COMMERCIAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1648, 18 October 1887, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

AUCTIONEERS’ REPORT.

TIMA.RU. Mr Moss Jonas reports as follows : p easant Point sale—The monthly ssle should have taken place on Monday, the 3rd inst., but owing to the heavy and continuous downpour of rain on that and the day previous, no slock could be brought in to I lie yards. The sale in consequence was postponed to Monday, the 10th. On that day the weather was very inclement, consequently there was but a small entry. The stock there, however, sold fairly well, only two lots of cattle remaining unsold. The sales were : 5 calves at 12*, 1 dry cow £ll2a 6d, springer £4, 2 steers and heifers at £llo*, 4 at £2, and 6 at £5 6s, 1 cow £5 10s ; 48 fat sheep (mixed sexes) at 7«, 73 at 9a, 33 fat wethers at 12s, and 400 hoggets at 6s sd. Privately he has sold 1096 crossbred ewes in lamb at 9a 3d. Washdyke sale There was but a moderate entry and attendance of buyers at the last sale. He sold 1 dry cow at £] 10*, cows in profit £2 10s, £3 7s fid, and £5, 10 steers and heifers «t £2 7». 4 at £4 2» 6d, 5 at £5 15s, and 7 at £7 10a, 114 merino wethers at Bs, and 27 fat erossbieds at 11s 4d. Sheepskins The continuous wet weather before the fortnightly sale on the sth inst., as well as depressing nows from London, caused a fall in values of from 9d to 1 a per skin. The probabilities are that this fall will be temporary only, and prices will recover at the sale on Wednesday, He sold by auction 617 skins onlycrossbreds at 3s, 4*, 4* 6d, 4i Bd, 4s lid, 6s 3d, 5s 4d, and 5s 6d ; merinos 2s 6d, 3s, and 3s lOd, and (privately) a line of 1701 freezers at 5i 6d ; hides, 68 at 2£d, 3d, 3sd, and 4d ; fat at late quotations, Frozen Mutton Messrs G. and C. Kreglmjnr, of Antwerp, report to him as follows About 800 carcases and 1000 legs of mutton have boon sold so far of the quantity stored with ns. This is Comparativsly satisfactory, considering the difficulty the introduction of this meat has mat with at the beginning in England, when it proved to bs quite unsaleable. It is contemplated to erect shops with freeing engines in the capital of Belgium, i.e., P>ru«ael«, but of course all this requires time. A few months may pa*s before the organisation for sale will be complete. Our selling price is about equal to 6d, from which, besides the usual chargss about 5 per cent, must be deducted for agents’ fees, etc.” Horses Nothing of any importance doing during the past week. DUNEDIN PRODUCE MARKETS. The following is the report for the week ending Wednesday : Wheat—Business transacted daring the past week has been light. Supplies srs small, but millers, beieg fully stocked, are not operating at present, aad sales are very difficult to effect. Quotations are Foi primest milling, 3s 9d to 3s 10d; medium, 3s 5d to 3s 8d; inferior, 3a to 3s 4d.

Oats—There still continues to exist a fair demand both for shipment aud local use, but values are unchanged. Bright feed and rai'ling are the descriptions chiefly inquired for, and stocks of this description are now running short. Discolored parcels are also finding a more ready sale. Quotations—Prime milling, la B£d t« 1* 9d ; bright short feed, Is 8d to le B|d ; medium. Is 7d to la 7^l; inferior, Is 6d to la 6£d. B-rrley—There is a good demand for prime malting at 3s lid to 4* 31 (bags extra) ; milling, 3a 31 at 2» 61 to 3a 91. Chaff— The market is somewhat bare of rea'ly prime quality, which would fetch £2 17a 6d ; ordinary, £2 10a ; inferior, £L 15a to £2. Potatoes —Stocks are now reduced, and fresli lots are picked up on arrival at 30s for Southerns and 35« for Northerns. Grass Ssb'l—Business is limited at 3a 9d to4i for machine-dressed, and to 2s 61 to 3h for farmers’ lots ; cocksfoot, 4|l per lb. Butter—Salt (in kegs), 2d to sd, demand small. Fresh is in over supply at 3d to 41. Eggs— per drz.

Sheepskins—Oil Monday country dry omsabrod skins brought le 8 i to 4a 61 ; diy merinos, la 2d to 4a Id ; pelts, 2d to 9d • butchers' green crossbreds, 3a Id to

Bs Id ; butchers’ green merinos, 2s 6d to 3a lid ; lambskins, 4d to 7d. Hides—Demand quiet. Quotations Inferior and bulls’, l|d to 2d ; light, 2H to to 3|d. Tallow—Stocks are rather bare. Local requirements are equal to the consumption of all lots coming to hand. Quotations : —lnferior and mixed, 10s to 12a; medium to good, 18s to 15a; beet mutton, 17a to 18s; rough fat, 4s to lie per cwt. AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. Stdkkt, Oct. 14, New Zealand wheat has slightly improved since last report, and is now quoted at 3s 8d to 3a 6d per bushel. New Zealand oati are worth Is lid to 2s per bushel. Maize Ss 101 per 56!bs, an advance of 2d on last week’s prices. Potatoes arc quoted at 80s to 45s per ton.