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Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13278, 6 May 1907, Page 4

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CUSTOMS .RETURNS. ■ The following is a statement of the revenae collected at Timaru for the week ended Saturday: — £ s. d. Customs duties 541 19 1 Beer duty ...'.. 33 3 9 Otlier receipts 19 18 6 Total £6Ol 1 4 HORSE-SALES. The Canterbury Fanners' Co-operative Association (per J. Mnndell, auctioneer), report on the 'weekly Inrse mtirket held at TattersalPs sale yards on Saturday as follows:^—Tne entry comprised 37 draught, light harness and hackney horses. The demand for draught and. harness horses ■was weak, although good sorts sold at prices giving a good return to -he growers. The continued dry ■weather, and general high price of feed rather against the speculative element ifi the horse market doing much business at present.. We prices as follows:—Draughts, young vdth trial. £35, £36 10s, £3B to £4O; ditto light and aged, £l2, £l4 to £18: > light harness sorts (slow of sale), £ls, £l7 to £18; hackneys, £9 10s to £l2; ponies. £5 to £lO. Gtrniness and LeCren report having held a clearing sale on Saturday for Mr J. \D. King, who is giving np business. Nearly everything was disposed of at most satisfactory prices. , Tlie; following are a few of the principal items: —Grey gelding ."Rodney," £27; «bay mare; "Pringle," £24; brown gelding "Brown-ay," £l9; bay gelding '* Durbar,*' £l7 ICs; boggy, £20"; dog cart, £2O; gig, £2O: single buggy, £l6 and £lssets of double harness, £l3 ss, £l3, £7 15s; single, £lO 10s, £7, £6 ICs. / TIMARU GRAIN REPORT.. Wheat. Late advices front th:Hnme market point to a firmer tone, and this is reacting somewhat upon Australian markets. In'consequence price's have firmed hero. Quotations are —Velvet 3s sd, Tuscan Zs sd, Red chad 3s 4d, on trucks at Timaru. Second--2s lQd. Oats.—Tlte market is quiet owing to the fact that. Southland is able to undersell holders from this port. Values a) present are, Girtons and Danish 2s sd, Duns 2s 3d, at country stations.' Potatoes.—A good quantity is offered, but values are rather easier. Up-to-dat-.s and Derwents are worth to-day £3 Os to £3 ICs, at country stations, bags in. PROPERTY SALES. Ths agents for ths salts pf the Clydevalc " estate, Otago, which has just been placed t>n the market for sale, sub-divided into four large sheep and cattle stations and oj farm blocks, in addition to the sale of thi homestead block of 5153 acres to Mr Percy Acton Adams at £ 7 s per_ acre, report having sold lots 26, 2 f, 30, 31, 70 and 78 (about- 1700 acnes) to Mr It. Tout, manager for the late Mr John Grigg, at Longbeach, at £ll per ' acre; also, the sale of lot 35a, ninety acres, to Mr J. E. Gibson, of Waiwera, near Clydevale. BESWICK iSTREET ROOMS. C. Jonas and Co. report for the past wick as follow*-: —Business has been decidedly brisk, and the demand for all articles submitted to public competition' heft Iwen very kejn. Potatoes; are about a par with late" rates, and there is a great quantity in the market. No large sales m tlds line are being made. Onions are firmer and selling well. Wheat and cat'i have a good enquiry with a little reduction in past prices. Poultry is moving along better now than for some time, and we had a large entry of all classes. Nineteen pigs were yarded, and the competition was good, all being cleared at prices* satisfactory to .re-ndors. On Thursday aftemoon we held a clearing sale of MrsF. Hall's furniture and uuVcis, and the furniture, being hi good order found ready buyers, the principal sale* being:—Carpet ■square 335. sofa 265, fender and irons 21s, dressing table £5 2s 6d, washvtand £2 7s 6d. chest*drawers 42s bd, suite £5 12s 6d, bicycle £7 ISs, piano £l7 ICs; sundries, blankets, sheets roid. well. On Friday we sold Mrs Holme's furniture, the sales being :j Bedstead £2 II?, Bedstead and mattress £2 .10s, sewing machine £3,. suite £4 10s. sofa 25:-, chest drawer:-? from 18s to 27s 6d. On Saturday poultry realised : Hens small. Is to Is 9d, larger 2s to 2 ,; : ScL. pallets' Is 9d to 2s 3d, roosisrs small Is 9d to 2s 9d, larger 5s 3d to 4s 6d, chicken;? Is to Is 6d. ducks 2s to 3s. prime 3s 3d to 4s 3d, turkey hens. 4s 6d to 5s 6d. gobblers 6s 6:1 to 7s 6d (all at p.r pair), purebreds from 2s to 2s 6d each. Pigs sold as follows:—2 at 16s. 4 at 15*, 1 at 13s, 2 at 12*. 2 at lis 6d, 1 at 3d. 3 at Bs, 3 at lis, 1 at 10s tach. l'o tatoes 7s to 10s. Onions Id per lb. pumpkins 1>- to Is 6:1, hams 6kl to 6|d, bncon 4d to 4|d, wheat 10s- to lis. pig jxitatoei 2sr to 2s 6d per sack, .hare:*, I=(tcl to ii 9d per pair, sacks empty. 4=]d in Sgd each. There was a record entry of «H kinds of fruir. some 153 ruses - being tered, the. chief part of which was apple* and tomatoes. 1 here was a decided slunm ill both these lines in eompari r>n with r - : week's quotations. and pearwere slow of sale, though we ail rr, ft?# c»se?, 3d In 2£d

per lb; per case 2s to 4s 6d. Apples Id to ljd per lb; 2s to 3s per case. Pears? 2d to 2jd per lb; 2s 6d to 4s 6d i>or case. Oranges 7s to Bs. Quinces 3s 6d per case. On behalf of Messrs Nettleberg .ind Son& we >-o!d a quantity of furs privately, and some of our s:des included oppossum collarette £2, hearth-rug <i2s 6d, •frey rug £5, muff 30s, muff and necklet £3* 10s. The sale of household furniture and sundries was satisfactory. Th» dcicund for furniture at clearing sales is surprising and we Lave disposed of more so far this month than for the greater part of April.