COMMERCIAL.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 223, 25 February 1875, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The Customs revenue collected yesterday, was as follows;

DUNEDIN STOCK REPORT

Messrs 'Wright, Stephenson, and Co, report for the week ending 20th February, as follows Fat Cattle—l4o head were yarded. We sold, on account Of Messrs Shand, Gall, Wallace, and others, 0(1 head Bullocks brought from £7 2s 6d to £lll7s yd • cows, from £6 10s to £9 os—prices equal to 25s Ser lOOlbs for good quality, and 22s for medium do. 'at Calves—l 6 were yarded, which we sold at from 25s to 60s each. Fat Sheep—sso were penned, which being inadequate to the demand, prices were a little firmer. We sold 100 eross-breds, prime quality and heavy weights, at 16s 9d; and 100 merino wethers, medium quality, at Bs. AVe quote prime half'-breds, 2Jd per lb; merino do, 2jd, Fat Lambs—2oo were penned. We sold 60 at from 8s to Us each. Store Cattle—We have enquiries for grown cattle, hut few are offering. Our sales Include 120 head young cattle, 18 to 24 mouths old, at 50s each. We quote bullocks four to live years old, £5 108 to £6 ; spayed cows, £4 to £4 5s ; mixed lots, £3. Store Sheep—Young merinos and cross-breds are in good demand. We quote cross-breds, 4-tooth, 128; 2-tooth, 9s 6d to 10s 6d: lambs, 7s 6d to 8s ; merino wethers, full-mouthed, 5s Od to 0s; 2,4, and 6-tooth, 7s to 7s 6d; merino ewes, 2 and 4 tooth, 8s to 9s; full-mouthed, 3s 6d to ss, according to quality. At above rates we have sold during the week 13,000, and have several large transactions pending. Horses—Our market has for some time been bare of imported draught stock, for which there is a fair demand. At our yards on Saturday we sold three drafts of light proviucial-bred colts at from £0 10s to £33 per head, We shall offer at our yards on Saturday, 27th February, 45 very superior heavy draught mares and geldings, ex Omeo from Melbourne. We quote iirst-class draughts £6.5 to £75 ; medium do. £45 to £55; light do, £25 to .£3O; good hacks and light harness horses, £25 to £35; medium, £l4 to £18; light and inferior, £5 to £B. Sheepskins—At our weekly sale on Wednesday we disposed of about 1800 Jskins as follows: Full-woolled skins, merino, 4s 6d to 5s 2d ; pelts, 9d to 21d lambskins, 2s 2d. Grain—Wheat—Very little of the new crop has yet come forward. Prime samples are worth 5s per bushel. Oats—Owing to heavy arrivals, the market is scarcely so firm. We quote old, 3s 6d to 4s per bushel; new, 3s to 3s 3d. Barley-Prime malting is worth 5s to 5s 3d per bushel.

Drapery £ s. 18 13 d. 5 Mutches .. ... 14 6 8 Hardware 24 7 8 Grindery ... ... 5 5 9 Sundries 20 1 11 £82 15 4