COMMERCIAL.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2477, 26 February 1881, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

S. C. Times Office. Saturday Evening

Considerable quantities of grain are coming forward, and the stores are getting rapidly filled up. Several ships are .announced to visit this port, and the first will arri vc in the course of a week. That they will receive prompt despatch is beyond a doubt, for a large number of farmers this season have determined to go in for direct shipments at their own lisks. Wheat is somewhat easier, prices ranging from 3s for ordinary to 8s 2d for Tuscan. Oats are in good demand, but the supply is limited, and from Is 2d: to Is 4dis freely offered for average samples. Barley is a drug in the market, and quotations are nominal. DU ME DIN MARKETS; Oats, Is »d to Is 8 1 per bushel; milling wheat- 4s 0.1 to- 4s 8d per bushel; new wheat 3s ltd to 4s ; fowls’ feed, 2s to 3s ; barley, malting, 2s Gd to 3s Gd ; feed Is 9d to 2s 6d per,bushel ; hay, £3 per ton ; chaff, £2 15s per ton ; straw. £2 per ton ; bran, £3 per ton ; pollard. £4 per ton ; flonr, £lO 10s to £ll per ton ; oatmeal, £9 per ton : butter, tre»b, Gd to 8d ; salt, very unsaleable, Gil to Sd ; eggs. Is 2d ; bacon in rolls. SI; side, Br,- ; hams, 1011 ; fresh pork, 4id per lb.; potatoes, new, 3s to 4.s per cwt. CH RISTCFIUROH MARKETS. Messrs Robert, Wilkin and Co report ; At the Addington Yards on Wednesday there was a large attendance of the trade, as well as buyers of store stock from the country districts. Sheep—l 7,727 were yarded, of which we sold 5948 at the following rates : 5 draft of prime crossbred wethers at 11 s Gd and 11s 9d ; good ditto at 10s Brl and 10s 9d ; prime fat lambs at 10s and 12 Gd ; pedigree ewes at 13s Gd; 2000 four-tooth merino ewes at 6s 3d ; 500 merino wethers from Gs to 6s Gel each.'

Cattle —349 to hand, of which wc sold— Fat steers, light weights, £5 7s fid; stores, from £2 14s fid to £4.

On Thursday, at our New Zealand Wool Stores we held our weekly sale of sheepskins, rough fat, &c;, 3019 skins were catalogued and all sold. There was an average attendance of buyers, and good competiiion, but a decline of prices as compared with late sales of about 41 to fid per skin. Butchers’crossbred wooly skins, large, 2s 10d. 3s Bd, 4s ; do dodo, medium, Is fid, Is lid, 2s fid, 2s 10d ; do, merino, wooly skins to fis Id ; country crossbred do do, large, 2s (id* 2s I Id, 3s Sd ; do do do, medium, 9d, Is fid, 2s, 2s fid ; do rr.crino do, large, 8s 7d, 4s. 4s 3d, fis 3d : do do do, medium, Is Id, Is 9 1,2 s 10.1, 3s 2d, 3s 9d ; butchers’ pelts, half to three-fourths woollcd, Is fid to 2s fid : do, late shorn, 4d to Is fid : country pelts, half to threefourths woolled, 9d to Is Sd ; do, late shorn, 4d to 9d ; lambskins, large, 2s 4d to 2s 8d ; do, medium, Is lOd to 2s 4d ; do, small, Is 7d to Is lOd.

Messrs ,T. T. Ford and Co.report:—At our wool and skins sab; on Thursday we had the usual attendance of fell mongers, and although the recent advices of a fall in wool had the effect of reducing prices slightly, yet biddings came briskly, and very satisfactory prices were obtained. We catalogued 3022 skins and 00 bags of rough fat. Best butchers’ crossbred pelts sold from is 9d to 2s, 2s 3d and 2s Gd each, and special lines went much beyond these prices. Butchers’ merino pelts sold from Is 5d to 2s each. Lambskins brought from 2s to 2s Gd and 2s 9d each. Hides, 4d per lb. Rough fat, 2d to 2|d per lb. Messrs H, Watson and Co report the following prices as having been obtained at their sale on Thursday ;—Butchers’ best crossbred pelts, 2s id. , 2s 6d, 2s 9d to 2s lid each ; second quality. Is 9d. 2s, 2s 3d each ; medium, Is 3d, Is Gd to Is Sd each butchers’ best merinos, Is 3d, Is Gd to Is Bd, and one good line at 2s 23 each ; second quail tv, od, Is, to Is 2d ; inferior merinos and crossbreds, dry and badly saved, 3d, sd, to 7d each. Best dry fat, 2Jd to 2 : J-d per lb } second quality, JJd to 2d per lb ; in; ferior, Ig Ito l|d per lb. Salted hides, 4ddamaged hides, 24d per lb ; calfskins, 4d per lb., Adelaide, Feb. 24. The price of wheat per bushel is 4s 2d to 4's 3d. The tone of the wheat market is quiet nothing doing. London, Feb 24. At tbe wool sale to-day, 9GOO bales were offered. The tone in bidding was quiet. The number of bales withdrawn from sale since the opening is 7000, out of a total of 72,000 catalogued.