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Temuka Leader, Issue 1566, 9 April 1887, Page 3

DUNEDIN PEODUOB MARKETS. The following is the report for the week ending Wednesday : Wheat—The trade in this cerial at present is just a “hand to mouth one” amongst the millers, who apparently are unwilling to lay in stocks at current quotations, and the r e are no large lines on offer sufficient to induce shippers to try this market. Prime milling may bo quoted at from 3s 8d to 3s 9d per bushel; medium, 3s 6d to 3s 7d (bags weighed in). Oats-—Business during the week has been by no means brisk. Prime milling may be quoted at from Is 7£d to Is 8d; feed, ls7d ; and medium, Is (bags weighed in). Barley—There is still a demand for best mailing lots, and the tone of the market has improved all round. Prime malting, 3s 6d to 3s 9d ; medium, 3s to 3s 3d.

Obaff—Best oaten sheaf (new), £2 15s; medium, £2 10a to £2l2s 6d. Potatoes—The demand is quite equal to the supply, and prime northerns are selling at, £2 7s 6d. Grass Seed—Market still quiet. Farmers’ best samples ryegrass, 2a 9d to 3s 3d; cocksfost (nominally), 4d per lb. Butter. Prime now season’s salt is inquired for up to 7sd (kegs extra); fresh (if really good), BJd to 9d. Higgs are still in fair demand at Is 6d.

Sheepskins, —On Monday, town butchers’ green skins, crossbreds, sold at from 2s to 2s 9d ; skins suitable for mats from 2s lOd to 3s 5d ; merino pelts from 12d to 21d ; lambskins from 2s to 2s lOd; country skins from 9d to 2s, and fullwoolled skins from 3s 4d to ss. .Hides Best salted hides, he» w " weights, and well trimmed b*'- ’H SJd lo 4d per lb, iUmedium, Sid ’ Tall*'- 3 s d 5 ,I S ht » ? d t 0 3 .8 dl Sales are almost impossible to effect. Nominally prime mutton may be quoted at from £lB to £l9 per ton ; medium and mixed,.£l6 to £l7; inferior, £l2 to £l4; rough fat, £6 to £lO 10s, according to quality and condition.

DUNEDIN STOCK MARKETS. At the on Wednesday the following business was transacted : Fat Cattle -203 beaded yarded, principally medium quality. Beat bullocks brought from £7 to £8 10a ; medium, £4 15r to £6 15a ; beat cowa, from £5 to £7 7a 6d ; medium, £2 10a to £4 10a.— L. Maclean sold drafts for the executors of the Tate Mr M. Stndboltne (Waimate estate), Messrs M’Goverin and Hardie (Hook, Waimate) at quotations. Donald Reid and Co, sold for Messrs M’Goverin and Kardie (Waimate), 8 small heifers to £4 12a 6d. Fat Calves sold at from 22s to 295. Fat Sheep—There was again a glutted market this week, no less than 3819 being penned, most of them crossbred* of medium to good quality. Beat crossbred wethers brought from 7s to 7s 6d ; medium, 5s 9'i to 6s 9d ; best crossbred ewes from 6s to 6s 9d ; medium, 5s to 5* 6d. L. Maclean sold for Messrs M’Goverin and Hardie (Hook), 233 crossbreds (mixed) at 6s to 6s 61 ; 69 crossbreds at 5u 9d to 6s 3d. Donald Reid and Co. sold for Messrs McGoverin and Hardie, 132 halfbred wethers to 7s. Fat Lambs—B3s penned. There was a fair demand at about last week’s prices, vis., 3s 6d to 6s 9d.

Pigs—32o penned. The demand for all descriptions was less animated than it has been for some time past, and prices were easier Bacon pigs brought from 30s to 445; porkers, from 21s to 28s; stores, from 9a 6d to 20s 6d ; suckers, 6s to Bs.

Horses—Messrs Wright, Stephenson, and Go. quote first-class heavy draughts at from £lB to £22; medium, £lO to £l6; first-class hacks and light-harness horses, £lB to £25 ; medium, £8 to £l4 ; light and weedy, £llos to £6. ENGLISH MARKETS. London, April 5. Adelaide wheat, 36s 6d; Adelaide flour, 255. New Zealand wheat lowest qualities, 38a; best qualities, 37s 6d. Australian beef tallow, 23s 6d ; mutton tallow, 25s 6d. At the colonial wool sales to-day 10,300 bales were offered. The market continues firm. April 6. At the wool sale to-day 11,000 bale* were catalogued. A firm tone again prevailed. The sales have been adjourned until Wednesday next. The New Zealand Lean aid Mercantile Agency Company (Limited) have received the following cabie- , gram from London, dated sth April 1887 ; Wheat—The market is depressed, and quotations for New Zealand sorts are unchanged. The quotation for New Zealand wheat, new crop, f.a.q., c.i.f., to arrive, is nominally 33s per 4801bs. Oats—The market for ordinary New Zealand oats has a downward tendency. The British and New Zealand Mortgage and Agency Company have received the following wool telegram from Messrs Helmuth, Schwartzo, and Cc., dated London, 6th inst.: maintained. Foreign buyers operate freely. Catalogued up to date about 140,000 bales, of which were withdrawn about 7 per cent., taken for export about 60 per cent. The sales have been adjourned, and will be resumed in seven days.” A telegram from Graymouth says a good deal of damage has been don* by the storms and floods to bridges throughout the country, the most serious being to the main Grey bridge, jointly maintained by the Grey and Inangahna Counties, Tb* bridge is in a highly dangerous position, and may cant over at any moment. Waggons are fording the river, the bridge being closed to traffic. The cost of repairing the damage was first estimated at £SOOO, but will probably be more. Six hundred volunteers left Wellington on Thursday night for the encampment at New Plymouth. Messrs Travers, Fraser and Nancarrow were nominated for Te Aro on Thursday. A poll will be held on the 15th. At Dunedin Michael Coleman was sentenced to fourteen days’ for imposing on the Benevolent Trustees. In the Supreme Court, Wellington, the Grown Prosecutor said that Crabtree had given up the name of the persons to whom he sold the plate stolen from Knowles'. Enquiries are being made. The prisoner was agaiu remanded for sentence till Wednesday. ‘ A Last’s Wish. —“Ob, how 1 do wish my ikin wa« a* clear and soft a* younl” said a lady to a friend. 11 Ton can eaiily make it so,” aniwered the friend. “ How?" inquired the firit lady. “By uiing Dr. Soule'* Hop Bitten, that makes pure rich blood and blooming health. It did for me, a* jou obieive.” Bead Advt.