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Temuka Leader, Issue 1231, 23 August 1884, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

DUNEDIN MARKETS

Messrs Donald Reid and Co. report for the week ending August 20 : Fat Cattle—lo2 yarded. We quote best beef, 20a; inferior, 17a to 19s per cwt.

Fat Sheep—To-day’s supply consisted of 419 merino wethers and 1909 crossbreds. Competition was brisk for best lots. We quote mutton at 3d to 3£d per lb.

Sheepskins—Crossbreds, Is 6d to 4s lid ; merinos, Is 4d to 4s lOd ; pelts, 4d to 13d ; lambskins. Is 4d to Is 7d. Tallow—A further decline has taken place in all sorts, and 28s to 29s may bo given as top price ; inferior and medium, 25s to 26a. Botchers’ rough fat is dull of sale at 18s *o 21s per cwt. Grain—Wheat ; The market here has hardened, more especially for fine quality, and as the arrivals lately bavebeen light,any prime lots are quickly taken up by millers, and to-day 3s 5d to 3a 6d can be got for really prime velvet and Tuscan, Other torts in good milling order are telling at a ,shade higher; inferior to medium and frosted Jots have advanced in price, and nearly all to band has been placed at 2s 7d to 3s Id ; fowls’ wheat is selling at 2s to 2s 6d. Our week’s sale have been 4005 bushels. Oats: Throughout the past week there has been a continual inquiry by-shippers, who have taken up all lines of bright short feed and milling for export. Locally there is a belter demand for long feeding sorts, a considerable quantity having been sold —in fact the market is almost cleared out of all sorts. Our sales have been 16,918 bushels at, for extra milling, 2s 2£d ; for fine bright feed, 2s Id to 2s 2d ; good feed, Is 4d to 2s ; long oats, Is lOd to la lid ; Tartarian, for seed, 2s 3d ; inferior and smutty, Is 6d to Is 9d. Barley: No malting offering. Good feed sells at 2a to 2s 6d ; sound milling, 2s 7d to 3s Id. We sold 945 bushels.

Potatoes—A large amount of business has been done in sound Derwents, for future delivery, at equal to 60s to 62s 6d. Most of the lots in store, and which were in poor condition, have been sold at 51s to 53s per ton . We sold 110 tons.

Ryegrass—Some clean lines off good pastures have been placed at 3s 3d to 3s 93 ; cocksfoot, 5Jd to 6d per lb.

CHRISTCHURCH MARKETS. Owing to the rain of Tuesday and the previous day, very light supplies of all classes of stock were sent to the Addington Yards on Wednesday, and as a natural consequence of the same cause, there was a very limited attendance of buyers. Sheep. There was not more than a third of an average entry of fat sheep penned. A slight improvement in prices took place, but not to the extent that might have been anticipated, considering the small number on offer. Heavy-weight

prime cross-bred wethers sold at from 17s to 19s 3d ; medium cross-breds brought from 14s 9d to 15s 6d ; good merino wethers realised from 12s to 15s 6d ; medium ditto brought from 9s to 10s 6d. We quote prime wether mutton at fully up to 2fd per lb, and second quality at 2£d. One or two lines of inferior store sheep were penned, but, owing probably to the absence of country buyers, no business was transacted at auction. Cattle. —But a very small number of fat cattle were yarded, and consequently there waa an improved demand, and a slight advance in values on the past week or two. Ihe quality of most of the beef yarded was very good, scarcely any consisting of inferior quality. The best steers and heifers sold at srom £7 to £lO 15s ; medium lots realised from £6 5s to £6 10s, We quote beef at from 18s to 20s per 1001 b. Pigs.—The tew pens of pigs consisted of light sorts, and were cleared at prices about equal to late values.

CHRISTCHURCH CORN EXCHANGE:

The Corn Exchange report for the week ending Friday evening, the 22th inst:—

The grain and produce market for the past week has been like the weather, considerably depressed. Buyers are not at all eager, even for intercolonial trade ; the returns not being ©f such a nature as would warrant them in speculating, while the outlook from Horae markets is anything but cheering. The main features of the market remain unchanged, and quotations, with the exception of potatoes, may be placed as last week. Quotations are as follows; — Wheat—Tuscan, 3s 5d : Pearl, 3s 4d ; Hunter’s, 3s 3d 5 seeond quality, 2s 3d to 2s 6d ; fowl feed, Is 9d to 2s. Oats—Milling, 2s 4d ; bright feed, 2s 2d to 2s 3d ; inferior, lsßd to 2s. Barleo—Prime malting, 4s; second quality, 3s 3d to 3s 6d; feed, 2s ;in Christchurch,

Pe<is and Beans—Ss to 3s 3d the former; the latter 2s 9d to 3s. Ryegrass Seed—Clean Farmers’ parcels, Ss fid to 3s 9d ; machine-dressed, 4s 3d ; cocksfoot, 4£d to per lb. Potatoes —37© * ®d to 40s at country stations within 12 miles'. Butter and Cheese—Bd to 9d for the former, and 4s to sjd for the latter. The above prices are paid to farmers when delivered f.o.b. Lyttelton, excepting barley and potatoes. AUSTRALIAN MARKETS.

Melbourne, August 20, The Melbourne Manager of the National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand, Limited, reports on the local markets as follows: Wheat, per bushel, Ss lOd to 3s lid ; market firm. Malting barley is in fair demand at 3s 8d to 4s 4d. New Zealands oats, feeding sorts, are quieter, but steady at 2s lOd to 3s ; milling do, steady at 3s 2d to 3s 4d. New Zealand oats, under bond, are quoted at 2s 4d to Ss fid, with moderate enquiry.

ENGLISH MARKETS. London, August 19. The catalogue of to-day’s wool auction comprised 40,800 bales, Good competition was experienced for the various lots offered. The meat by the steamer Doric is selling at s^d. August 20.

Adelaide wheat, ex store, remains at 295, and New Zealand do at 34s to 40s. Off coast cargoes of Adelaide wheat hare changed hands at 35s 3d. Adelaide flour, ex store, 275. Australian tallow—Average quality beef is worth 355, and mutton 355, At the wool sales to-day 10,000 bales were offered. Prices were firmly maintained. Fine Port Philip and Sydney greasy wools are to Id higher.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency has received the following cablegram from its London branch, dated 19th August : Wool—The sales progress firmly, and up to date 58,000 bales hare been sold. The Home buyers are operating with confidence. Competition on German account is active, but French demand is dull.

Wheat—The market it depressed. Adelaide is worth 38s, ordinary New Zealand 365, and Tuscan 39s 6d per 4961 b ; Adelaide, f.a.q., is worth, c.i.f., t<' arrive, 36s 6d per 4801 b. The yield of the wheat crop in the United Kingdom is expected to be above the average, the estimate being fully 11,000,000 quarters. 1 allow Market firmer. Mutton tallow is worth 35s 6d, and beef 35s per cwt.

Leather—Market firm. Best sides are worth 11 £d per lb. Frozen Meat—Market dull. Mutton weighing per carcase ,701 b to 751 b, is worth 5d per lb.

. A telegram has been received by Messrs Miles and Co, of the prices obr tained at the present series ot wool sales m London, as under : —Leslie Hills, greasy, Is 2£d ; Ualetborpe, greasy, Is; J& RR, scoured, Is lOd ; WOR, scoured, Is B£d ; High Peak, greasy, Is

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