COMMERCIAL.

Globe, Volume I, Issue 71, 22 August 1874, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Globe OHiee, Saturday. The grain market remains exceedingly quiet, as no deliveries whatever are being made by the farmers, and orders come forward very slowly. Stocks of Hour are accumulating, but the millers maintain prices at £ll 10s in bakers’ parcels for 200 lb sacks, and £l7 in 100 lb baps. Wheat is nominally at 4s »;d to 4s 7d, but only small parcels a>c changing hands. Prime malting barley lias beeu enquired for, but stocks appear out of traders’ hands. A good demand exists for oats at 4s 4d to 4s tid for very prime. Hams and bacon advanced last week to Old bare and lOd in cloth. Cheese is becoming very lirra at 6jd to 7d. Butter is scarce, but with the approaching a plentiful supply may be looked for. There has been verylittle business transacted in the import market during the past week, in fact taking the whole montli through, it has been the dullest of the year. There have been no arrivals from England this week. The departures for London have been s.s. Atrato, on 19th inst ; Wennington, on 20th Inst, both taking fidl cargoes of wheat flour, wool, preserved meats, &c. Sales in cement have beeu made at 235. Galvanised iron dull of sale at £35 los to £36. Slates are difficult to place at any price. White lead and oils are meeting with a fair amount of attention. Spirits : We have little, to report in brandy, few sales have been made in Hennessy’s bulk at 10s 9d, easels held for 3ls. West India rum lias sold freely at 4s 3d. Swaine Boord’s old tom sells freely at 5s to 5s 3d, case 14s. Bottled ales and stout remain without alteration, a few small parcels have been quitted at last quotations. Kerosene meets with the usual trade sale at 2s 3d to 2s 4d. Price’s Belmont sperm candles realise lid in large parcels. Sugars: We have only trade sales to report at last rates, stocks are getting low, there is a part cargo now. due from Mauritius via Port Chalmers, and two cargoes, new crop, expected about end of September. We have not hoard of any sales in English malt or hops, since our last. Oilmen’s stores meet with fair amount of attention at current rates. Salt is dull of sale : tine, £4 10s ; coarse, £4 5s to £4 7s 6d.

Messrs H. Matson and Co. report on the live stock market as follows At the yards on Wednesday 323 head of cattle and 1834 sheep came to hand. In cattle our entries comprised 310 head for Messrs Greer, Ferguson, Davies, Roundtree, Henley, Core, Knight, Garforth, McConnell, Peat, Tubman, Dyer, Dench, Tiscb, and others, the larger number of which were 111-conditioned stores, and badlyreared young stock. A few pens of fair beef sold well—£7 los to £l2 par head. Fresh steers, twoyears, small, £4 5s to £4 10s per head. Calves, from 22s to 32s (Id per head. Several pens of inferior cattle were turned out unsold. Wc quote beef (if prime), 30s per lOOlbs, with a rising market. In sheep, our sales were 1134, for various owners, viz., 403 fair merino wethers, at 13s (id to 13s 9d; and 50 cross-breds, at 18s, from the Broadband’» Estate, Burnham; 120 prime cross-breds. averaging bSlhs, at 18s per head; for Rev T. li. Fisher, Sclwyn, C 6 ewes and wethers, at los to 16s (id; for Messrs Haywood and Bowron, 55 cross-breds, small for Mr E. M. Templar, Coringa—at 15s (id; 75 merino wethers for Mr Fliiteh, at 8«; 351 lambs for Messrs Gordon, Denton, ami Roundtree at 6s Cd, 7s, to Us per head. Mutton sold low, at 3d to 3ld per lb, (lie trade being fairly supplied. Considerable difficulty was experienced in eliectiug sales, but we do not look for a continuance of these low rates, but rather the reverse. Sheep skins, hides, &c.—A fair supply came to hand, aud sales were conducted with spirit, best cross-breds made from 5s od to 6s sd, and merinos from 5s 3d to (is, oilier descriptions lower. Special sales -On Tuesday, at the Market yards, we held a clearing sale of dairy cattle and utensils, for William Boag, Esq. The attendance was good, and cows sold from £l2 to £2l, for best; and from £4 Ids to £7 10s, tor good ; and £2 10s to £3 10s, for old aud inferior ; averages for 73 head, including calves, £6 4s per head.

Mr Charles Clark held a clearance sale of live and dead stock, the property of Mr Robert Button, who is leaving the district, at the farm of the latter, near Southbridge, on Thursday, 20th August. The attendance throughout the day was very mi mcrous, and the bidding was carried on in a very spirited manner. Several valuable lots of farm implements were submitted for sale, most of which were sold at satisfactory prices. The competition for the live stock was very brisk, both cattle, pigs, and horses selling readily at remunerative prices. At the close of the sale, the land was put up in two lots, one of which, containing about GO acres of failgrass laud, together with dwelling-house and suitable farm buildings, fetched XII 10s per acre. The remaining lot of about to acres of stubble laud, was disposed of for £0 Os per acre,