Commercial.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 571, 3 January 1882, Page 2

Commercial.

ACCTIONKKIIS' HKPuHTd

Messrs R. Wilkin and Co.. report:—At the Addition V r< I a on Wednesday only a very limited supply of fat stock came forward, but as there was a great scarcity of buyers the supply proved more than cqiiiil io the requirements of the trade. In fat fliepp. the quality was quite eqnal Io the usual average, but only a few lots found buyer*, at prices a shade below late piles*; while a good supply of fat Jamhs wiiH offered, only about one-third of which chunked hands. The fat cattle yarded, comprised of £ood and medium quality sorts, for whii'li description the« e was little or tin alteration in prices compared to late sales. We sold prime crossbred wethers at its nnd 9s 3d each ; fat lambs i<t 6* 9<l to 7a 3d ; fat bullocks, from £6 5i to £7 5a each ; do heifers at £5 15s to £6 se, There wan a Bm<dl attendance of buyers at our weekly sale of sheepskins, etc., held in our New Zealand Wool Stores on Thursday. The competition was spirited, nnd all the lots ofEerpd met with a ready sale. Butchers' crossbreds were sold up fo Gs; country crossbred, large, 4s 10(1, 5s fid, 6h ; do, do, second quality, 3s ltl, 4s Id, 4s 10 ; do merino, large, 3s 4d, 4a; do, do, necond quality, 2t», 2s Bd, 3s 4(1 ; hnnbekina. large, Is 10d, 2s Id, 2s sd; do, second quality, Iβ, Is sd, Is 10d ; pelts, hirjj« and early shorn, Is sd, Is Bd, Iβ 10d ; do, medium, lOrl, Is 2d, Is 5d ; do, small mtd late shorn, 7tl, 10d. Fat and Tallow— 73 packages were catalogued. Owing to the extreme hunt of the weather affecting the condition of the fnt, there was a drop of £d per lb compared with late sales. Fat, best quality, to 2£-J peril), second ■quality. to2dperlb. For tallow there are no -quotations. Hides—Sound, 4d per lb for green hides ; 4£d per lh for a line of heavy hides-: and 4&d per lb for a special line of very dry and salted hides; hides, damaged, weighing 551bs and over, at 3d per lb; do. do, do, under 55 lbs at 2£d per lb, Calfskins—Sound, nt 4d por lb; do, out nnd dsmngfed, at 2d per lb. Wool — Wβ have the pleasure to inform our clients that our next wool w.le of the season 1881-2 will beheld on Tuesday, 17 Jan. next.

Messrs J. P. Ford and Co. report on the Live Stock market for the week ending ThiKSflny, Dec, 29, as follows: - Christmas week being so broken by hollidayn, arid the uncertainty "of buj-ers turning up on Wednesday, accounted in a very great measure fur the short supply at the Addington market; but, short as the supply was, it proved more than miflicient for the requirements of the trade, and it was with nine!) difficn ty that, lines were quitted at prices equal to previous week's rates. Of course, there are many causes for the dullness in the fat stock ■market. The trade attribute it to fish, poultry., and hot weather ; but no doubt '-the , main cause is over-supply. We quote ■mutton at l|d per Ib, and beef at 20s per 'lOOlbs. Store stock, considering the dry "weather, are Belling exceedingly well, especially store sheep. Southland lihr been draining the ponthern part of this Province of cross bred two-tootlis, and during the last raonMi we understand that upwards of 30,000 have crossed the border. This will prove a great boon to the Province generally, as they will make room for weaners, and considerably ease our pastures, which are beginning to suffer for want of rain. The total entry on Wednesday comprised 2924 sheep, 136 head of cattle, and 1)2 pijrs. U r e sold on account of Messrs S. Garforth, Alexander Piros.. the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, G. Phillips, Jamee Wilton, W. Pitt, W. A. Cheverton. Aymes, Pannett, Fantham, Grant, and others ; fat crosß-bredß from 8s Grl to 9s 6d ; store crosp-brede at G» each ; fat lambs, at from Ca to 7s 6d each ; merino ewes and wethers, mixed, at 2s 9d each. The latter were recently shorn, and had seen many summers. Fat steers we sold at £7 15s each, and privately we sold 2000 merino ewes, very jrood ewes and sound-mouthed, at. 5s o"d I'lich. Wool, skins, hides, tallow mid rough fat—At our Wool Stores on r Jf liuraday, wn v.itnlogued only a moderate supply of the !;bove. Rough fat sold at 2jd psr Hi all rjund, which was equal to il|d, for well waved hides 4d per lb ; pelts, from Iβ Gd to 2< eai-ii ; lambskins, about the same price. We licg , to remind our clients that our next wool sales will take pince on Tuesday, January 17, and as it is ol very pient importance the catalogues KJicm'.d be issued some dxys previous to f[:r- nan- v.c shall feel p; , rtii-ularly obliged vfviri bo : '-iJe-ci an H.arly as