COMMERCIAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1213, 5 August 1884, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

AUCTIONEERS’ REPORTS TXMAKU.

Messrs Maclean and Stewart report for the past week ending; Saturday as follows :

Horses—The demand! for all kinds of heroes at their yarts to-day was very dull, and the prices offered for: the vai.ipus lots were not sufficient to induce much business. Tuis whs principally owing to the absence of the right stamp of horses coming’.forward, and owners - bringing forward inferior animals for safe at preseu t must be prepared to accep't low prices, if Oiey wish to make a sale. Good horses even in the present dull tunes always command fair value*; About 30 he-«d were to-di.y passed under the hammer, one half of which sold at from £l6 to £2U for good draughts, and £6 to £l2 fur-interior harness horses and ordinary hacked Sheep -Little business is being done at present in store sheep, the prices offered for any lots for sale being not up to owners’ ideas of values, and feed is being leased rather than sold at present, in the prospect of a belter demand in spring. They have placed private y several lines of‘merino ewes at satisiactbryi:prices, if at sheep —Any lots offering, if; prime quality,- meet with, a ready sale, and fully per lb is... their market value.? They have pla l e-l>several lines at this quotation. At the Wrishdyke hut Tuesday they placed « few inerrnO wethersiat 10si3 1. C-ittle—rThey have no transactions of importance to rerort.in store: cattle, the dehiand being very dull for the class offering. A few cows and isieers were sold at the Wasl.dykc last Tuesday at /tVom;£l 17* 6d' to £3 15s. , Kaq cattle are rather tinner in price, present values being about 17s 6d per £OOI b. Wool, Skins, Hides and Tallow—Their usual forlniglitly safe ; yvaß:held last Wednesday/ when an average .catalogue was offered’, viz., 6 bales wool; 1100 skins, 25 hides and a few sacks tallow. With the exception of the wool, they cleared out the whole of their entries at the 'foflowmg prices Full-Woolied J butchers' merino and j crossbred skins,.'3s'B$ top4s 2d ; farmers’ lots 2s 6d. to ,2s ,Bs=; medium skins, from 2s t0,25.5d ; hides, - from 3d to ; 4jd per lb, 1 according to weight, etc. ; : aliow, 2|ii to- 2£. ilper; Ib-T ’ J AUSTitAEIAN_JJd ARKET3.Sydney, , uoq.-fc ]. New Zealand wheat, iper New Zealand oats, 2s 6d ; mirze, "4s 3d ; Sugar Company’s,No. 1 pieces, per too, £33. , f Adelaide,, August 1. The wheat quotation is 3s 6d ; market quiet and little doing. . Flour—Town brands, £9 per ton ; country ditto,,£B. ENGLISH MARKETS. London, August, I. Colonial bread stuffs New Zealand wh'-at and flour stand.at lust quotations, The qu nlity of, wl.efit "float fpr the United Kingdom is returned at £1,560,000 quarters. Tallow- The stock in London to-day is 32,700 casks. Quotations tor, Australian, average quality, remain at 84s 6d for beef, and 36a fpr mutton. Australian.leather, best sides, have advanced to 12d., r . New Zealand mutton, prime quality, 3d, per lb.' '; ■/ August 2. Several ,off coast cargoes of wheat have been sold at prices ranging from 39s to 39a 3d.