COMMERCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14142, 28 February 1910, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

_ «&■ TATTERSALL'S HORSE MART. The entry at Tsttersall's horse martin Saturday comprised-24 kcrses, mostly draughts. The demand for young draughts exceeded the supply, and" these yarded fetched from £'2S to £37 10s, harness horses from £3 to £ls 10s. The draught mare, Mermaid, with foal at- feet, was sold on account 'of Mr A. T. Mann, for 5-3 guineas. A yearling by Red. Rothschild fetched 30 guineas, and a two-year oil oolfc by, Mambrino King, was passed in at GO ; guineas. On the whole, the salt) teas i a. good one. ■ j THE MART. Leslie O'CaHaghan and Co. report a? follows business during tho pssi week:—Poultry: A large entry "came to hand,, and met with a gcod sale, though prices were perhaps a little easier. Hens 2s 3d to 3s 3d, cockerels 3s to 4s 3d, ducks 3s 3d to 4s, gesso 8s to 4s per pair. ..Pigs: A medium entry was offered, and sold at a slight improvement in nrices. "VTeaners sold as follows: 2 at 13s, 7 at 10s. 2 at 8s 6d, 1 at 7s 6d. Produce: chaff continue in gocd ! demand and considerable quantifies (in feed lines) were sold during the week. Potatoes ■re dull, and consignees are advised not to forward too large consignments, »* local demands are very limited. The following sale prices are fair "average runes for local sales: —Oats good feed Is 9d s.e., chaff oatsheaf 2s 6d to 3s •*., oatstraw, we sold some good lines at lOd and lid s.e., fowl wheat whole 12s fid, broken 8s to lis. Fruit: Southern supplies of peaches are about <fone_ and only small consignments are arriving. Peaches sell readily at 3d to 3|d, tomatoes Id to 2d, nlnms Id to «. apples id to Id. onions Id, butter 9a, eggs 13d. supplies wanted. Following the above sale- we held onr usual sale of fnmitnre, and household effects. Some gocd furniture was offered, and met with a ready sale Smites £lO, £9, bedsteads £3 12s* couch £1 105, deciles £2, £1 lss 9d' £1 10s, wascstand3 £1 os to £1 103," piano old £7 17s 6d, wardrobe £2 stretcher and lone list of household sundries met With a good clearance. , On Wednesday we offered a line assortment of valuable frirniture. . There was a large attendance of purt chasers, and a most successful sale resulted. A few sales made were as follows :-Pcny phaeton £47 10s, sideboards £lO 10s, £4 7s 6d, £4 ss* wardrobes £4 10s, £4 ss, duchesse £2 lis -.dncheose pair £4 15s, suite £5 15s' & bl o £ 2 , 3s ' 0^ 34 £3, washstand ♦J? s£.' """"J™ ¥' man Sles £1 7s lid xo ±.l lUs. bmalicr goods and sundr ; es met witn the usual good sale ; SALE OF SHARES*. Leslie p'Csilaghan and Co. offered on Saturday a small pared of C F C A shares paid up to £2 10s »aen 'Bid", dmg was brisk and a sale was effected at £3 Is, Mr E. A. Drake bein- the purchaser.-

BESWICK STREET P.? cos been an exceDtionali> .._. m the fruit market, in n g „,* „. ma.oes and apples. The .loraitr liave been coming-to hand in extraordinaryonantitns so that it was a mat *er of imoossibihty to sell what we had on Saturday. Apples are not asked nli r^ lU 7r es .? rs e ctt "°e about done, and like all other fruits they are en! qmred for when none are to bThad Hums hold firm and the demand for ¥£?t<Z Some,s * a * better. Produced Potatoes are connng in more freely ami SEYS"' he ""* ° f onions', ablv fal,ett Mns * d «- aply. Potatoes for prime iincs find ready buyers, but we"edy and vnrioe aorts areunsaleable. There& S raqxnry for oats ani oatensaeaf, and JP; Fudfiy: We bd the largest fe^™ aVe for 8 * mentis on s^ vud "»»*"*), and the", nmrket was firm at late rates, with a 1 W^Sf/ 5 ' Ge J B ako hardened. - | Id fa f£? aS er Apples to tw to nectarines scarce 4d, CaliforJ* S£2?ffi 2?£:*j£& fSusrs irh ftss £3*S *» to 3&, onions jd to Id. wbole 1& 6d, broken ga 'roosterar small 2s 9d - *» We«i4k 3d to ISs edTaU'at «»»aries sold^at ; fall- B^tg,g^ Mr ; :V- SALE OF OIL,PIINTrNes. : -There was a-very large attendance at Messrs a Jonas and Co.'s rooms long ■More the advertised time of the oils'* J ton safe, and it had been increased' 'Jit'; ' ~*