LOCAL MARKETS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 282, 1 April 1879, Page 2

LOCAL MARKETS.

Messrs H. Mateori and Co. report on the Live Stock market, &c, for the week ending Friday, March 28, as follows ; — Live Stock.—Last Wednesday's sale at the Addington Yards again exhibited a falling off in the quantity of stock penned under the previous week's numbers, much to the advantage of all concerned, as the crowded state of the market for some months past has been such as to be far in advance of the demand, necessarily upseting the equality of values, and making them both irregular and unsatisfactory. For several weeks the supply has been much lighter, giving " the trade" an opportunity of clearing their paddocks, and on Wednesday last the competition for all classes of sheep, especially prime quality mutton, was decidedly keener, and nearly all lines were cleared at slightly advanced rates. In beef, there is little or no improvement in values, prices being as varied as the quality to hand, and for light weights extremely low rates are ruling. Of store cattle there were very few on offer, and prices obtainable afforded no inducement for larger supplies. The total yarded for the day comprised 276 head of cattle, 4332 sheep, and 92 pigs, of which our entry comprised 171 head of cattle, 1327 sheep, and 37 pigs,. For fat cattle our principal sales are 2 at £8 2s 6d, 4 at £7 15s, 4 at £7 ss, 5 at £7 10s, 5 at £6, 2 at £8, 4 at £7 2s 6d, 3 at £7 ss, 5 at £7 17s Gd, 4at£72s 6d Stores—lß at £4, 7 at £3 15s, 5 at £2 12s 6d, 10 at £1 19s, 4 calves at 265, 4do at 12s, 4 at £2 2s 6d, 7at £2 10s, &c. ' Sheep—loo mixed crossbreds at 9s, 50 crossbred ewes at 9s, 75 mixed at 7s, 93 at 7s, 31 at 7s 9d. 50 at 7s, 20 at 9s. Stores—3B ewes at 4s Gd, 62 lambs at 3s, 64 do at 4s Id, 203 breeding cross-bred ewes at 3s, 25 at 5s 9d. Fat lambs .to 6s 6d. Pigs (in good demand) —8 small stores at 7s, 8 at ss, 3at 18s, 7 at 10s 6d, 9at 7s, 4at 225, &c. Wool, Sheepskins, Hides and Tallow.— At the usual weekly sale of the above, held yesterday, at our Canterbury Stores, 2769 sheepskins, 253 lambskins, 154 bags and packages of butchers' rough fat, 6 casks of tallow, and 83 oj. hides, comprised the catalogue. There was a fair attendance of woolscourers, fellraongers, and others, and competition, although languid, was a little better than last week, all lots being cleared at prices as under .• —Fullwooled skins, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; best crossbred pelts, Is 6d, Is 9d, 2s Id ; medium, do, Is, Is 2d," to Is 4d ; best merinos, Is, Is 3d, to Is 5d ; second quality, 7d, 9d, to lid ; lambskins, 2s, 2s 3d, to 2s 6d ; inferior, Bd, Is, Is, Is 3d, to Is 6d. Rough Fat—Best dry, well saved, lfd, l£d, to 2d per lb ; second quality, l|d, lfd, to l|d ; inferior and heated, Id per lb. Cask tallow, 19s to 21s per cwt. Salted ox hides, 3jd ; green, 2£d. Calfskins, 4d per lb.

INTERPROVINCIAL COMMERCIAL TELEGRAMS. Oamaru, March 2%. The following are current quotations :— Prime milling wheat, 3s 2d to 3s 5d per fowl-feed, 2s 6d do ; prime short oats, 2s 4d do ; do feed do, 2s Id ; prime malting barley, 5s to 5s 6d do ; potatoes, 60s per ton ; flour, £8 15s to £9 5s do, f.o.b. Ddnedin, March 28. Bullocks brought up to £12 10s per head at the weekly sale, cows up to £12 ss, or equal to 30s per lOOlbs for prime quality, medium, 24s to 275. Fat calves, 19-were yarded and sold at late quotations. Fat sheep*--Best cross-breds brought up to lis 6d each; merinos, medium, 7s. Mutton, 2d per lb. Fat lambs.—These were sold at 6s 3d to lis each. Store Sheep.—No change to report in this class of stock. Enquiry continues brisk for young sheep, especially merinos, of which few are offering - Quotations are unaltered. Store Cattle—No transactions to report. • Inveroargill, March 28.. Quotations remain the satue as those of last week," with the exception of oats; which cannot be quoted over 2s 3d for good samples