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Globe, Volume III, Issue 295, 22 May 1875, Page 2

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Activity in the grain market has nowquite ceased, very little export demand existing-, while farmers' deliveries are nearly at an end. Wheat keeps nominally at 3s 3d, tut no sales are spoken of. Flour is steady at £9 10s f.o.b. in sacks, 10s extra in 1001 b bogs. Oats are also quiet, supply and demand being aUke limited, really choice milling are worth 2s 9d, and ordinary feed 2s 7d. Barley is neglected, as no buyers are in the market. Butter is worth Is 2d, the demand being quiet owing to arrival of shipments from Australia. Cheese is steady at 8d to BJd for prime. New cure of hams and bacon are now ready at IOJd f.o.b. Deliveries of potatoes have been prevented by the recent wet weather, but a few fine days will make supplies plentiful. We hear a local firm has. sent an order to Warruambool for a cargo of potatoes. Sales in the import markets during the past week have been dull, but trade generally is in a very sound aud healthy state. The arrivals have teen—Cicero, from London, on 19th instant, with a general assorted cargo of merchandise ; stocks in lines that were getting low will now be amply replenished. The Invercrne arrived from Napier on the 16th instant, to load up for London, having part oi cargo on board. She will sail about the end of this month. Sugars have riot been so active this week, owing to stocks in traders' hands being ample for this month's consumption; prices remain tirm at our last quotations. Several parcels of good to line teas have been placed at 2s Id to 2s 4d d,p. Spirits have commanded a fair amount of attention. Hennessy's bulk and case are sold freely at 9s 3d and 3ls 6d to 325. Whiskey has moved oft in trade parcels at full rates. Dunville's case whiskey has been bought to arrive at 17s to 17s 6d; Swaine Boord's old toin, in case and bulk meet with good sale at 14s and 5s to 5s 3d, i.b. Other lines in spirits have not called for any remark. Bottled ales and stout—The demand is very good for best brands. Stocks low. We hear of a parcel Of stout (Blood Wolfe's) placed under offer, to arrive, at price withheld. Sale have been made at lis 6d to 12s, according to brands. A line of Bass's ale has been cleared off at £8 15a for hhds. Two shipments of the new brew are on the way, and will come to a good market. Tobaccos have met with a lair trade sale; prices remain very ilrm. Candles are scarce in the market, lid to lljd is the price obtained for Price's Belmont sperm. In hops we have to report a small sale of Keats, 1874, at 3s 4d. The market is sow entirely baro of this line. Gal-

vanised iron—A few tons have been imported from Melbourne for immediate requirements; there is little if any in first hands. Cement is in very good demand; sales have been effected in large parcels, to arrive (now due), at 20s (3d to 2ls.

Messrs J. T. Ford and Co report on the live stock market tor the week ending Friday, the 21st inst, as follows:—The yards at Addington on YVednesday last were thinly supplied with sheep and cattle, and the inclemency of the weather also Tended to make the day the least attractive of any since the opening. With one exception the supply of sheep were all butchers' quality, and sold from 2Jd to 3d per lb. There were no merinos yarded, and sheep of that class of prime quality would command just now extreme rates. The beef comprised chiefly heifers of 650 lbs weight, good quality, and fairly grazed, and brought extreme prices. The stores offered were of so mixed a character that it would be impossible to make a fair quotation for the day's sale. During the week we have disposed privately of 2000 merino ewes at 3s each for breeding purposes, 1200 at 4s 6d, 200 at 5s each; 1000 cross-bred ewes at lis each, 1200 at lis, 400 each 10s 6d, 350 each lis 6(1; and at the yards we disposed of 340 light-weights at lis 6d, and a lot of mixed sheep at 3s 6d each. We have also placed during the week a line of station wethers, merinos, 1000 at 7s 3d each, and 800 cross-breds at 0s each; also 800 merino ewes on account of C. Reed, Esq, at 4s 6d each. In freeholds we disposed yesterday on account of Mr J. 11. Ileidson, attorney for .MiLake, some property at Papanui, consisting of 3 roods and 33 perches for the sum of £550, the purchaser being Mr Barlow, of the Papanui Hotel. We also disposed on account of Messrs Owen Bros, the Desert Station, consisting of 0000 acres of leasehold, 463 acres of freehold, together with 4000 mixed sheep, to Mr H. J. Mathias, for the sum of £3*so.

Messrs H. Matson and Co report on the live stock market as follows for the week ending 21st May, 1875:—At the cattle market only a small supply of stock came to hand. Fat sheep sold well at an advance upon late rates. Prices realised were equal to 2f d to 3d per lb. Cattle sold irregularly. Our sales comprised 50 head ior Messrs Ferguson, Deans, Bail, Tubman, and others, at for fat heifers, £8 10s, £8 15s, to £lO per head; fresh conditioned steers, two-year-olds, at £B~. 15al per; head. In sheep we sold 228 cross-bred ewes and wethers for Mr J. P. O'Callaghan at 15s and 15s 6d; 230 do small at lis 6dto 12s per headfor Mr Dickcn, French J'arm; also 160 inferior cross-bred lambs at 6s for Mr Phillips; wool, hides, tallow, and sheepskins. We had a large entry on Thursday last, and all lots were sold at fair rates; cross-bred skins, 3s Cd to 4s lOd each; merino, 2s 9d to 4s each; lamb skins, 2s to 3s each: hides, salted, at 4jd per lb ; rou. h fat, per lb. Freehold properties—We have sold during the week Mr J. S. White's Flaxton farm, comprising- 100 acres with improvements for £2500 to Mr Joseph Manning; also Mr E. M. Templar's 67 and 100 acre farms at Templeton for £ls per acre to Mr Bailey.

a b. u. Spirits 110 13 5 Sugar 28 17 4 9 15 8 Tea 64 15 9 Drapery 30 12 0 Sundries 32 3 0 £•476 17 a