COMMERCIAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10194, 31 October 1894, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

Daily Times Office, Tuesday evening, theamonnt of enstoma revenue received to-day to goods cleared for consumption was £879 183 Bd.

INVEKCARGILL STOCK SALES.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) Invebcuioill, October 30. The J. G. Ward Farmers' Association report :— We 'jeld our usual fortnightly sale at Invercargill yards on Tuesday. The entry was a fair one in nil classes, and large in fat cattle. The attendance was fair, but the demand in all cases limited, more especially in fat cattle, a good number being passed unsold and several pens sold to graziers. The total entries for the sale were : 52b fat sheep, 597 store sheep, 61 fat cattle, 180 store cattle, and 19 pigs. We yarded ai>d sold 78 fat sheep, 353 store sh op, 52 fat cattle, 85 stores, and B pigs. The following prices were realised by us for Borne of the leading lots: — Fat cattle: S pens bullocks £9 10s, pen at £9 ss, pen at £8 ss, pen at £8, pen at £7 10s, pen Hitaail} at.£S iOs, pan at £6 7a Cd, and p«n at

£8. Store cattle: 41 head steers, £4 10s; small do, £3 to £4: y«arlings, £110s to £2; two-year-oldß, £3 to £3 10s. Dairy cows : Our best pair, for Mr Robert Wallace, in splendid condition, £8 and £6; and for other vendors cows at £4 to £6 each. Dry cows, for fattening purposes, £310s to £4 each. . Sheep.-7-Fat sheep, 12a to 14s each; ewes with lambs at foot, in low condition, 7« to 8s 9d each. Pigs, £3 to £2 for breeding, and slips 20s to 30s each. The want of rain had a bad effect on the sale^ many farmers being very scarce of grass.