MARKETS.

Patea Mail, 16 December 1880, Page 4

MARKETS.

LONDON WOOL SALES. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency reports under date London, 11th December :—Wool sales closed at level of last sales, on the 11th, the scoured market being unchanged. Superior scoured has advanced Ad to Id per lb. Greasy market unchanged. Clothing, washed firmer, and combing, washed, firmer. Fine cross-bred is firmer, but coarse crass-bred has declined Id to l£d per lb. Merino and lambs, market firmer. A good many second hand parcels have been offered during the past sales. The sales comprised about 114,000 bales. 16,000 baleshave been left over for future disposal, consisting chiefly of Cape of Good Hope wools ; 60,000 bales have been taken for export. Tallow is in fair demand. Best mutton is worth £35 and best beef £33 per ton. Yesterday’s public sales of Australian have comprised 3000 casks ; stocks of all sorts arc 14,000 packages. Bank of England rate is 3 per cent.

CANTERBURY GRAIN & PRODUCE(From Canterbury Times.) The business of the past week in the grain market has partaken much of the same character as the preceding. The feeling continues one of extreme quietness, and transactions have been on a meagre scale. Wheat. —Values of wheat stand at the quotations of last week—4s 3d to 4s 4d—with very little doing. The few parcels brought forward found buyers among the millers at the above rates. Inferior quality is selling at 3s 6d to 3s lOd. Feed samples are rather dull of sale, though several small lines of this description arc reported as having been disposed of at Is 8d to 2s fid. Oats. —Business in this grain lias not improved, and the market is still characterised by a want of vitality. Best milling sorts are quoted at Is 6d to Is Bd, and feed parcels at Is 3d to Is sd. Barley. —Transactions in this grain have been unimportant —very little is coming forward, and that mostly of the lower grades. Best is quoted at 3s 3d to 3s 6d ; while fair malting is saleable at 2s 6d to 2s lOd. The enquiry for feed samples is not over active, and prices range from Is fid to Is 9d. Flour. —Millers report a fair demand for flour at £lO to £ll, according to brand. Ryegrass. —Beyond an occasional enquiry for small parcels, nothing can be recorded. Until the new seed conies into the market business will continue limited. Dairy Produce. —The price of butter remains at 5d to fid, without much passing. Cheese is quoted at 3ld to 4d, with a dull enquiry. Hams and bacon in cloth, Sid to 9d.

CANTERBURY STOCK. (From Canterbury Times.) There was a good muster of dealers and members of the trade at the Addington yards Wednesday last, but bidding throughout was unusually dull. The stock yarded comprised 4688 sheep, 710 cattle, and 91 pigs, the bulk being of prime quality. Sheep.— The quality of the fat sheep was fully up to the average, yet prices were not generally satisfactory. The sheep on this occasion were all shorn, the prices realised being, for prime crossbreds 12s 3d, good do 10s 6d, medium 8 s to 8s 7d, prime merinos 8s 3d. We quote mutton at l?d per lb. Fat lambs were in large supply, best quality realising 9d, medium 7s 6d to 8s 6d. Stores wore in good demand, and merinos in good condition sold up to 6s 3d. There wore no cross-breds to hand. Cattle. —Prime beef realised equal to 18s per lOOlbs. Very few stores were sold, in consequence of owners asking too high a price for them, and thereby leaving no margin of consequence between stores and fat stock. Pigs. —Best quality realised £2, good, and medium from 16s to £1 10. AUCKLAND RETAIL PRICES. (Corrected by latest report.)

Tallow wholesale, mutton 275, mixed. 20s to 255. NEW PLYMOUTH RETAIL PRICES. (Corrected by latest report),

Butchers’ Meat. —Beef, 3d to 5d ; mutton, 24d to 5d ; pork, 5d to 7d. Mill Prices. —Taranaki flour, 13s fid per lOOlbs ; silk-dressed (Star brand), 14s fid ; wheat meal, 12s 6s; chick’s wheat, 4s fid per bushel ; sharps, 8s per lOOlbs, or sack 10s ; bran, 4s per sack ; oats, 3s per bushel ; oatmeal, 4s fid per bag (251bs); maize (best screened), 5s Od per bushel. WELLINGTON PRICES. (Corrected by latest report,) Farm and Dairy Produce — Wholesale.

Flour Market — Wholesale.

7 lav and Corn Market.

CHRISTCHURCH RETAIL PRICES. (Corrected by Latest Report.) Fresh butter 8d to lOd per lb Eggs Is per dor. Cheese (id to lOd per lb Milk Id per quart Lamb ... • 2s (id and 3s Beef 2d to fid per lb Mutton 2d to 4d per lb Pork 7d per lb Ham Is per lb Bacon 10d and Is per lb DUNEDIN PRICES. Prime beef, 22s (id per lOOlbs ; mutton, shorn, l!}d ; unshorn, 2d per lb.

Roasting Beef 5d to 7d Boiling Beef 4d to 5d Mutton, hind-quarter ... 4d to 5d „ fore-quarter ... ... 3d to — Lamb, hind-quarter ... ... 3s6(1 to 5s „ fore-quarter ... 3s (id to 5s Od Pork and Veal ... (>d to Steaks... (id to Sd Chops and Sausages ... ... 5d to Cd

Buying. Soling, s. d. s, d. Butter (per lb.) ... 0 l> 0 8 Cheese (Colonial) ... 0 7 0 10 Eggs (per doz.) ... ... 0 10 1 0

s. d. s. d. Milk, quart ... 0 3 to 0 0 Butter, salt, lb' ... 0 U to 0 2’ Butter, fresh ... 0 to 0 (>i Cheese, Colonial ... ... 0 4.I to 0 5 Eggs, dozen ... 0 !) to 1 0 Lard, lb ... 0 3 to 0 •1 Ham, lb ... 0 0 to 0 10 Bacon,lb ... 0 8 to 0 9 Fowls, pair ... 4 <> to 0 0 Ducks, pair ... 4 6 to 0 0 Geese, pair ... 0 to 0 0 Turkeys, pair ... (> 0 to 0 0

£ s. cl. £ s. cl. Sharps, per ton ■i 0 0 to i 10 0 Adelaide, per ton ... 13 10 0 to U 0 0 Bran, per ton 3 0 0 to 0 0 0 Colonial Flour 11 0 0 to 11 10 0 Oatmeal 10 10 0 to 11 0 0

a-i £ s. d. £ s. d. Maize. Sydney 0 3 0 to 0 0 0 Maize, Poverty Bay 0 3 0 to 0 0 0 Oats 0 2 2 to 0 2 3 Oats, feed ... 0 1 9 to 0 i 10 Wheat 0 3 0 to 0 3 a Wheat, chick 0 2 9 to 0 0 0 Potatoes 1 5 0 to 1 10 0 Carrots 1 10 0 to 0 0 0 Hay. ton 4 10 0 to 0 0 0 Oaten, ton ... 4 15 0 to 0 0 0 Straw, ton ... it 0 0 to 0 0 0 Chaff, ton ... 4 0 0 to 0 0 0 Onions None in market.