COMMERCIAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1181, 1 December 1883, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

AUCTIONEERS’ REPORTS. CHEISTOHUECH. Messrs Robert Wilkin and Co. report : • At the Addington yards on Wednesday, 7384 sheep and 370 head of cattle came forward. Fat sheep—-The supply was fully equal to the requirements of the trade, the quality of which was above the average. Prime wethers, shorn, sold readily at to 2|d per lb ; ditto, in the wool, at 3£d per lb. There was an over-supply of fat lambs, for which description the sale dragged, and late prices were barely maintained, Stores met the usual keen competition as experienced for some months past. A special line of crossbreds in the wool realised from 15s 9d to 16s lOd. L'at cattle—A moderate supply offered, and lute quotations barely reached. We sold on account of Mr S. Buxton, of Rangitata, an even line of shorn crossbred wethers, fit for freezing purposes, at 15s 3d each ; on account of Messrs Tnwood Bros., of Southbridge, a draft of prime shorn ewes at 16s Cd ; on account of various owners, crossbred wethers (hn wool), at 17s 6d and 18s ; fat lambs, from 8s 6d to 9s 9d ; fat cows, from £5 to £6 ss; fat calves to 16s,

Sheepskins, Hides, Fat, etc.—We held our usual weekly sale on Thursday, when we catalogued 2173 sheepskins, 60 bags fat and 58 hides. There was a marked improvement in the prices for skins compared with last week's rates. Our highest price realised was for a heavy line of crossbreds which readied 5s 4d, and the top price for butchers’ merinos was ss. We sold country merinos at Is lOd to 5s Id ; country crossbreds, Is 9d to 4s Id. Butchers’ merinos, 4s to 5s ; butchers’crossbreds, 4s to 5s 4d ; lambskins, 7d to Is; butchers’ pelts, 3d to lOd. Fat we disposed of at from 2d up to 2|d per lb, all the lots offered commanding keen competition. Hides, green, 3jd ; wet salted, 3|d ; dry salted, 3|d ; cut and damaged, 2-|d ; calfskins, 3|d per lb. CHRISTCHURCH COR* EXCHANGE. The Corn Exchange report for the week ending Friday evening, the 30th inst.:—

There Las been a fair enquiry for lines of good sound milling wheat and sound heavy oats for local consumption, but no orders of any consequence for shipment, excepting a few small orders coastwise, shippers beyond the colony giving their attention principally to wool at this time of the year. Grain’ does not meet with much enquiry, parcels of any magnitude consequently being difficult to quit, Bailey, excepting for feeding purposes, is alrtiost entirely neglected. No material alteration in values.

• Wheat—Sound milling, 3s lOd to 4s per bushel, delivered at Christchurch ; second quality 3s 3d to 3s 6d ; chick wheat, Is iOd to 2s 3d per bushel. Oats—Prime milling* 2s Id to 2s 2d per bushel f.o.b. ; bright short feed, Is lid to 2s ; inferior and discolored, Is 8d to Is lOd per bushel. Barley—First-class malting, 4s to 4s 3d per bushel ; second quality, 3s 3d to 3s 6d ; feed, Is lid to 2s 2d per bushel.

Potatoes—27s 6d to 30s at country stations.

Cheese and Butter—4£d to 5d for the former, 6£d to 7d for the latter, kegs extra. AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. Melbourne, Nov. 28. The Melbourne manager of the National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand, Limited, reports of the local grain market as follows-;

Shipping wheat is in fair demand at 4s 5d to 4s 6d ; milling bailey, 3s 9d to 4s 3d ; prices nominal. New Zealand oats are in limited request, and prices are barely maintained ; feeding, 2s lid to 3s Id ; milling do, 3s 2d to 3s 3d ; New Zealand oats, under bond, 2s 2d to 2s 4d, Nov. 29. At their wool auction to day the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (Limited) offered 3000 bales, the bulk of which was sold at satisfactory prices. A parcel of superior greasy wool brought There was a large attendance of buyers, and brisk competition. Good qualities were firm at about the same prices, with a hardening tendency. Scoured, combing and washed wools are now a half-penny to a penny higher than at the close of last auctions. Washed and scoured crossbreds are about a penny higher, and greasy crossbred and good greasy merinos show an advance of a halfpenny, For the new clip wools there is strong competition, and prices are a half-penny higher than at last sale. Inferior and faulty wools are rather lower. The catalogue to-day was , fairly' representative.

ENGLISH MARKETS. London, Nov. 28. At to-day’s wool sales the catalogue comprised 9900 bales. The market continues firm, Nov, 28. Adelaide wheat, ex store, remains at 46s 6d ; New Zealand ditto, 36s 6d to 44s 6d. Adelaide flour, ex warehouse, 325, Australian fallow—Best beef 38s 6d ; best mutton 39s 6d. At the wool sales to-day 7800 bales were catalogued. The tone of tl;6 auction showed a hardening tendency.