Commercial.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 238, 5 August 1902, Page 3

Commercial.

LAND SALE. Memra Guinne.s and LeCren report the sale of six /ecuoa* on ace-.=nt of Wesleyan Church Tru.ters. on ].« and could have -old more had thoy been available. The section, were dianoaed of a. follows : P Stioa I. corner Mill Road and Merry .trek to Mr C.V.Clark at £BB ; «c----ton. 2 and 3, fron ing Ma.ry street to Mr F Bennington at £2O each ; sectvons 4 and 5, fronting Mill Road, to Mr J. Cheyne at £2O each ; section 6, corner Smith .trwt and Mill Ro*d, to Mr A. Ink.tsr at £2l. . The auctioneer, have m.ny enquir.es for eood building s.tea and recommend owner, to no* put their sections in the market, a. the competition is keen and JricJr realised under the hammer are generally considerably above owners reMivas. SATURDAY SALE. Messrs Guu.ness and LeCren, Ltd., rsport as follows on their usual sale at auction on Saturday last:— Pigs-Slips from 6s to 6s M stores (backward) 9s 6d to 12, 6d, (fo-ward) 1 Poultry—Roosters 2s 8d to 2s 10 I, hens 2. to 2h 8d ; geese, 2s 3d each ; turkey hens 3s 3d each. Potatoes-There was an exceptionally lute entry of potatoes and prices we. e oniequentlylow. Best Der*ents m.de 6i, Heart of Hebron ss, other sorts from 3i to ■is. _, „ ,-, Carrots sold at from 2s 3d to 3a 6d. Swede turnips brought 2s to 2s od. We also offered on account Miss Spalding, who is leaving the district .the whole of her furniture and effect*, and ill were quitted at good prices. TIMARU MARKETS. Th. past week has shown little: implement in the grain market. A hand to mou<h trade is being done, imal lines, cbtefly for .outhern miller., moving off t grow.r.' limit 4s f.o.b. This price is obtained for prime milling wheats. Fowl wheat 5.113 readily at 2, 10d .t0 3 for whole. Th. oat market .how. no anirnaiion, and very few orders are being placed late quotations being nominal. tfeed Lyi. on offer, but buyer, decline to 3re the price asked. Growers of potatoes are shipping couth, where there ii a fair demanded befer price than.,. the cas tt Timaru, where the quotation u hi 1U« p.r ton.—Herald.