COMMERCIAL.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2247, 31 May 1880, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

; ,B.C. Times Office, v ,MohdayEvening, i Messrs Hart and Wildip report :-f Business' 'generally is ’ extreincly : dull, and therc'is no ' appaient prospefct of Any improvement during the present winter. The low price of.grain* the difficulty of finding a market or purchasers, together with thb cnp£jnp.Uß quantity of unprofitable produce grown this year,, have seriously affected the district,'anti"no improvement can bo expected for some considerable time r H’ipat Cattle—Ai*e in good .'sU'pply with ntf alterations in prices. > The average being , 20s per lOOlbs. . ; ; ; ; Store Cattle.—We have placed 07 head, 18 months to 2 years, mixed sexes at from £2 10s to £3;l7s Gd. = # • • . ‘ Sheep.—Stores , are in active, demand. Wc sold 500 three-quarter bred lambs at 7s 6d; 450 hoggets at 10s and 350 merino owes at 4s od, ■ Horses.—A large number for positive sale were entered on Saturday and sold, but ' at‘reduced prices, compared with recent ? quotations.' The animals comprised sonic first-class - heavy draughts, fair plough sdrts : and : medium ■ draughts, and the prices obtained wefe £2l, £22, £24, £26, £2O, ■‘b-'£3l, £39,’ ; £80, £47 ixiad £49. ' Three farm drays, £8 10s, £l2, and £l3 10s ; ploughs;, (D.F.), £5 to £7: , r Produce.—Potatoes, 3s Gd to 4s per bag ; onions, •Id per lb ; apples arid pears, 6s 6d;-i to 7s per case ; mutton hams, od per lb" ; pork (green), od per lb ; 1 ■ chcefid,"AJd 'to Gd per Ih ; 1-tea,' 18s per box, 121 b ; flour, £lO per ton ; bran, 3s fid to. 4s per bag ; sharps, 7s per; ~ bag ; fowls,,3s 3d to 5s 6d per pair; turkeys r 4s fietto^a’each.’ ,

, () ...Mppsrs W, Collins and Co. report holding thbir fegdlar sale on Saturday. The attendance wjis good, but buyers were rather The following prices were obL ‘ tamed Potatoes, 4os per ton, bags in; ohipns f V|tl,|(o ( ld ;,Tour, £lo>pcr.ton ; fowls’ wheat, hone offering, good samples could

bo readily disposed of; cheese, fid per lb v ’ honey,:B|d to 4d per lb ; lard, 5d per lb 5 pork, in tile carcass, 5Ad per lb ; hams, 8d to 9d per lb ; bacon, good, 7d to 8d ; inferior,. od .per lb; apples, 10s per case; poultry always command a ready sale, no alteration ,in previous .week’s quotation ; fruit and forest trees, sugar, tea in boxes, furniture :anj sundries were moved off dur : ing the day at vendors’ reserves.

Messrs, Ma'ckloy, Priest and Co. report for the week ending May 29, that they hold their usual weekly sale of farm produce, Ac. to-day, when they disposed of potatoes (Derwpnt) at 4Ss,per ton ; kidney potatoes (for seed), at fiOs per ton ; carrots, 35s per ton; fowls’ wheat, 8s per sacks (in all cases bags given in) ; onions dull of sale.