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Temuka Leader, Issue 2110, 11 October 1890, Page 3

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DUNEDIN STOCK MARKETS. At the Burnside Tarda on Wednesday the following business was transacted :

Fat Cattle—A Moderate entry wa* presented at the Burnside saleyards for tke week’s requirements, 193 head being yarded, a considerable portion of which were good to prime beef, a few pens being pretty heavy weights. Best bullocks brought £8 to £9 17s6d; extra prime, £lO to £11; medium, £6 5s to £7 15s; light and inferior, £4i 7s 6d to £6 2s 6d; best cows, £7 10s to £8 10s; others, £3 2s 6d to £6los. , j Fat Sheep—Tbe number to hand was somewhat larger, 8192 being penned, including about 600 merino wethers, medium to good ; the balance, crossbreds, comprising both sexes, the proportion of each, both m point of quality and weights, much superior to those forwarded last week. Best crossbred wethers brought 15a 6d to 18s 6d—one pen extra heavy to 19s 9d ; medium to good, 13s 6d to 15s 3d; best do ewes, 14s 3d to 15s 6d; a few extra prime, 16s 6d to 18s 9d; medium to good, 11s 9d to 13s 9d; merino wethers, 9s 6d to 10s 3d. Store Cattle—There is no alteration of any consequence to note in the tone of the market, and while farmers are able to pick up suitable lots of sheep at reasonable prices, the demand for cattle in the meantime, at any rate, will hardly be so keen. Store Sheep— I These still change hands in considerable numbers. In consequence of the weaker tone existing at Home in the frozen mutton market, prices ruling for good stores lately are being hardly maintained. Lambs—loo penned, more than one half of which were rather small. They sold at from 6s 6d to 13s 6d. Pigs—2lo were penned. Suckers brought 10s to 14s; steres, 17s 6d to 225; porkers, 24s to 295; baconers, 32s to 37s each.

AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. Sydney, Oct. 8. Wheat, chick feed, 3s 3d to 3b 4d; milling, 8s lOd to 4s. Oats, Is lOd to 2b. Maize, 3b 7d to 3s 9d. Barley, 2s nominal. Bran, Pollard, 7d. Peas, blue Prussian, 3s 9d, Potatoes, New Zealand, £2 to £2 6b. Onions, £l3 Butter, dairy made, 6d to 8d; separator made, 8d to lOd. Cheese, loaf size, 4£d to sd, Bacon, machine cured, 4id to sid; hand cured, s£d to 6^d; New Zealand, 9d; hams, New Zealand, 10£d to lid. Melboitene, Oot. 8. Wheat, milling, 3s 5d to 3s lOd. Oats, Victorian stout, 2s lOd. Barley, Cape, 2s. Peas, 3s o|d. Adelaide, Oct. 8. Market inanimate. Wheat, 3s 8d to 3s 9d. Plour, stone makes, £8; roller, £9. Bran, B£d to 9d. Pollard, Bjd. ENGLISH MARKETS* Lo »ro N, Oct. 8. A cargo of Australian wheat baa been sold at 355. The wool market is recovering, and a better spirit prevails, ' Prices are now at the highest point since the series opened: Tallow, best mutton, 28s to 28s 6d j ditto, beef, 27a to 27s 6d. The total quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,044,000 quarters, and for the Continent 748,000 quarters. The American visible supply is estimated at 17,056,000 bushels. Messrs Tysar and Co.’s rate of steamer freights to all Colonial ports is 17s 6d per ton. Associated Brokers (the Australian shipping ring) 255, and German Lloyds Company, 27s 6d.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, havereceived the following cable message from London, dated 7th inet, : Wheat market steady, but inactiveo New Zealand wheat, f.a.q., to arrive i ship is worth, c.i.L, 35s 6d per 4801 b, Auguat-September bill of lading. New

Zealand average and long-berried is worth respectively 34s 9d and 36s per 4961 b. . .