COMMERCIAL REPORTS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 188, 21 October 1879, Page 2

COMMERCIAL REPORTS.

Mr K. F. Gray reports Saturday's sale as follow? ;-^Horses —Several offered, but no gales WOYB reached ; poultry—fowls fetched 2« Ofl i" B.s per couple and in good demand ; •potatoe* also were in good demand, and sold freely at the rate of £6 15s per ton ; cheese, 7d to 71 par lb ; onions—2d per lb ; and general merchandise brought fully satifactory price". At tin >a!c of property at Geraldine there m'j3 a go■.<■•! attendance, but the trustees' reserve not boing reached the property was bought iv: by the mortgagee. Mr. .Alexander Stewart, P.ioduee ExG'frgr- street, Duncdin, reports for the week ondin '. lc-st Saturday, a 3 folinv.s :—Feed oats, 2s to 2s 2d per ■biibii-'-i ; niil'.iny do, 2s 2d to 2s id ; wheat /Jc 0d ?,'U (1.), fowl's 3s Od to >..< ■■; • • ':..■ ,•:.■-■ ■.-■, t'm :;■-. G.l : rh.ur. £l2 to

Messrs Palmer and Collins ic'ort holding their regular weekly market, and sale by auction of . orses, cow*, harness, farm prodr. ce, and general merchandise this clay. The attendance at their cattle y.-rds was small, consequently very few liius were quitted. I f orses were all passed in; cows, L 5 to LG each ; harness, ploughs, <£c, moved off slowly, In their rooms the attendance \v,as large and buyers in abundanc . Every item submitted to (lie hammerfomidapurcha«er at the following figures, which must be highly satisfactory to the vendors : Potatoes, L 5 to L 6 per ton, supply not cqi'a 1 to demand ; hams and ba?on none offering, good samples would fetch a high figure just now ; butter, 8d to ltd per ib. ; fowls 3s to 3s 6d ; turkeys, geese and ducks, no alteration on pricvous week's report; fowls' corn, Gs to 7s per; sack cheese, 6d to 8d per lb. ; lard, 5d to Gd per lb. Groceries they also quote during the day at the following rates : —New Seasons, teas in half-chest 63s 4d, boxes, 17s ; kerosene, lGs to 17s ; cose ITohaat town jams, 6s 3d to 7s per dozen. Household furniture and effects found buyers. They wish to draw attention to their sale on Monday nest, Oct. 20th, of glass, china, and crockery, sae adoertisement for particulars.