COMMERCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13438, 9 November 1907, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

TOIARU GRAIN MARKET.

Wheat.—ln spite of the drop in prices in Australia, merchants here do not think the New Zealand market will show any decline just at present. Very little business has been done this week, there being more enquiry tlian buying and selling. A line of Red chaff was sold in Timaru yesterday' at 6s f.0.b., and this may therefore be taken as a .criterion' of the state of the market. Unless wheat goes down in Australia- to a point at which flour can be shipped to New Zealand at a profit, it rfc not likely the price of wheat here will recede. - '

Oats.— The oat market is firm, but ve, ■: little is offering, Gartons are quoted at 4s to 4s Id and duns at 4s" Id to hs 2a f.o.b. - ■ ■'. -, ,-... . Potatoes.—fl'lie market for potato :s lias eased considerably, 'only* £5 to £6 being offered for good" varieties on truces nx country stations. Only very small quantities are being placed on the market. LAND SALES. Guinness and LeCren. Limited, report the "sale of the following Properties during the week:—On account of Mr John HaQ, his Redcliff property containing 93 acres 2 roods 27 perches, to Mr P. WMeyer. For Mr John Foley, 109 acres situate near Studholme Junction, to Mr Wm. Dempsey. For Mr C. Harrison, his dwelling house and section in Violet Street. Timaru, to Mr C. B. Bowcher. For Mr Jas. I. Milne, his lease in perpetuity farm, known rs Kaj Ora, containing 240 acres 1 rood 8 perches, situate at Albury, to Mr J. T. Anderson. For Mrs. Hilda Wright, her known as J*Tvers%y Fairiie, containing 5 acres 0 roods 25 perches, to Mr John Riddle. We have several clients requiring Grazing Properties and small Farms, also 5 and 6-roomed Houses centrally situated in Timaiu. Owners wishing to sell should send up .particulars.