COMMERCIAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1684, 10 January 1888, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

AUCTIONEERS’ REPORT.

GERALDINE, Messrs J. Mundell and Go. report sales for the week ending Saturday 7tb Jan., 1888,, as follows At tbe Geraldine monthly stock sale on Wednesday the entries were not go large as at previous sales, but most of the stock sold at satisfactory rates. I’he totals yarded were-1198 sheep, 79 head of . cattle, 21 pigs. Prices realised were— Sheep—Crossbred ewes, 4-toolh to full month (fat), 7?, 7s 2d, to 7* 3d ; aged crossbred ewes (lat), 5s ; 2-tooth crossbreds sold readily at 5s 6d, 5s 9d, J6s6d to 7s 2d, the aupply not being equal to the demand, We submitted a line of 4 and 6-toolh crossbreds suitable for freezing, the highest offer being 7s 9d,'but at this price they were withdrawn. . Cattle— Fat COWS sold at £5 to £4 15s ; cows, springing and in full profit, £% 5s to £4; steers were passed at £4 10s; 2-year-old eteert and heifers, £2 5s to £2l3s ; yearling steers Apd heifers, £1 to£i 6s 6'. Pigs—Porkers, £1 ; Strong stores, 15s to 16s ; email stores, 7 s to 9«. At Washdyke Yards on Thursday the antry was a small one, and the sale was dull and dragging. Ol our entry we sold 6 fat nous #t £8 ,5s to £4 U*p,

TIMARU. Messrs Gracie, Maclean and Adana report for the fortnight ending Saturday as follows Horses—At the Timaru Horse B»zaar to-day, our entry consisted of 83 bead, principally good draughts. Two-thirds of these changed hands at prices highly satisfactory to owners ; in fact, the sale was the best wo here experienced for the last four months. Best draught mares and geldings fetched from £ls 10e to £22 10s ; mares with foals st foot, up to £3O 10s; aged and inferior, £5 to £8 .1 Os ; backs (medium to good), £8 to £l7 10s ; weedy sorts, £3 to £6. Cattle—At Washdyke on Thursday there were only a few head of fat cattle yarded. Competition for these was fairly good, and prices equal to 18s per 1001 b for best quality, medium quality 15a per lOOlbs, We sold 8 bullocks at £4 17b 6d, 14 cows at from £4 2s 6d to £4 12s 6d, 4 store steers at £4 2s 6d, 16 bead at £2 10s, and (privately) 12 prime heifers at quotations, Sheep—Only a few pens of fat sheep came forward for. Thursday’s market, but these proved to be quite sufficient for the requirements of the trade. We sold 78 wethers at 8s 6d, 30 ewes at 6s 3d, 67 hoggets at 4s 7d, and (privately) 70 fat lambs, 120 fat ewes, and 381 4-tooth wethers and ewes.

Pig ß —At Washdyke we sold 5 sows at 34s to 36s each, porkers at 19s, weaners 10s.

AUSTRALIAN MARKETS.

Melbourne, Jan. 6,

Breadstuff's are steady. Wheat is quoted at 3s s|d. The flour market is unchanged. For feed grains there is a fair sale, ranging from 2s to 2s 9d; maize, 3s 7d. Jan. 7. New Zealand oats, ex bond, are at 2s 4£d. Adelaide, Jan. 6. Wheat is quoted at Ss 2d, Flour is quiet, prices ranging from £8 to £9 ; oats, 2s lOd. Sydney, Jin. 6. Oats, 2s to 2s 3d ; maize, 4s ; butter, dull—factory, fid to 7d per lb ; New Zealand hams, lid to Is ; bacon, Bd. Brisbane, Jan. 7.

A splendid wheat yield is reported from all quarters of the colony, and millers are giving 4s per bushel.

ENGLISH MARKETS.

London, Jan. 5. Tillow is quoted at 24s to 255. German beet sugar, 15s 9d. Bides are in demand, from 4d to Bd. Frozen meat is dull, with a slight decline.

The quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,468,009 quarters. The American visible supply is 44.500,000 bushels. Jan. 6.

The total quantity of wheat afloat is 1,319,000 quarters, Australian consignments ex warehouse are quoted at 35s 6d ; off coast cargoes from 84s to 34s 6d.

The flour market is steady but quiet.

Charles R. Cooper, one of the party of prospectors who left Riverton for Preservation Inlet six weeks ago, was washed overboard from the boat and drowned. A man warned. John Flesher was drowned in the river ne»r Martenborough, Wellington, while endeavouring to get some cattle across the river.

During a thunderstorm at Auckland on Friday a tree in Albert Park was struck by lightning, a branch being lopped off.

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