OTAGO.

Southland Times, Issue 1195, 14 January 1870, Page 2

OTAGO.

The Daily Times of the llth inst. reports -. — Quotations are with difficulty sustained —the demand for flour being very quiet. The advance in the value of oats in the Melbourne market may possibly check any further decline for the present ia this staple. New potatoes are scarce and in demand ; prospective values for tha new crop are beginning to occupy the attention .of the trade, and definite conclusions, with the information at present possessed, are somewhat difficult to arrive at. —Flour, £12 per ton; oatmeal, £20 do; pearl barley, £28 do ; wheat, 5s per bushel; oats, 3s do ; maize, as do ; bran, £5 per ton ; pollard, £5 10s do ; hay (old), £5 10s do; do (now), £4. 10s do; straw^ £2 10= do; potatoes fold", £2 10s do; do (new), £8 do; onions, £20 do; butter, 8d to 9d per lb; eheess, 9d do; bacon and hams, lOd do; bags, 14s per dozen. "Messrs Wright, Stcphe-iaon and Co. report, for the week end^n? the Bth instant, a? follows : — Fat Cattle. —Two drafts yarded, from middling to prime quality, brought prices equal to from 20s to 25s v^ lnolbs. We quote nrirae beef, 255; middling, 20s to 22» 6d per 1001b*. Fat Sheep. —The market has been barely supplied. "We sold a draft of half-bred 3at 2d per lb. and a draft of merino at l^d. These prices may be taken a* present quotations. Fat Lambs. —We disposed of 150 head, at from 6s 6d to 9s 3d ench, according to quality. Store Stock. —We can only rebeat on- remarks of last week —that we have no sales to record in either cattle or sheep. Horses. —Very little has been doing in this description of stock. There are a few enquiries for draught, but light horses are difficult t<t move off. Current rates are —Heavy draught, from £40 to £45 ; medium, £28 to £36 ; good hacks and lisht harness houses, £20 to £25 ; useful, £10 to £15 ; inferior, £4, and upwards. Messrs Driver, Maclean and Co. report: —"We held the first wool sale of th.9 sesson at our warehouse, Hish street, on Wednesday. There was a fair attendance of buyers and others interested in this staple. Tlie catalogue comprised 6fis hales, of vshieh I*2B were sold under the hammer, at prices ranging from 6id to 7fd per lb for greasy, and 12|d to 13d for cold water •washed, showing a slight i-nproveme,nt upon those realised at our openin? sale of last season. Tlie remainder was passed, partly from want of instructions, and partly on account of large portions of clips which were catalogued bavins been detained on the road by the late floods. This, with further large clips coming forward. will be offered at our next sale, on Wednesday, 12th inst. Tho Oamaru Times of the 7fh current reports : —Prices are unchanged. The recent stoppage of a -well-known grain and produce buyer in Dunedin, vrho has conducted somewhat extensive opera!ions, in this market, ha 3 produced an unsettled feeling. Quotations for grain are merely nominal until the new grain comes forward. The damage done by the lata storm has been confined principally to the barley crop, which has suffered severely. Wheat and oats have escaped. We understand that in the Cave Valley and Totara Districts the yield of -srheat will be considerably affected by rust which prevail? to a great extent.