COMMERCIAL.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 174, 19 March 1878, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

FROM THE LYTTELTON TIMES. Christchurch, Friday Evening. GRAIN AND PRODUCE. Eloue. —A good trade has teen done in this article. Prices are unaltered, £11 to £12.

Grass Seed. —We cannot report any alteration In cocksfoot. For geod samples we quote to 6£d. Dairy PkodOce.— Butter, 8d ; cheese, s£d. Hams and bacon unaltered.

Messrs H. Matson and Co. report as follows on the live etock market, &c, for the week ending Friday, March the 15th, 1878:— Addington Yards.—There was & very large supply of stock at these yards on Wednesday last, the market being crowded to excess, 631 head cattle, 9704 sheep, and 178 pigs comprising the total •entry. In sheep, prices realised were most satisfactory throughout the whole of the sale. Our entry comprised 540 head of cattle, 5737 sheep, and 151 pigs. In Cattle, we sold 15 head at £10 ss, 4 at £9 15s, 3 at £9 10s, 3 at £8 ss, 4 <6,t .£B, 4 at £7 15s, 5 at £7 10s, 4 at £7 ; 22 *head stores at £3, 30 at £3 10s, .13 at £2 10s, 6 at £2 13s 6d, 7 at £4 7s 6d, 8 at £3 3s 6d, 5 at £4 7s 6d, 3 at £4 2s 6d, 10 at £5,14 at £6 17s 6d, 9 at £5 15s; and various other lines at equal rates. In Sheep, our principal sales were 106 2-tooth ewes at 8s 6d; 180 crossbred wethers, at 12s to 13s; 212 2-tooth - cross-breds at 8s 6d ; 50 cross-bred wethers, at 9s 9d ; 140 prime cross-bred -wethers, at 11s 9d ; 420 merino ewes, at 4s, 5s 6d, to 6s; 100 medium weight cross-breds, at 9s 6d ; 88 merino ewes, at 4s 6d ; 100 cross-bred wethers, at 10s ; 221 lambs, at 7s 3d; 233 cross-bred wethers, at 9s; 307 do, at 11s to 11s 3d ; 108 do, at 10s 6d to 10s 9d ; 308 cull merino ewes, at 2s 9d ; 641 do, at 3s lid, and, in conjunction with this line, the balance of 1700 of the same class not then brought forward, but to be delivered in a week, 115 cull merino ewes at 2s, and many other .small lots at equal good rates. Pigs sold ■very dull, little or no competition being shown, our lots being cleared at 2s 6d, 4s 10d, 18s, 16s to 37s each. Wool, Sheepskins, Hides, and Tallow—232o sheepskins, pelts, and lambskins, 110 bags rough fat, and 205 ox hides were catalogued for yesterday's sale at our stores. There was a fair average attendance of buyers, and prices continue to show an •advance upon each previous sale. Woollies, 4s 6d to 5s 4d ; best cross-bred pelts, 2s 6d, 2s 9d, to 3s 4d ; best merino pelts, Is 9d, 2e, to 2s 2d ; medium country skins, Iβ, Is 3d, to Is 6d ; inferior and salty from Is 6d; lambskins, 2s 3d, 2a 7d, 2s 9d, to 3s each. Rough fat.—Best, 2£, d to 3d per lb ; medium, Ifd to 2£d ; interior and heated, Id to l£d. Hides.—Salted ship hides. 4£d; Canterbury do, 4§d; damaged, do, 2£d ; green, 3| ; calfskins, 5d per lb.; Canterbury Ram and Ewe Fair.—The demand for both Lincoln and Leicester sheep was dull in the extreme. Canterbury Horse Market—At Tattersall's on March 9. 128 horses were offered for sale here this day. For really good draught stock we quote no lack of enquiry, but the number of really useful sorts brought forward is very limited. Our quotations are—Best draughts, £50, 4-55, to £60 each : medium weight draughts, £38, £43. ito £48 each ; goed hacks and carriage horses,* £22, £28, to £32; inferior and .weeds, £14, £12, to £8 each.