COMMERCIAL.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2241, 24 May 1880, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

S. C. Times Office, Monday. Evening. Jonas: Hart and Wildic report, ’ Fa{ Cattle.—The market is well supplied At about - last week’s quotations. . Our transactions areXl head prime at, £8 ss, equal to 2ps ; per 100 lb. Milch Cows and Store Cattle.—At the South Canterbury yards, on Thursday last, we sold for various owners 20 milch cows, springing heifers, and dry cows. Cows in milk', £lllos, £lO 10s, £9 10s, and £8 ; heifers, near calving, £9, £B, £7 10s, and £7; dry cows, £4 15s to £5 10. Sheep.—Are in good demand. We have placed a few mobs during, the week as follows, viz., 450 cross-bred weathers, threequarter fat, at 8s 3d; 700 three-quarter bred ews, at Bs, Id ; 650 merino ewes, at 4s 9d. Horses.--! here is a perceptible improvement in the demand for farm horses. An average number found purchasers at the following rates viz.; a team of three medium draught horses, dray and harness £80; 1 heavy draught mare, £4O ; plough horses, £25, £27105, £3O, to £35; light draughts, £lB to £23 ; farm drays, £l2 to £l6 10s ; hacks ahd light harness horses, £7 to £l3.

Farm Produce. —Flour, £lO per ton; sharps, Gs 6d to 7s per bag; bran, 3s 6d per bag ; chicken corn, 5s Gd to 7s per bag, according to quality; potatoes, £2 10s to £2 iSs per ton ; onions, Id per lb; apples and pears, 8s to 9s 6d per case; bacon, Gd to 8d per lb; hams, 9d to lOd per lb; green pork, fid per lb ; fowls, 3s Gd to 4s 3d per couple; flunks, 4s Gd per pair ; turkeys, 4s to 6s Gd oiich. ' 40 pigs, of various sizes, realised from 7s Gd to 27s each. ' Messrs W. Collins and Co., report the following quotations : Four, £lO per ton ; potatoes, -43 s per bag ;• onions, Tapanui, Id per lb. Melbourne, |d ; apples, 10s per co,se.; cheese, Gd per lb. ;hams, inferior, Gd; gfdod, 8d to 9d ’ hogs’ lard, 5d per lb, ; fowl wheat, 7s Gd per sack ; 140 sacks f.o.b. railway trucks at Orari, consigned to Lyttelton 7s 4d per sack ; oats, Is 2d per bushel ; fresh pork, in the carcase, 5d lb, Poultry,. no alteration on the previous week's report. ’ Messrs Macley, Priest and Co. report:— There' was a fair attendance of purchasers lat our usual weekly sale on Saturday, and the articles offered were generally disposed of at fair market rates. The following arc our quotations for produce:—Flour, £lO per ton; fowl’s wheat,, 7s Gd per bag ; feed barley, 2s to 2s 3d per bashel; potatoes, 45s to 48s per lb. We consigned to Dunedin during the week 2GO sacks fowl’s wheat at 2s to 2s 3d per bushel delivered in Timaru. 'Store cattle arc tn fair enquiry, and we have several purchasers ready to operate. CBT-isTCiiuiiCii, This Day.

Salori have been made during the past days at the following prices:—Wheat, fcilling, 3s Gd. f.o.b. at Lyttelton; seed 'tpheat, one lot, 3s Gd, another, 4s Cd; oats, .feed; Is,2d, milling, Is 4d. Barley—Some lots were sold at prices varying from 2s Gd to Bs Gd. ; Very -little has been done lately in grass seed. Potatoes—Sales have been effected at from 25s to 26s per ton, dcliverd (Btfcotmtry, stations a few from Christchurch. Carrofs are quoted at 235.