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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 102, 10 July 1877, Page 2

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ITROM THE LYTTELTON TIMES . Christchurch, Friday Evening. GRAIN AND PRODUCE. The quietness marking the grain and produce market, noticed in our last reporl, lias also characterised the transactions of the past week. 'As seed sowing is engaging the attention of most of the farmers, few have been in.town, and little business consequently can be recorded. Wheat.—ln this cereal a limited trade has been done, mostly confined to millers' parcels. The drooping market in England, and the advised sales by public auction in ' Melboiirne 'of eecqftd-class wheat at prices tVat are not encouraging, has had the effect • of Weakening the value of this description here. ,Best quality, however ia not affected, as th 6. quantities held will not .be more than are required for local and coastwise consumption. A large line of some 10,000 bushels has been placed at 6s 6d. Oats. —In the present speculative tone of the market it is very difficult to arrive ,-at the true value of oats. All sorts ot prices are mentioned. Holders do not care to quote, and chow a decided intention of holdiugfor higher prices. . Buyers offer 3s to 3s 3d. Barley.—Only feed is offering, and prices range from 2s 3d upwards. " TLOPR. —Guaranteed parcels are worth £17 f.o.b. The millers are full of orders. PoiatoEs are being offered much more freely and prices have declined somewhat. Farmers are asking 40s, but buyers hold off. They may be quoted* at 37s 6d to 40s. ' Daiby Produce.—Butter and cheese are exceedingly . dull of sale, the market having complotely given way. Prices range from 6d to 8d for butter, and 5d for cheese. Hams and bacon —Farmer's cure, 4£d to 6d ; factory, 7d to 7£d, in cloth. STOCK AND STATIONS. At the Addington Saleyards, on Wednesday, 3168 sheep and 207 head of cattle were passed. The sale for all descriptions of. sheep was dull throughout, which resulted in a large proportion being withdrawn. For best cross-breds, 13s 6d was . obtained. A good number of fat merinos come forward ; best quality sold at 8s 9d .each.; second do, Bs. Several pens of .good quality turnip-fed merinos were passed in at 9s. We quote 2d per lb as the average for mutton. The cattle yarded consisted principally 6f quiefc stores in good condition ; mixed two-year-olds sold at from £5 to £5 10s each ; three-year-olds from £7 10s to £8 2s 6d each ; several pens of fair quality beef changed hands at from.26s to 28s per lOOlbs. Messrs H. Matson and Co report on the live stock market &c, for the week ending July 6, 1877, as follows :—At the Addington market only a limited supply came forward", and competition was the reverse of keen, in fact, the sale was very dull throughout the day. Our entries composed 93 head of cattle and 1984 sheep, topping the market in cattle with Messrs Hay's heifers at £15 15s per head, and in sheep with Mr. T. H] Pannett's cross-breds at 17s, Mr. G. Holmes' merinos at 9s perhead. We cleared the whole of our entries at for fat cattle, £10 10s, £11 ss, £12 to £1515s per head ; for lighter weights, £7 153, £8 to £9 10s per head ; milch cows, £8 10s to£l2 to£l4; young stock at good values. In sheep, we sold 116 cross-breds at 16s 0d to 17s per head ; 99 do, at 13s 9d ; 119 do, at 13s 6d; 24 merinos, at 8s; 54 crossbreds, at 12s; 135 do v at 11s 9d ; 317 merinos, at 9s ; 351 merino ewes, at 4s l.Od 201 do wethers, at 8s 6d ; 119 hoggets at 8s ; 20 do, at 8s 6d ; 59 cross-breds at lls ; 193 do, at 8s 9d ; 179-shorn lambs, at 6s 6d and sundry lines at market rates. Outside, we have sold a line of cross-breds, fat, at los 6d per head. At our weekly auction on Thursday a fair supply was catalogued £569 slieeps'kins, 80 hides, no-wool, and 80 sacks butchers' rough fat, the whole of •which realised fairly. Best butchers' crossbred*;, 5s 6d, 5s 9d to 6a ; second do, 4s 3d, 4s 6d, 4s 9d, to 5s 3d ; merino, 3s 3s 5d to 3s lid each; second* quality, 2s 6d ; country skins, 2s 3d to 3s 6d, and 5s each ; hides-(salted), 4|d per lb ; green do, 3£d" . per lb ; calf, Gd ; rough fat beet, 2£d, 2|d, to 3d per lb ; seconds, 2d, 2|d to 2fd per lb ; keg and cask fat, 26s t0..31s per cwt.