LOCAL MARKETS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 298, 27 May 1879, Page 2

LOCAL MARKETS.

Messrs H. Matson and Co. report :— on the Live Stock market for the week ending Thursday, May 22. as follows : — Live stock Market.—On Wednesday, at the Metropolitan Cattle. Yards, another very small supply of good beef and mutton was yarded for the day's requirements. At last we may safely quote that the downward tendency in the price of fat stock has been arrested, and as the winter progresses we may reasonably expect that both beef and mutton will become more valuable every day. The entries of fat and store slock for the day comprise 329G sheep, 188 head of cattle, and 80 pigs, of which our entry consisted of 1003 sheep 62 head of cattle, and 31 pigs. There was a fair attendance of buyers, and in fat stock biddings were free and even throughout.

Fat Sheep.—A rise of from one shilling to two shillings per head in price was accepted for really good mutton, while medium quality may be quoted at from 6d to Is per head. Fat Cattle.—There was a small entry, and not over and above gpodjn quality ; still beef may be quoted at',2s 6d per lOOlbs higher than last Week.' Sheepskins, Hides, and Tallow.—On Tnesdaj r at our Canterbury Wool Stores, we held our usual weekly sale of sheepskins, hides, fat, and tallow. &c, when our catalogue consisted of 3694 sheepskins, 144 hides, 83 bags rough fat, and several tallow. There was a fair attendance of purchasers, and bidding was very spirited, every line with the exception of hides being quitted at prices considerably iv advance of those ruling last week, the advance being most noticeable in butchers' crossbred skins. A much larger price would have been obtained, but on account of last week's very sultry weather the skins did not come forward in such good. condition as usual. Country woolly cross-bred skins brought as high as 4s 7d each; do do merino, 4s 9d. Butchers' best cross-b'reds brought 2s 9d, 3s, 3s 3d, 3s 5d to 3s 7d ; medium quality, Is Bd, Is 6d, Iμ 9d, 2s, 2s 3d, 2s Gd to 2s 8d ; inferior and lately shorn, 3d/Cd, 9d to lid. Butchers' best merinos brought Is 3d, Is 6d, Is 9d, 2s to 2s 2d ; medium and inferior, 3d, 6d, Od, Iβ,

to Is 2d. Butchers' best rough fat brought Ifd, 2d to 2£d ; inferior and badly saved, Jd to l£d per lb ; tallow 18s per cwt. Hides and calfskins unsold. Canterbury Horse Market.-—On Saturday, we held our usual weekly sale at Tatter88ll's of horses, traps, &c, when 78 horses, were submitted for the day's auction.' Ouf quotations are—for young sound heavy-, draughf horses £40 to £52, second class £25 to £37 ; light harness horses, really , good, £18 to £32 ; first-class hacks, £15 l to £28 j weeds, 20s to £10. "Produce.—On Friday we held a sale of hay, oats, potatoes, grass seed, &c, at our Canterbpry ;\yool/-Storeß.-- T was a poor attendance, a»nd evWythiilg WHh the exception" of potatoes and oats, bidding was withont spirit, and the business done, was very limited. We sold 60 bags very inferior Tartarian oats at 2s 5d per bushel and 101 sacks also very inferior, at 2d 4d per bushel. We sold 16 tons potatoes at £3 7s 6d, bags Gd each, also 3 tons at £3 9s, bags included.