COMMERCIAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1443, 19 December 1885, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

CHRISTCHURCH CORN EXCHANGE,

The Corn Exchange reports for the week ending Friday evening, the 18th inst. : —■

A fair amount of business continues to be done in wheat. Advices from London are reassuring to shippers. Prime lines of hard sorts are chiefly competed for among New Zealand millers, whereas Tuscan, up to 3s Id, is taken up for Home shipments. Second class milling is offerfreely, but whole chick feed has a very strong enquiry. Oats are difficult to quit, there being only light orders from outside. Barley still remains stagnant. There is an enquiry for beans, but peas are not asked. Derwent potatoes have had a good demand for local consumption, but we must expect it soon to be passed, as new potatoes are coming forward freely. Butter and cheese have purchasers at our quotations,. which are as follow: — Wheat—Prime milling pearl, 3« od; Fun hers’, 3s 4d; Tuscan, 3a 2d ; second quality, 2s lOd to 3s; whole chick wheat, 2s 8d to 2s 9d, Oats—Milling and bright short feed, Is 10d to Is lid ; slightly discolored feed, Is 7d to Is 9d ; long and inferior, Is 6d. Barley—Halting, nominal; feed, Is 9d to 2a. Potatoes—37s 6d to 40a: scarce. Beans—2s 8d to 2s 9d. Peas—Feed, 2s 9d to 3s. Butter—Bd to 9d in tubs ; pastry, 5d to 6d.

Cheese —Old, 6d to 7d for loaf shape ; other sizes, 5d to s|d. The above prices are those paid to farmers, and delivered f.o. b. Lyttelton.

CANTERBURY WOOL SALES,

The N.Z, Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, held their third sale of the season at the Christchurch Wool and Grain Warehouses on Thursday. There was a good attendance of buyers, and the-several lots offered elicited keen competition, especially fine crossbreds, well grown and light in grease, in which there was a distinct advance, as also on faulty merinos. Superior merino, however, did not participate in the general appreciation of values. The catalogue comprised 1351 bales and 179 bags, of which 945 bales and 179 bags found buyers at the following range in prices;— Greasy—-Merino 4|d to 7d ; halfbred, s£d to Bsd; crossbred, 4|d to 7£d ; strong weols, 5d to fijd; pieces, 2d to 4jd; locks, to 2fd. Scoured—Merino, up to 13£d ; crossbred, 9d ; and lambs, B|d. DUNEDIN PRODUCE MARKETS. The following is the report for the week ending Thursday ;■ — Wheat —There has been a little more stir in this market, several lines of fair to choice milling having been disposed of, and the market to-day may be termed as quite bare, anything dry and fit for milling being readily placed. Inferior down to chick feed is very scarce, and fetches higher prices. Quotations are as follow : Beat milling, 8s 3d to 3s 4d, an extra fine lot fetching 3s 5d,; good milling, 3s to 3s 2d ; inferior milling, 2s lid to 3s; fowls wheal, 2s fid to 2s lOd. Oats—Shippers are again in the market, and readily take all bright short feed and heavy milling, but as the quantity of these descriptions are limited more attention is given to long oats if in anything like fair color: Prices for both sorts show an improvement. Inferior (damp, musty and discolored) are plentiful, and almost unsaleable. For best milling, Is lOdtols 10£d ; short stout feed, Is Sjjd to Is 9£d ; short oats, a little off color, Is 7£d to Is 8d ; long tartarian and bright Danish, Is 8d to Is 9£d; inferior and discolored, Is 3d to Is fid.

Barley—Several lines have found buyers at 2s Id to 2a 6d, mostly for feeding purposes. Potatoes—Derwents are quite out of season, and consequently unsaleable. The market is fairly supplied with kidneys. Local grown fetch £8 to £10; imported, £6 per ton. Chaff— Really good quality, £3 ss; inferior to medium, sells at £2 15s to £3.

} ißutler—Fresh, 7d to 7|d per lb, and 6d for medium ; salt, B|d toJ9d for prime, kegs extra. Cheese, s£d for best quality. Eggs—ls 2d per dozen, and supplies rather short. 4

