COMMERCIAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1713, 20 March 1888, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

AUCTIONEERS' REPORT.

TIMARU,

Mr Moss Jonas renoris as follows :

There is some slight improvement in business generally, and greater briskness will doubtless prevail in a few weeks. The harvest has been a very backward one, and opening prices for wheat and oats exceptionally low. Beef is still very cheap, 15s at the outside, but sheep have improved in value, and milch cows have sold better than for some time.

Pleasant Point Sale—His regular monthly sale was held on Monday, the sth inst., and as usual there was a. large attendance of farmers and others interested in this market. There was only a medium entry of stock. He sold 195 2-tooth wethers at 5s lid, J7B mixed 2-tooths at 5s 6.1, 78 fat ewes at 5s 6d, and 48 cull lambs at 2s 6d. A small mob of dry ewes was the only lot passed in. In cattle he sold 2 rat steers at £5, 4 heifers at £4 ss, and two at £3lss; 3 springers at £5,1 heifer, just calved, at £4 2s 6d, 1 sow and 3 pigs £2'Bs. Newmarket yards His sale in these yards on Tuesday last was a very successful one as far as pripes went, and the attendance was all that could be desired. He sold 200 fat 2-tooths at Bs, 179 at 7s, and 50 at 6s 9d, 70 lambs at 4s 6d, 5 springers at £3, 2 at £3 10s, 5 fat cows at £4 7s 6d, 6 do at £4, 1 sow at 30s, 11 pigs at lis, 6 at 9s, and 3 at Bs. Sheepskins, &c.~His regular fortnightly sale took place on Wednesday, the gth,'l772 skins and pelts being catalogued. He sold prossbreds at from Is lid up to 4s, merino Is 6d, lambs 2s and 2s 2d, pelts up to Is 3d, hides 3d, calfskins 2d to 4d, and fat at 4s 6d to Bs, and sold privately 1200 factory skins at 2s 3d at 900 at 2s 7jd. \yashdyke Yards—The weekly sale and annual ram fair on Thursday last brought forward a large number of entries, but the sale wag rather a dragging one, as owners' reserves were in most instances too heavy to allow business to be done. He sold 3 long wool rams at 15s 9d, 10 at 15s, 110 fat wethers at 7s, 80 at 5s 4d, 300 cull at 2s Id, and 255 at la 9d, and 4 heifers and 1 steer for £lO, and he also sold for Mr E. Kelland 33 long wool rams. This gentleman's breed should be well sought after, as without doubt those who have purchased them in former years speak highly in their favor.

AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. Sydney. March 16

Tfheat is firm afc 3a 6d to 3a 8d for milling sorts 5 fowls' feed is 2s Bd. Uats are 2s to 2s 3d for feed kinds and 2s 2d for seed. Cape barley is 2s lQd to 3s; there is no English barley in. the market. Potatoes are £3 5s to £3 J.Qs. Onions, £3 10s. Chaff, £3 10s to £4 15s. Peaß are 4s for blue boiling, and 3s for feeding sorts. Bran is scarce; New Zealand is 7s. Pollard (New Zraiand) Bd. jiJ'ains are active at Is to Is Id ; bacon 9|d. butter is quoted at from 7d to Is.

Adelaide, March 16. The grain market is quiet, aud prices are unchanged.

Melbourne. March 16

Wheat is brisk at 3s s|d. Flour is £7 10b per ton. Malting barlev is 5s 6d, Cape 3s. Maize is 3s 6d. The average barley yield is estimated at 23 bushels per acre. ENGLISH MARKETS. .London, March 15. Fifteen thousand bushels of wheat by steamers of March and April shipments to be delivered at a Mediterranean port have sold at 34s.—The quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom.is 1,920,000 quarters, and for the Continent 200,000 quarters.—Fresh butter (New Zealand), 83s per cwt.; Australian, 58s to 755. The market is weak. —Kauri gum is flat. ~ t