COMMERCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13888, 27 April 1909, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

; , AVAIMATE SALES. Wall and Eickman report upon their usual weekly sale as follows:—An entry of 53 weaners and store pigs met with a good demand as follows:—Weaners 10s to 16s, stores 17s 6(Lto £2 3s 6d. Poultry—Hens lOd to 1 - Is 7d, roosters Is 4d to Is Bd, chickens 9d to lid. Table potatoes 4s to 55,-pig potatoes Is Gd to 2s, chick Wheat 12s to 12s 6d, oats 7s to Bs, straw chaff Is, onions Id per lb, 'tomatoes lid to 2£d, oranges 3s to 3s 6d per small case, quinces 2s 3d to.2s sugar bag, apples Id to, ljd per lb ■-■ Furniture and sundries sold tip-to-full market prices. The same rirjn also held a most successful sale ot live arid dead stock, on account of Mr JA Morris at his farm, last Thursday. Tiere'Avas a large attendance of buyers, and every lot submitted met with 'competition, Draughts. Bay inafe. Svrs, Duchess of Continnfe'it, 85 <>hs-' black fillv, lvr, dam Duchess of Bonnaught. 40gns: black. colt foal by Lion's Pride £36, bag mare, aged £ll. Light horses .sold at £ls 10s, £9, £9 10ft, £9.'£4 iOs. £l7, and ponies at £9 19s 6d and ! £7.' Cows changed hands. at'v£o.. £7. £3 lis, and pigs at £4 12s &l ; "arid £2 Bs. Farm dray £9 2s (id, rX plough £l. 400 gal. tank £2 13s. adgrcart £l2. set harness £3 6s, pony iiarness £1 16s, side saddle £2 portable boiler £1 l"s. Sundries, etc.. soM up to full market prices.