COMMERCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13736, 28 October 1908, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

TEMUKA SALE. The usual fortnightly sale was held at Temuka vards yesterday, wlwn tha yarding comprised 80 head of eattk. 2700 sheep, and 50 pigs. There was a l;i-H enauirr for prime cattle, wiiik unfinished fiorte and old cows were difficult m <:u!t. For fat sheep there was also a g/jod demand. - Sales wer* made/ as f.>;lc-ri: Fat cows. £6l%*: fat beifejs. /3. £6l?s, £4 12s 6d; stores (steers-and h-if->:s.. vonng £2 lCs, £2 9s, £2 £e: yeur«i'J:«s. 165,-15* to 265: old cows, -£1 12s ;» £2 ss; springeis. .£1 ss. £5 IS*. £4 .?■» Oi to £3 ss. sheep—Fat wetted. 24s mi. 20s 6d, 19s |o47s fat effis. .21s t«J, 17* 6t1.'1t.«, 16s. 15s 3d to 13s 9d; ew,i» with lambs, 12? 3d. 10s, S> 4.1. a* M. c< 10*, 8s sd. 7s 6d; wethers, Jos Id. in hoggeN no wkit.wete made at aue-'.oii. Pigs w*re again keenly comp-?'ed for. and sold at extreme rate*. • * THE CfiRiSTCHTJRCH MARKETS. Per Press Association. CatKJSIOHURCH. Octol.:r 27. The* local grain and produce inn»ket is lift'tte at pifsent. There is some : wheat on offer, but sales are difficult to effect, as buyers' and sellers* ideas of ralne ai-e s-titt's-ereral pence different. • Both oa|.j and chaff are dull of «de, the exceptional growth of this spring havinjr • considerably' curtailed th* demand for other feed. "There is only a hand to month business doing- in potatoes, and stfwks an? now- in email compass.