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Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12796, 30 September 1905, Page 2

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PROPERTY SALES. Guinness and LeCren, Limited, report the 'following sales of property during the past week:—Account owner, house and section Studholme street, to Mrs Bain; account Mr R. G-. Baxter, house and 1 Parsonage road, to Mr T. E. Loach; account owner,. two town sections, Opie street, to Mr W. Kennard; account Messrs Meyers and Jones, lease 10 acres and house .at Arm to Mr H. Reid; all at very satisfactory prices. TIMARU PRODUCE MARKET. The market for wheat has a firmer tendency and fair sales ttiave been made during; the week. Values are 3s lid for Tuscan and Velvet ; 3s o£d! for Bedehaff, f.0.b.; sacks extra. Oats also have hardened considerably, to-day's values being Is lOd at country stations for Gartons, Is 9d for Danish, Is lOd for Duns, Is 9d for Tartars; sacks extra. Potatoes have a tendency, due to foreign supplies. They are quoted at £9, f.o.b.

THE HOME MARKETS. Messrs Dalgety and Co. report under date, London September 29th:—"We expert no improvement in frozen, meat prices until stocks are reduced. Since'our last telegram prices of frozen mutton are rather lower, and New Zealand frozen laml> is lower by gd per lb. There is no change in the prices of frozen beef sides. Prices of combing sheepskins are lower by per" lb, and prices of clothing sheepskins are at par to id per lb higher." ST. ANDREWS SALE. _ At this sale yesterday there was a veryfair attendance of farmers and others. There was a small yarding ol sheep, but good entry of cattle, the sale of which was not bright. Sheep, 487 were yarded—Fat ewes, 9 (empty) at 8s 6d (passed); hoggets, 84 at 14s 6d (passed); breeding ewes, three and one lamb at 15s 6d, 14 . at 23s Id, 27 and 20 lambs at ICte 9d (passed), 330 $ and 8-tooth at 275. Cattle, 70 were yarded. Stores, 3 steers at £2 Is, 1 empty heifer at 355, 2 yearlings at 15s, 4 calves at 10s 6d, 6 steers and heifers at 325, 2 calves at ss, 10 calves at: 10s 6d, 2 empty cows at 30s, 1 yearling at 20s, 4 steers at 32s 6d, 1 steer at 26s 6d, 1 heifer at 335; springing heifers, 1 At £2 2s, 2 at £2 15s, 1 at £3 ,ss, 2 at £4, 1 at £3 ss, 1 at £2 7s 6d, 1 at £2 6s; springers, 1 at 30s, 1 at £5, 2 at £4, 1 at £2 ss. CLEARING SALE. . Messrs Dalgety and Co. Limited fin eonjunction with the Canterbury Fanners' Co-operative Association) report holding a very successful clearing sale of live stock, farm implements, grain and sundries, on account Mr J. J. Nolan, at his homestead, Waihao Downs, on Wednesday last. There was a large attendance of buvers from the surrounding district; every 'lot submitted was keenly competed for, high prices 'were Cue order of the day, and a clearance made at the following prices Horses i Bav mare 6vts £52, bay gelding 6yrs £3B, V gliding 4yrs £SO, brown geldin" £47 10s, bay gelding 3yrs £4B, "Bay gelding oyrs £53 10s bay gelding 4yrs £44, chestnut gelding 9yra £33, bay gelding aged 1 n,? aged £lO 10s, bay mare 10s S!i 'u y - risin S 1 year £l6 10s, black colt using 1 vear £2O "Hit--loasCk0 a s Ck 8 S bay /- k mare £lb 10s. Cattle: Co ws> £3 gg 6d> £3 * £4, up to £7 7s 6d, bull £3 7 S 6d 4 yearhng heifers 30s1 each, calves 16e each. Pigs: Porkers 18s. Implements • 4. horse waggon £4l 10s, drays £lB acd Pin' £19 ' "Her £lO, hillside plough £2 2s 6d, horse hoe 7.2 J? cultivator £ll, disc harrows £0 ICft, D.F. ploughs £6 5s and £7 10s reaper and binder £l9, 4-leaf harrows £2 os and £1 17s 6d, spring dray £6, gig ~ iJS (>a ' 2s 6d per bushel, straw per sackr empty eacks <Ud. Harness and mmdixes gold a* maStf rates. 1