COMMERCIAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1027, 7 November 1882, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

TIMAEU MARKETS

Messrs Maclean and Stewart report for the past week &s follows : Horses.—43 draughts and hackneys were on Saturday received at. their }-ards for sale. Among the former were a few good useful sorts, for which there was spiiited competition ; but >vith this exception the demand was decidedly dull, only 15 head having changed hands at from £22 to £33 for medium to good draughts, and for ordinary £ls to £2O ; hacks, from £l2 to £ls for medium, and for inferior from £5 10s. Cattle.—At Winchester Fair on the 2nd instant, there was a large entry of stores, and a few head of fat. The demand foi stores was remarkably quiet, and where sales were effected owners had to submit to small values, buyers not geeling inclined to operate on account of the bad prospects of feed at the time ; but the much desired change in the weather which set in on Friday will doubtless give an impetus to stock business generally, and bptter prices than those ruiing lately may be looked for now. They sold yearlings at from 29s to 33s ; cows, from £2 10s to £5 2s Gd. They sold two pens of fat cattle privately. On Saturday they sold privately 95 head mixed cattle at a satisfactory price. Sheep.—They have no sales of importance to note. At Winchester they offered seveval lots, but only disposed of a small lot of shorn cross-breds at 8s 9d. Wool any Skins.—At their fortnightly sale on Wednesday, they catalogued about 1200 skins, and a few bales and bogs of wool, all of which were disposed of at prices a shade easier than late rates. They sold butchers' heavy cross-breds at Gs to Gs 6d medium, 5s to 5s lOd ; merinos, os to 5s 3d for best skins, and medium 2s lOil to 4s 3d ; 3 bales crossbred wool at 8d ; 1 bale mixed, 6d ; bags, from Gd to 7k! per lb. Fat.—A few bags rough fat sold at 2|d to 2-kl per lb. CHRISTCHUfiCH MARKETS. Messrs Robert Wilkin aud Co. report : At the Addiogton yards on Wednesday, 84GG sheep, 710 head of cattle, and 160 pigs, came forward. The supply of both fat sheep and cattle was in excess fo the requirements of the trade, and in consequence there was a further drop in prices compared with, iate s vies. For store sheep there was a good demaud, more especially for cross-bred ewes with lambs at foot. We sold on account of various clients, prime cross-breds in the wool at 17s ; good do, at 14s 9d ; do, shorn (from the Levels estate), at lis 9d and 12s ; others, of middling quality, at 10s ; merinos, shorn, at 7s ; fat lambs, at 8s Gd and 9s ; fat steers, at from £G to £7 2s Gd ; do heifers, at £5 15s ; fat calves from 20s to 30s each, according to quality ; a draft of cross-bred ewes, with lambs at foot, at 16s each ; pigs (prime), 55s and 60s. We held on Thursday, our weeklj' sale of sheepskins, at which there was a large attendance of buyers. Our catalogue comprised 2304 skins, and as this constituted the supply for the next fortnight, owing to the Agricultural show next Thursday, there was a spirited demand. resulting in all lots being quitted at fair values. Butchers' cross-bred, large, 6s 3d, Gs lOd, 7s 7d ; do do, second quality, 4s 4d, ss, 5s Sd, 6s 3d ; do merino, large, 5s 9d to Gs Bii ; do do, second quality, 4s 5d to 5s Gd ; do lambskins, Is Id; do pelts, 7d to yd ; country cross bred, large, 5s 4d, 5s lOd, Gs 6d ; do do, medium, 2s 4d, 3s 4d, 4s 4d, 5s 4d ; do do, small, la 3d, Is lOd, 2s 4d ; do merino, large os, os Gd, Gs ; do do. med'inn, 2s 2d, 3s 2d, 4s, 5d ; do do, small, Is 4d, Is 9d, 2s 2d. Fat and Tallow—The trade was well represented, and there was good competition, 90 packages were catalogued and all sold. Fat—Best quality, clean and well-saved, to 3d per ib ; second quality, to 2|-d per lb. Tallow, iu small lots, at 20s per ewt, and 2M per lb for second quality to 3d per lb, and 29s per cwt for best quality. Hides—Sound dry, at 4d per lb ; ordinary salted at 3|d per lb j green at 3|d per lb ; damaged, at 2£d per lb ; calkskins, sound, at 4d per lb ; cut and damaged, 3d per lb.