COMMERCIAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2111, 14 October 1890, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

AUCTIONEERS’ REPORTS. TIMARTJ. Messrs William Collins and Co. report a good local demand for the following lines at their regular weekly produce sale on Saturday : Fowl wheat, 2s, 2s 4d, and 2s 7d per bushel; oats, Is 3d do (in all eases where grain is quoted by the bushel sacks are extra); cheese, 4d per lb; fresh butter, 7d do; Derwent potatoes in small lota 2s 6d per sack, kidneys no demand; chaff, lOd per sack (sacks given in.) Pigs always command a ready sale at 7s 6d, 9s, to 12s 6d each, according to size.

Messrs Grade, Maclean and Co. report for the past fortnight as follows :

Horses The annual parade of stallions, under the auspices of the Timaru Agricultural and Pastoral Association, was held on the old show ground on Saturday last. There was a good turn out of both draught and light horses, a considerable number of the former having lately arrived in the district. After the parade wo offered at our bazaar a number of draught and pony stallions, but in no instance did the bidding reach owners’ reserves, and in consequence each lot was passed in. We subsequently sold, on account of the Waimate Estate, the celebrated station Young Emperor, to Mr J. Eraser, Waitohi, and on account of Mrs Dale, the pony entire Prince of Wales, to Mr James King. Our general sale on the same day was a most successful one, and most of our entry changed hands. To-day only 15 head came forward, and these were all inferior. We quote medium to good draughts at from £ls to £24 10s; aged and inferior, £6 to £10; light horses (medium), £8 to £l3; weedy. £3 to £6.

Mr E, R, Guinness, for the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited) reports for tba week ending October 11 1 h : Sheep—We have to report large entries at all the fixtures in the district, and good business in this department, nearly every line placed in the market changing hands at satisfactory prices. Geraldine Yards —At the abov e market (for Mr A. E. Cox) on the Ist inst., we sold fat crossbred ewes, light weights, at 11s; half bred hoggets at 12s 2d, and cull do at 7s 9d. There was a good number yarded, and prices were well up to the mark.

Pleasant Point—On the 6th inst* there was the usual yarding of sheep, and a heavy entry of cattle, but prices for the latter were in favor of buyers for stores, while anything approaching beef sold well. We sold 271 crossbred hoggets at 13s Bd, 150 do do at 13s 7d, 2 fat heifers at £6, 3 store heifers at £2 15s, 6 small steers at £1 12s 6d, and several odd cows at from £1 10s to £2 12s 6d. Temuka Yards—At this fixture on the 7th inst. there was a good number of sheep, cattle, and pigs forward, a large attendance, and a very satisfactory sale resulted. Eat sheep brought from 16s 6d to 17s; hoggets, 12s 8d; old merino ewes with lambs at foot, 7s 6d; and merino wethers, 9s 9d to 10s la cattle'we sold 2 fat heifers at £5 2s 6d, 2 do do at £4, and 30 head of yearlings and two-year-olds at from Bs.to £1 10s, Pigs: Good sorts up to 255; weaners, 7s to 10s.

Sheepskins and Wool—At our usual fortnightly sale on Wednesday last, although the attendance of buyers was numerous, prices obtained were very irregular, and barely up to previous sale values. We sold privately and by auction 2274. Best factory crossbreds, 6s 3d to 6s 4d; extra large, 6s 6d ; best butchers’ crossbreds, 5s 6d to 6s 3d; second quality, 4s 6d to 5s 3d; best merinos, 5s t® 5s 6d; second quality, 4s 6d to 4s 9d ; country skins according to size and condition ; light skins by the lb from ofd to 6fd. Wool: Pieces, to 3d; dead wool, 6d to 7d per lb. Hides—The market remains dull. We have quitted all on hand at about late quotations. Eat All on hand sold at late quotations. CHRISTCHURCH CORN EXCHANGE.

The following is the Corn Exchange report (per N. P. Meyers, Secretary), for the week ending Friday, October 10th: — Wheat is somewhat easier. Stocks are being reduced by shipment to the United Kingdom. Prices remain at present quotations. Oats; A few transactions in feed lines have transpired, and milling are freely taken at quotations. Beans and Peas : A few parcels of Ihe former have changed hands for shipment. Peas are difficult to place. Grass Seed: The season being now almost over the demand is restricted, and holders will carry forward but small stocks. Potatoes: The present price of potatoes in Sydney (45s per ton) leaves a margin of about 10s per ton to the producers. It seems rather hard to have to pay the Union Co. Is 6d per bag freight when the gross proceeds are about 4s, the nett, say, under la, per sack. Dairy Produce : It is to be hoped that the estimated cost ot the proposed cool chambers in Lyttelton will not deter the board from proceeding with their construction, as would appear from the report of last meeting to be probable. Our quotations are as folio vv ;

Wheat Tuscan, 3s 6d; pearl, 3s 4d; hunters, 3s 3d. Oats—Milling, Is 7d; short heavy feed, Is 5d to Is 6d; long and inferior, Is 3d to Is 4d.

Barley—Prime malting, 3s 3d ; feed, Is 6d to Is 9d. Beans, 2s 6d. Peas—Prussian blues,hand-thr^hed, 3s to 3s 3d; feed sorts, 2s 4d to 25 ,! 6d. i Grass Sheds Ryegrass, ihachinedressed, 5s to 5s 6d; cocksfoot, 4?d i to 4£d. j Potatoes —Derwents,* 10s to 12s at' country stations within a radius of 12 miles.

