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Globe, Volume V, Issue 559, 3 April 1876, Page 2

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* Messrs Clifford and Roper report on their usual weekly sale, April Ist, as follows Miloh cows, £8 10s i calves, 2s 6d to 20s, Pigs (weauers), Is 6d to lis; small stores, 11s to 18s; stores, 18s to 3(55; sows, 42s 6d to EOs. Poultry(per pair)—Fowls, 2s to 4s; turkeys, 4s 6d to 0s 6d; ducks, 3s 3d to 4s 6d; geese, 6s to 6s 6d. Attendance large. At Mr R. Wilkin’s weekly wool, skin, and tallow auction, Mr Aikman reports a good attendance of buyers, and prices about the same as the previous week Sheep skins, 3s 9d to 5s lod each; pelts, best, 2s to 3s 4d each; do, seconds, 6d to Is lOcl each; lambs, best, Is 3d to 3s 4d each ; hides, heavy salted, 4d per lb ; rough, tat, l*d to 2Jd per lb; do, inferior, l?d per lb j tallow, rather dark, 26s per cwt i do, T«ry brown And dirty, iOs to Us per cwt.

Dunedin. —Mr Henry Driver (on behalf of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company) reports for the week ending March 29th, 1876 Fat Cattle—lls head were yarded, of ordinary quality. This number being a short supply, were all taken by the trade at fully late quotations. Best bullocks brought from £9 10s to £l3 each ; do. cows, £7 to £lO 10s. At the yards and privately we have sold, during the week, 15 head. We quote prime beef at about 30s per 1001 b ; medium, from 25s to2Gs. Fat Calves—Only about 15 were penned, which sold at. 15s to 65s each, according to quality. Fat Sheep—A moderate supply of 1200 penned, all of which M ere sold at fully last week’s prices—say, equal to 2Jd to 2-Jd for cross-breds, and 2}d to 2)d for prime merinos. At the yards and privately we have sold 000 at above rates. Fat Lambs—2oo were penned, and sold at from 5s 3d to 10s, according to size and quality. We sold 60 at above prices. Store Cattle-We have no alteration to note in the value of this description of stock. Well-grown quiet bullocks and cows are in demand, at late quotations. Store Sheep—From good flocks, not exceeding 2tooth, continue very saleable, and during the week we have placed 9000 at prices quoted below, say : Cross-breds, 4 and 6-tooth, at from 9s to 9s 9d; do, 2-tooth, 7s 6d to 7s 9d ;do lambs, 6s to Vs. Merino wethers, 2,4, and 6-tooth, 5s 6d to 6s ; do, fullmouthed, 3s to 3s 6d ; merino ewes, 2, 4, and 6-tooth, 6s to 6s 6d ; do, full-mouthed, 2s Od to 3s. Wool— Advices of the opening of the second series of the London sales on the 28th inst are anxiously looked for, but as yet no cablegrams are to hand. There is nothing offering in this market. Sheepskins—Wc offered a catalogue of 1200 this afternoon at our usual weekly auction, which were well competed for and brought slightly advanced rates—principally dry station skins—cross-breds selling up to 5s sd, merinos 4s 9d each; butchers’ mixed pelts, from I4d to 19d each ; lambs, Is to 2s 6d. Hides are dull at late rates, medium quality selling from 16s to 19s; inferior, 13s to 15s, or equal to id per lb for wet salted. Tallow—We placed a few casks at last week’s rates, 28s Od, for fair country rendered. Grain—Wheat: Prime milling is in fair demand at 4s 6d. Deliveries are still small. Oats arc much sought after. Good feed (new), is lOdtolslld; milling, 2s. Considerable shipping orders are waiting at the out-ports, which would be executed here it our local farmers would supply the market. Parley is dull, brewers only purchasing lor immediate working, anticipating large supplies, but as it is well known by growers that a large portion will be Bin lit for malting purposes, good bright samples will command good values. We quote4s 6d for fair malting to 3s for very choice.

Melbourne.—The ‘ Age’ of the 22nd ultimo reports as follows : —“The import markets to-day shewed lew signs of activity, and apart from the sales effected in the auction mart, business lias been within a limited compass. Bread-tuffs are characterised by a slight tendency to harden in value, offerings continuing on a moderate scale. By public sale country brands of flour were quitted at £ll 10s to £ll 15s; privately sales of best marks are making freely at the latter figure. Wheat is llrm at 5s 4M, bags included, for good Northern, and the market lightly supplied. Feeding grains are in an unsatisfactory condition. Oats are most difficult to quit. By auction a lew lines were disposed of at 2s 7 jd to 2s lid. business is going forward in Victorian candles; at auction, 1000 boxes Apollo Company’s were sold in two parcels at 8-Jd, and privately two lines of 1000 boxes each were taken up at the same rate. Sugar is freely dealt in. 1575 bags and mats Bourbon, ex Delta, from St. Denis, realised at auction £27 to £27 10s for low yellows, £26 5s for brown, and £2l 10s to £22 10s for low rations; 500 bags Mauritius, ex Cantabre, brought £3l for middling whites, £3O to £3O 10s for grainy yellow counters, and £26 10s for fine browns. 350 bags Mauritius were at the same time sold at £33 15s for middling white crystals, £33 for soft white counters, and £32 10s for line counters. In teas a better inquiry is springing up for medium and fine kinds; sales of medium are mentioned at is 2d to le sd. 600 packages congous and fancy kind were cleared off by auction at Is OJd to Is A shipment of Mount Bernardsteus tobacco was sold on private terms. 475 cases Guinness’s stout, bottled by O’Brien, were sold by auction at up to 8s 3d,