COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 536, 19 January 1878, Page 2

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

AUOTFi PEERS' REPORTS. Mess r s. Council and Clowes sold to-day, at'their rooms, Tvne-street. the lease for Five years of part of Reserve D, containing H> acres .T2 perches, the price being L 4 ss. per acre. The standing crops were not sold, a.) the f.rices offered did not reach the amount of reserve placed upon them. _ Me-.srs. Fleming and Hedley sold at thetr vards to-day. on account of various vendors, a number of draught horses and hacks. The attendance was large, and the bidding unusually spirited. No tirat-class horses were MilmuttwL Thev quote good useful horses at from L4S to F,fji>; ordinary horses, at from Ll'-"> to 1.-tl>; hacks and spring-cart horses—rirst-class, at from L2t) to L 2 2; medium, at from LI2 to LIS. Mr. A. 11. Maude held a sale of furniture, cromo-lithographs, oleographs, and groceries, at his rooms to-day. As the attendance was small, and tho bidding only moderately spiritcd. the prices realised were low. Mr. C.corge tUet-ntield offered for sale j Freehold property, furniture, &c, to-day at his rooms. Tyne-street. The attendance was small, and the bidding slow. The freehold pi-npertv was withdrawn, and the prices realised" for the furniture and miscellaneous goods were small. ♦ ■DUN'KDIX. 3ressrs. Maclean Brothers report as follows .—Wheat still continues very dull Jof sale, the demand heing limited to Krst-class parcels for mixing. Quotations, _ nominal. 15arley has met with some enqniry during the week at from 3s to 3s 3d for inferior for feeding, and 3a tfd to 4» for malting samples. Oats come forward slowly, and the stocks in First hands are small. Feed may now be ip-ioted at 3s 4d to 3a btt ; milting, 3s Gd.