STOCK AND STATIONS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 254, 24 December 1878, Page 2

STOCK AND STATIONS.

With the exception of light and partial showers of rain, which merely had ...the effect of cooling the atmosphere tem•porarily, there lias been no material change 'in 4he weather. Feed in many districts is .quite dried up, arid some of the late crops, that'there was no hope of recovering even with-rain, stock has been turned on to feed off, with the hope of preparing the land for turnips. At Addington on Wednesday, ■6300 sheep aiuijarubs, 248 cattle, and 58 pigs were yarded. Fat Sheep in moderate supply, the bulk -•of the sheep brought forward being only -of medium quality, and as it was known Vfthere would not be another market for ten 4ays in consequence of the Christmas . holidays, a fair demand was expected but not realised. Last week's prices would not have been sustained but for the requirements for the West Coast trade. Fat Lambs again in full supply, realising' from 8s 6d downwards. Fat Cattle in good supply and better quality, but in email demand, causing a decline in prices, prime quality making from 32s 6d ±o 355, medium and inferior 255, 27s 6d to 30s, according to quality. Stores.—Nβ improvement, the continued = drought being.a bar to.aay operations in I these lines. Messrs Eobert Wilkin and Cα. report ?.■ — Wool—We have now in store about 60Q bales for our second-sale. Sheepskins.— 1 At our sale on .Thursday 1981 skins werecatalogued and all sold. There was a fair attendance >of buyers, with fair biddings, :as follows.:—Crossbred, large,*well-woolled 10d, 6s, to. 6s 2d each ; crossbreds, jniediuin, 3s 2d + o 5s 10d each ; crossbreds, small and inferior, Is 10d, 2s 6d, to 3s 2d each; merino, large, full-woolled, 5s 3d, t 'ss Bd, to 6s 2d each ; do, rnedinm, 3s to 5s 3d each ; do small and inferior, 2s 2s 6d, to 3s each ; lambskins, 1«, Is 2d, to Is 3d each; pelts, Id to lid each. Tallow.— Wβ only catalogued a small quantity of rough fat, for which there was a brisk competition. Best clean, well-saved, •to 2|d per lb ; second quality, lfd to 2£d per lb. - i.jdes wepa all disposed of at the following prices 3d per lb ; fresh, 2£tf perJb; damaged, 2|d per lb ; calfskins, 4i per lb, And damaged half price. .■■.:'

INTJSRPBQVJSCIAL COMMERCIAL TELEGRAMS. " Auckland, Dec. 20. The following are current quotations :— Flour, Southern, £10 to £11; Adelaide, £14 10s to. £15 ; cheese 7£d to Bd,' hams and bacon, cloth, : 8d to -8|- per lb; do, bare, ,6d to"6£d ; potatoes, £7 10 to £8, Store cattle dull of sale, low values ; ■fat cattle full supply, last week's prices were obtained. Store sheep dull ; several pens passed. Fat sheep, usual numbers, not well.fatted. Choice lambs, 11s to 14s. " DuNEDiH Dec. 20. Flouiy f.Ovb., £9 10s to £10 10s, wheat 4s t0,4.8 3d, oats 3s to 4s Id, Hams and bacon in feir supply at B|d.

, ; - -. ,■. LONDON WOOL SALES. N.Z. Loan and mercantile Agency Cempany, Limited, have received.the following telegram from London, dated Dec. 18 .— Wool.—The sales closed firmly on Dec. 17, and comprised about 160,000 bales, .35,000 of which have been held over for

future disposal, and 85,000 taken for export. The sales closed at an average decline of Id to l£d per lb on last sale I prices, the.principal decline being in crossbred, medium, and inferior,, marked ;* scoured haa declined to 2d ( per lb/ A good many- second-hand parcels have been offered Muring the past sales. ;'_ ' • ■