COMMERCIAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1531, 30 December 1886, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

GERALDINE WOOL SALE,

Messrs J. Mundell and Co. report the first sale of wool for the season at their Rooms, Geraldine, on Tuesday the 28th December, 1886. Considering the slight depression at present existing in the wool market the sale on the whole was a very successful one. We append a list of prices realised :

MM,, x-bred, 4 bales, at 7d. 4.R, i merino, 1 bale, at 6d ; J-back hogget, | 3 bales, at 6|d. H, £-bred hogget, 14 bales at 7gd. Gfl, £-bred hogget, 8 bales st7£d; |.brod hogget, 6 bsles at 6fd ; x-kred, 2 bales at 6|d. E, £>bred, 10 bales at 8d ; £-bred, 1 bale at 6|d. G, |-bred, 6 bales passed at6Jd ; Jbred hogget, 11 bales, passed at 6sd. DF, £-bred, 2 bales passed at 6|d ; s,x and s>bred hogget, sbales, passed at 6|d. WB (conjoined), \- bred, 3 baleß at 7Jd H, merino, I bale at s£d, S, £-bred hogget, 5 bales passed at 7|d; merino, 3 bales at 6d. J, i-bred, 5 bales at 7d; f-bred, 3 bales at 6d. AL, $-bred, 5 bales at 7i<J„ HT, merino, 1 bale at 6}d. JE (conjoined), £-bied hogget, 3 bales at 6§d ; merino, 1 bale at 'grt. GG, merino, 1 bale at 6jd. B, merino, 1 bale at 6sd. AR, x-bred pieces, 1 bale at 3jd. G, |-bred pieces, 2 bales at 3Jd. Bags—G, x-bred, 2 bags at 3|d. MM, 1 bag at 4d ; x-bred locks, 1 bag at lj *. AR, x«bred pieces, 1 bag at ;* merino pieces, 1 bag at 3Jd J x«bred locks, 2 bags

hi ]£ . JE, and f-bred pieces, 7 bags at 3Jd ; r mo wool, 1 bag at 44. E, crossbred piece*, 9 bags at 3J d ; 1 bag locks nt Ud. G, thrae-q'iarterbrnd, 8 h»8» at 3#j ; halfbred piecH, 4 bags »t Sji'. DF, hull bred locks and pinoes, 6 bags at 4d. S, halfbrod pieced, 6 bags at 4sd ; merino piece*, 2 bugs at 2sd. UT, halfbied pieces, 2 bags at 4d ; merino, 3 bags al 3fd. A, rams wool, 2 bags at 4|d ; crossbred pieces, 1 bag at 3Jd. ASHBURTON MARKETS. Mr E. G. Staveley (for the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited) reports en the Tinwald sale, 28th itist., as follows : Small entries of Htock c«me forward, and the attendance was btlow the average. The following were the principal sales :—Cattle—Fat heifers, £4 2s 6d ; forward steers, £4 ss; heifers, in forward condition, £2 19« 3d ; dry cows, £8 2b 6d. Sheep—Fat crossbred ewes, 3s and 5s ; fat lambs, 5s 3d and 6s 2d j forward two-tooth crossbreds, i* lOd ; aged crossbred eweß, in wool, with lambs, 4s Id. ENGLISH MARJfBTS. The following private telegram was received in Cbristefaurch on Tuesday : " The wheat market is strong in consequence of political complications. Cali* .fornian cargoes for shipment in December are saleable at 38s. The Americans are firm in demand for higher prices."