COMMERCIAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2122, 8 November 1890, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

CHRISTOHURCH CORN EXCHANGE. The following is the Corn Exchange report (per N. P. Meyers, Secretary), for the week ending Friday, November 7th : The holidays have completely interfered with all business and it is impossible to do more than repeat last week’s quotations. The change in the weather will have done immense good to the growing crops. Quotations are as follow : Wheat —Tuscan, 3a 5d to 3s 6d ; pearl, 3s 4d to 3s 5d ; hunters, 3s 3d to 3s 4d. Oats —Prime milling. Is 7d; bright short feed, Is Gd ; inferior and discolored, Is 2d to Is 4d. Barley—Nominally, 3s for prime malting ; feed, Is 6d to Is Bd. Beaus and Peas—2s 6d for the former ; 2s 3d to 2s 4d the latter. Ryegrass—Machine-dressed, 5s 3d ; cocksfoot, bright heavy seed, 4*d to 4gd. Dairy Produce-—Prime keg, 6d to small loaf shape, 4d to 4^d, The above prices are .those paid to farmers for delivery, fob, Lyttelton, sacks extra.

DUNEDIN PRODUCE MARKETS. The following is the report for the week ending Wednesday:— Wheat Market unaltered. Best tuscans, 3s 9d to 3s lOd; other good milling sorts, 3s 6d to 3s 9d. Fowls’ wheat; In fair demand. Good whole, 3s to?3a 3d; broken and inferior, 2s 3d to 2s Bd. Barley—Nominal. Malting, 2s 6d to 2s lOd; milling, 2a 3d to 2s 4d ; feed, Is 9d to 2s; pearl barley, £l4 to £l6. Oats—Market ?ery depressed, and enquiry only exists for milling at Is 3£d to Is 4d; bright plump feed, from Is 2d to Is 3d; off color, Is to laid.

Flour—Timaru and Oamaru roller, £lO here; 50’s, £lO 15s here; stone made, £9 5s here; 50’s, £9 Iss here. Oatmeal—From £8 to £8 10a.

Bran—£2 10s. Sharps—£3 10s. Potatoes—Old derwents, from 10s to 40s; new kidneys, trom to 2d per lb.

Onions—£l4. Pigs—Not saleable ; hams, 7d to Sd ; rolls and flitches, 5d to Gd. Chaff—From 30s to 42s Gd. StrawOaten and wheateu, 30s.

Butter —Prime salt, nominal, 6d to 7d; fresh, plentiful. Pggs are rather scarce and firm in price. Honey—4d to sd. Cheese—Factory, 4d ; Akaroa, 3d to 83d.

Grass Seeds—Eyegrass, no demand at all, 2s Gd to ss; cocksfoot, none selling locally, but inquired after for London.

Sheepsbins On Tueaday green crossbreds sold at 4s to 6a 3d ; halfbreds, 4s 3d to 6s 8d ; merinos, 3s lOd to 4s lid ; lambs, 8d to Is 3d ; dry crossbreds. 2s 3d to 5s 7d ; halfbreds, 2s 8d to 5s Id ; merinos, Is lOd to 4s 7d; pelts and Jambs, 6d to 2s sd. Hides—Prime heavies (in faultless condition), 21 d to 3d per lb ; medium to good, to inferior (bulls aud slippy), if-d to lid.

