV, Issue 197, 19 April 1878, Page 5

Commercial.

— -9 — ■ Mr A. Mercer reports for tlie week endin^ April 17, as follows : — - Retail prices only :— Fresh butter, in Jib and lib prints, Is 2d to Is4il per 1b ; fresh butter, in lumps. Is to 1 s Id per lb ; powdered and salt butter, Is to Is 2d. Fresh butter is not quite so plentiful, but the market is very well supplied. Prices' have been advancing. Good salt butter, in kegs, is scarce, and asked for at 9M to KM per lb. Old and new cheese, best quality, 8d to lOd per lb. Side and rolled bacon, 9d to lfld ; Colonial hams, . Is per lb ; English hams, Is 2d to Is 4d, but no demand. The same applies to English cheese. Eggs are in good demand, but scarce, and retailing at 2s 9d per dozen, Mr Henry Driver (on behalf of the N.Z.L. and M, A. Co), reports :— We have sold, on account of J. I? 1 Hitching, Esq., of Moa Flat Station, to Messrs Little Brothers, of Palmersfcon, 50 heavy draught colts and fillies, three and four years old, at £50 each. These valuable colts and fillies' were bred by Mr Kitching from picked mares in Victoria and Tasmania, costing from £100 to £250 each, and are got by the celebrated imported horses Ivanhoe and Sir Colin. This is perhaps the largest price ever given in JTew Zealand forso large a number of draught colts, and as Messrs Little Brothers intend to submit themin one lot to public auction at Palmerston. on the 4th May, buyers will have an opportnnity of seeing the finest number of 'colts and fillies ever brought together in New Zealand. Messrs Wright, Stephenson, and Co. report:—On Tuesday, the 16th instaiit, we Tield a sale by auction at Mount Cooey Estate, Balclutha, on account &l J. C. Anderson, Esq. The attendance was large and the bidding spirited. Draught horses brought from £26 to £45 ; two-year-olds, from £28 to £i 0; yearlings, £15 to £22; dairy cows from £5 to £7; .yearlings, £2 to 60s per head. ■ Messrs Maclean Brothers report for thp week ending April 17, as follows :— Fat Cattle. - 168 'head came forward for yesterday's ; rnarke-fc, but of these only 70 were prime. .The others were medium and inferior quality, and several, pens of the latter were bonghii"for turnip feed-'