COMMERCIAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2101, 20 September 1890, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

CHRISTCHURCH STOCK MARKETS

Messrs Matson and Co. report

Eat Sheep A limited entry to baud. Competition was good, and prices realised satisfactory. On account of the New Zealand and Australian Land. Company, Levels estate, we sold a fine line of 180 crossbred maiden ewes at from 15s 3d to 16s lid ; on account of other clients, three-part fat wethers at from 12s 3d to 13s 9d; merino wethers at 9s 6d to 10s ; crossbred wethers and ewes at from, 14s 6d to 16s ; three-part fat wethers at from 15s 5d to l6s Id; halfbred wethers at from 15s Id to 16s.

Store Sheep—A vary limited supply to hand, only one pen of ewes, with lambs at foot, being offered; these realised 12s 6d.

Pigs—This market exhibited a fair entry, and prices were quite up to the mark considering the quality. Pat Cattle Those yarded were chiefly prime bullocks. Prices in most cases were hardly up to last week’s, but taking into consideration the heavy entry of the previous week, prices must be considered satisfactory. Best bullocks sold at £lO to £l2 per head, cows £8 to £9 15s, heifers £7 to £8 per head. Yeal Small entry. Best calves 25s to 30s, others 6s to 15s each.

Dairy Cattle—Small entry. Best cows to £5 10s each, old and poorconditioned 15s to 40s each.

Store Cattle—Fairly good inquiry for forward-conditioned cattle. Three-year-old steers sold at £4 to £4 8s per bead, two-year-old steers 35s to 45s each, yearlings 15s to 20s, three-year-old heifers, £2 5s to £2 15s, two-year-old heifers, 30s to 40s each, pens of good straight store cows, 40s to £3 per head, bulls 20s to £4 each.

DUHEDJN PRODUCE MARKETS. The following is the report for the week ending Wednesday:— Wbesit —Market firm, and all good samples are easily placed. Prime tuscans and velvets, 3s 7d to 3s Sd ; other milling sorts, 3s 4d to 3s Od; second class wheats (scarce), 3s Id to 3s 3d. Fovvs’ wheat : Good whole (in fair demand), 2s lOd to Is 3d. Barley— Very little inquiry, and quote nominally. Malting, 2s 6d to 2s 8d ; milling, 2s 2s to 2s 4d ; feed, Is lOd to 2s Id; pearl barley, £ls to £l6.

Oats —Prime milling, Is 4£d to Is sd; bright plump teed, Is 4d; other sorts, Is Id to Is 2d (all sacks extra, ex store). Onions, £l4.

Flour—Timaru and Oamaru roller, £lO f.o.b. those ports; £lO 5s here; 50’s, £ll here; stone-made, £9 5s here; 100’s and 50’s, 10s and 15s more.

Oatmeal —Long-ton hulk, £8 10s ; short-ton, £8; 7’s, £lO 10s. Bran, £3 ; sharps, £4.

Potatoes —Plentiful supply, £3 to £2 15s; kidneys, not saleable.

Pigs—Well-fed, for curing, up to 1601 b, 3wd per lb. Hams, 7d to 8d ; bhaff—Good heavy, £2 to £2 2s 6d, Straw—Oaten and wheaten, 30s to 355. '

Hay—Oaten, £2; clover and rye-, grass, £3 ss. Carrots, 30s. Butter—f Salt,. prime, vyith q a few inquiries, at 7d. Eggs, plentiful. Honey, to sd.j Cheese—Factory, 4d ; Akaroa, 3^d. Grass Seeds—Ryegrass, 3s 9d to 6s; cocksfoot, 4d to sd; seconds, 3d to 3£d ; timothy, £3B to £4O. ' 1 ; Linseed, £l£) to £2O.

Sheepskins—At Tuesday ’s auction best crossbreds brought 6s 6cl to 5s 2d ; good tomedium and inferior, 5s f to 4s 3d; green merinos, 4s lOd to 3s lOd; country dry crossbreds, inferior to_ medium, Is 8d to, 3s lid; do do merino, Is 7d to 3s 3d ; full-woolled, crossbreds, 4s lid to 7s ,3d ; do do. merino, 3s lid to 6s 3d ; dry pelts, 4d| to Is 7d each.

Hides —Dry salted heavy weights, clean and free from scars, to 3d ;, medium, 2d to 2|d; light, l£d to. Ifd ; inferior, Id to per lb.

