COMMERCIAL.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2549, 23 May 1881, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

S. C. Times Office, : Monday Evening, Mr Moss Joins reports as lollows : Easiness HI through the week has continued brisk, .and sales to a very heavy amount havd'lie'cn effected.! «' Cattle—Sales have been confined to trade requirements, ; He quotes sales of .fat bullocks at from £.B 10s to £lO 10s. Sheep—. The demand .for balf-breds of nil descriptions is not' likely to be satisfied from’the local markets, consequently increased attention has been given to merinos, anil lie reports the sale of 1000 ewes at 5s 8.1. a ‘d a few fat, cro-s-brerls at 12s. Horses—His sale to-day was well attended, the entries being quite up to the average. The competition was good; and a decided increase in values may be noted ; in fact; the market was livelier than it has been for some time past. Two very good draught geldings brought £6O, and a second ’ pair scarcely inferior, £55 j while medium draughts brought from £ls to £2O each ; colts, £9 10s. Pigs—Eighteen were entered and disposed of at from 9s' to 16s for young stores;, sows, 27s to 30s. Skin Sale—He held a, sale on Thursday, at his rooms, at which, there, was a very gopd attendance of buyers from all parts of Canterbury, 'About 700 skins were catalogued,"besides a quantity of wool, fat, tallow; drc.cand the prices realised were very satisfactory, as will’ be sehn from the subjoined quotations :—Best merino skins, 3s 9d to; 4s 3d; medium, 2s to 3s ; best cross-breds, 4s to us Id medium, 2s 6d to 3s 7d ; inferior, .Is. to Is 3d ; pelts, 9d; butchers’ fat,’ 'ordinary hough, lid. Property—He has to report having sold 400 acres at Kakahd to the Rev. George Foster, of Highfield, near Timaru, at a price withheld. Produce—His sale to-day brought together a : large number of buyers, and a clearance was effected in several lines. He quotes flour at los per sack ; fowls’corn, 4s to 7s per sack,'according to quality; barley, 5s to 6s per’ sack; potatoes, ss; onions, Jd per lb; cheese, 3Jd to 4£d ; salt butter, sd; fresh, 8d ; fowls, 3s 6d per pair; turkeys, 6s; and a very large quantity of miscellaneaus goods at fair prices.

Messrs William Collins * Co.report holding their regular market and sale by auction at their rooms on Saturday,, of produce and general merchandise. The attendance was large, with an equal percentage of buyers for all lines submitted to the hammer, at the following figures;—Potatoes are coming forward freely, but rates are not altered on previous week’s quotation, viz., 60s, for small quantities. They filled two orders for 20 and 30 tons at 55s per ton in store for shipment to a Northern and Australian port'; onions 7s per cwt, market well supplied ; farmers’ flour, £7 ; millers’, £9 ; bran, 80s; sharps, 90s ; oats, good feed Is 8d per bushel; fowl wheat 5s to 7s per sack, demand good ; carrots, 50s per ton ; butter, they offered a large quantity, and found difficulty to move it off at,sd to 6£ d (a figure that can never pay the makers) ; cheese, 4d to 5d per lb;• honey, 3d; lard, 5d ; hams, 8d ; bacon, 7d; pork, in carcass 4Jd per lb; turkeys, 6s to lls per pair; ducks, 5s per couple ; fowls, none ; groceries, China ware, saddlery; and a consignment of fancy goods, found buyers at satisfactory prices. Furniture—They held a sale during the week, the attendance being good for a midweek sale; They : cleared all entries at the undermentioned figuresKauri chests of drawers, 50s to 60s ; all cedar, small size, 60s, half Scotch drawers, cedar fronts. 80s to 90s’ colonial sofas, 15s to 255; 100 tables, 40s to 60s; spring chairs, 21s each; meat safes, 2cs to -355. A quantity of second hahd household 1 effects and sundries were sold in connection with the above at good rates.

Messrs Maclean and Stewart report for the past week : Horses—4s horses were to-day entered at their yards for sale. Of that number they succeeded in placing Ift at the following prices £3O for good heavy draughts; £lB to £22 for medium,; and from £8 to £l2 for inferior." The demand is still dull, and sales are difficult to effect/ Mr/Wightman yarded a team of three, 1 all first-class sorbs, but 1 with this 1 and one or two other exceptions, the quality of the different lota, was poor.' Sheep—They have made no sales of importance'in store sheep since they last re- i ported. Trices of same are sti.fi on the 1 incline, and young sheep are in g maud at high rates. Fat sheep, stiP ‘ * tlnue' lo' go u|rin prioj\ awl wwa® „ nH * is worth 2'yd ip per lb-., ' cattle; R faill *4 and therc iaeonw' bte demand for and to' , 8 and heifcrs> 5Snk SeV lots at last week’s ¥st cattle -are rather easier to rise £7'' > bufc: they expeCt the i PIICe F Prieto' 5 Talae of ‘ _ .1 13 20s per lOOib.