COMMERCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13974, 7 August 1909, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

LANII : Guinness and LeCreu, Ltd., report having sold, or acteounfc of Mr R. JMcKeown, 160 acres of rich alluvial land situate at Taftara Valley, Pleasant Point, to Mr A. Bishop, of Pleasant Point,-who is .to congratulated on -having secured the finest block' of wheat-growing land in the far-famed Totara Valley. The remaining unsold portion of the ■> Park estate, ' consisting of 153 of rich alluvial land,, is tinder, offer,-vintl we expect to • quit the- block in a ffew days. . CLEARING SALE. - The'NationaV Mortgage and Agency •Company of. New ■Zealand, Ltd., report "as i follows^-^-We"held a' clearing - ■isale : -at-.Clandeboye. on -account of the trustees, in the - estate .of, tlie late Thos. Colbert, on Thursday- last. There was aJargo; atteiftjance'Vof■.■farmers and others sal«i, ;apd judging by the ■ competition ; for every, lot offered, the iHOjority of those..presenfc were buyers. • 31ie .following - the realised prices,—Cows, springing, £6, £6 15s, £7/ £T 10/, ■£%. 15sI £8 to £9 ss-; store steers-rto £s•', -empty, heifers, £S 12s 6d:-~calves, 10d. Pigs, porkers ~ 325, breeding £L2s 6d, slips 12s T to lis.'--'Horsed, "jipc-draught feelding "£2O IDs/ njfed -mare-'£B, d 0.,£8 10s- - •' rtgrnifiire;and sundries all .sold "at full valms. Preceding tlie alK>ye clearinK sarefitce, offered the. pood_wiH - of'the lease of "113* acres, education reserve,'but' no sale resulted, tl>p hpst Offer not being up to the 'trustees "idea of f « „

TIMARU GRAIN'-jViARKET? « j- -- , . . Business has-'not been of a very nafaifejmthte'lnraUwhoa^raarkct - .pasfc week, although sonip, "large away, .and •' imore -are-expected!to' follow shortly. A ; small line" changed jhands at 4s 6d on \ trucksj~which> isceqtiivalent to 4s. 8d * f:o;h. iA .Thera v little- wheat oft" a fering,~ anE holders ireL still stiff. The in the Australia!! a v markets -da '•rioi-.*seeni £o- have re-acfcctl a'here,' .that some, - airfivity twill 'soon' he' sllown on account of "" the replenish. ■i stocks. ' to be waited. r *of the; . Assedation * "before' .-commencing operra- ' . Trgnjactidns -in oats are ;/also ratheii quotations ' range fronf 'ls '9}d--to r 1a 10$ d f.0.h.. si.' - Special tines have so'd *" atf Is ' '.in' small quataM£i^s.%- x - , r ~~ 'z ~ -"2" X- -< ■