DUNEDIN STOCK MARKETS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1388, 5 September 1885, Page 3

DUNEDIN STOCK MARKETS.

At. the Burnside Yards on Wednesday the following business whs transacted :

Fat Cattle-112 head forward. The quality was on the whole good, with a small proportion prime beef. Biddings were languid, and, unless for a few choice lots, buyers had the pull. Best bullocks brought up to £ll 7s 6d ; cows to £9 2s 6d. Beef, from 22s 6d to 25s per lOOlbs. Mr Donald Stronach sold a draft, for Mr J. M. Greenaway (Bangitata) at quotations. Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Co. sold for Mr James Guild (Trevenna) 12 prime bullocks (heavy weights) at from £9l7s 6d to £ll 7a 6d. Mr L, Maclean sold for Mr E. Harper (South Canterbury) 10 bullocks from £7 12s 6d to £9 2s 6d.

Fat Sheep—242l penned, including 450 merinos. Market sluggish, and prices slightly lower than last quotations. Merinos ranged from 6s 6d to 10s, crossbreds, 10s, 12s 3d, 13s 3d, and 15s. A line of Leicester ewes brought 16s 3d. Mutton, from 2£d to barely 2|d per lb. Bigs—Altogether an over supply, 332 of all descriptions being penned, and prices declined fully 7a 6d per head on porkers and bacon pigs. Horses—Wright, Stephenson, and Co. quote first-class draughts at from £25 to £3O; medium, £ls to £2O; first-class hacks and light harness horses, £l7 to £25; medium, £7 to £l4; light and inferior, £3 to £5.

DUNEDIN PRODUCE MARKETS

Wheat —Supplies of prime milling are short, but, the outlet for flour being limited, millers are not inclined to advance on recent quotations. Velvet and Tuscan at 3s 3d to 3s 4d ; other milling sorts, 2s 10J to 3-i Id ; fowl feed and inferior milling, 2s 3d to 2s 6d. Oats—Some lines have been taken up for shipment, but without affecting prices, which remain at la lid tor bright short feed, and 2s for milling, while ordinary feed for local requirements sell at Is 8d to Is 9d.

Barley—The market is without change, the demand being very alight for all descriptions. Chaff—Good quality, well cut, is wanted at £3 per ton. Inferior is selling at £2 5s to £2 10s ; cow chaff, £2. Potatoes—There is a fair demand for Derwents at £3 5s to £3 30s, according to quality, but sales are limited to local buyers. Kidneys are neglected. Butter—Salt is in demand, and very few prime lots coming forward. For prime, 10£d is the quotation. Fresh is getting more plentiful, but good lots fetch Is to Is Id.

Cheese, 5d per lb for best quality. Eggs, 9d per doz. Grass seed remains at quotations of last week.

Sheepskins—At Monday’s sales prices were throughout in favor of buyers. The London wcol market deterred purchasers* and last week’s rates were not maintained. Hides —No alteration in values. The supply barely meets the local demand at for prime up” to4Jd per lb ; light, inferior, and cut, from 2^d. Tallow —Almost unsaleable, and quotations nominal—viz., good to prime, 19s to 21s ; medium, 16s to 18s; rough fat, 10s to 12s per cwt.

ENGLISH MARKETS.

London, Sept. 1. Australian tallow—Fair average quality beef, 27s per cwfc. ; mutton, 295. The stock of tallow in London is 19,500 casks.

The wool sales opened to-day. Messrs Beline and Son’s and Jacob and Co.’s •joint catalogue comprised 12,000 bales, upwards of half of which were from New Zealand and the Cape. The attendance of Home buyers was good, but that of foreign rather thin, and bidding was reserved, Merinos are a half-penny to a penny below last closing rates, and crossbreds are weak. The total New Zealand bales available is 240,000. Sept. 2. At to-day’s wool sales 12,200 bales were offered at auction to a flat market.