COMMERCIAL.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 76, 10 April 1877, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Christchurch.

Butter meets with little or no inquiry, our quotations are nominally 10d to lid. Cheese is in fair demand at to 6d. Messrs H. Mataon and Co. report on the Live Stock Market, &c., for the week ending Friday, April 6, 1877:—441 cattle, 11,236 sheep, and 210 pigs were entered for the week's supply. At the Addington yards on Wednesday last there was a fair attendance and brisk competition. Our entries for the day comprised 321 head of cattle, 6165 sheep, and 187 pigs. In cattle, the beef to hand was very prime ; Messrs Stanbury and • Geo. Kindley's pens being the best quality on our books for the day, which sold at prices varying from £8, £9 12s 6d to £12 5s per head. Young , stock in large lines from £3 10s to £4 2s 6d ; and fresh conditioned store cattle, £6 I.os to £7 12s 6d to £8 per head. Milch cows and springers are in great request, at from £10 to £15 for good description, we disposed of the bulk of our entries. In sheep we disposed of all our entries. Mr. Leadley's 201 cross-breds, at 12s per head; Mr. R. B. Frith, 70 do., Bs3d to 8s 9d ; Mr. W. Boag, 146 cross-breds, at 10s ; 113 crossbreds, for Mr. T. II Potts, 9a to 11s per head ; 345 cross-breds and merinos, at 7s 6d to 9s Gd, for Mr. Elder; 120 crossbred lambs, from 6s 3d to 7s, for Mr. H. Maddison ; 143 lambs for Mr. Sutherland, at 7s ; 277 cross-bred two-tooth wethers, at 8s 6d, and 388 do. ewes, at 8s 6d, for Mr. Leonard White ; 611 merino ewes, culls, at 8s lid. for Messrs Morten and White ; 657 merino ewes, at 3s 6d, for Mr. E. M. Templar, also 424 lambs, at 5s 6d per head ; 108 cross-breds at 9s 9d, and 60 merino wethers at 8s for Mr. Thos. Dowh'ng ; 154 lambs, at 7s, for Mr. Strachan ; 134 do., at 7s 6d, for Mr. Chisnall; 80 cross-breds at 9s for Mr. Trigger, 400 merino wethers at 7s 9d for Mr. Johns ; 227 2-tooths at 8s 6d per head, and sundry lines for various owners at fair values. In pigs, we disposed of our entries at various rates. Wool, sheepskins, hides, tallow, &c. 48 bales of wool, 170 hides, several thousand sheep and lambskins, and several bags of rough fat were catalogued for our sale yesterday at the wool stores. We would draw the especial attention of our constituents to the absolute necessity of having the skins taken off with greater care, as in many instances the loss to the vendor is considerable. The wool offered met with keen competition ; cross-bred realised, for ordinary quality, from 8d to B£d per lb ; merino, B£d to 9d, 9£d to 9|d per 1b ; lambs wool, 9d 9|d 10d to 10£ d per lb ; best cross-bred skins, 3s 6d 3s 9d to 3s lid each ; second do., 2s 6d 2s 9d to 2s; ordinary to inferior, Is 10d to 2s each ; best merino, 2s 5d 2s 7d 2s 9d and 2s 10d each ; best lambs, 3s 3s 4d 3s 7d to 3s 9d each ; hides salted, 4d per lb ; green, 3fd per lb ; calf, 6d per lb ; rough fat, to 2£d perlb.