COMMERCIAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2262, 3 October 1891, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

DUNEJDIN PRODUCE MARKETS.

The following is the report for the week ending Wednesday : Wjheat—J&arket has inquiry, prices are firm, and must further rise in value, owing to shortage ere the new crops,are. to hand; same holds good here also. Prime tuscans and velvets, 4s 8d to 4s l'Od; other good milling sorts, 4s 4d to 4s 6d; fowls' wheat, good whole, 3s 8d to 4s. Onions—£3. » Barley—Malting, 3s to 3s 3d; milling, 2s 4d to 2s 6d; feed, 2s to 2s 3d. Pearl barley, £l3. Oats—Best milling and seed, Is 6d to ll 7d; bright plump feed range from Is 6d to Is 7d; other sorts, Is 3d to Is 4d—all sacks extra, off trucks, and ex. store. Flour—Several large parcels iire; now loading for Australia. Boiler, , £l2 ; store, £ll ss. [ Oatmeal —£B 10s to £lO 10s. Bran, .£3los, Sharps, £4 10s. Potatoes—Glutted, 30s per Pigs—l4oft to 1601 b, well fed, 3£d; large sizes not saleable; hams, 7d to 8d;: bacop, 5d to 6d. " . ChauVUp to £2 15s for prime. Turnips—Getting out of date as feed is more, plentiful. Carrots—Out of date. Straw—(Oaten and wheaten), 30s to 355. Hay (oaten), £3. Clover and ryegrass hay, £3 5s to £3 10s. Butter—Prime salt, lOd; scarce and in good demand. Eggs—ln short supply. Honey—s'd per fb. Cheese —ln demand; stocks are now getting short; factory, 5d to dairy, 4d. Grass Seeds—Kyegrass, 3s 6d to 5s 9d; cocksfoot, 4§d to 6d per lb. Cocksfoot is now in active demand. Sheepskins—Oh Tuesday country dry crossbreds, inferior to medium, brought 2s 2d to 4s 3d; do do merino, Is 9d to3s 4d; full-woolled crossbreds, 4s4dto 6s Id; do do merino, 35.6 d to 5s 6d; dry pelts, 4d to Is 6d; butchers' green crossbreds—best, 6s 6d to 5s 3d; woolled and small, 4s 6d to 3s 8d; green merinos, 3s 9d; medium, 3s 7d to 2s lOd : lambskins, to Is Bd. Hides—The demand continues fairly steady, but without any immediate prospect of improvement. Quotations for 601 b hides, 2fd to 3d; 651 b and upwards, |d to Id more; medium

