COMMERCIAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2253, 12 September 1891, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

CHRISTCHURCH CORN EXCHANGE.

The following is the Corn Exchange report (per N. P. Meyers, Secretary), for the week ending Sept. 11th : The latest, news (up to the date of writing) of the wheat market in London has caused an : easier feeling in values, and this may induce some of our local holders to accept prices ruling here. Oats are still in limited demand, there being little or no outside enquiry.. Barley—But few samples of prime, malting .are on offer. Grass Seed—The recent rains have caused a better demand, though the quantity yet wanted should be large, as up to the present, sales have been remarkably light. Potatoes—-The shipments now arriving in Sydney have, had. the usual effect of bringing down prices, the result of three New Zealand steamers : arriving together (sad want of regulating supplies this). Dairy Produce —But little doing, as is usual at this time of the year.' Quotations as follow: Wheat—Tuscan, 4s 5d to 4s 6d ; pearl, 4s 3d to 4s 4d; hunters, 4s 3d; whole fowl, 3s 6d to 3s 9d; broken,. 3s 3d to3s6d. Oats—Milling, Is lOd; short feed, Is 9d; loug and inferior, Is 6d to Is Bd. Barley—Malting, 3s; medium, 2s 6d; feed, Is lOd to 2 S . Beans—2s 9d to 3s. Blue Prussian peas, 2s 9d to 3s ; feed, 2sßdto2alod. -i " Ryegrass—Machine dressed, 5s to 5s 3d; fanners lines, 4s to 4s 3d ;, cocksfoot, really good heavy seed, 5d to s £d. Dairy Produce—Butter, farmers prime, ikeg, 9d ; cheese, small loaf, 4£d; large ! and medium, 3Jd to 4|d. The above quotations are those paid to farmers, f.o.b. Lyttelton, sacks extra. CIJRJSTCHURCH STOCK MARKETS. At the. Addjngton yar4» on Wednesday 6971 sheep, 645 cattle, and }£B pigs formed the entry for the day's auction. Fat Cattle—About 150 head yarded, Biddidgs were fairly biisk. but prides obtained were not quits as good as of late. Several lines of prime handy -weight heifers} also a 'line of extra prime steers, were offered. Beef may be quoted

'at 18s to 20s per 100fi>. Bullocks sold at ! £5 to £9 Is 6d, cows, £5 to £8 ss, heifers at £5 to £7 each, s Veal—Small.entry. Best calves 25s to ' 325; others at 10s to 15s each. ; ) " Dairy Cattle—Fairly large entry, which i met with a very bad sale. 30s to £2 was about the usual run of prices with perhaps an odd one or two at £4 to £4 10s with hardly any demand. Fat Sheep—Full entry, but very few prime freezers; the bulk of the entry was; made up of half-fat sheep, both merinos andcrossbreds. Biddings were accordingly brisk for prime crossbred wethers and maiden ewes, for which prices remain •firm, good-llots bringing from 18s to 21s 9d, lighter sorts from 14s. The demand for second-class mutton was slack, and values fell in this class, while, with the exception of one or two lots of very prime merino wethers, which sold upi ■< to 18s, there was nothing, like the competition fprthe inferior sorts, which sold at 8s 3d tolOs 9d. Fat Lambs—About 50 were '* penned for sale, which sold at 10s to 15s. Pigs—Small entry ;■■ prices much the, same as at the previous week's sale. Bacon pigs sold at 25s to 275, choppers £2 to £2 10s, porkers 14s to 26s eachj stores 10s to 14s eachi

DUNEDIN PRODUCE MARKETS,

The following ie the report for the week ending Wednesday : Wheat—Market "firm, and has plenty: inquiry, prices are > firm. Prime tuscans and velvets, 4s 8d to4slod; other good milling, sorts, 4s. 4d to 4s 6d f . Fowls' wheat: Good whole,; 3s Bdto4s. Prime Nelson hops—ls Id. Onions--£6.

3s to 3s 3d; milling, 2s 4d; to 2s 6d; feed, 2s to 2s 3d. Pearl barley, £l3. Oats—lmproving. Best milling and seed, Is 6d to ls7d'; bright plump feed range from Is 6d to Is 7d; other sorts, Is 3d to Is M—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—Glutted; kidneys for seed, £2 5s to £2 10s.

Pigs—l4o9> to 1601 b, well fed, 3jd; large sizes not saleable; hams, 7d to 8d; bacon, sdto 6d.

Chaff-~£2 5s to £2 10s. Turnips—Getting out of. date, as feed is more plentiful. Carrots—3os to 355. Straw—Oaten and wheaten, 30s to 355. Hay Oaten, £3; clover and ryegrass, £3 5s to £3 10s. r ., Butter—Prime salt, 9d, scarce and in good • demand; Taranaki fresh factory butter, Is 3d per lb, Eggs Fairly supplied. Honey—sd per lb. Cheese—Factory, 5d to s£d; dairy, 4d to : 4Jd.

Grass Seeds—Ryegrass, 35,6 d to 6s 9d; cocksfoot, 4|d to 6d per B>. Cocksfoot is now in active demand.

