COMMERCIAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2152, 20 January 1891, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

AUCTIONEERS’ REPORTS. GERALDINE. Messrs J. M undell and Co. report sales for the week ended January IT, 1891, as follows: — At Temuka Live Stock markets on Tuesday we effected a clearance of all sheep and pigs yarded, also the major portion of the cattle, at prices satisfactory to vendors, The totals yarded were 1300 sheep, 185 cattle, and 33 pigs. Prices realised were : Sheep Crossbred wethers and maiden ewes lls to 111 3d, halfbred wethers and maiden ewes 10a to 10a 6d, 2-teoth crossbred stores, 9s, merino wethers and maiden ewes fat 7a Bd, fat crossbred ewes 10s, 10a 3d to 10a lOd.

Cattle—Bullocks, fat, £4 10a to £4 15s; heifers, fat, £2 15$ to £3 5s ; 3-year-old steers £3 15a; 2-year-old steers and heifers £1 8a 6d to £1 Os ; dry cows £1 to £1 10a; cowa in profit £3 2s 6d, yearlings 12s 6d to 15s, Pigs—Porkers 13s to 14s, strong stores Ss to 9a 9d, weaners 5a to 5s 6d, Private Sales —During the week we disposed of several lines of fat sheep and lambs for freezing at satisfactory prices. ENGLISH MARKETS. London, January 15. Canterbury mutton, 4£d ; Wellington, 3|d. there is no Canterbury lamb on the market. New Zealand beef, hindquarters, 4*d. Auckland hemp, medium quality, averages £24 15s per tonj Welling-

ton, medium quality, £23. The market is strong, New Zealand long-berried wheat is firm at 87s 9d ; South Australian and Tictoriah wheat is also firm at 39s and 38s 6d respectively. German sugar is firm at 12s 6d; Java sugar 15s, nominal. Theshipment of New Zealand butter ex steamer Eimutaka is realising from 90s to 112 s per cwt, Jan. 16.

The American yisible wheat supply is estimated at 47,300,000 bushels. A cargo of wheat per Helen Denny, from Lyttelton, has been sold at 37s 9d. Silver has risen to 4s lid.

The Wellington Gas Company has paid a dividend of 12 per cent* for the year. A Relic of Old Times.—A relic of a vessel wrecked on the coast nearly 60 years ago has been found on the beach near Opunake* Mr John Ross while going along the beach discovered the 18-ponnder gun belonging to the barque Harriet, wrecked off the mouth of the Okahu, river near Cape Egmont, on the 29 h April 1834. The gun baa been presented to the Taranaks Town Board, and is to be mounted. Mr Roes at the same lime found a bronssa coin in a good state of preservation, dated 1824. The beat medicine Known rs Sanjdbb and Sons’ Eucalypti Extract. Test its eminent powetfnl effects in coughs, colds, influenza ■, the relief is instantaneous. Id serious cases, and accidents of all kinds, be they wounds, burns, scald in ga, bruises, sprains, it is the safest remedy —no swelling—no inflammation. Like surprising effects produced in croup, diphtheria, bronchitis, inflammation of the lungs, swellings, &c., diarrhoaa, dya entry diseases of the kidneys and urinary organs. In use at hospitals and medical clinics all over the globe ; patronised by His Majesty the King of Italy ; crowned with medal and diploma at International Exhibition, Amsterdam. Trust in this approved article, and reject all others The Land Fund.— At the beginning of the financial year there waa a deficit in the land fund to the amount of £45,000, of which £34,000 bad arisen in the previous year, and £II,OOO in 1888 9. So satisfactory has been the land revenue of (be last nine months that up to the 3let December the total amount collected was £34,191 in excess of the estimate for the whole year, and as the best three mouths of the year from a revenue point of view are yet to come the Minister of Lands is confident that the whole deficiency will be wiped out before the year’s accounts come to be made up. Holloway’s Ointment and Pills.— Notable Facts. the annoyances of skin disease, and encourages the development of febrile disorders ; therefore they should, as they may,be removed by these detergent and purifying preparations, In stomach complaints, liver affections, pains and spasms of the boweli, Holloway’s eintmentjwell rubbed over the affected part immediately gives the greatest ease, prevents congestion and inflammation, checks the threatening diarrhoea a and averts incipient cholera. The poorer inhabitants of large cities will And these remedies to be their beet friend when any pestilence rages, or when from unknown causes eruptions, boils, abscesses, or ulcerations betoken the presence of taints of imparities within the system, and call for instant and effective curative medicines.