COMMERCIAL.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2259, 14 June 1880, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

S. C. Times Office. Monday Evening. Messrs Jonas, Hart, and Vvildic report for the week as follows

Business continues extremely dull, transactions being' limited to the supply of bare actual wants, and in the face of the imposition of the property tax, the low prices of stock, grain and all kinds of agricultural produce, it is impossible to predict when any improvement may he expected. Eat Cattle. —The market is abundantly supplied, rates ruling ao about last quotations. Our transactions arc —14 head prime ripe steers, at £8; 3 head cows, at £7. The average would be quite.2.os pr lOOlbs. Milch Cows and Store . Cattle —At the South Canterbury yards, on Tuesday last, 50 head of all kinds were yarded. We sold 5 pure Ayrshire heifers and Cows at from £lO to £l6 ; 5 steers affib cows, nearly fat, from £5 to £0 TOs. We also placed privately during the weeks 3G head steers and heifers, 18 months to 3 years, at £2 10s.

Sheep—Wo have no transactions to rejrort. Horses —An average number of all kinds were entered on Saturday, but few sales were effected. Altogether wo only succeeded in selling 5 lair plough homes at prices ranging from £22 to £.'so. We also sold a second-hand buggy and harness for £34 ; 1 farm dray, £4 l()s ; 1 milch cow, in full profit, £7 15s ; harrows and other farm implements at fair rales. Country Hales —On Wednesday last we held a largo clearing sale of pure Shorthorn and other farm stock for H. J. Scaly, Esq., at his farm, the Stumps, North Orari. The sale was not too well attended, notwithstanding, the whole lot were sold. 3G heifers, 2 years old, brought from £1 15s to £7 15s ; draught horses and geldings, from £3O to £47; draught filly, 2 years old, £2O. Farm implements brought fair market rates.

Farm Produce—Onr regular sales con thine to be well attended.

Messrs W. Collins and Co. report holding their regular weekly sale by auction on Saturday of farm produce and general merchandise. The attendance was considerably above the average, and as a consequence all lines submitted to the hammer found buyers at the following figures, which must be taken as satisfactory to the vendors: —Derwent potatoes show a slight rise, vis., 50s per ton, bags in, supply not equal to demand ; Papanui onions, none offering; wheat and barley for fowl feed, Gs to Gs Gd per sack; flour,£9 per ton; bran, 555; sharps, 80s; bacon pigs in the carcase, 31d to Id per lb ; small, fat for table, 5.1 d to (id per lb ; hams, inferior, Gd ; good, f Jd to lOd; mutton hams, 4d to 41 d'per In ; ducks, geese, turkeys, and fowls always command a ready sale. Jams, tea in boxes, candles, furniture, and a general assortment of sundries were easy to disjrose of. At their out-door sales during the week of household furniture, at the residence of Mr Spedding the attendance was particularly good. The furniture being of a superior discription was easy to dispose of . On the premises of Air Carmichael they also quitted his stock-in-trade at good rates. Messrs J tackier. Driest and Co. report for the week ending 12th dune, 1880, having held their usual Saturday’s sale this day which was well attended. They disposed of a large quantity of fruit and forest trees flft ii the well-known nursery of Mr Wm. Langmuir, Caversham, Otago. Trees brought as follows : —Apples, 9s to 21s per do/.; cherries, 12s per doz ; pears, 12s to 15s per doz. ; plums, 12s per doz; filberts, 12s per doz j walnuts, 9s per doz ; currant bushes, 3;s to 3s Gd per doz ; gooseberry bushes, 3s to -Is per doz ; cuprcssus macrocarpa, Id to Gti each; pinna insignia, id to 5d each; Norway spruce, Gd each ; other varieties at satisfactory prices. Fruit—Apples, 5s Gd to lls per case ; oranges, 7s to 8s per ease. Farm produce—About the same as last quotation. 1 Crain—During the week they have placed several parcels of wheat. Milling, up to 3s 4d per bushel: fowls’ wheat. 2s per bushel; barley and oats no. demand. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company- report, under date London,, Juiv 9 —“ The wool sales closed flatly at an average decline of Id to lid per lb., the principal decline being in eross-breds. Superior greasy has declined Id to Id per lb. Medium and inferior greasy and combing, washed,; have declined ,]d to 2d per lb. Scoured has declined Id since closed of last sale. The lambs’ wool market is easier. Creasy eross-breds and combing washed, have, c leclincd 3d per lb. since the close of Dust sale. Up. to date 3G0,0G0 bales have been sold, of which 200,000 bales have been taken for export. 2’,000 bales have been withdrawn during the last sales. The trade in, manufacturing districts is dull.”