Tallow—The market is very firm, and a good demand is experienced j Prime rendered mutton,2os to 21s;| medium to good, 17s to .19a ; inferior! and mixed* 13s to 15s 6d. Rough fat, —Best caul, 13s to 14s; inferior to, medium and good, 9s 6d to 12s 9d per, cwt.

DUNEDIN STOCK MARKETS. At the Burnside Yards on Wednes-, day the following business was transacted

Fat Cattle—l 63 head penned, about: half of which were medium tp;, : weight bullocks. Sales opened'with a ; brisk demand at 'prices 10s to 155,.a head; higher than last week, but;,prices fell off slightly as. sales advanced, and at the close little better than, last week’s values were obtained. Best bullocks sold at £8 5s to £lO 10s ; medium to good, £5 15s, to £7 15s ; light and | inferior, £8 15s to £4 55,; a pen of extra heavy Herefords brought £l2; cows and heifers sold at £3 5s to £7 ss. Eor Mr J. Guild, Trevenna, there were sold 6 polled Angus bullocks at £9 7s 8d to £9 15s, 8 bullocks at £8 7s 6d to £9 10s.

Eat Sheep—29s4 yarded, about 500 being merinos. More than half were wethers, and, with the exception of a few pens of prime, the mutton was of a very ordinary quality. There was a ; fairly active demand, but prices were about Is lower than last week. Best crossbred wethers sold at I6s to 17s 3d; medium to good, 14s 3d to 15s 6d ; light and inferior, Ils 6d to 13 s; a few extra heavy wethers, 20s; best crossbred ewes, 14s .6d to 16a»; ordinary, Ils 3d to 13s 6d. Pigs—23o of all sorts yarded, which.; met with fairly active competition, prices for porkers, baconers, and •suckers showing a slignt advance ,on last week’s prices. Suckers sold )at 9s 6d to 12s 6d, stores at 14s to 235, porkers at 26s to 31s, baconers at 37s jto 51s.

AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. a , ;l

Sydney, Sept. 17. : Wheat: Chick, 3s, to 3s Sd ; tnillirig, 3s Sd'to 3a lOd. Oats, la lOd to 2a; maize, 3s 4di to 3s 6d. Barley: Cape, 2a j .English, 3s (nominal). Bran and pollard, 7id. Peas: Prussian blues, 3s ; lOd. Chaff: iN.ew Zealand, £4. Potatoes: , Circular Heads, £2 15s ; i New iZealand, £B;* Onions, £7 to £9. Butter: Dairy?’ made, 7d to 8d; separator-made, 8d to lOd. Cheese, 3d to sd. Bacon : Machine-cured, 4d to s^d; handbured, 6d; to Jsd ; New Zealand, 9d, Hams: New; Zealand, lid. | i; Melbourne, fcept. 17.

Wheat is steady at 3s lOd for prime, pats: Stout Victorian, to 2s New Zealand milling, 3s 2d. Maize,, 3s 8d for prime!. Barley; Feeding,, 2s 3d ; prime malting, 3s lid. Bijan, 9d ; peas, 3s 2d. Adelaide, Sept. 17.

Wheat, 3s9d. Flour: Stone-made, £7,10s to £8 ; roller-made, ; £8 10s to £9 2s 6d. Bran and pollard, B£d‘ to 9d —little doing.

ENGLISH MARKETS

London, Sept, 16,

At the wool sales to-day 7000 bales were offered, most of which were of poor selection. There was a good attendance of buyers, and the competition was of an animated character. The prices ruling were generally on a par with at the July series. Crossbreds, medium merinos, had a slight upward tendency. Sept. 17. Tallow —Best mutton, 28sto 28s'6d; do beef, 27s 6d to 28s. .- - The total quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,452,000 quarters. The American visible supply is estimated at 17,568,000 bushels.

Wool arrivals to date total 158,000 bales, of which 3000 bdles have been sent forward. The arrivals this year,' added to the number of bales held over from last series, make tbb total available for the present series 265,000 bales.

National Bank of New Zealand shares, £1 15s; Bank of New Zealand, new issue, £8 10s.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, have received the following cable message from London, dated 16th iust, ; “ Wheat—Market very weak. New Zealand wheat, f.a.q., to arrive, iron

ship, is worth nominlaly 36a 6d 4801 b; 1 ( August-Beplteinber bills f o£ lading). - New Zealand wheat is werth 36a 6d, and average 35a 6d per ; 496ib’!