COMMERCIAL.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 102, 20 December 1879, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Canteebuhx, December 13. Business has been so quiet duriog the past week that there is scarcefy anything demanding a detailed'notice. ' ' Wheat — We-can merely repeat the quotations of the previous week— -4.J9 to 5/-, with nothing offering beyond an odd small lot now and again. • " ' % -> '- Oats. — Sales of old are being pressed at 1/Q'to 2/- for feed" quality. Milling are qjiotfed at 2/- tg 2/2. Stocks of the latter are working down. New oats may very sbortly.'be' expected in the iha'rket, as the late fine weather has been most beneficial. * 1 ■ Flour. — A fair business is reported at the old rate of £12 iq/-,to £13. ,- , , Grass seed. — Fdrward offers of 'rye-grass and' cocksfoot are being made., biib'uo actual 'transaction has 'come under nWud; buyers and sellers not yet having come together as regaids values.. Dairy'Eroduco. — Butter is still quoted at 7d to 7id, with a large supply ; cheese, f d to 6d ; hauis and bacon are unaltered."

Owing to* tbe unusually lar^o supply of graaa 'throughout tJlfd country, sbock ave coming forward ia fir^b-cli^s. condition, aud I in consequence there haa been a great drop in prices of both afid cattle of this i description. * 1 1 / ' At the Adrlington yards on Wednesday i 8,V69 sheep, l sß<l hehd o^ tittle, and 54 pigs I were jarded v -, 1 'Sheep. — On account of the very }arge I supjply of fat sheep there was a considerable | drojx m prices, com pared witli Jaifi* weeL's 1 market. Prime quality lots of fat croosI breds (shorn) realised p/- v each ; good ditto trtmi 7/- to 8/3 ; hjbts weights from 6/- to i 6/9." i We qirote l^d p^er lb. as au &re»4ge i I*6)' fal sheep'. Gross- bred ewes (in the \Voi>l) [ with lamba at foot sold trom 7/- to 10/6. i ' Cattle:— Another large 3upply of fat cattle yas penned, and thp result was a further drop in prices. Prime fat bullock? realised £y 10/ : ; ditto lighter weights, from £t lQlto £S 5/-." Wo quote from 20/- to' 23/- per lO^ib. as an average for l&ijdattle.' StbiHsa— | A fair lot of stores cams' to hand,, but in consequence of the scarcity l of ' buyers, the j bulk 'was passed in unsold. ' ' ' l "VVellingtost, Eccember 15. • Mi-. GeoegA Thomas hcld'a sale of oats on the Queen's Wharf to-day, There was a tair alien. Unuc'of buyers,' and prices realized from 2/8 to 2/5 cash. Toxdon, December 11. Colonial debentures are fiat. , „ ' ' , ajeeember 12. K"ew debentures are ia active demand, annd have advanced -/i ' l ' i ' »"■'•• • 'December 13. Aclelulde \>?ieat, GfljG per 4961ba. ex ware-hou-»e*; Adoldtcle flour, 43/- per 280^3^01 waVchouso; Hennesdy's brauds, 12/-; best AUsfraKan'beef tallow, 37/- • *""■ • * Thrt.e pei" cent. cousjlj, 07J-. Nadier, Decembei* 16. Meg^rs. KOADLEY & Lyon report ani- t ma' c 1 demand »t Saturday's sole. Stierpslans realise prices. ' ' "