COMMERCIAL.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2163, 23 February 1880, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

S. C. Times Office, Monday Evening. Messrs W. Collins and Co., report as the result of their sale on Saturday the following quotations :—Kidney potatoes, 70s per ton, bags included ; onions, 9s Gd per cwt; farmers’ flour, £lO per ton ; carrots, GOsper ton ; fowl wheat, none offering; barley for fowl corn, 4s per sack ; fowls. 2s Gd to 4s per pair ; chickens, 4s.per pair; ducks,_ 4s per pair; geese and turkeys, none offering ; rolled bacon, in cloth, Gd to 8d per lb ; do, inferior, Id to 8d per lb. Messrs Maclean and Stewart report:—

Horses—Buyers semi to be fully supplied, and not many good sorts offering. Present values for really good diaughts maybe stated as under, from £45 to £55; for medium, £2B to £32; for light harness and hackneys, from £lO to £23. Sheep—Fat sheep arc at present very plentiful, and prices arc, in consequence, ruling low, from Gs Gd to 8s Gd, according to weight and quality. Cattle—We sold several small lots at from £4 10s to £6 10s for very well forward steers and heifers, £2 to £3 for medium quality, and from 15s to 30s for yearlings. Wool and Skins—By the latest telegrams from Loudon, the prices at the February sales arc still keeping firm, and a slight advance towards the close of the sales. We sold, on Thursday last, a few bales good crossbred and merino fleece wool at from 6j}d to 7d. Skins were placed at from Is Gd to 4s; hides, at 3Jd per lb.