Sheepskins— Some large catalogues were offered on Monday, buyers turning most attention to full-woolled skins, which brought rather over late ruling rates —say 2s 3d to 4s 9d for best crossbreds ; 2s to 3s lid for merinos ; dry skins, is to 4s 4d ; pelts, 3d to 9d ; lambskins, 2d to Is 2d. Hides -Quotations may be given for fair average weights, 3d to 3jd ; specially got up lots, to 4d ; inferior, cut, and light weights, 2sd to 2}d per lb. Tallow—Best rendered may be quoted at £l7 to £l9; inferior and medium, £l4 to £l7; low sorts, £ll to £l3; butchers’ rough fat, £9 to £l2 10s, according to quality. DUNEDIN STOCK MARKETS. At the Burnside Yards on Wednesday the following business was transacted ; Fat Cattla—There was a fair supply forward to-day, 191 being yarded, the greater part of which were prime quality, with an odd pen extra heavy. The sale proved dull, prices in moat cases showing a reduction of 10a to 20s per head, and it was with some difficulty the whole were disposed of, at for bullocks £5 7« 6d to £9 10s ; four magnificent shorthorn bullocks, bred and fed at Windsor Park, fetching £ll to £l2 15s ; cows sold at £3 7s 6d to £Blos.—Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Co. sold ; For Mr James Guild (Trevenna), 10 bullocks at from £7 2s 6d to £9 ss, and 4 cows at £7 2s 6d ; for Mr •John Wharton (Geraldine), 6 bullocks at from £7 to £7 15s ; for Mr John Grigg (Longbeach), 18 bullocks at from £8 5s to £lO 15s, and 6 cows at from £6 7s6d to £8 5s ; tor Mr F. Simmons (Makikihi), 7 head at quotations ; for Mr M. Quinn 1 (Temuka), 6 bullocks at from £7 to £7 2s igd,—Mr L, Maclean sold ; For Mr W,

Quinn (Makikihi), 6 bullocks from £7 12s 6 ! to £8 7s fid ; for Mr William Grant (Tiuiaru), 18 bullocks from £7 17» 6d to £8 15s.

fat Sheep—243l penned, including 300 merinos. Nearly all were useful to prime, with the usual few pens of Christmas quality. The trade demand was very slack, graziers being the principal buyers, at 1« to Is 6d per head lower than last week. Crossbreds sold at 6s to 12s, a fev in wool at 16s ; merinos, 6s to 7s 3d. —Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Co. sold: for the N.Z. and A. Land Co. (Totara), 20 extra prime crossbred wethers (very big weights) at from 17s 6d to 18s ; and 60 do ewes at 9s 3d ; for Mr John Grigg (Longbeaeh), 320 crossbred ewes at from 9s to 10s 3d.—Mr L. Maclean sold ; for the N.Z. and A. Land Co, (Pareora Estate), 198 crossbred ewes at 9s 6d, and also 125 crossbred ewes from the Levels Estate at 9s 3d ; for Mr M. Studbolme (Waimate Estate), 71 crossbred ewes at 9s fid.—Mr Donald Stronach sold ; For Mr P. M’Cole (Temuka) and others, 150 mixed crossbreds at 8s 3d. Fat Lambs—The supply was the largest ever penned at Burnside. 1435 penned. These were rather over the number required, but for best pans last week’s rates were well maintained. Best sold at 7s to 10s—a few a shade more ; others, 5s to 6s 9d. Pigs—2s6 yarded, fully half being stores and suckers, the rest useful porkers. Prices were again greatly in favor of buyers. Porkers sold at 17s to 39s ; stores and others, 7a to 12s. Horses —Messrs Wright, Stephenson, and Co, report as follows : —For Saturday’s sale the largest number, of draught horses that has been yarded by us for years came forward. They consisted for the most part of unbroken draught colts and fillies and useful farm horses. Mr Rodgers’draft from Gatlin’s River (very heavy sorts, unbroken) brought from £lB to £26 10s ; Mr'Frieland’s unbroken colts and fillies (in low condition), £lO to £l9 10s; and Mr Clark’s (Ashburton) draft of broken-in mares and geldings, £l2 10s to £24. In all 53 horses changed hands. We quote first-class draughts at from £23 to £2B; medium, £l2 to £2O ; first-class hacks and light-harness horses, £l6 to £25; medium, £8 to £l4; inferior, £2 to £6.

AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. Mblbodrnr, Dec. 16. The Melbourne Manager of the National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand, Limited, reports on the produce market as follows: Wheat—Prices are firmly maintained ; Ss lOd to 4s 2d per bushel is demanded, Malting barley is neglected at 8s to,Bs 9d. New Zealand oats, feed sorts, are quoted at 2s 9d to 2s lid, but the market is flat, and prices are drooping ; milling descriptions are rather weaker at 2s lid to Ss; New Zealand oati under bond, 2s Id to 2s 2d. . Dec. 17. Messrs Goldsborough and Co. held their usual weekly sale yesterday, in the presence of a large attendance of buyers. Competition was spirited and briskfine good-conditioned wools being strong and active in demand. Greasy merinos sold up to ll|d. For a parcel of scoured wool 17|d was obtained. Altogether 5200 bales were sold.

The New Zealand Lo&n and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, held their usual weekly wool sale this afternoon, when an important catalogue, comprising some 5200 bales, was submitted. Biddings were of an animated character, and prices were firmly maintained—good wools in particul&r eliciting spirited competition. The tone of the market was generally brisk, with an upward tendency. Greasy merinos sold up to lid, while scoured wools were in better demand than at last week’s sales, and fetched as much as IB£d for some lots. The highest price obtained for washed wool was 12d. ENGLISH MARKET?. London, Dec. 15. There are no alterations in the value of breadstuffs and tallow.

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