COMMERCIAL.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2271, 28 June 1880, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

S. C. Times Office. Monday Evening. Messrs Jonas, Hart and Wiidie report for the past week as follows: — Fat Cattle—The market is well supplied. We sold 11 head at £7 15s, and 7 at £8 2s 6d, the average of which would be fully up to 20s per lOOlbs. Store Cattle are in fair demand. At the South Canterbury yards, on Thursday last, all yarded found purchasers at the following prices : —Steers and heifers, about two years old, from £4 os to £4 17s fid ; heifers, in calf and springing, from £6 2s fid to £7 15s ; cow,4 in milk and springing, from £6 15s to £B. We also placed a small mob of 20 head of steers and heifers at from £4 5s to £5. •Sheep are in active demand. Attention is called to the extensive sale of ewes tomorrow. Horses.—There is very little business now doing in the horse market: the demand is very limited, and prices exceedingly low. On Saturday we sold a team of medium heavy draughts, the majority of them aged but all staunch and good workers. They brought, with {collars, hames, and winkers included, £230. We also sold a few hacks and light horses, at from £7 10s to £l4. Farm Produce. —Our regular weekly sale was well attended. Produce commands the following rates, viz :—Potatoes, 3s fid to 4s per bag ; onions, Id per lb ; flour £lO per ton ; sharps, (id fid per bag; bran, 3s fid per bag; fowls’ corn, from 5s fid to 7s fid per bag; cheese, fid to Cld per lb ; butter 9d to lOd per lb ; pigs, 10s to £2 10s.

Messrs William Collins and Co., report moving off large quantities of farm produce. At our sale on Saturday, the attendance was large, with plenty of buyers, at the following figures : —Derwent potatoes, 45s to 50s ; kidney, Gss ; farmers’ flour, £9 ; bran, 70s ; sharps, 85s ; onions were in good demand at £8 per ton ; bacon, 7ld ; hams, 8d ; eggs, Is 4d per doz ; honey, 44 cl per lb ; cheese, 5d per lb ; fat beef, in prime condition, averaged 17s Gd per cwt. ; Hobart Town jams, 5s to 6s Gd per doz. according to brand ; fowl wheat, badly damaged, 4s to 5s per sack, barley, 4s Gd per sack ; oats, damaged by water, lOd per bushel. Fowls, 2s Gd to 4s ;] ducks, 5s per pair; geese, 6s| to 7s per couplej ; turkeys, in poor condition, 3s to os Gd each. Household furniture, books, and a quantity of sundries were quitted at good rates. Wellington, June 26. Messrs Leary and C'airqibell report : Apples, prime sorts, 10s; Tasmanian do, 11s; oranges, 7s ; cheese, nominal, 5d to Gd; fresh butter, not flrst-class, 9d; superior, Is 2d; salt butter, nominal, Gd; jams, in 50 lb tins (black currant and raspberry) Gd to G,|cl per lb; Ilb tins, Gs Gd per doz ; oatmeal, 200 lb barrels, 18s; bran, 8d; oats, Is lOd to 2s; chick wheat, 3s to 3s 3d, large stocks ; Picton bloaters, 13s ; potatoes, 45s to 47s Gd. Adedlaide, June 26. Wheat 4s to 4s Gd. Flour. £9 10s to .£lO. Sydney, June 25. Advices from the Cape to June 6, state that breadstuffs are depressed owing to large supplies. Wheat is quoted at 23s tier 200 lbs.