COMMERCIAL.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2663, 3 October 1881, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

S. C. Times Office. Monday Evening. Messrs Maclean and Stewart report for the past week as follows : Cattle, —There is a considerable demand for young store cattle at present, and prices are somewhat advanced since they last reported. In conjunction with Messrs Wildie, Allan and S umbles they held a large sale of store cattle, on account of Messrs McGoverin and Hardie, Hook, at the Stndholme Junction yards on Tuesday last. This sale was well attended, and the stock offered being a superior lot, fetched good prices. They sold as follows, vi? :—ll well forward steers at £6 ss; 11 steers at £5; 15 steers at £4 10s ; 6 fat steers at £7 2s ; 44 steers at £4 15 ; 25 heifers at £4 ; 22 calves at £2 lls; 20 heifers at £4; 17 heifers at £3 15s ; 23 heifers at £6 2s 6d ; 10 cows at £4, On account of Mr F. Simmons, they also placed a nice lot of 20 steers at £4 5s each ; also sundry other odd lots at the ahovo quotations. Fat cattle are plentiful, and good beef is worth from 20s to 22s per 1001 b. Sheep —There is little doing in store sheep at present, and until shearing they do not anticipate much business in this line of stock. Good More sheep, especially cross-breds. will likely op >n- at a fair price, and the demand for these they expect will be fully equal to the supply. Lambing now is nearly finished among the paddock sheep, and notwithstanding the very dry weather, they hear of a good percentage of lambs being got on all quarters. They have n*> transactions of im; ortance to report. Fat sheep.—On account of Mr Alpheus Hayes, Waimate, they sold a nice Jot of 550 shorn merino wethers, at Studholme Junction yards, last Tuesday, at 6s Id.

Mr Moss Jonas reports as follows :

Horses. —The market is very dull r.t present; and no enquiry exists for either narks or draaghts, and to effect sales very low prices indeed have to be accepted. Cattle.—At Studbolme Junction, on Tuesday, he sold 20 head fat bullocks at a price equal to 28s 6d per lOOlbe, and he has placed a’number privately at the same late. Prices for fat stock are hardenin'; in consequence of the limited supply of even ordinary- bcc/. For stores there is considerable demand, and he has effected sales privately at very satisfactory rates. Sheep.—Fat cross-bred sheep are selling at from 15s to 16s, and he lias placed a number at these prices, which are equal to per lb for mutton. Property.—On Tuesday at his sale rooms he sold twenty-seven perches at the corner of North street and Main South Road, being part of section No. 6, to a. Dunedin gentleman at £1025. Miscellaneous.—On Tuesday he held a very successful sale of furniture and household effects, the attendance being very good and prices satisfactory. At bis sale on Saturday a large quantity of produce and miscellaneous goods found purchasers at current rates.

Messrs William Collins and Co., report bolding their regular market and auction, at their Booms on Saturday, of farm produce, and general merchandise. The attendance was large and buyers in abundance for all lines submitted to the hammer. The entries of produce were unexceptionally large, but the following quotations must be deemed satisfactory to the owners. Derwent potatoes, 45s per ton, nominal for small quantities ; onions, 2Jd per lb ; cheese, 3£d to 4d ; butter, 6d lb ; honey, 3£d to 4d ; bacon, 2d to 4d per lb ; bams, 5(1 per lb j flour, £ll ; bran, 80s; oats, seconds, 5s sack ; carcase pork, 2£d to 3d per lb ; legs mutton, Is to Is 3d each; fowls, 2s 6d to 3s 6d per pair ; geese, 8s couple. Groceries were in good demand ; box teas, 14s ; soap, 7s per box; white sugar, 4£d ; salmon, 8s 61 per dozen. Furniture, boots, drapery, crockery, glsss and chinaware, an' l sundries moved oil during the day at Azures above owners’ instructions.