COMMERCIAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2102, 23 September 1890, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

AUCTIONEERS' REPORT.

TIMARU. -m «• William Collins and Co. Messrs t q£ bußlQeßß dur . report a fair au.. . kr ing the week, and at - '—fowl weekly auction. The demand iui

wheat is good. Clean samples are ' worth 2s 6d to 2s 9d per bushel. Feed oats move off freely in 10 and 20-sack lots at Is 3d to Is 4d per bushel; Derwent potatoes 50s. per ton, kidney do no demand; live pigs, 6s 6d, 9s 6d to 14s 6d each; fresh butter (good) Is per lb. Now that the Union Company's boats are beginning to run irore regularly holders of Derwent potatoes will be able to quit their stocks. Oats remain at the same price, viz., Is 3d f 0.b., sacks extra.

OHBI3TOHUBCH CORN EXCHANGE. The following is the Corn Exchange report (per N. P. Meyers, Secretary), for the week ending Friday, Sept. 19th :

It is an unpleasant taak to hpve again to record an unsatisfactory state

|of the market; produce of all kinds is to place, outside markets are 'all more or less full, and prices are jalso unsatisfactory. Wheat is still taken for shipment to the United JKingdom at quotations; the local dejmand is somewhat; limited. Oats: No jimproyement in price can he noted; jheavy sortb for shipinent are in'sljgh tly better demand, whilst feed sorts,reimain dormant. Beans and Pfeaa—A 'few lines of the former for shipment (have changed hanils; in ,peks ,the transactions have limited to Blue ; Prussians and a Few seed lines. G-rass JSeed—The dry weather ; is,probably jihterfering{with thWdemaM for spriO|{ isowing, which should now bfc.at' its ; height. A. slight falling oft in"thje dejmahd is noticeable, but prices Vr.einain ifirm, owing.to stpiika f beingremarkably low. Potatoes—The market I a very sad appearance &'t|ibse Holaibg heavy stocks, the oijly : 'dfiawcla\b<pjinr«j"ifc demand later on, when freights may be obtainable to Australlan^loriies at reasonable ''rates. Ii u|cleitr ! that ! the control of the New Zealand, which baa, hitherto'beefr rtiled from Canterbury ari'd v Oainaril, is no longer limited'.t'o those places, as our North Island customers iire now being supplied from''['sources nearer home. Dairy Produce—We 'are 'glad to notice the pro visions' making'by the Lyttelton Harbor ' jßoard for the cool storage in port. This should enable our country friends to see that their dairy 'products are not Bpblle ! d Whilst awaiting shipment. Our quotations are as follow:

Wheat Tiiscan, 3s 63; pearl, 38 4d; hunters, 3s 3d. Oats—Milling, Is 7d; short" bright feed, la 5d to Is 6d; inferior arid long, la ! 3d tols4d.

Barley—Prime malting, 3s 3d; feed, ls6dtols9d.

Beans, 2s 6d. Peas—Prussian blues, haiid-tnreslied, 3a to 8s 3d; feed sorts, 2s 4d to 2s v ßd. Grass Seed Kyegrass, machinedressed, 5s to 5s 6d; ! cocksfoot, 4£d'ib Potatoes—Perwents, 30s at country stations, within a radius of 12 miles. The above quotations are those paid to farmers for delivery, f.0.b., Lyttelton, sacks extra, potatoes excepted.

ENQLI&k MAfIiKEL'S. LOKDON, Sept. 1&. Seven hundred baleß of New Zealand hemp have been sold at an irregular advance '■ in price. Good "Wellington is quoted at £2l 10s;'fair quality, £2O 10s.

The price for frozen beef is improving. Other meat quotations are unchanged. The wool market is very firm. South Australian wheat, 38s; market restricted.

New Zealand long-berried do, 36s 6d, market quiet. Sugarj German beet, 14s, market flat; Java, 16s 3d, nominal.

No. 1 best Scotcbpig iron;; f.o.b. on Clyde, 51s 3d, active. At the wool sales combing merinos, all crbssbreds, were ■' disposed' of ;t at 5 per cent, above' those' ruling at the_ July sales. 'Prices for'clothing sorts were unchanged. The shipping; ring has reduced the freight on cargo by sailing vessels to Melbourne and Sydney to 17s 6d per ton. and to Adelaide £l per ton. ■ The Tyser Company is being strongly supported, and it is expected that there will be brisk competition for shares.