COMMERCIAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1255, 21 October 1884, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

CHEISTCHUECH MAEKETS.

At the Addington yards on Wednesday, large entries of all kinds of stock were penned fur the day’s supply. In the fat sheep market some excellent quality, both of crossbreds and merinos, were on offer, shorn and unshorn. The demand was not so keen as was anticipated, considering the last scanty supplies, and prices showed no advance. Crossbred wethers, in the wool, sold at from 16s 6d to 20s 6d, and shorn at from 12s 6d to 14s 9d. A draft of grand merino wethers sold at 21s to 22s per head, ordinary sorts at from 10s to 14s 4d. The store sheep market was fairly well supplied, demand appearing only middling. The following sales were made :—A line of crossbred hoggets at 11s Bd, and a line of merino wethers at 7s 4d, various lines of ewes and lambs being passed unsold. Eat lambs were in moderate supply, selling at from 10s to 16s per head. The supply of pigs was a good one, clearance being made at late rates, stores selling at from 12s to 20s, porkers at from 22s to 495, heavy pigs at £2 19s. A large supply of fat cattle was on offer, more than the market demanded, and values showed a slight decline. Bullocks sold at from £5 17s 6d to £9 ; heifers, from £5 5s to £7 17s 6d, being from IBs 6d to 2ls per lOOlbs. The store cattle market was largely supplied, the demand proving most limited, and little or no clearances were made.

AUSTEALIAN MARKETS. Sydney, Oct. 17. New Zealand wheat, per bushel, 3s; New Zealand oats, 3s 5d ; maize, 5s ; Sugar Company’s No. 1 pieces, per ton, £3l.

ENGLISH MARKETS. London, Oct. 18. Prime New Zealand mutton is quoted to-day at 6jd to per lb. The wheat market is unchanged, Adelaide, ex store, is at 365, and New Zealand ditto 31s to 345. Adelaide flour, ex store, is at 255. The total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain is 1,680,000 quarters. Tallow is advancing. Average quality beef and mutton are now worth 33s 6d.