Commercial.

Evening Star, Issue 3169, 17 April 1873, Page 2

Commercial.

The amount of revenue received at the Cus-tom-house on goods cleared for consumption ibis day, was L9Ol 4s.

Messrs Driver, Stewart, and Co. report for the week ending 10th April:— Stock. —Fat Cattle : 52 head were yarded, about half, being of prime quality, brought fully quotations, say 20s per lOOlbs. We sold 50 head, and have also placed 00 head privately. Fat Sheep : Only about 00 cross-bred ewes were penned, and brought 12s 3d to 12s Cd; 170 merino wethers at 3s 3d to 0s 3d ; 00 ewes at 7s, We sold 250 as above, and have privately placed 1,000 merinos and 750 cross-bmls. Wc quote cross-breds, prime, at2£d per lb. ; merinos at 2] cl per lb. Store Cattle are saleable with but few desirable lots offered. A few small lots have changed hands at L 3 to LI for bullocks, and L2 to L2 10s for mixed cattle. Store Sheep continue in good request at 10s to 12s for cross-bred wethers, and 12s to 15s for cross-bred ewes ; do lambs, 8s to 9s ; merino wethers, 0s 6d to 7s ; do ewes, 2 to 6-tooth, 6s to 7s 6d; do, full-mouthed, 4s to ss. We have gold 1,500 old ewes, in land), at 7s ; 1,000 crossbreds, at 10s 6d ; 1,000 do, at 12s ; and 1,000 mixed merinos, at 5s 6d. Station Property.— During the past week We have disposed of the following properties, namely: On account of Messrs Dalgety, Nichols, and Co., the Eyre Creek Station, Province of Southland, consisting of 40,000 acres leasehold, and 5,100 freehold, with 23,000 sheep, for the sum of L 25,000 ; also, on account of Mr Peter M'Kellar, the Long Kidge Station, Province of Southland, consisting of 33,000 acres leasehold and 8,000 freehold, with 30,000 shtup, for L 34.000 ; the purchaser of both properties being Mr W. J. M. Larnuch. Wool, &c.-~-The local market has been quite devoid of interest during tiie past week, and the season is now drawing to a close. No public sales have been held, arid privately thoie m little or nothing doing. Wc shall offer about 200 bales, chiefly odd lots, by auction to-morrow. The intelligence from England, per Albion at Bluff to-day, is somewhat reassuring. Trade in the manufacturing districts was active, stocks in second hands were light, ami prices have continued very firm since the close of the .February sales. Sheepskins, Hides, and fallow; We shall offer a considerable number of sheepskins and first-class hides, and a quantity of tallow by auction to-morrow. There has been little or nothing done in these privately since date of our last. New Zealand Hemp.— The demand has been Blight during the week, and we have no sales to report. Telegraphic advices to hand to-day report a fall, in London, of from L 3 to LI per ton, good sorts being quoted at L3O to L3llos. (tKAIN. —For wheat there is a fair demand, at 4s 6d to 4s 9d. Barley is almost out of the market, and we have heard of extreme prices being paid for choice quality; good malting is freely saleable at 7s to 7s 6d. Oats continue in excellent request for local consumption, at from 2s 9d for feed to 3s for milling. These prices, however, preclude any business being done for export.

JYEDGERS,