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Temuka Leader, Issue 2160, 7 February 1891, Page 4

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«* GHRIBTOHUROH CORN EXCHANGE. The following is the Corn Exchange report (per N, P. Meyers, Secretary), for the week ending Friday, February 6th:— During the week there has been a fair quautity of new grain on offer, but as yet we can report but a limited business. The samples of wheat offering are of fair quality, the winter grain being the best. Buyers are shy to make offers, preferring to wait till the rates become more settled. It is anticapated that prices will open at 3s at country stations, with prime tuscan in good demand for Home shipments. Qats are weaker on account of the {lew crop offering ao freely and but

little outside demand. BarleyMaltsters want prime sorts, but anything of an in ferior character is entirely neglected. Blue peas are offering freely. Grass seed has a good demand, but samples are coming up from Ibe South, which will ease the enquiry. Dairy Produce unaltered. The following are the week's quotations: — Wheat—Old: Tuscan, 3s 7d; pearl, 3s 5d to 3s 6d; hunters, 3s 3d to 3s 4d. New : Tusean, 3s 4d to 3s sd; pearl, 3s 8d ; .hunters, 3s 2d to 3a 3d, Fowl wheat: Whole, 2s 9d; broken, 2g 3d to 2a 6d. Oats—Milling, Is 8d ; short feed, Is 6d to Is 7d; long and inferior, Is 4d to Is sd. Barley—Prime malting, 3a 3d ; second quality, 2s 9d to 3s; feed, Is 9d. Peas—Prussian blue. 3s (if true to name) ; feed, 2s 6d to 2s 9d.

Grass Seed—l own machine-dressed, ss; clean farmers' parcels, 3s 6d to 4s ; inferior, 2s 6d to 3s. Dairy Produce —Factory butter, 7d to 8d ; "farmers', 6d. Cheese: Small loaf, 4|d ; larger, to 4d. The above prices are those paid to farmers for delivery, f.0.b., Lyttelton, sacks extra. CHBISTOHUROH STOCK MARKETS. At the Addington yards on Wednesday the live stock market was well attended and the business done was very satisfactory in all classes except store cattle, in wbich there was a conspicuous absence of competition or demand. Fat Cattle—The entry of baef was generally of very even quality, nice little steers and heifers, with a few fat cows. The number entered militated against a successful sale, and the price obtained of late was hardly sustained, best steer beef being sold at from 17s to 18s 6d per lOOlbs, and other sorts 13s upwards. Store Cattle—Only a small entry of odd lots of dry cows met with anything but a willing market and very little business was done. Tbe few dairy cows that were sold realised fair prices, but the quality ot the eßtry was not up to the usual standard. Fat Sheep—ln fat sheep only about 4000 were yarded, but there were some good sorts amongst them and prices remained firm throughout. Best crossbred wethers and maiden ewes fetched from 13s to 15s, light weights 9s to lis 9d, and some Dalethorpe merino wethers lis 6d. There were sold for Mr A. M. Clark, 25 half-bred ewes at lis 2d, 25 do at 10s 7d ; for same owner, 30 crossbred ewes at 13s 9d; 20 do at 12s, and 20 do at 10s lid. Store Sheep—About 1800 stores were yarded, all of wbich sold at most satisfactory rates, and the demand was not satisfied. The principal portion of the entry consisted of 2 and 4-tooth crossbred wethers of mixed sexes. 4 tooth wethers sold at 10s 4d and lis 2d, others bringing 9s, 6d to 10s, dry crossbreds 4s to 6s lOd, do lambs 7s lid. Fat Lambs—Of fat lamba there were about 700 in the pens, and s»me prime sorts brought as mueh as 16s. The majority sold at from 7s to lis 6d. Pigs—There was again a large entry of useful sorts of stores lor stubbling, a good assortment of porkers, and a few light baconers.

DUNEDIN PEODTJCE MARKETB. The following is the report for the ' week ending Wednesday:— "Wheat—Milling wheat in better demand, Prime tuscan and velvet, 3s lid to 4s; medium quality; 3s 8d to. 3s lOd, Fowls' wheat, good whole sorts wanted at 3s 4d to 3s 5d ; broken and inferior, 2s lOd to 3s 2d. Barley—Prime malting,3s to 3s3d; millinfir, 2s 8d to 2s 10d; feed, 2s 6d to 2s 9d. Oats meet with little inquiry at present, and when sales are made it is at a reduced rate. Prime milling, Is to Is 6d; good short bright feed, Is 5d to la s£d ; medium quality, Is 4d to la 4|d; Danish, Is 3fd to Is 4|d—sacks extra. Flour—Timaru roller, in sacks, £lO per ton in Dunedin; 50'a, £lO 15s; southern brands, in sacks, £9 per ton in Danedin ; 50's, £9 10s. Oatmeal (bulk) : 200's, £8 10s ; 25's, £9; 7's, £ll, f.o.b. Bran, 50s. Sharps, 70s. Kidney potatoes (if good sample) are worth 70s to 755; medium, 655; small and inferior, 60s to 555. A few derwents are now offering, but are hardly ripe enough yet. Pigs—Nice sizes and quality, 3d; heavy weights, 2d ; hams, 7d to 8d ; bacon, 4d to sd. Chaff has had a drop, and 42s 6d is about yalue for medium quality, up to 45s for prime. Straw, oaten and wbeaten, 30s. Butter—Fresh, 4d per lb; salt do, no demand—nominally 6d. Eggs—Scarce. Honey—Prime extracted, sd; run honey, 4d to 4£d. Cheese—Factory, 4£d; small do, 4£d; Akaroa cheese, large sizes, to 3-3-d. Grass Seeds—Cocksfoot: The new crop la not yet on the market. Eyegrass : A few sales have been made of the new crop. Prices range from 3s 3d up to 4s 6d.

