COMMERCIAL.

Southland Times, Issue 1321, 14 October 1870, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Dunedin. — Fat Cattle. — The market is quite hare, and lots of good quality coming forward would meet with very ready sale. Prime qnality is worth 328 6d per lOOlbs ; middling do, 27s 6d to 30s. Fat sheep. ; have risen id per lb ; the numbers to hand insufficient for the wants of the trade. Prime hnK.bred mutton, 3£d to 3jd per lb ; merino do. 3id to 3jd. Store cattle enquired for, but few offering. 120 head mixed cattle were sold at £3 10a ; 3to 4 year.old steers, £3 155.t0 £4 ; mixed mobs, £3 to£3 Vhi. Store Sheep.— Good wethers in demand. We quote 2 and 4 tooth Tialf-bred wethers 7s 6d ; do hoggets, 6s ; merino wethers, 6s 6d to 7s. Good heavy draught and upstanding light horses are in demand. We quote first-class draughts, £45 to £50; middling do, £26 to £33 ; good raddle and light harness horses, £14 to £18 ; light and inferior do, £5 to £9. The celebrated Clydesdale prize, mare Kate, the property of Mr John Nimmo, West Taieri, was sold for £220, to Mr Wm. Holly, Christchurch. She is from imported stock on both sides, and has carried off numerous first prizes, having been successful at every show at which she competed. In the grain market there is little to note. Oats continue in demand at 3s 3d for feed, and 3s fid for milling samples. Wheat is in request, and good samples would readily fetch 5s 6d. Barley is without improvement. Oamaru.— The Time* reports : — Farmers are holding. for. ss for wheat, and 3s for oata, ,but buyers decline to operate at these figures. The utmost price obtainable is 4s lOd for first-class wheat. Owing to the great difference between oamgles, prices .have the wide range of from 3s fid to the figure given. Oats continue at 2a 8d to 25,10 d, with good renquiry';' barley, 2s fid ; flour, £12 to £13; potatoes, £1 15s, with large quanti-ties-offering. A line of 40 tons changed hands on ■ the, 4th, at .the price quoted* We understand that certain firms in Dunedin together hold fully 100,000 bushels of wheat, so that buyers in this market are castiom to their purchases. J ' .