COMMERCIAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 5543, 30 July 1907, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

. ♦ - —• - TIM ABU HORSE MARKET. The .Canterbury Farmers’ Co-opera-tive Association, report on the horse market at Tattorsall’s yards on Saturday as follows : —The entry comprised 32 draught, light harness and hackney horses. There was a fair demand for nil horse* fit for present work, but price* still continue in buyers’ favour. The following prices were realised : ■Draughts, young, with trials, £3b,.C33, to £'34; ditto, light and’ aged, £lO, £l2, to £l3 10/- ; light harness sorts, £l4 to £l6 10/-; hackneys, £7j to £O. CLEARING SALE. The .Canterbury Farmers’ Co-opera-tive Association, Ltd, (per Mr J. Mundoll, auctioneer), report holding a clearing sale of live stock, farm implements, and grain, on account of Mr Alexander Johnston, at his home, stead, Totara Downs, near Pleasant Point, on Wednesday last. There was a. food attendance of buyers, and a capital sale at full market values ; and' we herewith quote a few of the prices realised, viz. : Sheep, -J-bred lambs, fat, 17/8, do do stores 13/2, ewes (failing mouth, empty), 11/3'. Cow in profit, £3' ;7/-. Draught ■horses, £B7 to £36, harness pony £ls, Farm implements, cultivator £l2 10/-, grain drill £36, tine harrows £4 5/-, disc harrow# fiil, I d.f. plough £7,farm dray £B, travelling hut £l7. Oats, per «aok 14/9, 15/9 to 16/6; straw chaff, per sack 1/1 to 1/2. CHRISTCHURCH GRAIN MARKET. CHRISTCHURCH, July 26/ Thor# is a quantity of both wheat and oats offering, locally, but the prioM asked 4/6 ior wheat and 3/- for oat*, at country itations, are above buyer#' ltmit% s HOME MARKETS. The Now 'Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. Ltd., have receiped the following cable from their London Office, with reference to the close of the July series of wool sales Sales closed firmly to-day. A.s compared with last sales closing rates, prices are about par to 5 per cent lower for lambs, .fine crossbred, greasy merino, inferior and scoured merino super. • about 7‘i to 10 per #ent lower for crossbred lambs, coarse scoured crossbred, faulty wool, coarse crossbred slipe medium crossbred alipe and medium scoured crossbred ; for greasy condition, medium and coarse, in faulty condition, prices are lower by Id since close of last sales.

WHEAT SLIGHTLY LOWER. LONDON, July 36. The director of the Government farms, Canada, estimates the wheat yield of Manitoba and the North-west territory at two-thirds to throe-fourths of a full crop. The warm weather has quietened the wheat markets and slightly lowered prices, although it is certain that the harvest will bo late in Britain, France, and Germany, and that the crops in all the European •onntrics except Russia are unequal to those of 1906. Cargoes were quiet till to-day'when four cargoes wore disposed of at 34/- and 34/6. , The flour market is dull and buyers inactive, anticipating lower prices. Australian June-July is offering at Glasgow at 36/9.

Butter is slow of sale and quotations for colonial are unchanged ; Danish, HI/- to 112/-; cheese is firm, New Zealand 60/- to 61/- ; now Canadian 56/- to 58/-.

The Bradford wool market is dull common sixties, S7d, super 36.