DUNEDIN STOOK MARKET.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1820, 24 November 1888, Page 4

DUNEDIN STOOK MARKET.

Tj At the Burnside Yards on Wednesday the following business was transacted: —

• Fat Cattle—Only 177 yarded for two weeks’. supply.,. A very spirited demand in cOhseqiience ensued, and prices advanced on an average from 20s to 80s a head over last week’s quotatiops.,; [Best, bullocks brought from £9. to.£lol2s Gd ; medium, £7 15s to £8 15b ; light, £6 to. £7 10s; best cows, £7,17s 6d to £9 ss; medium, £6 to £7 10b ; light, £4 10s ,to £,5,.10. —Messrs Wright, Sfephehsoh and Co. sold for Mr James Guild lfcM,vjbimaM6 pri m e bullocks at from .£9 12s Gd to £8 17s 6d.—Messrs Donald Eeid -and .Co., sold, for Mr • Japes ~suild, ‘ (Treverina), -6 prime bullocks ;ati£9 7s 6d:to £B.

o -Fa t Sheep-rrßarely 700 were penned, and values advanced from 2s to 3s a head. 1 Shorn crossbred wethers brought from 16s to 18s 3d, those in wdblfrom 16s Gd to 20s 3d; shorn crossbred ewes brought from 14s to 17s 9d,in. wool ( from ,15s to ,19s 3d ; merino wethers in wool brought from 14s to 17s Gd.

Fat Lambs —670 penned, and all sold under very keen competition at from 7s to lis 3d.

Pigs—Only 131 came* forward, ~ mostly: light-weight porkers and stores. Prime bacon piga, ordinary weighty brought from ,40a to, 545; porkera, from2sa to 33a;.stores, from 15s 6d to 26a 6d; suckers, from 9a to 178.

! . AUBIRALIAN M ! ABEETS'. : i

Sydney, November 22.

Gate, firm/ 4s. Bran, Is 4d to! la sd. Pollard, la Id to la 2d.; Maize, 4s 3d. ' Wheat, best . milling, 5s ; chick, 4a to 4a 2d! ■ New potatoes, locally grown, £7los. Butter, locally made, ’ls 4d; beat newly imported,, firm at Is. New locally made cheese,; _lod to 10£d ; New Zealand made, 9£dj to lOd (market easier). . Onions, £10! tof sane [barley] 3s. Ijßacon] New Zealand, new cure, 9|d • old stocks; 7d "and upwards. New Zealand hama, la O^d..

Melbourne, November 22. ; Wheat, 5a 3d. j floor,J/tf6ne-m*deJ £ll‘-ioa ;' roller-madej £lB. OatsJ Calcuttta, 3a 7d to 3a 8d ; stout, eons] -4a Id; heavy, 4s 4d. Cape barley! 3a 7d. Maize is advancing, and is now 4a 7d. Bran, la 6d. ; , ;

M. i * Wheat; shipping parcels, 5a j farmers? lotaOfes Jodat Port Adelaide, 4s 8d at outportfl. Flour, stone-made,* £l.l • roller-made* £l2. - Bran, r Is 4idl Pollard, 2s‘3d.

i;[; r r ; ENQl^‘ii .

London, November 19. ‘ The wheat markets show a general -decline; • Prices «in England have dropppdj $d ppy. The. Con: tinental market is wCak; and America alsojhetraysancreased weakness. The averse price of English wheat at ' country lis 31s.Lj.ld. The American visible supply of the United .Kingdom is 34,875,000 bushels. Thp quantity of wheat and fiour afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,600,000 quarters, and fob the Continent 612,000. , ft : y Nov. 20. I Australian frozen mutton is steady at last quotations. Prime New Zea-' land mutton 4|d.. .. i,- M,:'3jichiel,L. the sugar expert, estimates the European beet crop will .exceed last year’s by t 420,000 tons. : An* average iyield is expeetM 'rn the sugar producing colonies. | w : l‘ ■ ,i.;u (.Nov. 21. j Wool sales have been effected $t ffom rfvance*. ,company with the elpsing rotes of, last sermsf v .Arrivals tp date are 80,000 bales, It is ex--1 th§tf Tio6!ooo|bale's' j will be javailable for the next series. =