COMMERCIAL.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2349, 27 September 1880, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

S. C. Times Office, Monday Evening. Messrs Maclean and Stewart report for the past fortnight— Cattle—At the South Canterbury yards on Thursday wo penned about 100 head of well grown and quiet steers and heifers, principally 3 and 4-year olds, but though the attendance was fair, the bidding was very dull, and prices offered were not such as to induce owners to accept, consequently the greater portion were bought in. However, we placed the whole mob to one buyer at satisfactory prices. We have sold as follows, since we last reported : 16 yearlings at £2 7s, 65 steers and heifers at £6 15s, 8 steers at £3 ss, 3 cows at £7 7s, 2 cows at £7 17s 6d, and 4 cows at £4 7s 6d. Horses. —Little business has been done in this class of stock. We quote and have sold at the following prices, viz., frony£3o to £3B for useful farm mares or geldings, £2O to £2O for medium draughts, and from £l2 to £lB for light harness horses. .Sheep.—There is little doing in store sheep at present. Fat Sheep—We have sold several mobs at prices equal to 3d per lb. Shorn sheep will be in the market next week.

Skins. —At our last sale of these we had nn average attendance, the best long-woolled skins fetching from 3s tld to 5s Id; for lightcr-woollecl skins, from 2s 3d to 2s 9d.

Messrs William Collins and Co. report holding their regular market and sale by auction on Saturday of produce, fruit, and general merchandise. The attendance was large, and buyers in abundance for all lines submitted under the hammer. They quote potatoes and onions a drug in the market, difficult to move off at anything like a paying figure to the growers ; dour, £8; millers, £10; bran, 50s; sharps. 655; hams, 8d per lb; bacon, 6id ; fresh butter, 6d to 7d per lb ; Akaroa cheese, 54d ; honey, 31d; fowls, 3s (Id to 4s per pair; ducks, geese, and turkeys, none entered; fowl wheat, 5s per Stick ; feed oats. Is Id per bushel; Hobart Town apples, ex Young Dick, 10s 6d to 11s per case ; jams, 6s to 6s Cd per dozen. A consignment of groceries in good condition were easily quitted at the following rates ; Box teas, ex Moumuir and Bcnarty, 16s per box; No 1 Company’s sugar, 44s per cwt; No 3,40 s per cwt; soap, 15s per cwfc ; kerosene, 17s per case; men’s and women’s boots and shoes, men’s clothing, drajiery, household furniture and oddments were placed during the day at consignor’s instructions. Adelaide, Sept. 25. Wheat is decidedly firmer at Is 3d. Town flour is quoted at £0 15s ; country brands at £9 to £9 2s Od.

Freights to Loudon, sailing 40s ; freights to United Kingdom from Adelaide, 40s; from outports, 40s 6d.