LOCAL MARKETS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 260, 14 January 1879, Page 2

LOCAL MARKETS.

Messrs H. Matson and Co. report on the live-stock market, &c, for the week ending Thursday Jan. 9, as follows: The Metropolitan Market held yesterday presented a large entry of • stock, 264 head of cattle, 651. sheep, and 57 pigß being penned for tiie coming week's supplies. Of this number fully two-thirds of the .beep were fat There was an average attendance of the trade, but sales opened and continued dull throughout the day, a general drop of ls per head upon all classes of fat sheep being the result. Stores were a small entry, prices for which were no better than, a month ago. Of beef there was a large supply, but although the weights were not heavy, the quality in several instances was .undeniable, and for such, pi ices, ruled high' and in advance of last week's rates. Store cattle show but little or no improvement in value, but the pretence of one or two buyers from South put a little more animation into yesterday's sale, and several extra lines were cleared which would not otherwise have been done. In fat cattle prices ranged from £7 17s 6d to £10; stores from .£l. 15s to £6 ss; -.lingers and milch cows from £6 10s to £il." In sheep we sold cross-breds at from 7 ■■■■ to lis 6d ;76 merinos at ss; 358 woolly •m.Tgetts at 6s 9d, 95 do at 8s 9d, 142 cull lam os at 2s, 128 do merino eweß at ls 3d, ->_9 mixed cross-breds at ss, 190 do at 4s 6d to 5s 9d, 66 Is &c; fat lambs, •{is to 8s 6d ; pigs, Bs, 18s, to 57s 6d. Wool, Sheepskins, Hides, and Tallow.— At the usual weekly sale of the above, held this day at the Canterbury Wool' Stores, 2775 pelts and sheepskins, 250 lambskins, 120 bags wool, 144 of rough fat, and 118 ex hides comprised the catalogue, all of which were sold. There was an average attendance of buyers, but competition was a little dull, and prices'slightly easier than last week. Best cross-bred skins made ss,

5". •'• i, 5j oil. to 5s 9d ; ordinary to fair, 3s I'Jcl. 4s, 4s sd, 4s Bd, to 4slod; best me-Tic:-,. 4s .10d, 5s 2d, 5s 6d, to 5s 7d> c : ntni, 3s 4d, 3s Bd, 4s, to 4s 6d, Coun-

:•>■ skins from Is to 4s 6d as per description. Wm3ol, 4d to 7d per lb ; pieces, 3d to 5*A .; locks, fd to 2£d. Butchers' rough fac,'2d. , 2Jd, to2fd, per lb ; inferior, Id to Ifd ; salted ox hides, 3£d per lb. Our second wool sale of the season was held tin Tuesday, Jan. 7, when 58C bales were catalogued, a detailed report of tbe proceedings having been already published.