COMMERCIAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2232, 25 July 1891, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

CHIMSTCHURCH CORN EXCHANGE

The following is the Corn Exchange report (per N. P. Meyers. Secretary), for the week ending July 24 : Wheat—Very little doing, and the quantities on offer are principally taken up for local consumption at qu|>J;a<£Qiij3. * Oats —Several lines are changing hands, prime milling and heavy feed pfedonffnating. Barley— Very few lines on offer, consequently prices may be said to be nominal. Beans—A good demand exists at quotations. The same remark applies to prussian blue peas, Ryegrass—An increased inquiry has been noticed, more particularly for machine-dressed, Cocksfoot is also wanted, but buyers prefer giving the extreme figures for reliable seed. Potatoes—The market in jSTew South Wales having suddenly collapsed, quotations are only nominal. Quotations are as follow : Wheat Prime tuscan, 4s 3d ; J pearl, 4s 2d ; hunters, 4s Id; whole chick, 3s Gd ; broken, 3s 3d. ' I

Oats—Milling, Is 10d: short feed, Is 9d; danish and long, Is 6d to Is 7d.

Barley—Malting, 2s 9d to 3s ; feed, Is 9d to 2s. Beans—2s 9d to 2s lOd. Peas —Blue prussian, 3s,

Rye-gras's —Machine dressed,' 5s 3d to 5s 6d. Cocksfoot— : 4|d to o|-d. Potatoes—Denvents, lss to 17s Gd, at country stations. Dairy Produce —Prices unaltered. The above prices are those paid to farmers for delivery f.o.b. Lyttelton. sacks extra, potatoes excepted.

CHRISTCHURCH STOCK MARKETS.

At the Addington yards on Wednesday the entry comprised 7082 sheep. 383 head of cattle, and 322 pigs.

Fat Cattle—About 190 head were brought forward for the week's supply. The quality generally was superior to the last few week's, especially one consignment from the North, which were both prime quality and heavy weights. In consequence of last week's oversupply, nothing but prime quality commanded attention, and for these competition was below last week's rates. Best bullocks made from £7 10s to £9, medium £5 upwards ; best cows and heifers ranged from £5 10s to £7, medium and inferior £3 10s upwards. Two prize heifers £l2 10s and £lllos. There was but little demand for cow beef, and several pens of good, useful steers were withdrawn and sent to the freezing works.

Store Cattle —There is no alteration in this market.

Fat Sheep—There was a very full entry and prices showed a decline on last week's values of fully Is per head on freezers, but as sales progressed prices hardened, and towards the close of the day's business the value of prime quality sheep was very firm at last week's quotations. Best lines of freezing wethers made 18s, 19s, 20s, 21s to 23s per head, the latter being given for prime quality and full freezing weights, medium making from 15s upwards. Best pens of maiden ewes sold from lGs to 19s 9d, fat ewes 15s to 18s for top pens of heavy weights, medium and inferior 9s upwards. Pens of prime merino wethers made from 13s Gd to lGs Gd, medium and inferior 8s upwards. Store Sheep—A small entry, nearly the whole of which found buyers at about last week's quotations. Pigs—Were all cleared at last week's values.

Sheepskins, Rough Fat, Hides and Calfskins —Sales for the week comprise 227 G sheepskins, 59 bags and packages of rough fat and about 95 hides and calfskins. There was the usual attendance of fellmongers. Prices fluctuated considerably, but all lots were cleared at the following values :—Butchers' best crossbreds 6s Gd to 7s Gd, exceptionally large double fleeced skins 10s 6d, medium crossbred 5s to 6s, butchers' best merinos ss, to 5s 9d, medium 4s upwards. Rough fat, Id to If d for best parcels. Hides and calfskins are without alteration.

DUNEDIN PRODUCE MARKETS,

The following is the report for the week ending Wednesday : Wheat—Market firm, but not over active. Prime tuscans and velvets, 4s 7d to 4s 8d; other good milling sorts, 4s 4d to 4s Gd. Fowls' wheatGood whole, 3s 8d to 4s. Prime Nelson hops, Is Id.

Onions—£7.

Barley Malting, 3s to 3s 3d; milling, 2s 4d to 2s Gd; feed, 2s to 2s 3d. Pearl barley, £l3. Oats Quotations nominally, best milling and seed, Is Gd to Is 7d; bright plump feed range from Is to Is —all sacks extra, off trucks, and ex store.