Dairy Produce—" Unaltered. The above quotations are those paid! to farmers for delivery, :fo.b., 1 Lyttelsacks extra.

CHRISTCHURCH STOCK MARKETS. At the Addington Yards on Wednesday there was an unusually large entry of fat stock, but .stores, on the otbei hand, were hardly as:plentiful. ; Fat Cattle—AH the pens set apart| for fat cattle-were crowded to excess,: with a' very mixed lot of cattle. -On! the whole quality was hardly as well represented as at'last week’s sale.'hut, despite the size-of the entry, a general; clearance was effected. There was a> decided improvement in values, which Varied from"ss to ’ 10s a head on all sorts. Quoting best beef at 25a to 27s per 1001 b is well within the mark, with inferior from 20s upwards. A prize steer, forwarded by Mr Garfqrth, made £ls. Others made from £6 10j to £9 5s a head. Store Cattle—ln- addition to the usual number of store cows, a number of splendid three'and four-year-old bullocks were on offer. Some of those sold made from £2 15s to £3 10s a head, while a number of those passed in realised as high as £4 15s without changing hands. A number of young sorts sold at anything but satisfactory prices,-as also did store cows, which were in good force. Store Sheep— Wethers and ewes were scarce, but the prices obtained for them was satisfactory. Ewes and lambs were in fair demand. A line of hoggets changed hands at 15s, while another made from 12a 7d to 13s 6d. (\ossDred ewes in lamb made from 7A 6d to 14s Gd.

Lambs —Competition was Rood for all sorts, but prizes were a trifle lower than at last week’s sale. Bestlambs made from 7s 9d to 14s 6d.

Eat Sheep—The greater portion of those yarded were of splendid size and quality, but 'necessarily suffered in appearance from the intense heat. Competition was lively, and though there was not a substantial advance in values, a very satisfactory sale may be recorded. Rena of extra fine crossbred wethers made from 18s 6d to 23s 3d a head, while others went from 18s Gd to 17a 6d, according to quality.— Messrs Matson and Co. sold for a South Canterbury client, halfbred wethers and maiden ewes’at 16s fid to 18s 9d, crossbred wethers and maiden ewes at 19s; for Mr J, G. Ruddenklau, crossbred wethers at 16a lid to 17s lOd.

Pigs—Only l a small entry, and a good sale resulted.

DUNEDIN PRODUCE MARKRTS

The following is the report for the week ending Wednesday:— Wheat —Market firm. Best tuscan and velvet, 3s 9d to 3s lid; other good milling sorts, 3s fid to 3s Bd. Fowls’ wheat : Good whole scarce at 3s to 3s 3d; medium and broken, 2s 8d to 2a lid.

Barley Only good malting lots asked alter at 2s 8d to 2s lOd ; milling, 2s 3d to 2s 6d ; feed, 1s 9d to 2a; pearl barley, £l4 to £l6. Oats are operated - upon if prices give any inducement to shippers. Best milling, Is to Is 4d ; bright plump feed, Is 3d to Is 3|d; ordinary, is Id to Is 2|d. . Flour—Timaru and Oamaru roller, £lO f 0.b., £lO 5s here; 50’s, £IQ ; TSs to £11; stone flour, £9 ss; 50’s, £9 15s. Oatmeal —£8 to £8 10s. Bran —£210 s. Sharps—£3 10s. Potatoes—Derwents, 35s to 40s ; seed, no sale.

Pigs—*A ccording to sizes, 3d to hams and bacon, 7d to 8d and 5d 10 6d. .Chaff—3ss to 455. Onions—£B to £lO. Turnips—lss. Carrots —Now out of sale. Straw —Oaten and wheaten, 30a to 355. Hay—Oaten, 355; ’ clover and ryegrass, £3. Butter Salt, best, 6£d to 7d ; fresh, plentiful. Eggs—Plentiful. Honey—4d to sd. ‘ J Lard—3d.

Cheese—Factory, 4d ; Akaroa, Hobart apples —Eating and cooking, 8s per case. Grass Seeds—Ryegrass, 3s ,6d to 6s; cocksfoot, id to fid; seconds, 3d.

On Tuesday butchers’ green cross-, bredg, beat, brought 6s 8d to 5s 6d ;| good to medium and inferior, 5s 4d to 4s 5d ; green merino, 5s 5d to 3a 6d ; country dry crossbreds, inferior to medium, Is 9d to 3s lOd; do do merino, Is 8d to 3a 4d ; full-woolled crossbreds, 4s 10d to 6a 9d ; do do merino, 4a 6d to 5a lOd ; dry pelts, 3 1 to Is 6d each.

Hides—Properly flayed heavy hides, dry salted, 2£d to 2fd ; extra heavy, 3 1 ; medium, 2d to 2id ; light, l|-d to lid ; inferior, Id to lid per lb.

Tallow—Prime rendered mutton, 20a to 21s; medium to good, 17s to 19s; inferior and mixed, 13s to 15a 6d; rough fat, fresh clean caul, 13s to 14s ; inferior to medium and good, 9a 6d to 12s 9d per cwt.