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Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13337, 13 July 1907, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

WILSONS SALKYARDS. C. R- Wilson and Co., Tuam street, Christehurcb, report splendid business, record yarding, and good price-?. Turkey gobblers, 15s to 20s per pair; g-;ese, os to is; (lacks, 4s 6d to 6s 6d; pallets, 5s 6d to 4s 6d; liens, 2s 3d to 3s 3d. In purebred poultry th-2 choice specimens met with good demands. —Cockerels, 10s to 40s pair; pallets, 7s 6d to 17s; hens, -1s to 12s 6d. Eggs met with more demand; new- laid, Is 6d to Is 4d; preserved, Is to Is Id; potatoes, prime table sorts, £5 10s to £5. Chick wheat, 3s 9d to 4s 3d. ' CLEARING SALES. . Messrs Goinnsss and LeCreu report holding a very successful clearing sale at T-e Moana on Thursday on account of Mr A. McPherson when every lot was cleared at very satisfactory prices. Messrs Guinness and LcCren, Ltd., report having held a most satisfactory clearing sale on account of Mr A. J. Webb, Hazelburn, Totara Velley, everything being cleared at prices fully up to 'anticipations. A few of the iUms sold were:— Draught mares £4l, £4O 10s, £SB 10s, £55 10s, geldings £3O, £2l ICs, fillies £25, £24 10s; cow in milk £5 15s, heifer £5; tec discs £9 10?, grubb.-r £l2. TIMARU GRAIN REPORT. Wheat.—No business has been done in Timara during the past week. The market is- very Jinn, and no wheat can b? bought under 4s 6<i, bat, pending some definite decision- being arrived at oa the. duty on flour, operations are somewhat restricted. Fowl wheat is in good demand at 3s Sd pu- bushel. Oats.—Very little shipping business is being done, but. there is a good inquiry for seed and feed for local requirements. Present quota- j ■lions are Danish 2s lOd, Gartous and Dnns I 3s- on trucks, Timaru. Barley—Several inquiries have besn received for" seed barley, but there is none offering. Potatoes —Berwents £3 15s; Up-to-Dates £4, on trucks at Timaru, bags in. THE CnRISTCHUECH MARKETS. Ter Press Association. CHRISTCHCRCH, July 12. Locally the wheat market remains iinn, but there are few buyers ai, the prices asked. The agitation that lias taken place hi soma quarters in favour of the removal of the duty on wheat and Hour is said to be affecting business somewhat, as some buyers an» waiting to know what tha Government int.-nd to propose, in the matter. Cat sheaf chaff is very firm, though the improved price has brought forward more otitis of supplies; as much as 95s is being asked, 90s is the price that buyers are paying. Potatoes are dull of sab with little prospect of improvement as Tasmanian potatoes are being fully offered and at a j>rice that will miible "them to ba landed at £5 15s at Wellington or Lyttelton. This price prevents any' export bu«nsss to the north b:ing done* with Canterbury grown potatoes.