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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4591, 7 December 1875, Page 2

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The Customs revenue collected at the port of Wellington yesterday was as follows: —

CHRISTCHURCH. , x (From Saturday’s Lyttelton Timm.) Grain and Produce. —The markets continue dull. Regarding wheat there is very little to report. A few sales, have taken place at 4s. to farmers, and the quality delivering is not in first-class condition. A few shipments of second quality have been made by English ships last week. Millers are well supplied for grinding purposes. There is a very dull market for oats at 2s. to 2s. 3d. to farmers, there being no demand for other than retail lots. A small shipment of barley was made . during the week to clear out one store at very unsatisfactory rates; this cereal generally is very unsaleable. Flour is dull for export, the ordinary bakers’ demand being moderate The late rains mav tend to reduce the prices of dairy produce, but we do not hear of any export sales being made in consequence of the prices ruling higher than the buyers care to give. Owing to the unsettled state of the market we can give no reliable quotation. Stock and Stations. —The weather since the early part of the week has been fine, and stock has had a chance*of recovering from the effects of the violent storm which raged through Saturday and Sunday, and which must have tried newly shorn sheep very much. Fortunately the bulk of the stock in the country is in good condition,, and to this fact, in a great measure, must be attributed the small loss which has occurred. . , At the yards; on Wednesday, 833 S sheep and 27d cattle were offered, and everv Hue was cleared. In sheep we have little~Change to notice, although the numbers brought forward fat are not excessive. This, however, does not arise from any scarcity, but because shearing having been retarded by the inclemency of the weather many farmers have been prevented from getting their stock ready for market. Our quotation for mutton is l|d. to 2d. per lb., but the latter must be considered an extreme price, taking into account the abundant supply, and there will certainly be a move in a downward direction before long.. Lambs are worth from 7s. to 10s., and are not offered in excessive numbers. Two-tooth cross-breds may be quoted at 7s. after shearing, but few transactions in this class of stock have as yet taken place. , ■ A large proportion of the cattle offered were large framed station stores, and these commanded prices up to £7 for bullocks, and £5 10s. for cows. All other store cattle sold at very high rates, especially wellbred young stock in good condition. Fat cattle were in moderate supply, and brought prices up to about 30s. per lOOlbs. for prime quality. We cannot, however, quote beef at more than 2Ts. 6d. per lOOlbs. on the average. MELBOURNE STATION AND PRODUCE REPORT. Messrs. J. H. Clough and Co. report, under date November 17• Wool.—We held our usual sale on Monday last, at which there was a good attendance of buyers, who competed well for the various lots offered. The catalogue comprised 620 bales, of which none were superior lots. Greasy realised Bd. to T2fd. ; scoured, 15d. to 2l£d. ; and fleece up to 22d. per lb. Sheepskins.—We have held our usual sales, and have disposed of a large supply of all descriptions; prices, however, are lower, for both green and dry skins. We sold butchers' green skins at 4s. to 6s. ; pelts, Cd. to 2s. ; dry skins, 2s. to 6s. ; and station skins in bales, sd. to 7d. per lb. Hides. —The market continues firm, and we have disposed of an average supply as follows, viz.:—Green ox, 245. to 345. ; cow, 15s. to 235. each ; Victorian wet salted, 4jd. to sd. ; New Zealand, sd. to s|d. ; and calfskins, 5Jd. to 6d, per lb. Tallow.—The market is not so firm'as it has been: the demand, however, is good, and we have sold at the following rates, viz. :—For inferior, £26 to £29; mixed, £3O to £34 ; beef, £32 to £34 ; and mutton, £36 to £37 per ton. Leather.—We held our usual sale on Tuesday last, and sold a large supply, as follows, viz. :—Crop, lOd. to Hid. ; kip. 16d. to Is. IQd. ; calf, 2s. to 3s. Bd. ; runners; Is. lOd. to 2s. 3d.; waxed kangaroo. Is. 9d. to 2s. 2d. ; brown kangaroo, Is, 9d. to 2s. ; Wallaby, 2s. to 2s. 9d. ; and harness, 13d. to 14d. per lb. ; and basils, 4s. to 16s. per dozen. Kangaroo Skins.—We have sold at Cd. to 13d, per lb., according to size and quality. Bark. —We have sold bundled at £4 10s. to £4155., and ground at £7 per ton, bags charged, SYDNEY WOOL MARKET. (Prom Griffiths and Co.’s Circular.) Sydney, November, 15, 1875. Our market during the past mouth has been fairly supplied with wool of the new clip, of which recent shipments have been effected to meet the London February sales, and, owing to this feitare, prices have ruled somewhat higher than is warranted by the present state of the wool industiy on the whole. As the wools which are now and hereafter to he shipped, excepting those per steamer Whampoa, will only arrive for the next May series, we may look for slightly easier rates during the coming month, A great proportion of the new wool has reached us in the grease, and the prices realised during our last sales may he quoted for average to good, B£d. to lOd.; good to super, lOd. to lid., while extra fine lots have brought as much as 12d.;. fleece, ordinary to good, 10d. to 18d.; good to super, 18d. to 20d.; uo supply of extra fine has as yet been offered. The wool season of Melbourne has commenced by the opening of sales by auction on the 27th ultimo with a large attendance of buyers and a lively competition. Prices ranged for ordinary to average, B£d. to lid.; good to super, lid. to 13d.; fleece, ordinary to average, 17d. to 19d.; average to good. 20d. to 25d.; superior, 2s. 2d. to 2s. 4d. Concerning the clip, it is said to be in a good condition as regards w eight, but a considerable proportion of weak and tender fleeces run in the bulk of what has been offered, arising no doubt from unfavorable climatic influences ;and scanty of feed in the early part of the year. BY TELEGRAPH. AUCKLAND. Monday. Mr. Alexander Saunders reports :—Sales : Tokatea, 2s. 6d. Buyers : City of London, 14s. 6d.; Cure, 9s. 9d.; Pride of Tokatea, 2s. 6d.; Bank of New Zealand, 3425. 6d.; National Bank, 725. Cd.; South British, 50s. Sellers: Caledonian, 725.; Ajax, Is. Bd.; Colonial Bank, 31s. 6d.

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