Sheepskins—On Tuesday a few lines of early shorn butchers' pelts sold as high as 2s 3d to 2s id each. Fullwoolled crossbreds brought 4a 6d to 5s 6d —a few selected skins somewhat higher rates; full-woolled merinos, 3s 9d to 5s Gd ; best green pelts. Is lOd to 2s.

Tallow —Best rendered mutton tallow is worth 19s to 20s; medium to good, 17s to 18s j inferior, 13s to 15s ; cleac unrendered mutton caul fat, 13s to 14s ; butchers' rough fat, 10s to 12s per cwt. The market is very bare of supplies. Hides—Prime ox are in strong request at up to 8d per lb; average ox, if well flayed, 2|d to 2£d ; mixed classes to 2d ; light and inferior, l£d tolfd. DUNEDIN STOCK MARKETS. At the Burnside Yards on Wednesday the following business was transacted : Eat Cattle—ll 9 head yarded. Prices if anything were a shade lower than last week. Prime bullocks £7 to £7 10s, one or two' bead of particularly heavy cattle £7 15s to £8 2s 6d, medium weight bullocks £6 to £6 10s, light £5 to £5 12s 6d, best cows £5 to £6, extra heavy to £6 10s, medium £4 10s to £4 15s, light £2 2s 6d to £4. Fat sheep-r 2575 yarded, of which about 130 were merino wethers ; the balance principally light weight crossbreds, with a few lines only of good wethers. The few good crossbreds on offer sold at about last week's rates ; while other descriptions changed hands, prices slightly more in favor of buyers. Best crossbred wethers brought 13s, 13s 6d, to 14s ; medium weights, lis 6d to 12s ; light wethers and mixed crossbreds (ewes being maidens), 10s 6d to lis. Merino, wethers sold at 4s to 1b 9d, according to quality; best ewes, lis up to; 12s 9d for very heavy sheep ; medium: weights, 9s Gd to 10s; light, 8s 6d| to 9s. Fat Lambs —497 yarded; Lambs fit for shipment sold at from 9a to 10a, one pen of very prime bringing lis ; good trade lots, 8s to 8a 9d; inferior to medium, 6s to 7s. Pigs—lll yarded. Stores of various sizes sell better in proportion than fat pigs of any class. Suckers brought 6s 6d to 10s, stores 16s to 20s, porkerß 22s to 275, light weight bacon pigs 30a to 325, a few heavy 50s.

AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. Melboubite, February 4. .The wpol.market is buoyant; Priceo range from a par to a farthing higher than the sales of a fortnight ago. Good combiog merinos, greasy, brought up to lOfd; do washed fleeces up to Is 2|d, greatvy croßsbreds Bdto 9£d, scoured crossbreds 10£d to la OJd. ENGLISH MARKETS. Loxdok, February 3. Money is advancing, owing to the continued withdrawal of gold for export. At the wool sales there is keen competition. The prices remain firm. February 4. The total quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,048,000qr5, and for the Continent 794,000qr5. New Zealand Loan and Mercantile ,4 per cent, debentures, 95. The wool market is buoyant, and generally 5 per cent, above December cl Jsing rates. Good lambswool is firm; faulty|Borts are lower. Foreigner are making large purchases. It is reported that the bulk of the gold received from the Bank of France !durine the recent financial crisis will s be returned to-morrow. The American visible wheat supply is 44,200,000 bushels. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, have received the following cable message from London, dated tfr.i inst, : "Wool—The sales progress firmly. Since close of last Bales superior greasy merino has advanced nearly -Jd per lb; fine greasy crossbred, per lb ; fiae scoured crossbred, £d to Id per lb; coarse crossbred, J?d per lb. Other descriptions unchanged. "Up to date 77,000 bales have been sold.

Wheat—Market is dull. New Zealand wheat, f.a.q., to arrive iron ship is worth, c.i f, 37s per 480ib, JanuaryFebruary bills of lading. Other quotations are unchanged.