COMMERCIAL.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 326, 29 June 1875, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The Customs revenue collected on Saturday was as follows:

The land sold at the Waste Lands Board to day amounted to 750 acres 1 rood, realising £1512105, It is situated in the following districts :

Mr Rickman reports that he held a sale at the Kaikanui Yards, Kuiapoi, on Friday last. The cattle yarded consisted ol live springing heifers and dairy cows close on calving, prime fat steers and heifers; also about twenty broken and unbroken draught and saddle horses, all of which, with the exception of two lines, were sold at very satisfactory rates. He also sold at the Canterbury Yards, on Wednesday last, forty head of fat cattle at 35s per hundred.

Dunedin,— Messrs Maclean Brothers report for weekending 24th June, as follows:—Fat Cattle--150 head average quality were yarded yesterday, and all taken by the trade. Bidding, however, was not so spirited as at recent sales, and prices for prime quality were a shade easier, 30s per 1001 b being the extreme value obtained. At the yards we sold 60 head at from £8 5s to £l2 10s for bullocks, and from £6 2a 6d to £8 12s 6d for cows, one very superior cow of Mr George Nichol’s mob fetching £l3 12s 6d. Privately, we have placed 30 head at quotations, and delivered 50 head. Fat Calves—A few only were penned, some of which we sold at from 30s to 60s each. Fat Sheep—About 2000 were penned yesterday, fair to good quality, but only about 1000 were disposed of at barely equal to late quotations. Prime cross-breds brought from 13s 6d to 17s each ; merinos, 7s 6d to los 6d, or equal to 3£d for the former and 3d for the latter—per lb. Store CattleNo transactions. Store Sheep—No transactions have transpired during the week, but we note ft continuance of the demand for .young sheep

for the South. At this season, however, it is scarcely probable that any sales of importance will be effected, holders being averse to meddle with their flocks thus late in the year. Quotations are nominally the same as at date of our last. Wool—Latest advices from the home market confirm previous reports as to the upward tendency ot prices at the May sales. In this market there is no business doing. Sheepskins—We had only a small quantity for offer at our sale to-day, but bidding was spirited, and full prices were obtained. Butchers’ green skins fetched from 3s 4d to 4s Id for cross-breds, and 2s 8d to 2s lOd for merinos. Hides continue in excellent request for export, but local tanners are not operating so fively as some weeks ago. To-day we disposed of 00 light to good medium weights, at 18s to 25s each; calfskins at 2s 9d to 3s each. Tallow—Good parcels, for shipment. are saleable at fair rates, but mixed and inferior, suitable only for local consumption, are exceedingly dull of sale, soapboilers having for the time full supplies on hand. Grain This market is without material alteration either as regards values or demand. Prime samples of wheat are held for 4s 6d per bushel; ordinary, 4s to 4s 3d, with comparatively little business doing. Oats are in slightly better favor, but without any absolute improvement in prices—good feeding being worth 2s 9d to 2s 10d; milling, up to 3s. In barley, few transactions have come to light during the week; quotations, nominally, 5s 6d to 5s 9d for prime malting; 5s to 5s 3d for ordinary; inferior, 4s 6d per bushel.

/ £ 8. d. Spirits 57 18 9 Sugar Tobacco 9 12 6 21 0 0 Stationery 14 16 0 Drapeiy Clothing 20 6 16 0 0 Sundries 37 8 9 £107 18 0

Timaru A. ... 215 R. 0 p. 0 Waitanga ... ... 250 0 0 Oxford .. 7 1 0 Malvern .. 230 0 0 Ashburton ... ... 21 0 0