COMMERCIAL.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2361, 11 October 1880, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

S. C. Times Office. Monday Evening. Mr Moss Jonas reports for the last week: — Stock—The demand for cattle is limited Six spring heifers fetched £6 10s; stores have been quitted at £5 to £7 ; and ten fat steers sold privately realised 22s 6d to 25s per lOOlbs. Sheep—l sold about 800 at Winchester Fair on Oct. 6. Merino wethers in rather poor condition brought from 6s 6d to 7s 9d. A mixed lot of cross-breds were sold at 8s 3d. Pigs.—Demand brisk and prices realised satisfactory to sellers. Horses.—For hacks there is scarcely any sale, except for really good animals. Light draughts suitable for traps have been sold at from £2O and upwards. A pair of handsome upstanding roan carriage horses were disposed of at sixty guineas. GRAIN AND PRODUCE. Barley—Good clean samples, but rather discolored, have been sold during the week at 2s 3d and 2s 6d per bushel, for seed. Fowls’ Coin —Is now worth from 5s to 7s 6d per sack. Flour—A parcel of 30 tons was quitted at £8 17s 6d. Bran—3s 6d to 4s per sack, and sharps 6s 6d; potatoes, 3s 6d per sack. Cheese, 3d to 6d ; fresh butter, 6d to 7d; honey, 3d to 4d. Messrs McLean and Stewart report having sold 13 bullocks at £5 10s ; 8 do at £5 ; 12 heifers at £3 2s ; 6 cows at £3, and 8 steers at £3 2s fid. They also sold privately 73 head mixed steers and heifers to one buyer at a satisfactory figure. Fat cattle have receded slightly in price, and the present rates may be quoted at about 22s fid per lOOlbs. Sheep—Store sheep are now beginning to be asked for, and for good merino and crossbred wethers they expect the market to open at advanced rates. Shearing will be general about the end of the present month. They have made no sales of importance to report during the week. Fat Sheep—Several owners have now been shearing their dry sheep, and several mobs have been sent to market, thus realising about l£d to 2d per lb. Horses—" Very little demand for draught stock. We quote good heavy draughts at £3O to £3B ; for light and medium sorts, £22 ts £2C ; hacks, £lO to £lB. Messrs William Collins and Co. report holding their regular market and sale by auction on Saturday, of farm produce, groceries, and general merchandise. The attendance was good, and as a result all lines submitted to the hammer brought satisfactory figures. They quote flour (all faults), at £7 per ton ; guranteed, £9 to £lO ; bran, 50s ; sharps, 655; feed oats, Is Id per bushel; fowl wheat, 4s fid to 5s per sack; fresh butter, 5d per lb, and difficult to move at that figure; potatoes and onions are a regular glut, and hard to effect a sale at any price; poultry, none entered; hams and bacon, 8d per lb all round; Hobart Town apples, 6s to 8s per case ; jams, fis fid per dozen ; box teas, 17s; soap, 15s per cwt; rice, 13s per cwt. A small invoice of men’s, women’s and children’s boots and shoes, household furniture, and saddlery, were quitted during the day at satisfactory returns.