COMMERCIAL.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2573, 20 June 1881, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

5 • rf - * - ‘•'V .V - - • X, •; i, , ..Times Office, * - ' Monday evening. . v ... and C0.,-report . v holding Jhbir' regular ’ market arid auction t v s ,at l|ieirfoonis, on Saturday last, of produpe, furniture, and general merchandise/ The, tat'tenhance -.was large, and buyers ~. '. weje iq.attend ar)cc |or all lines submitted. ' Xhe tfpllowing'figures were obtained,which, be highly satisfactory to the vendors :—Potatoes, 60s per J ton, with a tendency to top that figure as the ggjaspn advances,^.bran^ 80s ; sharps, 100 s fowl wheat, 5s to 7s per sack ; farmers’

flqur, ,£6 ; millers’ do, guaranteed, £9; * bacon*pork, in carcase,was in good demand; They succeeded in placing all entered at s|d to 4d per lb, fowls, 3s per pair ; tutkcys, lOs ; geese, 9s per pair ;-ducks, 5s per pair .’. pigeons,'fis per dozen ; cheese,' 3|d to 4d ; butter, 9d ; honey, 3|d groceries—they , t quitted a large consignment at owners’ re*r serves ; boxes tea, 16s, half ; chests, 55s ; ’ adamantine candles; 9d : .2 crown soap, 8s per box ; sugars, all faults, 3d to 4|d per . Jb.,;.womens’ kid boots, chinaware, furni-. 'lure'and oddments’wCre easily disposed of - at satisfactory .figures.

Messrs -Maclean and Stewart report for the.past fortnight-:

, • Horses—On account of the previous . Saturday being so stormy, a larger number came to hand to-day than usual, but with the exception- of.a few the great proportion of the entries were of an inferior class,. Jhe , demand for anything but good draughts is very limited, and when sales are effected the prices obtained inmost cases are small. They sold two very good sorts to-day, one at £29, another at £27, and a number of an. inferior class at from £l4 to £2O for hacks. A few really good ones would meet a ready sale at present, there being a scarcity of the right sort. From £8 10s to £l2 was’the.average price obtained to-day,, the quality of the lots offered being inieridr. , '

Sheep Young cross-bred ewes and weathers, meet with a ready sale. Since they last reported they placed privately 2000 fat cross-bred ewes at a satisfactory price, the business dope in store stejek being .limited, .no sales of : importance , having been made. Cattle.—Fat steers, £6 10s to £8 ; cows, , and hejfers, £6.. Fat Cattle—The present prices ape much .the same as when they last reported, viz., 22s fid . per 1001 b, and pejfiaps a pha.de over this might be got for , really prime quality.

Mr-Moss Jonas reports as follows The revival noted in bis last repdrt promises to be of a permanent character, hu-iness nil through the Week Ilhviljg been. remarkably active indeed. It Inis been a .** pleasure to submit anything by auction," as at all sales the • attendance's been large," the competition brisk, and there seems Jo be a certainty of trade fesuming its old vitality. '. Sheep.—At -Pleasant Point on Tuesday . he offered about TSOO merinos and cross-bred,-and effected sales of nearly the whole of them at the following prices : 75' q i merino-ewes at 5s 9d, 240 lambs at 8s ’gj 180 futl-and broken cross-breds at 1P /S gj’ •■ . Cattle—At the Point on Tuesday t j ler(^ « .was a., very large number of en f J r i es t jj e bulk being young stock and ' springing > heifers,-' The attendance of farmers and buyers was as good, or even, better, than ■-Usual,.-and the sale as ’a whole was a decided success. At Mr Russel’s, Lower Pareora, on .Thursday, twenty head of *■ milch * cows and springers were keenly competed for, and realised from £6 to «10 10s per head; sixteen steevg and he ?«s* ® old a't an average of £? ;' lss each and thirteen well-grown calv- „ w ’ On .Pfidsj - «' the Yards, eighty head we- '““,3 w )tl „ •greater number, ' -re yarded but the • cows in milk ar' consisting chiefly of in there be>' -> d springers, were passed in, there be little dema nd for this class num v local market. Had the same o er of steers been offered, the whole .onld have been . sold, as there is good demandat present f<?r that class of stock, he quotes fat bullocks at £9 to £lO 10s ; cows in profit# £6 to £lO 10s, the latter . price .being, for superior bred animals ; springers, £4-10s to £7; steers, 2-year-old, £3 to £3 10s; and 3-year-olds, in forward • condition, £4los to £6. ... , Horses.—On Saturday at his yards there were above the usual number of entries, and .a large attendance of buyers made the work of the auctioneer comparatively easy, nearly all . the entries finding purchasers at current rates. He quotes heavy draughts, at from £24 to £3O; . medium, £ls to £2O; light harness horses and hacks, £7-to £l4. Property.—On Monday-last at his rooms . he submitted, a number of properties, and amongst others the Attenburrow township. This sale had been looked forward to for some time by persons interested • in property in Timaru, as from it being.. we’.i known that the sale was to be ’ . quite ’ without reserve holders; of real ! ’'estate considered that it would in • some measure form_ a testas To ' values;""The result'of fhtT sale was most gratifying, 'ami gives evidence to the fact that those who should be able to‘form " gome idea of what the town is likely to be, - are confident in- their judgment that Tima- u er*> long will be a great'trade . centre|’ and support a large population, • The 1 piices'the sections, realised have already been published in these-eolumns, and ■ It is therefore unnecessary to repeat them in this report, it will be sufficient to say that some of the Attenburrow property in the favored localities brought as much as £1260, per acre. At this same sale he disposed of Mr llayner’s farm of one hundred ’ ame -, .■situate a! f ie: BUkalni, to Mr Jere- • '-'miaii -.nody for £7OO. fbe attendance and the competiii-'U at. this sale was al that could be desired. He ha« to repo t ’hf.vi 0 eif cted the sale of Messrs Ai and D: Maxwell’s farm, consisting of 200 acres situate m. ,he Parem a, and formerly part of the (Jannirii;ton run, to Mr Julm Camp- •' bell fo. ’tlttt-d, n t.-vicc which he considers

i t-mel.v .sal i>f aotoi y. Produce—His salerooms on Saturday wi> c crowtie-i, and a very-large quantity •nf idnre, kc. cleared out. He quotes li i, ; : i ; :-ian,-4,s ; sharps, 6s , f.-wi ■ or.:, p.-r sack ; potao- -Ur -in.'k ; cheese. 4Jd per lb ; boaei, ‘Ju ; umuu-, $d o gd per lb ; fowls, 3s to 4s per pair ; bacon, 5d ; hams, 6a to 7c1.; and one lot, of 300 bushels of damaged wheat at 2s 6d per bushel, sack Bs,