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Southland Times, Issue 3331, 22 February 1879, Page 2

PRICES CURRENT.

0' ' , • WHOI/ESALE. ' Butter, fresh, Is pet Ib • • - ' Cheese, >7a do j ' " ■» Bacon,' 7d do ■ - ' , Hams,. 9d do , k Potatoes, 10s Eggs ? Is Cd per dozen Oats, 8s (id to 3s 9d per.bushel Wiieat, '4s td 4s 9d do' Bavley, 4s to 4s 3d do Flour" (town made)~£tl iu sacks per ton Dt> do in'half and quarter sacks ' £12 10s do Do (Otago).- £l2 do vi Do ', (Adelaide). £20 Oatmeal (to^yn made) £19 per ton iiet\il. ' Fresh Butter, Is' 3d per tb Cheese, lOd per.^ , <r ' Onions, 3d per'lb ' Potatoes, l|a per Ib, 12s per cwt. Oats, 4s per bushel Eggs^-ls 9d per dozen Ba-^op^ ,^od to Is^pei: tb l Hauis, Is per 15 Fowls, 5a per pair Pollniaj'ls 9d per bushel Bran, Is 6d do ' Millsr,'4d-pf»i: quart' -■ > Bread, 6d ' "a Beef r to 9d per'lb Mutton 4d to o'd do j Apples (cooking) (id pei 1b Pearl Barley, £22 , - , \ PollarcL j&ti 10s per ton. including bags Bran, to per fon ' ,do Chaft tG do Straw, £2 do li J i / The amount of Customs revenue received to!.. day on "godds entered for' consumption \vas as' follows:-^ »'' • ' " . ' '" ' ' £ s. d. l . Spirits '...T^T 32 15 1 Wins I ...' 4 '0 0 Sugar 4 19 2 „' Tea ..; ;, % 0' 4 s ' Sundries... ... ... 20 19, G ' ' _' £G4 '14 1 * G. F. Martin (on "behalf of the N. Z. M. & A. Company) jreporta: — Fat Qattle. — All qualities aie now in full sup-ply^-and tjansaotipns principally confined to medium light weight stock, .which are selling at j about 25s pe»^oolbs, # prime, quality is held for 30s. We" 'have placed r 2O head medium and a small di aft of prime* at quotations, and are in treaty for a further lot of 40 lfead. Fafc''feheep, continue in goo'd demand, considering the season of the year, ivhen so many a>'e .offering. Good halt-breds aie sellirig at f iom lls to 1 "is each; medium, 10s to 103 Gd. We? have placed, eevejal, diaf fcs privately at quotations. l _ i 1 • , ,' " Sfibre ' Cattle aie 'at present undergoing a considerable leduction in Value, to which sellers appear 'to b^ prepared to submit! as, at our sale held "at Wallacetown yesteiday 170 head -were yaided, and all sold" with the exception of 14 head. Medium steers brought fiam £4 to £5 7s 6d ; dry and speyed cows, £3 2s 0d to £4 ; young stock, 40s to 555 ; the bidding throughout was brisk. t ( , "Wool.— We'held om second sale at the.Cfescent store on the 14th inst., when we submitted and sold the following' lots :— WW, 1 bag locks, 2£d ; R'. 4 bags cross-bied and 2do merino, 7^d ; 1 bag locks', 3£d : W over TD, 1 bale locks, 3p C, 1 bag fleece, Cfd ;<NN, 2 bags' cross-bred; 03d; S, 1 bale'cross4>r.ed/>6|d; 2 'bags pieces, 2|d; O^O/H bale fleeces, 4 £13 VB, 1 bale*' merinos and cross-bred, Cd 4 1 bag locks and pieces, 2^d j 1 bale cross-bred, j>sd.;3, bags, locks and pieces, > 21d.j M^f/l, bale ha^biedL 7d: 1 bag broken fleece', 33'd ; 1 bag locks, 2jd ; T over A (coniohied), 1 bale merino, and, leicester. 7d; i bag' locks and pie'ees^d ; 3X, G& bales cioss-bied and inerino f ß3dl JBS, 1 bale half-bred. Gd; R <fc S, G bales merino. Bgd ; 1 bale merinos'locks and bellies, 4Jd : 1 bag leiceeter, sd : 2 bags merinos, B£d.j Also, 10 ba^es theepskms at 4sd, and 10 bnndles do, at from 2id to «d per lb. Note. — Our nexfe .general y sale of sheep t and cattle „-sriU be held at, W*iUnGeto;»vn yaids, on Friday, llaich 21bt) foi I'hich'we have already a considerable number booked Invercargill, February 21, 1879 MSc'ionc <fc'Cuthbeitson repoi-t — *l Mr McLeod's cleaimg sale at,\Va.ianewa, on, 1 18th mst va" essentiil'y most satisfactory' of th° sort we have had dming the season, inasmuch as fi.es lates obtuned throughout. The cattle were -very good, cows bringing up, to ±.11 5s j two-yeais old and yearling, £3 3s to £7 , and calrc? 20s Tiicf following are a few of the i^fc of the 'price -nliicu prevailed: 1 — Dianght gelding, £41 10s. miie, £J8 fOs; filly^ £29 10a: light* (unbroken), dts to £9 f chaff cut-^ ter, £"> 2s t»d, plough ~±.<> 2s 6d, drag, £21 j wire netting, 7d par jfml, 10s per cwt j leaping machine, i.2fa ,>ji9r, «J'c Ou.r sale of \yood's combined leaper and Inndei bipught but few tto the ground. This wa^ovrtng to the lot being introduced intp Xew Zealand, otVi than tbiough the appointed ' agents, who by &&\ act seraedt and circnrlar well distributed; announced their injientiOn of supply*

ine <fannerß under whateve^price we obtained. We^ol&two ou\^^e te£ at £50lfeach, not'receiVinsflpSid for tfore/ 1 * " %■£** .*"'' T^lnylr^ai, 2lg|'eb., f 1879. ' *js