MARKETS.

Patea Mail, 29 July 1880, Page 3

MARKETS.

LONDON WOOL SALES. The wool circular of Messrs Jacornb, Moorgatc-strcct, says : —The second series of public sales of Colonial wool for this 3’ear, which opened on the 20th of April will close on the Bth instant. Of the nett

available quantity of 378,000 bales, 338,996 have passed the hammer ; about 17.500 bales have been bought in, but of these a large proportion has been since placed privately. Of the quantity sold, some sixtenths have been taken for export. Up to this date about half the total supply for (he year has been disposed of, this half containing the majority of all the best growths from the Australasian Colonies. The enhanced prices of the first fortnight of these sales have never afterwards been approached. Since the Whitsuntide recess values have ruled about on a par with those of our February-March auctions, with some changes in buyers’ fovour. Most fault}' descriptions, greasy N. R. Wales and South Australian, and lambs' are about Id below those prices? whilst finer cross-breeds are Id. to Hd-’ and coarser classes 14 to 2d. easier to buy. Cape produce has been but lightly represented in these sales. The excited demand for France, which assisted the opening of this series, gave away under the influence of serious strikes in the French woollen district, and has never since recurred in anything like the same proportion; the Homo trade, having bought very little at the highest currency, have since been •erapted by the lower range of prices, and have operated more freely. The market for coarse wools has been unfavourably influnced by several considerations ; a little reaction was perhaps naturally due after the large and sudden rise in these deserptions from the depressed and falling values of the last year or two ; the last demand for such from America, lately ruling, has at the moment ceased ; meantime the Home grown clip is all now lust coming to market. 22,806 bales of East India wool were offered at auction in Liverpool from the 24th to the 29th of May ; five-sixths of this quantity were sold, inferior descriptions ruling 5 to 10 per cent., and better qualities 10 to 45 per cent, under their March rates ; English wools arc down lid to 2d per lb. in the last month or so ; and all kindred growths of Colonial have suffered in like proportion

NEW PLYMOUTH BET AIL PRICES. (Corrected by latest report), Buying. Sellng. s. d. s. d. Butter (per lb.) ... ... 1 2 1 4 Cheese (Colonial) ... 0 7 0 10 Eggs (per doz.) ... ... 1 4 1 G Butchers’ Meat.—Beef, 3d to 5d ; mutton, 24d to 5d ; pork, 5d to 7d. Mibb Prices.—Taranaki flour, 15s per 100’ibs ; silk-dressed (Star brand), 16s ; wheat meal, 14s ; cluck’s wheat, 4s 6d per bushel ; sharps, 8s per lOOlbs, or sack, 10s ; bran, 4s per sack ; oats, 3s per bushel ; oatmeal, 4s Gd per bag (251bs); maize (best screened), 5s Od per bushel. CHRISTCHURCH RETAIL PRICES. (Corrected by Latest Report.) Fresh butter Is 4d per lb Eggs Is 3d perdoz Cheese 10d per lb Milk 4d per quart Beef 2d to Od per lb Mutton 2d to 4d per lb Pork Sd per lb Ham Is per lb Bacon ... 10s and Is per AUCKLAND RETAIL PRICES. (Corrected by latest report.) Roasting Beef od to 7d Boiling Beef 4d to od Mutton, hind-quarter ... 4.U1 to ~ fore-quarter ... ... 3d to Lamb, fore-quarter od to „ hind-quarter 4d to od Pork and Veal (id to Sd Steaks... Gd to Tallow wholesale, mutton 275, mixed, 20s to 255. WELLINGTON PRICES. (Corrected by latest report,) Farm and Dairy Produce — Wholesale.

s d. s. d. Milk, quart 0 5 to 0 0 Butter, salt, lb 0 n to 0 0 Cheese, Colonial 0 5.} to 0 G Eggs, dozen 1 4 to 1 G Lard, 1!) 0 0 to 0 i>h Ham, lb 0 10.J to 0 0 Fowls, pair... 1 6 to 0 0 Ducks, pair... ... 4 0 to 0 0 Geese, pair ... 8 0 to 0 0 Turkeys, pair !) 0 to 0 0 Bacon, lb ... 0 81 to 0 0 Seeds. s. d. S. d. Ryegrass, bushel . . 4 0 to 5 0 Cocksfoot, per lb 0 n to 0 o White clover, per ib ! I 3 to 0 0 Red clover, per lb 0 8 to 0 !) Turnips, dozen . 1 G to 0 0 Alsyke, per lb 1 C, to 0 0 Cow grass, per lb 0 10 to 0 101, Rape, per lb .. 0 4 to 0 0 Timothy, per lb 0 H to o 0 Flour Market— -Wholesale. & s. cl. £ s d. Sharps, per ton ... 5 0 0 to 5 10 0 Adelaide, per ton ... H 0 10 to 15 0 G Bran, per ton ... 3 0 0 to 3 10 0 Colonial Flour ... 10 0 0 to 11 0 0 Oatmeal ... 10 10 0 to 11 0 0