COMMERCIAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1565, 15 March 1887, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

AUCTIONEER’S REPORT. TIMARU. Messrs Grade, Mndean, and Adam report for the past fortnight ending Saturday as follows Horses.—Afc the Timaru Horse Bazaar to-day our entry consisted of 45 bead. About one third of these were useful farm horses, for which there was good demand, and prices obtained were much better than at our last sale. Our sales to-day were g2 head at, for medium to good draughts, £ls to £25 10s; inferior and aged, £6 to £l2 ; backs up to £l2. Sheep,—At Pleasant Point of Monday the entry was a large one, and the quality ranged from inferior boilers to prime mutton. We disposed of 162 fat 2 tooths at 6s 6d ; 200 fat 2-tooths at 7s 6d ; 38 fat wethers, 7a 7d ; 30 lambs, 4s lOd ; 113 lambs, 2s 3d; 93 aged crossbred ewes at Is 6d; 52 aged merinos, Ud-; and privately 715 crossbred ewes, At Washdyke on Thursday, the fat and store pens were better filled than for some time back ; business mortf satisfactory to sellers. We sold 80 lambs at from 2s 9d to 3< 9d ; 100 fat crossbreds at 7s ; 35 fat ewes, 4s sd; 31 at 4s 2d ; 243 2-tooth crossbreds at 5s lid ; 138 2-tooth crossbreds at 4s 6d ; 20Q 2-tooth crossbred culls, 3a; iBQ crossbred breeding ewes, 4s lOd ; 400 cull owes, Is Id to Is 4d * and privately 200 fat crossbreds. Cattle.—At Pleasant Point on Monday the demand for beef was not so good as might have been expected for the quality offered, but this was doubtless owing to the local trade having been supplied by private sales. We sold a few fat light weights at from £3 10s to £4los; milkers at £4 5s to £5 12a 6d ; and 23 bead stores at, for calves, 10a lo 21s ; yearlings, 32s 6d; 2-year-olds, 55s to 60a, At Wasbdyke on Thursday there was an average entry of fat and sfores, Business for fat was again slack, but stores (well forward) were jn slight' Y better demand. We sold 4 fat cows at £5 5s ; 2 fat cows at £5 7a 6d ; 2 heifers at £3 17s 6d ; and 30 head stores at up to £5 15s for milkers ; springers up to £5 7s 6d ; 27 head steers and heifers at 50s to £4 2s fid, Pigs realised from 6s Qd fpr weanprs, to 18s and g2s for well-grown stores. Sheepskins.—At our regular sale on (Wednesday we catalogued and sold over 2000 skins. There was a good attend*

ance of buy< > . i"d prices realised were a decided imp"' ni-nr. on oup last sales, bei''(.< 1 • 3d to Is 61 to la lid f< r I n • cluTt,’ skm, and tor a lot of country meiinos, 2s 8d ; pelts from 6d to Is. Privately we sold 1500 skins st quotations. AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. Sydney, March 11. New Zealand wheat 3s 8d to 3s lid; New Zealand oats, 2s to 2s 3d ; maize, 3a to 4a ; Sugar Company’s No. 1 pieces, £25 10a. ENGLISH MARKETS. London, March 11. Adelaide wheat remains at 87s for the new crop ; Adelaide flour, 265; New Zealand wheat, ex store, 33s to 37s 6d, according to quality. To-day the total quantity ot wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,850,000 quarters, an increase of 40,000 quarters, Australian tallow is unchanged. New Zealand frozen mutton of prime quality is selling at per lb, March 12.

The wheat market is snbdned, owing to slackening demand. Floating supplies have increased. On the spot Australian is firm at 38s, For cargoes for London, and for the Continent 86s is asked. Three cargoes have been sold in London from 35s to 85s fid. Flour has recovered fid.

J. B. Kerr, proprietor of the Kingston Hotel, Southland, was killed on Sunday through a railway truck running over him. The truok, which had been pinned down, vti set in motion by a strong N.B. gale. Eleven case* of scarlet fever were reported at Auckland yesterday. The Sanitary Inspector report! that aeveral dairies in the neighborhood of the city are in a filthy condition. One in particular he eaya ought to be suppressed, ae the milk is certain to be infected.

Hugh Gibson, anex-pugiliit, whofor three years was a shining light in the Salvation Army, and used to act as door-keeper, was obarged at the Auckland Police Oonrt jester* day with dieorderly condnot, drunkenness, and disturbing a Salvation Amy meeting at the barracks on Sunday night. The prisoner, who appears to have “ lapsed," was drunk and noisy at the meeting, using fearfully profane language, leaping on forms, and challenging all and sundry to fight. He also strnok and hustled various "officers" who tried to pacify him. He was fined £lO and costs or three months’ imprisonment, and ordered to find sureties of £IOO to keep the peace for twelve months. An Auckland exchange says that a Pensonby girl has been saved from a watery grave on four different occasions. It seems to be great fun to her, but it is bard oaths Sunday suits of the heroes who jump in after her. Some carrier pigeons were recently liberated in Uasterton and reached Wellington, 60 miles distant, in one hour sixteen minutes. An amusing case was heard at a Paris Police Court the other day. An old lady was charged with assaulting the attend* ant at some baths. She had hired a bath, and after she had been in an hour the attendant, on opening the door, found the old lady, after dressing, had refilled the bath, and was washing a dog she had smuggled in in a basket; at the same time a couple of eggs were cooking in a bowl of hot water taken from the tap, and a plate, knife, bread, cheese, and a small bottle of wine were laid out on the shelf laady for her breakfast.