COMMERCIAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1342, 19 May 1885, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

• AUCTIONEER'S REPORT. TIMARU. Messrs Maclean and Stewart report for the past week ending Saturday as follows : Horses Between 60 and 70 horses were to-day booked at their yards for sale, consisting of medium and inferior draughts and a large number of light harness horses and hacks. They sold about 20 head at from £l2 to £lB for inferior draughts, and from £7 to £l4 for hacks, Cattle—At their usual monthly sale held at Makikihi there was no great demand, but they placed most of the lots as follows :- Yearlings at 255, 13 steers and heifers at from £2 2s 6d to £3 17s, calves 18s, cows at from £3 10a to £6. Privately they placed several mobs at above quotations. Fat cattle are at present cheap and plentiful, and it is with difficulty more than 15s per 1001 b can be got, and even a shade under this quotation has been taken. Sheep —They sold at Makikihi last Monday crossbred lambs from 7s lid to 8s 3d; merino ewes at3s. Fat sheep they have sold privately at prices almost equal to 2d per lb. Clearing Sales—On Tuesday, at the homestead, Pleasant Point, they held a clearing sale of horses, &c, on account of Mr M, Maze, and sold a number of medium draughts and farm implements at fair prices. On Wednesday they sold at Mr Boutcher's farm, Gapes' Valley, 200 three-quarter-bred ewes at 10s, 225 half-breds, mixed, at ss, 385 crossbred lambs at 5s lid, and a few horses and farm implements at fair values. Skinß, Hides, and Tallow—On Wednesday they held their usual fortnightly sale. Sales were For butchers' crossbred skins, Is 6d to 3s Id ; do merinos, Is to 28 Id ; farmors' half and crossbred skins, Is 6d to 3s; do merinos, Is to Is 9d; lambskins, from Is to Is 6d ; pelts, 6d to 9d ; hides, from 3d to 4d per lb ; tallow, at If d per lb.

PEODUCE MARKETS.

TIMARU. Mr Wm. Evans gives prices paid to farmers last week as follows :—Milling wheat 2s Od to 2s 9d ; fowl do, Is 9i to 2s 5 long Danish oats, Is 2d to Is 4d ; short milling, good quality, Is 6d to Is 7d ; inferior do, Is 4d to Is 5d ; malting barley, 2s 91 to 3s; Derwent potatoes, 35s to 40s; bags for grain, 6d each j terms, net cash.

The Canterbury Farmers' Co-operative Association report for the week ended 15th May as follows : Wheat—Little alteration hn3 taken place in the market for this cereal, and few transactions can be reported, As the prospects of war have become less, prices have returued to their former level. They quote, for prime milling, red chaff

2a 6d to 2s Bd, velvet and Tuscan 2s 8d to 2s lOd, on trucks, Timaru. Fowl corn is in good demand at la 9d to 2s, ex store. Oats—Have sold freely during the week at, Is 3d to Is 5d for long feed, Is 5d to Is 7d for short feed, and up to Is B£H for good milling, and these may be taken as present values. Prime qualities of milling are enquired for, principally for shipment to London. Barley —None but the primest samples are saleable for malting, for which 2s 8d to 2s lOd on trucks, Timaru, is given.

ENGLISH MARKETS,

London, May 16. The wheat market is dull; ex warehouse, 37s fid ; on the voyage 35s to 37a 3d, and latest way shipmentp, 375.

AUSTRALIAN MABKETS.

Sydney, May, 15. New Zealand wheat is quoted at 2s 9d, and oats at 2s 7d. Maize is at 3s 3d, and Sugar Company's No. 1 pieces at £26 per ton. Adelaide, May 16. Wheat is at 3s 3d to 3s 4d ; the market is quieter. There is no change to report in Adelaide flour. Town brands £8 5s to £8 10s, do country £7 10s. The market is very flat, with no enquiry.