COMMERCIAL.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 1146, 10 February 1903, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

INVEBGAEGILL PRODUCE REPORT. Mesats McKay Bbos. report on sales for the week ending Saturday, February 7, at their Exchange Sale Booms, Esk street, Invercargill, as follows Cows—Three entries; two sold at £6 10s and £5. Poultry—2so penned; prices still low. Hens, 9d to Is Id; young roosters, la sd; duoks, Is 6d to Is 9d; geese, 2s 9d; turkeys, 6s 6d. Pigs—Small entry; prices firm. Suokers, to 13s 6d; weaners, to 20s each. Potatoes —7s to 5a 6d per cwt. Onions—Bs per cwt. Barley—lss per bag. Oats—l4s 6d per bag. Wheat—lßs per bag. Honey—4d per lb. Fruit—Bananas, 15s; Pears, 9s to 12s; Plums, 5s to 78; Peaches, 3d to 4Jd; Raspberries, 6d; Tomatoes, 7d to Bd. Fruit Sale this week, Wednesday, 10.15 a.m. PROPERTY SALES. I Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Co. report as follow: — We sold by private treaty on account of the N.Z. Agricultural Co. Waimea Estate, the following properties, all at satisfactory prices: —To Wm. Tayles, Longridge Village, section 189, Hokonui Survey District, containing 299 acres; to A. Wayte, Otama, part seotion 414, Hokonui, containing 62 acres, 2 roods; to Geo. liynoh, Longridge, part sections 50 and 51, Hokonui, containing about 268 acres; to Daniel Anderson, Balfour, part seotion 82, Hokonui, containing 100 acres; to Duncan McLean, Balfour, section 347 and part seotion 82, Hokonui Survey, containing 358 acres; to Geo. Aylin, Dipton, section 22, block I, Co.'s Survey No. 9, containing 13 acres 2 roods. DUNEDIN HOBSE MARKET. * Messrs Wright, Stephenson and C®. report as follows: —For Saturday's sale between 20 and 30 horses were entered, this number being composed' mainly of light harness horses, most of which were aged and more or less screwed up with hard work. With two exceptions no draught horses were offered, these being a six-year -old horse of medium size, which was disposed of at £34 10s, and an aged heavy gelding at £45. There were numerous buyers present for good young horses, both draughts and light harness classes, but unfortunately very few came forward of late to our sales. We can, however, strongly advise owners having suitable horses to send them to us, as this market is very bare, and buyers are prepared to give big prices for horses of the right stamp if sound and young. At this week's sale one upstanding light harness horse realised £25, and we have buyers prepared to take a large number of good young horses suitable for rabbit waggons, trams, drags, waggonettes, &c., at full market rates.

We quote : Superior young draught geldings £SO to £5-5, extra good, prize horses, £56 to £6O, medium draught mares and geldings £35 to £4B, aged do £26 to £33, upstanding carriage horses £3O to £35, wellmatched carriage pairs £7O to £9O, strong spring-van horses £3O to £35, milk-cart and butchers' order-cart horses £22 to £2B, tram horses £l4 to £2l; light hacks £lO to £l6, extra good hacks £lB to £25, weedy and aged hacks and harness horses £4 to £B. DUNEDIN PRODUCE MARKET. Messrs Donald Reid and Co. report that prices ruled as under at their auction sale on Monday Oats—Prime milling, 2s 5d to 2s 6d ; good to best seed, 2s 3d to 2s 4£d ; medium, 2s to 2s 2d ; inferior Is 6d to ls"l0d. Wheat —Prime milling velvet, 5s to 5s (id ; medium, 4s 3d to 4s lOd; fowl wheat, 4s to 4s Id; broken, 3s 3d to 3s 9d. Potatoes—Best freshly-picked, £4 10s to £4 15s; good, £4 to £4 ss. Chaff —Best oaten sheaf, £4 5s to £4 15s; medium, £3 15s to £4; interior straw chail, £2 5s to £3 ss.