CHRISTCHURCH STOCK MARKETS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1464, 6 February 1886, Page 3

CHRISTCHURCH STOCK MARKETS.

At the Addington yards on Wednesday an average number of stock yarded, and the usual attendance of buyers. Fat cattle, principally of good quality; demand only raidling, and late values not maintained. Steers sold at from £5 10a 6d to £7 17s 6d ; heifers, £4 15s to £6 I2s 6d, being from 17s to 18s 6d per IOOIbs, according to quality. Fat sheep A moderate entry of various degrees of quality. Demand quite local. Best quality mutton showed a slight improvement in values; medium and inferior unaltered.. Crossbred wethers sold at from 8s to 11 s per head ; ditto ewes, 5s to 8s; merino wethers, is 6d to 6s 9d, being from l£d to Ifd per lb, as per quality. In the store sheep market a few lines of sheep were offered, bat buyers were backward, and no alteration can yet be reported in this class of stock, A large number of fat lambs yarded, The demand was, however, a restricted one. Values ranged from 4s 6d to 6s lOd per head. A fsw pigs were on offer, and slightly better demand shown. In the store cattle market a fairly good entry was sent forward. The demand was only very middling, and prices irregular. TIN WALD LIVE STOCK MARKET. Mr E, G. Stareley (for the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited) reports on the Ashburton market of February 2nd, as follows : M the Tinwald yards to-day, about 8000 sheep and a fair entry of cattle were yarded. There was a small attendance of buyers, and but little interest was taken in the proceedings. Fat mixed crossbreds sold at 7s 101, fat merino wethers at ss, fat cows ana heifers from £4 7s fid to £5 15s, medium springers, £5 and £6, Beef is worth 16s to 18a per 1001b*. DUNEDIN PRODUCE MARKETS. The following is the report for the week ending Wednesday .• — Wheat —The quantity offering is not great. Prices consequently keep firm at quotations, which at the moment are as follow : Prime milling, 3s 8d to 3s 9d per bushel ; medium, 3s fid to 3s 7d ; inferior and fowls’ wheat, 3s 2d to 3s 4d. Oats—The speculative demand which existed has e-ised off considerably, and prices have during the week gone back fully 2d per bushel. We now quote prime milling oats at 2s 4d per bushel; bright short feed, 25.2 d to 2s 3d. Barley—The market is rather bare of feed and milling, which would sell at 2s 3d to 2s fid. Buyers of malting are bolding back until the new crop comes in. Chaff—The market is rather bare of good qualify, which would sell at £3 7s fid to £3 10s; ordinary, £3 2s fid. Potatoes—Sales have been at £4 10s to £5, according to condition. The market is fully supplied. Butter—Fresh, 9d ; salt, B£d. Cheese—s|d for best quality. Eggs—lod per dozen for fresh arrivals. Sheepskins—Moderate catalogues were offered at the weekly sales held last Monday. There was the usual attendance of buyers, but competition was not brisk, and prices generally were easier. Crossbred skins brought up to 3a 8d ; merinos up to 2s 9d, a few double-fleece ones up to 4s Id ; butchers’ green skins, pelts, brought from fid to lOd ; and lambskins, lOd to 14d. Hides—All coming to hand are readily disposed of at quotations as follow : Heavies, if in good condition and properly trimmed, 3|d to4d per lb ; medium, 3d to 3£d ; light, 2|d to 2|d. DUNEDIN STOCK MARKETS. At the Burnside Yards on Wednesday the following business was transacted ; Fat Cattle—233 head yarded. With one or two exceptions the qualify of the cattle was only medium. Bidding was by no means active, and prices generally were in favor of buyers. Best bullocks brought from £7 TOs to £8 10s—one exceptionally prime polled Angus bullock fetched £lO 10s ; medium, £6 to £7 5s ; best cows, £5 10s to £7 ; medium, £4 to £s.—Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Co, sold for Mr Andrew Gran|; (Temuka), g bullocks at from £5 10s to £3 7s fid, and 16 cows at from £5 to £6 7s fid.—Mr Donald Stronach sold 12 bullocks for Mr M. Studholme (Waimate), at from £7 to £8. —Mr L. Maclean sold for Mr William McLeod (Waimate), 6 bullocks at from £8 to £8 ss, Fat Calves—Twelve penned, and sold at up to 15s each. Fat Sheep—242s penned, inclusive of about 200 merinos. The sale was the slowest for years past—bidding was quite devoid of animation, and salesmen experienced the utmost difficulty in effecting sales even at a reduction of from 2s to 3s per head on last week's quotations. The supply included some very fine lines of crossbred wethers suitable for freezing, but owing to the difficulty in obtaining apace exporters were unable to take advantage of the low prices ruling. Best crossbred wethers only brought from 8s to 10s—the latter price was given for about 100 extra heavy prime wethers ; crossbred ewes brought from 5s to 7s fid, —Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Co. sold for the N.Z. and A. Land Co, (Levels Estate), 132 crossbred ewes at from fis 9d to 7s. —Mr L. Maclean sotd for Mr M. Studholme (Waimate Estate), 171 merino wethers at ss.—Messrs Donald Reid and Co, so)d for the N.Z. and A. Land Co, (Pareora Estate), 155 crossbred ewes at fis 3d. Fat Lambs—9B2 penned, a number rather in excess of the trade’s requirements ; prices consequently ruled low, viz., from 4s 3d to fis fid. Pigs. Ninety-six penned. Messrs Wright, Stephenson, and Co., sold 35 baconers at from 25s to 38s ; 17 porkers at from 14s to 20s ; and 10 suckers at ss. Suckers in some cases ruled as low as 3s. Horses, —Messrs Wright, Stephenson, and Co., report as follows. We held onr weekly sale on Saturday last as usual, The entries were very numerous, and they included some first-class draught colts and fillies (unbroken) and several good iight-harueas horses. The demand for both descriptions was brisk, and most of the entries changed hands at quotations. We quote first-class draughts at from £2O to £2B ; medium, £l4 to £lB j first-class hacks add light-harness horses, £lB to £25 ; medium, £8 to £ls; inferior £3 to