TIMARU.

Press, Volume XIV, Issue 1888, 4 May 1869, Page 2

TIMARU.

There has been little business during the last few days on account of the weatherr ;>The grain market remains withdut alteration, !but little is doing. The barques Collingwood and Susan Jane are daily expected, and will both take in grain for Auckland. Mr F. W. Stubbs reports his sale of cattle on Saturday last was well attended, and all the\ stock yarded was sold at good rates. oows in full profit brought from £8 to £12, and j equal to average of £10 per head. Heifers, in calf, from £6 5s to £7 10s. A few very good looking horses, unbroken, were «old at j prices ranging frqm £6 10s to £12,, Pne, jdraught gelding, broken to plough, brought •£lB Is. At the sale of produce the same day ! there was a good attendance, and a fair quantity of produce was knocked down at remunerative prices. Potatoes, £3 to £4 per ton; flour, £10 to £12 per ton; oats, 2s 6d per j ! bushel; grass and clover hay, £3 5s per ton ; j fowls, 2s 6d to 2s 9d per couple, geese; 3s to ; 5s each } and other commodities at equally jgood rates. ! Mr F. LeCren held an auction sale of mutton yesterday, at the shop of Fraser ! Brothers,, butchers..... The _sides....r.ealised_fcom Is 3d to 2. 6d each,—" May 1.