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Temuka Leader, Issue 1291, 17 January 1885, Page 3

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AUCTIONEER’S REPORT. TEMUKA. Mr K. F. Gray reports having held his usual monthly stock sale at his yards, Temuka, yesterday, when 80 head store cattle and 20 head fat cattle were offered. There was a very poor attendance of buyers, owing, doubtless, to a large sale of stock at Waimate—Fat steers sold at from £5 2s 6d to £7 10s; stores from £2 5s to £4; calves, 15s to 26* ; milch cows, £2 10s to £6 ss. DUNEDIN MARKETS. Fat Cattle—6o yarded—mostly fair to good quality, a few prime. Best bullocks, £8 10s to £lO 17« 6d ; others, £5 to £8 ; cows, £3 10s to £8 6s. Beef, £1 to £i 2s 6d per IOOIbs. Fat Calves—l3s to 25s each. Fat Sheep—Best crossbreds, 15s to 17s 3d ; others, 10? 9d to 14s 9d; merinos, 5s to 11s. Mr L. Maclean sold for Mr M. Quinn 126 prime crossbred wethers at from 16s 3d to 17a 9d. Mutton, 2|d to 2£d per lb. Fat Lambs—Best pens brought 8a 9d to 9s 9d, a few prime 11s 6d ; others, 6s to 8s 6d. Market glinted. Pigs—Wright, Stephenson and Co. sold 96 as follows ; 1 heavy bacon pig at 80s; 21 bacon pigs at 46s 6d; 15 porkers at 26s to 365; 59 stores at 10s to 235. Store Cattle—Fair demand for quiet well grown bullocks; also for young cattle. Store Sheep—Buyers are not disposed to give prices asked. Sheepskins—Crossbreds, low to medium, brought Is 7d to 4s ; full-wool, 4s 3d to 6s ; medium, low to medium, Is 9d to 3s 9d ; full-wool, 4s to 4s 3d ; dry pelts, 4d to la ; green do, 6d to Is 4d ; lambskins, 8d to Is 3d. Hides—Butchers’ green hides fetch 16s to 21s for ox, and 12s to 18s for cow. Tallow—Prime is worth £26 to £2B 10s ; medium, £22 to £25 ; inferior, £lB to £2llos. Wheat—Stocks of really prime samples are running low, and prices have consequently advanced slightly for these. As shippers are operating in inferior sorts, the tone of the market all round has improved. Prime milling is worth 3s 5d to 3s 7d ; other milling sorts, 3s Id to 3s 44d ; medium, 2s 8d to 3s; fowl feed, Is 8d to 2a 3d. Oats—Market now quite bar®, and prices hardening, several lines having been dispesed of during the week at an advance on last week’s quotations of Id to l|d per bushel. Prime bright milling is worth 2s sid to 2s 6d ; best feed, 2s 4d to 2s 5d ; medium, 2s 3d to 2s 4d ; interior and discolored, Is lOd to 2s 2d. Barley—No transactions worthy of note. Potatoes—Large consignments are coming forward daily, and as they will not keep in store they have to be sold at vary low prices. Fresh dug bring with difficulty £3 ; those out of the ground any time, 30s to 455. CHRISTCHURCH MARKETS. At the Addington yards on Wednesday fairly large entries of all kinds of stock enme to hand, and the attendance was a little above the average, including one or two buyers from outside the province, but who, however, appeared to exert no influence on values. The fat sheep were on the whole of very good quality, the demand only middling, and a dull sale at about late rates took place. Crossbred wethers sold at from 12s 3d to 16s, mixed 11s to 13s 6d, merino wethers at from 8s to 10s 6d, being at the rate of 2d to 2£d per lb, as per quality. In the store sheep market late values were fairly upheld. Lines of four-tooth wethers sold at from 12s to 12s 7d, two-tooth wethers from 11s to lls 6'l, with various lines passed unsold. Fat lambs were in good supply, selling at from 8s 6d to lls per head. A small entry of pigs sold readily at lute rates. Store Cattle—An entry somewhat above the average, and comprising some good lines of grown cattle, the demand proving sufficient to make a good clearance, at the following prices—yearlings, from 18s to 22s ; two-year-old steers, 55s to 60s ; ditto heifers, 50s to 55s ; three-year-old bullocks, from £4 6s to £4 15s. Fat Cattle Market—Well supplied with prime quality, for which a fairly good demand ensued. Bullocks sold at from £6 5s to £8 15s ; heifers, £5 10s to £7 17s 6d, being at the rate of from 18s 6d to 21s 6d per 1001 b as per quality. CHRISTCHURCH CORN EXCHANGE, The Corn Exchange report for the week ending Friday evening, the 16lh inst:— Operations in grain and produce for the past month have been of very small dimensions, and the remarks of the previous week apply equally well for this. The weather has not been all that could be desired for a speedy harvest, yet. in some districts crops of oats are so well forward as to necessitate cutting, and l deliyeries may be expected to take place

within the next week or two. Although the late heavy rains have been pretty general all over the ptovince, vary li'tle real injury to standing grain has resulted, so that with a good spell of fair weather an abundant harvest should he gathered, while the tendency of the Home market continues to give an earnest of better prices than was anticipated a short time ago. The following are the week’s quotations : Wheat—Tuscan, 3s; Pearl and Hunter’s 3s 2d to 3s id, f.o.b. ; chick feed, Is fid to 2s. Oats—Priino milling, 2s 3d; bright short feed, 2s 4d to 2a 6d ; long oats, 2a to 2s 3d, f.o.b. Barley—Malting, 3s 6d to 4s ; feed, 2s to 2a 3d, Christchurch. Butter and Cheese—6d to 6jd for the former, and the latter. 4d to 40, f.o.b. ENGLISH MARKETS. The Mark Lane Express, of December 22nd in its weekly review says;—“The w eek’s rain fall has materially improved the already promising autumn crops. The trade for the past week was 54,91 T quarters at 51s 5d against 67,533 quarters at 39s 2d during the corresponding week last year. Foreign wheat is quieter with small demand; holders, however, seem in better spirits, and anticipate material reductions of stocks at the end of the end of the year. In wheat cargoes off coast there is but small business. The new crop of Californian grain is said to be of better quality than that of 1883. Thirteen cargoes of Californian wheat brought 335. 6d to 355.