COMMERCIAL

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXI, Issue 12582, 20 January 1905, Page 2

COMMERCIAL

~ 'CLEARING SALE. ; .. v, The Canterbury Farmers Co-operative AssociitiaD. per Mr J. : Mnidell, auctioneer, repott; "holding a clearing sale yesterday ol WBjr &re stock, and banning plant, oji account of Mr W r Taggart, at Gape's Val--Ik. _ _ There was' a.' veiy "large "attendance of bnjexs at the sale; theKve-atock and impZeiheiits were shown in good condition, and -* - satisfactory < sde£wasr/tfe<& J«£plt■■m x For tie form of" 175 tßerff'was "no bid Ktjanction, bat iewi*ffile£qniries have >heat made and it is toped that it* tale ' -■ *iH in a few days. 1 1 THE HOME* MARKETS. ... Mt.SH.' H. the local agent for ' the Colonial and? Bist ributinfr ' CoiDpstnyv Limited, has received the fol- , «V, lowing cable messaesfeoin the company's London-office * Canterbury mutton is / scarce, -and the price has advanced id; f-* North- Island has '.Mien - |d. Quotations sxe—Canterbury miitton, 4gd ; Napier, ' Wellington and North Island do., 41d; lamb, first quality (newseason's), 6sd; ■ beef.- hrndqtmrters, 3£d; foreqnartere, 3d." *• / Messrs Dalgety and Co. have received - " the foJkrroing cable message, dated London, Jaooary 18tfi:—"The wool sales conV-. tmne-'flrm? and lately reported rates 'are fall; maintained: = Since our lest' telegram \ . price*"of tallow in geneyal are lorarer By 6d-per cwt. Prices of wheat cargoes are tipcpanged, and sales .have taken place at 3£s Sd per quarter for parceLs pec. steamer to London, January shipment."