DUNEDIN MARKETS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1162, 8 April 1884, Page 1

DUNEDIN MARKETS.

Mr L. Maclean, under arrangements with the British and,New Zealand Mortgage and Agency Company, Limited, reports for the week ending April 2 as follows : Fat Cattle—2Bo head were forward at Burnside Yards to day for the week’s supply. Best bullocks brought £7 10a to £8 ; others, £3 12s 6d to £6 17s 6d ; best cows, £8 5s ; others, £2 15s to £6 ss. We quote prime beef barely 20s per 1001 b. Fat calves sold at 15s 6d each. Fat Sheep.—The number forward today was small, viz., 1200, including 80 merinos. Prices realised were no more than Is per head better than last week ; a pen or two crossbreds (very heavy weights) brought 19s 3d ; others, 12s 3d to 15s 3d ; and merinos, 9s to 10s 6d. We quote mutton, 2|d to 2£d per lb. Fat lambs sold at from 8s to 10s 6d. Fat Pigs.—l4B were penned, and sold well at, for suckers, 16s to 16a 6d; bacon pigs, up to 675. Store Cattle The lata harvest and continued low prices for fat stock combine to depress the market, and prices are not so firm as lately. Our sales during the week consist of 120 head at the following quotations : three and four-year-old bullocks, £3 10s to £5. Sheepskins At our weekly sale on Monday last we offered a mixed catalogue of country dry skins and butchers’ green skins to the usual attendance of the trade. Dry crossbreds brought 2s to 3s lOd ; do merinos, 2s 2d to 3s 9d ; do pelts, Id to is Id ; green do, Is 4d to Is 7d ; lambskins, la 6d to Is 7d. Tallow—All consignments forward meet with ready sale at - for inferior and mixed, 20s to 25s ; medium to good, 27s to 32s 6d ; and rough fat at 20s to 25sper cwt, according to condition. Grain —Wheat: The market is still Inanimate. There are several samples of Northern, also Lake districts, wheat in the. market, but millers are not free buyers at last week’s quotations, neither do shippers see their way clear to operate with any chance of recouping themselves from the low prices inling now and for a long while in the London market; so that the tendency of this is evidently downward. Prime milling wheat is now bought at • qual to from 3s 6d to 3s 9d (bags inclnd.-.i), delivered in Dunedin. A penny to 2d per bushel over this might possibly bo gut if a miller happened to be running sboit. Oats continue in fair demand, and saleable at about last week's quotations—viz.. 2s Id to 2s 23 for stout bright milling ; Is lid to 2s Id for short bright feed ; Is 8d to Is lOd fur medium, bags included. Barley : Malster’s don’t feel inclined to pay ’he prices asked by the growers; therefore in the meantime, very few sales are being effected. Ryegrass Seed—There is no improvement in the demand for this.

CHRISTCHURCH MARKETS.

Messrs Robert Wilkin and Co. report : Sheepskins, Fat, Hides, etc. —At our usual weekly sale on Thursday we offered by auction about 1100 skins anc 25 bags fat, the prices realised being as follows: Rough, 2iH to 2§d ; tallow, i per lb. Merinos at from Is up to 4s 8d for fulT wcolled skins ; crossbreds, at Is (id to 2s 7<l ; pells, at Id to Is 7d ; lambskins, at Is Id >o 2s Id for well dried skins; hides, 3 1 to 41 for heavy well trimmed ; cut and damaged,