Commercial.

Western Star, 13 August 1912, Page 3

Commercial.

PRICKS (JUKRENT. WHOLESALE. Butter, farm lOd, separator lld Cheese 7sd Hams B|d Chaff £3 Iss Elour £|o to £ll Oatmeal £l3 to £l6 Bran £5 Pollard £7 Potatoes £5 ton Oats Is 9d to Is lOd Eggs Is

RETAIL Eurm butter Is separator Is Id Butter (factory) pats Js 4d Cheese 9d Eggs Is 3d Bacon Jld Hams lOd Flour 501 b 5s 9d Oatmeal 501 b 7s 6d IB an 5s 9d Pollard 12s Chaff £4 6a Potatoes 6s cwt Oats 2s 6d bushel Wheat 4s Gd BRAY BROS.

Messrs Bray Bros, report the following sales on Saturday: Poultry.—Hens, Is 6d to 2s 4d, cockerels, Is 9d to 2s 2d; ducks, 2s 7d. Produce.—Potatoes, £6 per ton; chaff £3 15s to £4 5s per ton; oats, 6s to 10s per sack; wheat, 8s to 12s per sack; straw, £2 5s per ton; horse carrots, 4s 6d per sack; onions, 14s per cwt. Vegetables. Cabbage, 3s per sack; carrots, 3s 6d per bag; swedes, Is 6d per sack; pumpkins, 7s per cwt; parsnips, 5s per bag. Fruit. Apples (cooking), 7s per case; apples (dessert), 6s 6d to 9s; Hobart apples, 11s 6d per case; oranges (Sydney), 10s per case; oranges (marmalade), 8s per case; mandarins, 13s 6d; lemons (Adelaide), 11s per case; pears (cooking), l|d per lb. THE RIALTO. Wo. Todd and Co. report the following sales on Saturday: Poultry. Splendid entry; strong demand; 350 entered and sold. Hens, Is 9d to 2s sd; laying hens, 2s 9d to 3s; pullets, 3s 6d to 3s lid; roosters (table birds), Is 8d to 2s 4d; Minorca cockerels, 4s 6d; White Leghorn cockerels, 3s 3d to 3s 7d; ducks, 2s 9d to 3s lOd ; turkey hens, 4s 6d to 6s 6d; turkey gobblers, 8s to 9s 6d; geese, 3s Id to 3s lOd.

Pigs.—Heavy entry; keen demand; 55 entered and sold ; suckers, 11s to 13s ; weaners, 14s 3d to 15s; slips, 16s 6d to 20s; stores, 35s to 38s; young Berkshire sows, £2 5s to £2 13s; Yorkshire sow, £4 13s. Ono calf, 16s 6d Produce, Etc.—Table potatoes, £5 10s to £6 per ton; early seed potatoes, 10s to 12s per cwt; prime Victorian onions, 20s cwt; Prime Canterbury onions, 15s cwt; oats, 7s 6d to 9s sack; wheat, 12s 6d sack; carrots, 3s per bag. Fruit, Etc.—Local cooking apples, 4s to 6s; Canterbury do., 6s 6d to 7s; Canterbury dessert do., 8s 6d to 9s; Island oranges, 13s 6d; Sevilles, 9s. EXCHANGE SALE ROOMS. McKay Bros, report: Poultry.—Hens, Is 7d to 2s; cockerels, Is Id to 2s; pullets, to 3s 7d; ducks, 2s lOd,

Pigs.—Suckers, 17s to 19s. Produce, Etc. —Potatoes, 9s to 10s sack; onions, 22s (Victorian), turnips, la 6d to 2s; carrots, 3s to 4s; wheat, 13s Gd, auction, 2s 3d to 8s; oats, good feed, 10s; auction, 3s to 6s; wheatmeal, 12s; oat dust, 2s 3d. Fruit.—Mandarins, 13s 6d; oranges, (Sydney), 11s, Island, 13s Cd; pines, 12s 6d ; lemons, 12s 6d ; apples( Canterbury) 7s 6d; Hobart, lls to 12s; passions, Bs. INVERCARGILL HORSE MARKET. Messrs J. A. Mitchell and Co. report having had an entry of 30 horses at their usual sale on Saturday. The majority of the entry was of an ordinary class, but some really good draughts came forward. For the latter class there was spirited competition, and by auction and privately they disposed of nearly the whole the likely sorts at prices quite equal to those lately ruling. Some of the prices were: On account of W. Baird, one nice mare, £4O, and a colt at £35 ; lighter gelding at £2B 10s, and an aged do. at £l9 10s. On account other vendors they sold draughts at £35 10s. down to £2B for good <orts. ordinary, £25 to £ls; old and stiff not wanted. Hacks and light harness horses —On account Wm. Dawson, five-year-old gelding at £2O; account other vendors, £l4 to £lO for useful sorts; aged and weedy, £7 downwards.