WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT.

Southland Times, Issue 1300, 29 August 1870, Page 2

WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT.

Butter, fresh, Is 3d per lb, scarce Do. salt, Is Cheese (English), Is 3d perlb Bacon- (Provincial), 7d to 9d per lb Bams (Provincial) 9d to lOd do Potatoes Provincial, £4 per ton Eggs, Is to Is 3d per dozen Oats, from 2s 4d to 2s 6d per bushel Wheat, 4s to 4s 6d do Barley, 3s 6d to 4s do Flour (town made),£l2 10s per ton Do. (Otago), £12 10s do Do. (Adelaide), £17 do Oatmeal (town made) £17 do Bran, Is 4d per bushel Pollard, Is 4d do Oaten Hay, £4 per ton Chaff, £4 10s do Straw, £3 RETAIL Fresh butter, Is 6d per lb Butter (potted), Is 3d do Cheese (English), Is 6d do Do (Provincial), Is do Bacon (Provincial), 9d to 3 s perlb Hams (Provincial) Is per lb Potatoes, 5s per cwt Onions, 6d per lb Maize, none . Oate, 3s per bushel ,- Eggs, Is 3d per dozen 'Fowls, -3s 6d to 4s per pair Ducks, 4s do . BeeA 4d to 6d per lb Mutton, 4d to 6d do Milk, 6d per quart Bread, 8d per 41b loaf D. MICBOETE, Auctioneer, reports :— . The amount of transactions which have taken place during the last month has been somewhat limited. Considerable enquiry exists for stock of all descriptions, but there is a difficulty in bringing sellers and buyers to anything like terms, the former being firm in their demands, and the latter unwilling to advance on former quotations. . Cattle. —Nearly every description of cattle are in fair demand. Beef may be quoted at 20s per lOOlba: Mixed mobs at £2 10s to £310s. MUch cows dnll of sale, ncless unreserved, in which case an improved value is manifested. Sheep. —Fat wethers and - half-breds —find" purchasers at higher rates; other descriptions are unsought. Horses. —The business in the yards is almost a formality; very few good useful horses come in, but are always saleable. Unbroken colts and fillies find buyers. Properties. —Very little disposition to speculate exists in farms, houses, or town sections. I sold 2 half-sections extending from Esk to Don streets —the former at £35, the latter at £20. The sale held at Menzies' Ferry was much more numerously attended than could have been expected, and fair market rates were offered, either at the hammer or privately, and declined. Heavy reserves are calculated to render country sales in any district perfectly futile in the future, and in fact the best prices ruling are in instances where the auctioneer is enabled to announce perfect freedom from reserve. Invercargill, 27th August, 1870.