Tallow—Pri.Be rendered is in demand, and sells at from 20s to 21s per cwt; medium to good, 17s to 19s; inferior and mixed, 13s 6d to 16s 6d ; best mutton caul, 13s 6d to 14s; inferior to medium, 9s 6d to 13a per cwt. DUNEDIN STOCK MARKETS, At the Burnside Yards on Wednesday the following business was transacted : Fat Cattle—l4B head yarded, about 50 head being prime and the rest ranging from medium to inferior. For best pens prices realised were quite 10a a head better than those ruling last week. Medium and inferior participated in the rise, but not to the same extent. Best bullocks seld at £8 5s t« £11; medium to good, £6 15s to £7 10s; light and inferior, £3 15s to £4 10s; cows and heifers, £3 5s to £7 ss. Fat Sheep 200 merinos were penned to-day, about half of which Were wethers, principally _old ewes. Prices were somewhat irregular, but on the whole the average showed a decline of nearly Is on last week’s rates. Beat crossbred wethers sold at 17s to 20s ; medium to good, 14a 6d to 16s 3d ; light and inferior, 12s to 13s 6d; best crossbred ewes, 15s 6d to 17s 6d ; ordinary, 12s to 13s 9d ; shorn sheep, 5s 9d to 13s.

Fat Lambs—Only 94r cam# forward for to-day’s sale, ranging in quality from medium to extra prime. Prices were fr#m Is to Is 6d better than last week. Best pens sold at 12s 6d to 15s; medium, 9s to 10s 9d. Pigs tions, except stores, were represented, and met a very dull sale, prices all round being lower than at last sale. Suckers sold at 6s to 11s 6d ; slips, 15s to 17s ; porkers, 21s to 265; baconers, 27s to 40s. CHRISTCHURCH WOOL SALEB. Chkistchuech, Nov. 6. The Christchurch wool sales were opened to-day by the associated brokers with catalogues comprising 1700 bales, mostly crossbreds. Compared with last year, values showed a decline of 2d per lb on best wools, and on medium and ■ interior sorts. Ihe condition of most of the lots was dingy and heavy. The attendance of buyers was good, and a fair competition ensued, resulting in a clearance of about half the quantity offered. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company report a range of prices as follows :—Greasy halfbred, 8d to lOd ; crossbred, 7d to 9|d; merino, locks, 2d to 8-f-d. AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. Sydney, Nov. 5. Wheat, chick, 3s 8d; milling, 4a. Oats, Is lOd to 2s Id. Maize, 3s lOd. Barley, Cape, 2s, nominal; English feeding sorts, 3s. Bran, 6-Jd. Pollard, Gfd. Pens, Blue Prussian, 8s 9d. Potatoes, New Zealand, £5 ; new, £9. Onions, £l4. Butter, dairy-made, 5d to 6d; separator, 9d; factory, Bd. Cheese, 4d to 6d. Bacon, machinecured, 4jd to 7d, New Zealand, 9J. Hams, New Zealand, Is.

Melbourne. Nov 5. Average milling wheat, 3s 6d to 3a 7d; half prime, 3s sd. Flour, stone-made, £7 15s to £8 12s ; rollermade, £9 10s. Maize, 8s 6d. Bran, 9d to Peas, 2s lOd to 2s lid. Adelaide, Nov. 5. Wheat, 3s 9d. Flour, stone-made, £7 10s to £8 ; roller-made, £8 10s to £9 ss. New Zealand oats, in bond, 2s 3d. Barley, Cape, 2s 3d to 2s 6d English, malting sorts, 2s 6d to 4s. 1 _____ ENGLISH MARKETS. London, Nov. 4. The total quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kipgdom is 1.792.000 quarters, and for the Continent 652,000 quarters. The American visible supply is estimated at 21.148.000 bushels. New Zealand .oats, 365.

The tallow market is dull and shows a slight decline. Best mutton, (26s 6d to 27s ; do beef, 25s to 25s 6d. Hides, 3d to 3*d. The money market is firmer, throe months’b)lJ.s;being quoted at 5 percent.

Australian aud and New Mortgage Company’s shares, £1 j New Zealand Trust and Loan Company, £8 10s ; National Mortgage Company of New Zealand, 10s j New Zeeland Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, £2 10s. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile' Agency Company, Limited, havreceived the following cubic message from London, dated 4'.b inst. : Wheat-—Market firm. On the spot there is a rather better demand. New Zealand wheat has advanced 6d pep 4961 b since last report. Other quotations unchanged.