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Temuka Leader, Issue 1565, 7 April 1887, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

ASHBURTON MARKETS. Mr E. G. Staveley (for the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited; reports on the Tinwald sale, sth iust. as follows : The rough weather interfered with the attendance, but there was a fair co"* . of stock yarded, T*- . um \ . . [ ..e sale was quiet throughout and deyoid Qf anim^onj a large proportion of the entry changed hands at current values. Fat cows made from is 4 to £G 2s 6d ; fat crossbred ewes, 3s to 5s 6d ; medium crossbred lambs, 2s 3d to 3s 3d ; cull merino ewes, lid ; cull crosfibreds, Is 6d to 2s 6d. The rams submitted met a very dull market, »nd few were sold,

AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. Melbotjbne, April 5. The Melbourne Manager of the National Mortgage and Agency Company, Limited, of New Zealand reports on the local grain market as follows : Wheat, 3s lOd to 3s 11 d, slightly improved tendency. Barley, 4s 9d to 5s 3d, price firmly maintained. Oats : feed sorts, 2s 8d to 2s lOd, steady, not in active demand ; milling, 2s Jldto3s, fair demand ; under bond, 2s Id to 2s lid, quiet. Ryegrass, 3s 1(M to 4s, quotations merely nominal. ENGLISH MARJTETS. London, April 3. At the wool sales 105,000 bales were catalogued, of which 7000 were withdrawn. The French demand is increasing, the German demand is reserved, and the American nominal. Last week's improvement in price has been sustained. April 4. Colonial breadstuffs are unchanged at last quotations, viz.: Adelaide wheat, ex store, 36s 6d ; New Zealand, 188 s(o 87a 6d j Adelaide flour, 2fo t

Australian tallow, average quality— TW, 23s 6d ; mutton, 25s 6rl.

At to-day's wool sales 10,400 bales were offered, and rates were firmly maintained,