COMMERCIAL.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2934, 21 August 1882, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

8. C. Times Office, Monday Evening. Messrs Maclean and Stewart report for the past week as follows Horses—An average entry was on Saturday received at their yards for sale, 56 head having been submitted at auction. They have to report a steady increase in the demand for good young draughts, and also juic-s offered are having an .upward tendency every Saturday. They received for sale and sold on Saturday some of the be»t draughts that have come into the market for some time back, and the prices realised show that when good stock are offered they always command fair rates. They sold on Saturday 28 head of all classes, one first-class gelding bringing £42, and a number of first-class geldings and mares fetching from £3O to £49, the latter price being got for one of Mr H. Davie’s young mare*. For medium and inferior draughts there is no great demand, and there is little change in their values from last Saturday, from £l6 to £2l being the average prices received on Saturday for these. They submitted a very few good hacks, but there seemed to be no demand, and but a few were sold. Cattle—The demand for store cattle is becoming more brisk, and a good many transactions are now under weigh and taking place. At the Washdyke Yards last Monday a considerable number were entered for sale, and the greater portion changed hands at fair prices. They sold cows from £3 6s to £B, steers and heifers, bom £3 5s to £5, calves from £1 to £1 6s. Fat cattle have risen considerably in price during the last fortnight, and prime beef may be quoted as being Worth fnlly 25s per 1001 b. At the Washdyke last Monday they entered and sold 28 head fat bullocks qnd heifers, and sold at from £9 to £lol7s 6d for bullocks, and from £9 to £l3 15a for heifers, the latter price being received for a pure-bred shorthorn heifer in very prime condition and heavy weight. Stud cattle—On account of the Riversley estate, Temuka, they have to report having gold privately the whole of their famous herd of Hereford cattle, consisting of 36 head at a satisfactory price. Sheep—-There is little doing in store sheep, aud bnt few buyers in the market. Until shearing they do not expect any great amount of business will be dene in this class of stock. They have sold privately at ruling rates several small mobs of cross-bred ewes and hoggets. Fat sheep are keeping in lair demand at about 2Jd per lb. At Winchester, on Thursday, they sold a small line of 160 cross-bred wethers at the above quotation. Wool, Skins and Hides—They held their usual fortnightly sale last Wednesday, and •old the whole of the lots offered at from is to 6s 6d for good woolled cross-breds, 2 doable fleece skins bringing 8s each; merinos, 8s 6d to is 2d; pelts, at from 7d to Is. A few bags mixed wooll from fid to 7Jd per lb; hides, 3d per lb. Freehold Property.—On account of the trustees in the estate of Wm. Halsted thqy on Saturday sold by auction a block consisting of 70 acres rich fiat land, adjoining Pleasant Point township, to Mr Wm. McKibbin„at £ls 6s, per acre. Oh account of sundry other owners they sold a few sections in the Point township, i-aores, at from £7 to £ls each. They have to report having sold privately, on account of the owners of the Seadown estate, sections Nos. 9 and 10, the former containing 78 acres, and the latter 329 acres being altogether 407 acres at a satisfactory price.

Messrs William Collins and Co., report holding their regular weekly market and ■notion at their rooms on Saturday. The entries of produce, furniture and general merchandise were extraordinarily large, hut owing to the good attendance of buyers, all lots sold brought satisfactory rates, as the following figures will show :-Barlyssed potatoes, 8s to 10s 6d per sack; onions, 10s per owt; Derwent potatoes, 45s to 60s per ton, bags in; hams,good,7dper!lb; inferior,4§dper lb; baeon, fid to s|d per lb; bacon pigs, 3|d to 4d per lb; rolled baeon, fid to fid per lb; lard. 4d per lb; keg butter, 9d to Is 6d per lb for good; cheese, 8d per lb; ducks,. 3s fid per pair; geese, 10s per pair fowls, 2s to 8s per pair; turkeys, none; hares, fis per pair; box teas, 14s; kerosene 14s per ease; sperm candles, 8d; soap,Jowt, it ; jams, lib tins, fis 6d to 6s. Furniture, boots, blankets, and a great assortment of other goods were only partly sold. Owing to darkness setting in the sale had to be brought to a conclusion, for the day,

Messrs Soutban and Stubbs report for their weekly market and auction on Saturday as follows There was an excellent attendance, and bidding was kept up briskly. Blue and red Derwent potatoes —not much business, and many lines are now placed on the market of a very inferior description. Sales of these at from 3s to 3s fid per sack, whiie a better elass of good picked blue Derwents bring up to fis per bag. Onions are in better demand, good sound sorts realising 14s per cwt, j Farmers'flour-A large entry 50lb bags, fis! 6d; 2001 b do, 20s; farmers’ pork, an inferior line, 2|d per lb ; bacon,good prime up to 7d, inferior 3d to fid ; hams, 7d to 9d; fowls, 2s to 3s per pairturkeys, fis to 7s fid, for a very poor lot ; cabbage and cauliflower plants, fid per bundle; chicken Wheat, 10s to Ils per sack, sacks in; ash leaf kidney seed potatoes, 12s per bag; crufles, 9s per bag; carrots, 3s 6d to 4s per •acV, chaff,, lor shipment 60s per ton. Tree sale—Upright cypresses, 9s per doz ; ash, 3s.per doz; rhododendrons, Is 4d to 2s each t spruce fir, fid per bundle ; evergreen laurels, 3s per doz ; variegated holly, fis par doz; weigelica rosea, 13s per doz; macrocaipa, fis per doz; currants, fis per do*; apples, 4s; peaches, 10s ; rhubarb, fis; and numbers of others at similar prices.