weights, 2d to 2£d; light do, to If d ; inferior, Id to l£d per lb. Tallow—A good demand is experienced, and all available supplies readily placed. Quotations formedium well-rendered mutton, 16s to 18s—extra prime a shade more,; inferior and mixed, 12s to 15s. Rough fat is in good request—best, 12s 9d to }3s 6d: inferior to medium and good, 9s to 12s 6d per cwt. DUNEDIN STOCK MARKETS. i At the Burnside Yards on "Wednesday the following business, .was transacted:— "*.-"• Fat Cattle —Only 80 head yarded, none of which were very prime. As might have been expected, competition was very active all through the sales, resulting in very satisfactory prices being obtained. Best bullooksibrought £9 to £lO 12s 6d; medium to good, £6,15s 6d to £8 17s 6d-; light weights and inferior quality, £4 to £5 17s 6d ; best cows, £6 10s to £7 17s 6d; medium, £4 10s to £5 15s; inferior, £2 17s 6d to £4 2s 6d. Fat Sheep including about 350 merino wethers, medium to prime, the rest crossbreds, mostly wethers, with a few pens of ewes, representing all qualities. The demand at the commencement of the sales was fairly active, prices showing a slight advance on those obtaining last week, but dnwn towards the close there was less animation displayed, medium quality especially suffering a decline. Best crossbred wethers brought 16s 6d to 19s 6d; one or two pens extra prime, 20s to 21s; ordinary, 13s to 15s 9d; best crossbred ewes; 14s to 17s 6d"; a few extra prime to 19s 9d ; ordinary, 12s to 13s 6d; merino wethers—best, lis 6d to 14s 6d; others, 7s 6d to 10s 6d. Fat Lambs—A consignment up to 10s 9d, these being rather on the light side for trade purposes. Pigs—247 were penned, comprising all sorts, principally porkers and baconers, and these met with, a very j dull market, sales being difficult to effect at very unsatisfactory prices. Suckers and stores met with a better demand, and sold? well. Suckers brought 5s to 14s; slips, 15s to 17s; stores* 19s to 21s; porkers, 22s to 245; baconers, 25s to 27s 6d—extra heavy to 355; CHRISTCHURCH STOCK MARKETS. At the Addington yards on Wednesday the totals of stock yarded were as follow sheep, 412 cattle, 253 pigs. Store,Sheep—r-Very small entry. Biddings were fairly brisk. Good ewes sold at 15s to 20s; crossbred ewes and wethers, two and four-tooth sheep, sold at 143 to 16s. 10d.,; crossbred hoggets sold at lis t,o 12s. Fat Lambs—About 70 to 80 yarded. Prime quality sold at 14s to 16s, lighter weights sold at lis 6d to 13s. Fat Sheep—Very small entry; prices were flrm ; throughout the.saleat late quo- ! tations. Crossbred wethers, prime -heavies, 20s to 24s 3d; tighter weights,! 17s to 19s 9d; fat crossbred ewes, prLne, 15s 6d to ,16a 6d; lighter weights, 13s to 14s 6d; fat' merinos, 16s to 17s 6d ; lighter weights, lis 6d to 355; crossbred wethers, at 9s; merino wethers at 14s 9d. Fat Cattle—Very small f entry. This coming on last,week's bare market caused prices to advance fully 10s to 15s per head The entry was made up of cows and hjeifers, with a few light steers. Biddings 'were brisk throughout the sale. Beef at 22s to 23s per 1001 b would be about a fair quotation for prime handy weights. Veal—Small entry. Calves sold a shade better, best lots. 2Qs, 25s .to 275; other l<j>ts, 7s, 10s, to 15s each. Dairy Cattle—Small entry. A few cpws changed hands at £4 to £6, but the bulk of thoseysold realised 30s to £2 10s; witli a. good .enquiry! for, any t class of cow. Store Cattle—Biddingsrtbxoughout sale weref airly brisk. Wesold 3- year-old steers at£3i7s6d, £4 to £4.105; 355,. 38s, 40s to 455; yearbngs, 15s, 18s to 20s ; lines of exceptionally good sorts at a few shillings more. Calves 5s to 10s. Pens of ; store heifers from 30s to 60s; store, cows at.. 20s. to ,£2 10s; bulls, 10s to £5, Pigs—Small, entry, biddings, were {brisker .than has been the case for the .past fewweeks, an.d a.rise of 2s 6d-per.head.for porkers a»d bacon pigs wasiobtained in a great many) cases.: Stores sold remarkably well also. Bacon pigs sold at 20s -to 3|os, 'porkers ljOs, large? sprtsrto 16s each. ' \y.opl, .Sheepskins,' Hides and Tallow. — At the usual weekly auction of the above, there wijs a full attendance offeUinongers, ajid biddings''were fairly resulting.in a clearance of all lines at.prices, If anything, a shade betjterthan last week,, butchers' crossbreds, realising 4s 6d, 6s: 6d, 6s to 6s -td'each; merinos, 3s, 4s» 4s ; 6d to 5s Id each; country skins at an' average price.. Factory skins—Several lines sold, at rase3 equ.al to quotations. Tallow and fat at late rates. Hides, usual rates. ENGLISH MARKETS. London Sept. 20. A contract has been" arranged for carrying 18,000 tons of Queensland frozen meat annually for 5 years. The freight for beef is to be f d per lb, and for mutton and lamb l-3-16d per lb. It is reported that a company is being formed in Liverpool to erect a peptine xactory in Australia. Sept. 30. The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,852,000 quarters, and for the Continent 508,000 quarters. Shares—Union Steamship Company, £l9 10s. New Zealand wheat, off coast cargoes, 425; buyers offer 41s 6d. The American visible supply of wheat is 24,900,000 bushels.