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Timaru Herald, Volume XL, Issue 2946, 3 March 1884, Page 2

cwt; bacon, t>d to 8d ; hams, 7d to lOd ; batter, 8d to lOd ; farmers' flour, 120s porton; oats, Is 9d toils per bushel, sacks extra ; fowl wheat, iis to 10a per saok, with good demand : lard, 4H P°r lb ; nonoy, 4&d per lb ; fowls (young liirdu), -is t>d to 5s per pair. The entries" of poultry have been slack during tho month. Young birds can readily be placed at tho above quotations. Household furniture, box teas, sugur and general sundries always commnnd a raicy sale. They sold the lease of section 134, toroug-h of Timaru, for Llis ; freehold section 115, Geraldino township, was passed mat 1,45. A sale of English furnitnro. pictures and mirrors was held m the rooms of the N.Z.L. nnd M.A. Company on the 11th Fobrnury, at wldch there was a largo attendance, when tie whole consignment was quitted at a figrre that will not permit of a repetition. CUSTOMS REVENUE. The following is a return of tho Customs and othor dutios collected at the Port of Timaru during the month of February, 1884:- --£ s. d. Spirits 724 18 3 Cipars 28 1 0 Tobacco 242 1 4 0 Wine !12 l'J 9 Tea 513 11 0 Sugar 73 11 11 Goods by wi'ight ... 30 S 9 Do.,<ulvalon-m ... 5!>9 10 8 Other dutien 26 18 8 M.S. Fees 0 2 9 Stago carriage license... 0 5 0 N\Z. beer duty ... 64 2 8 Total .£1940 4 11 Corresponding month, 1883 .£1513 3 8 TIMBEK. ALPHBTTS HAVES, TIMBER MERCHANT, MAIN SOUTH ROAD, TIMARU, TT AS FOR SALE— i.t Lowest Rates BUILDING a.vb FENCING- MATERIALS OF ALL KINDS, FIREWOOD, &o. Mills at Waimute, Southliiutl, and Stewart's Island. For the convenience of Country Customers estimates may be obtained for any building they wish to construct, and carpenters can bo recommended for tho same. 1-23 8085 New Zealand Loan and Mer/dki* Agency Company (Limits I , Capital, £3,003,000. Reserve Fund, £2 HAVE LARGE iind COMMODIOUS STORES, (connected with tho Railway, and tire prepared to STORE all descriptions of PRODUCE, Ac, at lowest rates. BRANCHIIS m Melbourne, Sydney, Newcastle, Fiji, Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Puncdin, Invercargill, and all tho other principel towns m New Zealand, thus offering every facility to farmers for the disposal of their produce MAKE LIBERAL CASH ADYANOKS on Freeholds, on Stations and on Stock, on growing clips of Wool, and on growing crop* of Grain, also on all sorts of Wool, Grain, and Produce vhUs m Store. RECEIVE CONSIGNMENTS of Wool, Grain, Tallov, Leather, Hides, Skins, &c, for sale m the New Zealand, Australian, and London markets. IJNDERT.IKB INDENTS of British, Continental, East Indian, and American goods, and Commissions m all Branches of Mercantile Bnsineiis. CORN3AOKS, WOOLPACKS, AND TWINE, all of tho VERY BEST QUALITY, on hand. As the Company import theoe goods direct from tho manufacturers, constituents can rely on being supplied at lowejt market mtes. UNDERTAKE AUCTION SALES of all descriptions of TOWN, FARM and STATION PROPERTY. During the Wool and Grain Seasonu REGULAR MONTHLY AUCTION 3ALES of WOOL and GRAIN will be held ; also, PERIODICAL SALES of SHEEPSKINS, HIDES, TALLOW, 40. AGENTS m SOUTH CANTERBURY for— BUHTC'N, PROCTOR & CO.'S celebrated Combined Threshing Machiies and Engines, acknowledged to be the bust Machines imported into New Zealand. FELTEN & GUILLEAUME'S Pateat Ga.vanisad Steel - Barb Fencing Wire. J. 4 F. HOWARD'S New Patent English String - Binder Reaping Machine:!. MAXDON ISLAND GUANO. Further particulars on application to F. LE CREN, 12se Mar ger. "ACIKE" i^^J PATEHB BARB ' * ; WHU3. ONE of tlic principal reasons of Christchurcli and Dunedin being so much m advance of Timaru is the presence of a large number of Factory Operatives. Neither town has to depend entirely on the export of grain and wool. The ACME PATENT BARBED WIRE COMPANY will to a certain extent be a step m the right direction as regards Timaru. The Company's pay sheet is a very material item, which circulates m the district, 'flic Wiro is the bast m the colony, and tho price will compare with the imported article. Any Size can hi made to order. U. & J. n. Stansell ft Co., Proprietors, Main South Road, Timaru. 2-20 8418 mHE "TIMARU HERALD" Stbam aud Atmosphebio JOB I'SIIiTTIWG DEPABTMEffT Is replete -«th and has ono of the Largest and Choicest Plants of English and American Api.'lianceb and Types for Lettterprose Printing m Now Zealand, and executes witL taste, design nntl despatch every kind of work from s card to i> volume. Posters Invoices Streamers Billheads Day-bills Counterheadu Hand-billi Memo Forms Circulirs Menu Cards Cards (businoss) Invitation Cards Pamphlet) Ball Programmes (raPeriodicals ricty of very choice Visiting Cards designs, with jr Memorial Carda without pencils, &c) « 1 . AI It OIU ' stat ioriery being Imported from the Homo Markets, and our Printing p.nformed by motive power, the Prices charged are very Moderate j only a lair percenlogo for profit m arldod, thoreforo they do «.ot nceed Duniidin or Cltrißtchurch Pricon. MODERATE CHARGES. A DVERTISEMEOTS intended for Pub lioatun m the TIMARU UXBAID nay be left at the Office any hour throu/rh ■he day. AFTER NIGHT tlioy may be put n the FRONT DOOR LETTER BOX up o Midnight and they will be inserted if for icraons having on account current at the J/flco. Advertisements to bo paid or arranged or may bo ta T ieu through the Side Passage ft*r night t> the back of the promistiH. Adertisoments received >«.*»ir ten o'clock will ho laced over Lendsr iind churaed for accordl igiy.