COMMERCIAL

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 11670, 1 February 1902, Page 2

COMMERCIAL

CUSTOMS RETLRXS.Tlie following are details o£ the Customs revenue lor the month of Jar.um v, 1902: Spirits 037 19 1 Cigars 3 17 11 ■ - ToOacco 273 19 0 Wise 15 15 4 Tea IS 11 S jrfugar Sji 4 2 . , Goods by v:eigir. 63 0 5 Guods au xaiozea 535 13 0 U:her riutks 45 10 0 3iew 2e:tiasd Eesr ... 29 7 3 Ocier isceipts 129 19 C Total £1673 16 10 THE LOCAL MARKETS. The advance of Id an wheat noted in our last week's report is still maintained but the market generally has been quiet on the weak. The ali-rcund quotation for wheat still remains at as f.0.b., sacks extra. The supplies cf old oats are exhausted, and it is expected that samples of the new crop will be brought in to-day. New oats will very probably be quoted at from Is 94 to Is 10d, on trucks at country stations. The demand for this cereal is likely to be keen in view of early orders for South Africa. In barley there is nothing doing, bet samples of the new crop are expected to be on view at an early cateCLEARING SALES. ile'ST- .Si/iiiDg and fc>ha!lcra.ss report Jr.idmg a very successful clearing xale at W..odbuiy *. : iters-..-y. c-n ;»(.ccuiit of the public iiss.es. acti g is tae estate of tiis late i.ir Ji.'ar. Tc.» teller. Ihe stock wss ail in excellent cocditiia, and the xcmpetif-r.r. ->va* keen. Hie following are the prices teaiisei for stock:—2-tooth ewes. 14s 4d: 4, 6, and 8-tooth ewes, 13s 3d; 2-teorh wethers, 13s 6d; threequarter trad lambs, 10s 9d; Romnev .rams, 10s 6d: 18-zuonth steer, £3 10s; heifer. 255, and an aged mare, £5. Implements, etc., sold at full market rates. Messrs _ Guinness and LeCren, Ltd., report having held on Thursday at Hannaton, Studholme Junction, a very successful clearing sale of horses, implements and sundries on account of Mr Thos. Simpson, who has sold his farm to Mr Wright, late of Rangitata. Notwithstanding that harvest operations were in full swing in the district, there was a good gathering of farmers and the general public. Mr E. R. Guinness weilded the hammer, and cleared everything at very satisfactory prices to the vendors. Draught mare, 6yr?. with foat at foot, brought £4O; gelling, syrs, £35; aged gelding, £22: age.' i-a'Jing, £2O; hack, mare, £8; ■cows in M >roSt, £5 12s 6dto£42s6d; yearling pigs. £1 8s to 18s 6d; farm drays and frame*, £l6. £l3 17s 6d and £8 10s; reaper our binder, £5; drill, £3,- harness and sundries, at full market values. A few outside horses and cattle were sold at curren* p::! ? I