COMMERCIAL.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2373, 25 October 1880, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

S. C. Times Office. Monday Evening. Mr Moss Jonas reports for the week ending October 23 : Cattle—The rates for fat cattle arc fully maintained, six head having been sold privately at £8 10s, and fifteen head at £8 7s fid. Stores: 35 head of three-year-olds have been quitted at £5, and 5 head yearlings at £3. Horses —Mr Giles’ sale at Albury Downs on Thursday, was well attended and satisfactory prices were realised. Light draughts for trap horses, - Ac., brought from £26 to £3O, while heavier animals realised from £2O to £3l. One hack, a good stamp of Weight carrier, brought £3O, and another £26; inferior animals £lO and £ll. Dogcart, £3*l; tandem harness, £l6;, D.F. ploughs, £8 to £l4 ; farm drays, £l3; tip dray, £7. Bhecp—ll2 merino ewss, with lambs, were sold at 8s and 221 hoggets at 10s Id. Pigs.arc in demand, but few arc offering. Males have been effected, stores, at I2s, 15s, 20s, 25s and 30r. Grain and Produce Report—Wheat—A parcel of 10.33 sacks, an uneven sample, was sold on Tuesday at 10s 9d per sack, sacks included. Oats: Good feed were sold to-day at Is 3d per bushel. Flour, bran, sharps, fowl’s corn, and potatoes: last weeks quotations hold good.

Messrs William Collins and Co., report a large attendance at their regular market and sale by auction of produce and general merchandise on Saturday.

The following are the prices for each line quitted:—Potatoes, 30a per ton; onions, none offering, but enquired for; floor, guaranteed, £lO per ton ; do, inferior, £8 per ton ; bran, they cleared the room at 60s per ton; sharps, 6.3 s per ton ; hams and bacon were in good demand, and being n prime sample, brought 8d to 9d per lb. rolled bacon, locally cured, .3d to 6d per lb; honey, 3.1 d per lb ; fresh butter, 4d per lb ; cheese, ;3d to 5.V1 ; eggs, 9d per doz ; poultry in good supply and demand, fowls, 3s 6d to Is fid per pair ; ducks, 5s per pair; geese, 7s to 9s per pair ; boxes tea, 16s to 17s; white sugar, No. 1 Company, 4Jd per lb ; yellow, id per lb ; soap, 7s per box ; jams, 6s 6d per doz ; oatmeal, 9s fid per cwt. ; rice, 21d per lb. They also quitted 300 pairs men's, women’s, and children’s hoots, a quantity of men’s clothing and drapery, furniture, china, glass, and earthenware at owners’ instructions.