CHRISTCHURCH MARKETS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1274, 6 December 1884, Page 1

CHRISTCHURCH MARKETS.

At the Addington yards on Wednesday, fairly numerous entries of all classes of stock came forward. Fat Sheep—Principally only medium quality, with a few exceptions. Demtnd only middling, and late rates were not sustained, a drop o£ from 6d to la per head taking place. Shorn crossbred wethers sold at from 12s 9d to 15s 3d ; mixed crossbreds, Ils 9d to 13s 6d ; merino wethers, 8s 6d to 11s 3d ; being an average of 2|d per lb. A light entry of store sheep came forward, and a fairly good sale ensued ; lines of shorn two tooth crossbreds at 13s 2d and 13s lOd ; lines of aged merino wethers in their wool at 7s and 6s lOd, and a line of good woolled mrrino wethers, mixed ages, at 10s lOd. Fat lambs, in moderate supply, selling at from 8s to 10s 6d. A large entry of store cattle were on offer, and the best sales of the season eventuated. Lines of three-year-old bullocks sold at £5 5s to £5 7» 6d , two-year-olds, £3 15s to £4; different ages, from £1 8s 6d to £2 17s 6d ; yearling cattle, 18s to 255. A good entry of fat catt e raided ; demand only middling, and sales made at a slight reduction on ate rales. Bullocks sold from £6 5s to £9 10s ; i eifers, £5 7s 6d to £8 ; fat cows, from £3 17s 61, being from 18s to 21s per lOOibs, according to quality.— Press.

CHRISTCHURCH CORN EXCHANGE The Corn Exchange report for the week ending Friday evening, the sth inst:—

Transactions in all kinds of produce for the week have shown no marked improvement, most lines offering having met with but a feeble response. Hunter’s White and Pearl wheats only are sought after, and can be placed at about a penny more than 1 uscan. The abundance of green feed has affected oats, which are decidedly e-isier, and quotations b low are according to sales made. Barley • f prime quality could be sold if procurable in parcels fit for manipulating, while feed parcels remain at former quotations, at which a few lines have been shipped this week. Very little has been done in beans and peas, and values are unaltered. Potatoes are in good request, but stocks have nearly run out; the supply is inadequate to the demand. In dairy produce no sales of any importance have.eventuated. Quotations for the week are as under : Wheat—Tuscan, 3s 2d ; Pearl and Hunter’s, 3s 3d to 3s 4d f.ob, Oats— Milling, 2s IGd ; bright short feed, 2s 9d ; others 2s 6d to 2s 7d f.o.b. Burley— Prune malting-, 3s 6d to 4a; feed, 2s to 2s 3d f.o.b. .

Beans and Peas—3s to 3a 3d for the former, the latter 3a 3d to 3a Cd f.o.b. Potatoes— Nomioady £5 f.o.b. Butter and Cheese The former 6d to 7d, the latter to 5d f.o.b.

AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. Melbourne, Dec. 4. The New, Zealand Lean and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, held their usual weekly wool sale to-day, when nu important catalogue of some 4300 bales were offered and 3700 were sold. Theio was the usual large attendance of buyers. Competition is increasing, and the market ia firmer for good merinos. Inferior greasy crossbreds are slightly easier. Other wools are unchanged. At to-day's sale greasy merinos sold up to 14d, greasy crossbreds to Iljd, and scoured merinos to 19id.