Sheepskins—On Tuesday country dry crossbreds, inferior to medium, brought 2s 2d to 4s 2d; do do merino, Is lOd to 3s lOd; full-woolled crossbreds, 4s lid to 7s 6d; do ilo merino, 4s 4d to 6s Id;, dry pelts, 4d to Is lid; butchers' green crossbreds, extra, large pelted, 7s to 6s sd; best do halfbreds and fine crossbreds, 6s 3d to 5s lOd; good to medium, 5s 9d to 5s 2d; coarse-woolled 'and small, 5s 2d to 4s 6d; green merinos, 4s 8d to 2s Bd.

Hides—The market is unchanged, demand and values remaining about the satme for months past. Buyers hesitate to pay the same prices that they have done for light and medium sorts; while good-conditioned heavy lots, which are in short supply, are firm at late, quotations—viz., for 601 b hides, 2£d; medium weight do, l&d to lfd; inferior, Id to lfd perß>. Tallow—There are buyers for every description at prices according tp quality, which are as follow, viz.:—For medium to good rendered tallow, 16s to 18s; extra good, a shade more; inferior and mixed, 12s to 15s; best rough fat, 12s to 13s 6d; inferior to medium and good, 9s to 12s 6d per cwt.

DUNEDIN STOCK MARKETS. At the Burnside Yards on Wednesday the following business was transacted : Fat Cattle —123 head yarded—all use ful beef, but nothing very special a" regards weights. Prices showed a substantial advance—say, 20s or 25s a head—over • last week. ■ Beßt > bullocks sold- at £5 f 2s 6d to £10; cows, £4 to £8 7s6d. Fat Sheep—23Bß were penned, consisting of 300: merino wethers -and 2088 crossbreds, the greater part wethers. Sale 3 opened at about last week's rates, and kept steady throughout, the closing sale showing a slight Gd advance. Best wethers sold at 16s to 18s 3d; others, 14s 6d;to 15s 9d; best ewes, 14s 9d 'tq : 17s; others, 12s to 14b 6d; merino wethers, 10s 3d to 12s 6d. Pigs—l 26 were yarded. All sorts were dull, with lower prices. soldi at 20s to 295; slips, 10s 6d to 14s 6d; suckers, 5s 6d to 9s.

AUSTBALIAN MAEKETS.

Sydney, Sept. 9., Wheat, chick feed, 3s 6d to 3s 9d; milling, 4s lOd to ss. Flour, stonemakes, £ll to £ll ss. Oats, Is 9d to 2s Id. Maize, 2s 2d to 2s 4d. Bran,9£d. Pollard, 9d. Peas, 3s 3d to 3s 6d. Potatoes, New Zealand, £1 12s 6d ito £llss; Circular Heads, £2 10s to £3. Onions, £3 to £4; inferior New Zealand, £2 to £2 10s. Butter, dairy-made, Is 3d to Is 4d; factory-made, Is 5d to Is 7d. Bacon, machine- cure'd, 5d to 6d; handcured, 6d to 7d. Hams, New Zealand, lOd to lid. Melbourne, Sept. 9.. Wheat, 5s 2£d. Two thousand bags were bought in the country at equal;to 5s 6d. Flour, stone-makes, £11; roller brande, £l2. Oats, Algerian, 2s; stout, 2s 7d. Maize, 3s lid. Barley, malting, 3sf)4, Bfft»,jßj.d. Peas, 2s sd. ADBIiAIDK, Bopt, 0. Wheat, firm, 5s to 5s id. Flour, stonemakes, £lO 5s to £lO 10s. Roller brands, £ll 5s to £lllos. Oats, 2s 2d to 2s 4d in bond. Barly, dull, Cape, 2s 4d to 2s 6d; English, 2s 9d. Bran, Is Id. Pollard, Is Id. - J

ENGLISHAND FOREIGN MARKETS! London, Sept. 8. At the wool sales to-day 13,638 bales were catalogued. . There was a good attendance of buyers, and was keen. The prioes realised, iwere from par to 5 per cent below the July,, sales. The decline was chiefly in medium and in; ferior wools. The arrivals : number 416,000 bales; 70,000 bales were sent forward, and the number;,available was 35,800, Sept, 9. The quantity of wool available for the Ipresenti series is 350,800 bales, not 35,000.; Merinos (good) at par,ito.-Jd to Id, cross- | bred Jd below.; the (dosing, rates of last, [auctions. Enormous shipments i<>f wheat from America are depressing, the markets. The I.Daily.jNews, I however, says; that f the de-, 1 clines« is only .temporary. <•, The, deficit in England and France;alone amounts to ! 32)000,000 quarters.. : ; The,;total quantity,of wheat and;flour J afloat for, the United Kingdom is quarters, and for the Continent 2,942,000. i ; The estimated American visible; supply of wheat is, 26,200,000,bu5he15. ■ i Wool is very firm, opening rates -being well maintfiined. Thejhop, market is bare. , The .yield will be, a r third, less than ;;was expected, the crop being badly-blighted. The prices of wool show no improvement, and large lines have been withdrawn in consequence of the; labor | troubles. The quantity .< is too ' large to be unloaded at the old prices. Berlin, Septi* 9. - . Germany has- been officially enquiring into the Canadian rye crop, and the Government has been informed'that bushels are available for exports