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S. C. Timks Office. Saturday Evening. The grain market continues dull and prices for some weeks past are unaltered. I’rimc milling wheat is worth -Is to 4s 2d ; inferior to medium, Is ( .kl to -is 8J ; barley (best malting), 2s !)d to 3s ; interior, Is lid upwards. Oats, Is 2d to Is (id for milling, and Is to Is 3d feed. Potatoes are almost unsaleable. Dairy produce, plentiful and cheap. Dunkdik, Nov. 12. Grain —Prime milling wheat is worth 4s 6d to 4s 7d ; inferior to medium, 3s (id to is 3d. Oats—Demand very limited. A few large parcels have come to hand lately. Prices however remain unaltered. We quote prime milling Is 7d to Is Btl ; feed, Is 4d to Is (id. Earley—No change to report. Prices remain at last week's quotations. Live Stock—At Burnside on Wednesday, fat bullocks brought from E(! to Ell 10s, and cows Ed 12s (id to El) 2s (id, .sheep— Shorn crossbreds sold at from 7s lid, and rnerinoes in the wool at l)s. Sykxky, Nov, 12Hcr.nessy’s brandy, case, ods, bulk, quarters, iOs (Id; kerosene, diamond, per gallon, Is 7d to Is l)]d; Patna rice, per ton, £22 ; Sugar Company’s No. I, price £3O; maize, per (101 b, 2s 2d; tobacco, Haven's twist, Is 7d per lb ; candles,D.C.E., per lb, 8d ; candles, D.ll.J.'s, per lb, 7: t ‘d. Auki.aii'!:, Nov. Id. The price of wheat per bushel is Is 7d with a limited business doing. Town Hour, £lO 10s to ElO Ids per ton ; country, E'J 10s to El) Ids. CiiuisTcinian, Nov. 12. Messrs H. Matson and Co. to-day submitted to auction a number of shorthorns from the herds of Mr Gardiner, ictoria ; llobertson, Eros,, (.'olae, \ ictoria ; Messrs J. Grigg, .1. Deans, W. Eoag, and others. There was a very |good attendance and the bidding was spirited. The highest price realised was given by Mr John Deans for the 3rd Duchess of Brunswick, dOO guineas, and for the bull Second Summerton's Earl of Brunswick, which was also sold to Mr Deans, 400 guineas. The bull Oxford Duke of Cambridge 2nd was sold to Mr J. Grigg for 300 guineas. All the quarantined cattle of Mr Gardiner's were sold except one, six animals fetching HtdO guineas.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2390, 13 November 1880, Page 2
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372COMMERCIAL. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2390, 13 November 1880, Page 2
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