COMMERCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 11678, 11 February 1902, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

PLEASANT POINT STOCK SALE

There was not a big yarding of sheepat the Point sale yesterday, but a fair sale resulted, the majority of the yarding changing hands at late prices. Fat bntcners' sheep were back about Is, whilst ether classes of stock maintained thiir poikk-n, forward sheep selling particulars well. Ihe following are quotations":—Fa:- ewes, 9s, 10s Id. 10s 4d, ICs 6d, lis to 12s 3d; forward lambs, IDs, 10s Ad. lis 6d, 10s 9d, lis Id to lis 4a; store limbs. 8s to 9s; very forward fat three-quarter-bred wethers, 14s; backward stcrc wethers, 10s. Theie was a sma.l v:.ru;;:g of cattle. Heifers sold at £4 no i.4 ICs and fat stock up to £5 15s. THF. OA3IAJUJ GRJIdTiIAREET. The "Xoith Otago Times"' repcrts as follows :—There hare been a few sales of wheat, mostly for export, bat only in small lines. ' The price shows a s.ight improvement on late rates, bat there is no great enquiry icr wheat, millers b:ing disposed to wart for Ihe new crop, brrr these and other recent sales for cuicide porU indicate a firmer feeling. T.'.a con dition of the mark.t is,howevir,contrciied only by tLe colonial requirements in the Ee."«t'£:?. He margin io: which a I-rge -" -.bir of £aizi.:>: '-..:: L.ra w..:tbr. A* ■jL ~ u... .._ fog- teniizi. The • v? Store —. .- ". .- a , - T t M lo«. r,ir-ur..i;:g to lt>, v - 3C _; k £J; men-.ior.ed by us eany rrt t?.ST> .. » _~r . ia ran it v the sa!aj cf sererd weeks . bet of a. few cays. Oats continue \-el7 quiet and weak in anticipation of the re.-, nop. Wceut.— *rrirsij milling, iU lia to 05; fowl wheat {scsrce>, 2s sd. Oats.— Danish, 2i Id to 2s 2d; crn3,_ nominal; milling, nusaini!; Girrocs, 2s od. Bar-t-v.—-"frime samples, 2s; feed bailey, 1" Sd to Is §<L

• THE HOME MARKETS. Messrs Dalgety and Co. have received the following cable message dated London, February 7th-—The market for hides is quiet, but holders will only sell at considerably over the market value. Since our last telegram prices of leather are higher by one farthing per lb, •while basils jure unchanged. The following cable message dated London, February Bth, has been received from the Agent-General:—"Average prices today are Canterbury mutton, 3£d; Dunedin, Sonthland and Wellington Meat Company, sid; other North Island, 3£d; River Plate, 3£d. The mutton market is weak. Trade in mutton is very disappointing, there being only a very hand-to-mouth demand for New Zealand. Canterbury lamb, s&d. The high quotations for lamb lately sent to New Zealand were merely for a few selected carcases, and cannot be taken as any indication of the feneral market price. Shipments of River 'late lamb are increasing. Australian shipments of lamb, now arriving are very heavy. The beef market is firm; New Zealand hinds, 4|d; fores, 3id. There is a good demand for butter at 109s. New Zealand butter i 3 giving satisfaction to buyers. The cheese market is firm; goo 3 fair Wellington on the spot, £57; March-May shipment, £35. There is no alteration "in the cocksfoot seed ' market. since last week."

SALE AT OTEPOPO.

(Oamaru "Mail.")

lie New Zealand Loan and Mercantile '.Agency Company held a sale on Friday on account of the Public Trustee, in the estate of the late Jame> Craig, when there ■wtis a very large attendance, and the bid-

ding was prompt for every lot offered. The farm, consisting of 758 acres, with .- crops and improvements, was knocked down to Mr -T,>hn Dalgleish at £6 lis per acre. 1 Si- was an advance of 12s fed per mic •-. he price paid by Mr Craig ab-ic .;<•• years ago, and even now it is s:;;. i •-. ■>• be cheap, in view «f the i';u > >:..• r;.... dairy factory is within e--i-y ■<;<•.,:■. ,?. and open to "take all the milk c;t a highly remunerative prke. We understand " that the Otepopo suppliers had £7OO divided amongst them last month, and that a •cheque for £4O or £SO is not all a rare occurrence there for a month's milk account. It is ;:.'.-■.> slid that this land ■would bring an increased price if it were cut up inro tl'ree fi'mi*, as it could easily be dere. wh=l& it would then be more easily worked. The following are prices •obtained for sheep:—soo crossbred lambs, 3e ; 108 fat crossbred ewes, 9s; 62 crossbred hoggets, 12-- lOd; ewes and lambs sold separatelv, 427 ewes at 4s 9d and 52 lambs at 2s 6d. Rams. £2 and £1 12s 6d. Horses sold as follows :—Bay geld- j ing Toby, 4 years, £35; chestnut geld- ]

ing Pinch, £53; bay mare Lucy, with foal at foot by Cedric the Saxon, £4B; grev mare, with foal at foot by Prince Victor. £l9; yearling filly, £2l; yearling colt, £l6; 2"yearling colts, £ls each. Dairv cows sold at £8 17s 6d, £6, £7 7s 6"d, £6 17s 6d, £8 10s. £5, £9, £8 12s 6d, £7 15s, £5 ss, £7 7s 6d, £6 17s 6d, £7 2s 6d, and £2; one spring heifer, at £10; another, at £5 2s 6d; 5 yearling heifers, £5 each ; 2 steers, £2 17s each; 11 calves, 28s each. In pigs 7 weaners brought i7s each and 6 porkel's 545. A quantity of implements, drays, etc., sold at satisfactory prices.