Commercial

Clutha Leader, Volume IV, Issue 203, 31 May 1878, Page 4

Commercial

Mr A. MERCER reports for the "week ending- ' May 29, as follows :-- Retail prices only.— Fresh butter, in jib and lib prints, Is 4d to ls 6rl per lb ; fresh buttor in ' lumps, Is 3d per lb ;> powdered and salt buSier^. ■ Ik 2d to ls 3d por lb. Fresh butter is' nowrealfy scarce and some of the shops nre short supplied^ and butter has advanced on that account, f-'alt. butter in kegs, 10 Jd to lid. Cheese, best qunlitv, 9d to lOd. Side and rolled bacon, 9d to 10'Tj: Colonial hams, ls ; English hams, Is 2d to Is _■>.'■ English cheese, Is 4d, hut no domand for either. Eggs still remain scarce, and retailing at 3_ 64 per do2en.

Messrs Maclean Bbothebs report for. the 7 week ending May 29, as follows ;— Fat Cattlfl.— An unusually small supply of 7B*head of all descriptions came forward for to-day's V market. Butchers, however, seemed to he well ' supplied, and although barely half of the above v. were of prime quality, prices— while they advanced considerably— did not reach such a high ' limit as might have been expected.: Bullocks fetched from £9 to £13 17s fid; cows, from £ft '* ! to £9 10s- or eqnal to about 30s for prime, and I 22s 6d to 25s for inferior to ordinary per 100 1b,.. | Fat Calves.— None, forward. , V *' Fat Sheep.— A moderate supply of 240T Wad--, / penned, nearly all cross-bred of ' good quality. The demand was fairly active, nnd with the exception of about 150, all found buyers at, equal ,; to about last week's rates. At tlie yards we sold - 742 sheep as follows : On account of the New Zealand and Australian Land Company, .4(_(> cross-breds at 13s ; on account of Mr William ' Turnbull, 343 cross-breds at 10s to 13s 6d, ■orY equal to 2,} d per lb. .■"■'.* Fat Lambs.-— None forward, ... \ Store Cattle.— No transactions to reportY ' Store Sheep. I—Have1 — Have been offering more freely during the week, and we havo several sales-pencil-ing. Quotations without change. Country Sales.— "We would direct attention 'to* ~i the sales - of farm stock at Wangaloa on 31 i -'--.inst.p: , , ?l-o to a salo of farms in Tokomairiro D strict on : the Bth proximo, at our rooms, Manserstreet.- V "Wool. -The following telegram has been' re* ceived from London :—" Since the opening of' A the wooYsales 91,800 bales have. 'been offered. • ' The decline at tho opening has since recovered --' except for cross-breds. " . ../.;.. Sheepskins and Hides.— The supply continue*; 1 " very small, and the lots offered at auction thtex ' week have been quite inconsiderable; Privately -: - we have placed 4<>oo skins at' fair value V, ---A-, YY Tallow appears in easier request ■ Quotations- •"" K without changn. „ : •,.,;' a" X ';', Grain. — Wheat haa met with fair enquiry, but 1 . ** : transactions have been unimportant.- Primo--- "' quality may be quoted at. 4s 3d to 4s 4d: gooSt AA milling, 4s to 4a 2d. . Barley of prime malting V quality is almost out of the marke'tj' and fee_inir and nulling sorts are in short supply,-. •Quotations'' ; nominal. Oats are without change, as regards: " value, and stocks continue very light. We quote t?ro n t 1 7/ cc , d #. 3a 4d ' heay y ' , *-at 3s 5d to 3s 6d. .- ; • „-. *