COMMERCIAL.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 6, Issue 313, 14 December 1883, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

"-' UJ ? '/dunepin markets., .

■ : FafcCattJie.^lSO fcca<l. were. yarde:l for the week's supply, consisting of medium, (p prime ; qiwUly. Ajtbpughjhis was only a moderate number competition was not over brisk, yet last week's • 'prices were well . main tamed. Best bullocks brought LBJSs 6d -to UO fin; others £5 123 (ni to 1.7,108 ; cows, L 6 2s fld to LB'iss. .Ylfe q u ot e prime beef, 22s 6d to 25s ; mediumf&fe per 1001 b. , ' Fat theep.— l69s were penned, ot ivlnou 670 were merinos, the balance crossbred*, some of them being' only medium qnaljty and not reaching wiihin 2s of last weeks nricca The prime quality also suffered a doclinevof dfl-,per head-.:.. Best crossbred*, snow, brouehfc-lpS'Cd- to. lSs.Sdj other?. 8s Ulto l^mMno/^onf-.T's'fedtb 12s 6d ; dp, in the wool, 15s 3d to 16s. We quote -mutton, shorn, Si^tP^djjer;lV. ; - GraioVWheut . in gO od demand and totim&*fa and free (row «pwmt. Prime Ti-. ; Minff |ft'*orth4B to 4s 2d }_gw4 4 13 > P4 to Ss ' d ; Wium, 3s 3d to 3 8 6d ; inferiof

demand, little lots of bright feeding finding . purchasers for local consumption, but th-jie , is no export business of any consequence being done, and prices remain about the same as last week, viz : —Stout bright milling, Is ' 9d : milling, Is 9£d to Is 10d ; short bright ■ fe»i,ls 9d ; medium, Is 7d to Is 8d ; musty , and discolored, Is 3d to Is 6d. Of barley j ■ there are no sales to record.