COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16800, 16 March 1918, Page 5

COMMERCIAL.

; SOUTHERN GRAIN MARKET. 3 [HI TELEGRAPH.— ASSOCIATION.] 1 CnRISTCHUKCH, Friday. ) There are no changes in the local grain • market, The purchase ot wheat is being carried on steadily at thq Government price. Oats arc very scarce and firm, especially seed lines required for autumn towing. Gartons are worth Is, and other variotiea 3s 9d to 4s at country stations. Oatshoaf chaff is in good domand, and prime-weight samples are now worth £5 per ton, and discoloured £4 to U 10s. A fair amount of • business is being done.in potatoes for imr mediate and forward delivery. There is a Brge area o red clover shut up for seed this season, but the cutting of the crop is only beginning. White clover is commanding high prices, best snmnleg being worth Is s)d to Is lOd per lb, whilst samples containing more or leas sorrel are selling at la and upI wards. CUTiVERDEN SHEEP FAIR. [hy telegraph.— association-.] CHRISTCHURCH. Friday. 1 i,.im . «den sheep fair best two-tooth half-bred otob made 42s 6d to 525, the lattcr figuro being a record for this class of ) M»k i wafl tPMnmcd by the late Walter • JfSttK'v ftW 1 , L8l ? t(! - Six and , eight-tooth half-breds brought 3Gs to 445; 1 i our . an . d .pc-ywr-olds, 29s Gd to 42s 6d; iwo-tooth threcqunrWr-bred ewes, 37b to 10s; and four and tooths, 35s to 38s Gd. [ AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE. J A. and N.Z. MELBOURNE, Mar. 15. Barley: Chevalier, malting, Is lid to 5s 3d; Cape, 3s ad to 3s Gd. Oats: Milling Algerians, 3s 7d; feed, 3s 5d to ,')s 6d. Potatoes, i 5 to £5 10s. Onions, £0 10s to £6 15s. PROPERTY SALES. '. Samuel Vaile and Sons. Ltd.. offered for • S. c by , auction .at their rooms, 83. Queen , Street, last evening, the unsold lots in tho , Murray s Bay Estate fronting the cast coast, i between, Campbell's bead! and Brown's Bay. . | Ihe attendance was good, and the bidding . for some of tho sections was brisk. Fourteen of the lots offered were eold At prices rang- , ing from £81 to £72.