Flour—Roller, £l2; stone, £ll ss. Oatmeal—£B 10s to £lO 10s. Bran—£3 10s. Sharps—£4 10s. Potatoes—£2 to £2 ss; kidneys for seed, £2 5s to £2 10s. Pigs—l4olb to IGOIb, well-fed and well cured, 3}d ; large sizes not saleable; hams, 7d to 8d; bacon, 5d to Gd. Chaff— Good heavy clean sorts. £2 ss.

. Turnips—Jos to 18s. Carrots, 80s to 355.

Straw—Oaten and wheat en, 30s to 355. Hay—Oaten, £3; clover and ryegrass, £3 5s to'£3 10s.

Butter—Prime salt, Bd, scarce and in good demand ; casks returnable.

Eggs—Fairly supplied. Honey—--5d per lb. ' ' - Cheese —Factory, 5d to sid; dairy, 4dto4id. . • ' . ' Grass Seeds—Ryegrass, 3s Gd to 5s sd; cocksfoot, to Gd per lb.

Sheepskins—On Tuesday country dry crossbreds, inferior to medium, brought 2s to 4s 2d; do do merino, Is lOd toSslOd; full-woolled. crossbreds, 4s Gd to 7s 2d ; do do merino, 4s 3d to Gs 2d ; dry pelts, 3d to Is 9d ; butchers' green crossbreds, selected, Gs to 5s 7d; good to medium, 5s Gd to 4s; green merinos, 2s lOd to 4s sd.

Hides—There is no quotable alteration to note in values, nor in the position of the market all round. A moderate demand continues to exist. Quotations for GOlb hides, 2f d to 3d ; 651 b and upwards, id to Id more; medium weights, 2d to 2^d; light do, IJ-d to lfd; inferior, Id to I+d per lb. Tallow The market continues steady, and no material change in any way to report. For medium to good, 16s to 18s, prime rendered mutton a shade more; inferior and mixed, 12s to 15s trough fat: best, 18s to 13s Gd; inferior to medium and good, 9s to 12s 9d per cwt,

i DUNEDIN STOCK MARKETS. At the Burnside Yards on Wednesday the'following business'wks trans* I acted: — : Fat Cattle—A very large supply came forward. The greater part were light weights and inferior quality, with 'some small odd lots of prime. Butchers, being well supplied, were careless about buying anything but ! best sorts, and even these had to be sold at slightly reduced rates, while lother descriptions had simply to be I sacrificed. The general complaint ■■ was scarcity of feed. Prime bullocks , sold at £5 to £8 17s 6d; others, £3 to £4 17s 6d; best cows, £4 15s to i£s 17s 6d; others. £2 2s to £4 12s 6d. , Fat Sheep—3s49 penned. This ! number included some 520 merinos of medium to prime qnality. The rest (3120 crossbreds) ranged from stores :to nice quality butchers' mutton, with :a few pens suitable for the freezing chamber. Sales opened rather languid, with a drop from 9d to Is 6d per head below last week, but prices were very irregular and fluctuated a bit throughout the day's proceedings. Quotations :—Best crossbred wethers sold at 16s to 17s 6d ; other do, 14s 6d to 15s 9d ; extra heavy wethers to 19s ; heavy crossbred ewes, 15s to 17s; other do, 12s 6d to 14s 9d; merino wethers, 7s 9d to 13s.

Pigs—Bacon pigs at from 36s to 43s ; porkers, 20s to 2Gs; stores, 12s to 18s; suckers, 5s to 9s.

AUSTRALIAN MARKETS.

Melbourne, July 22,

Wheat, medium, 4s 8d ; prime, 4s lid. Flour, stone, £9 5s to £lO 10s ; roller, £ll 10s. Oats, Algerian, 2s 2d ; stout, 2s 7d to 2s Bd. Maize, 3s lid. Barley, feeding, 2s Id ; malting, 3s Id. Bran, 11 fd. Peas, 2s 6d. Adelaide, July 22.

Wheat, nominal, 4s 9d to 4s 10d.. Flour, stone, £9 5s to £lO ; roller do, £lO 5s to £lO 10s. Oats, plentiful supply. New Zealand prime feeding, 2s 2d to 2s 4d. Barley, Cape, nominal, 2« 4d to 2s 6d; English malting. 2s 9d to 4s. Bran and pollard, Is Id.

ENGLISH MARKETS,

London, July 22,

The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,396,000 quarters, and for the Continent 2,193,000 quarters. Bank of New Zealand shares, new issue, are quoted at £B. The American visible supply of wheat is 18,750,000 bushels.