COMMERCIAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2268, 17 October 1891, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

CHRISTCHURCH CORN EXCHANGE.

•The following is the Corn Exchange report (perN. P. Meyers, Secretary), for the week ending Oct. 16th : The wheat market has been somewhat disturbed, owing to reported purchases at a considerable rise on last week’s quotations. Whether, a maintenance of these extreme "rates can be looked for is somewhat doubtful, though that wheat is likely to command full values for some time seems to be generally acknowledged. Oats: Little or no business doing. Barley : A few parcels have changed hands in prime malting; feed neglected. Beane ahdiPeas ; But few offering; stocks in growers hands are light, and any good lines would fiud : a market at quotations. Grass Seed : The season is almost over, and distributors complain of the small demand this season. The recent weather nu'y cause a slight enquiry yet. Potatoes are unsaleable. Dairy Produce ; A “ showery spring ” seems to be our good fortune this year, and butter is consequently in good supply. Quotations are— Wheat Tuscan, 4s 9d to 4s lOd; pearl, 4s 7d to 4s 8d; hunters, 4s 6d. Oats —Milling, Is 9d to Is lOd; stout feed, Is 8d; inferior, Is 6d to Zfi 7d. Barley Printe malting, 3s 5 second quality, 2s 4d to" 2s 6d; feed, Is lOd to 2s 2d- ' Peas —Blue Prussians, 2s 9d to 3s; other sorts, 2s 6d to 2s Bd. Potatoes —Nominal. Grass Seed Ryegrass : Machine dressed, 5s to 5s 3d. Cocksfoot, 4jd to s§d. Butter—6d to 6Jd. Cheese—4ld. The quotations are those paid to farmers, f.o.b. Lyttelton, sacks extra (potatoes excepted.)

15a to 21s, according to ages and percentage of lambs. Lines of nice twouoth crossbreds sold at 16s, 16s Id, to 6s 8d ; crossbred hoggets sold at 12s to ,3s 2d ; merino wethers up to 9s 3d. Fat Lambs—Fully 200 fat lambs were ■aided, which was by far the larges! entry this season. Prices varied from )a 3d to 13s 6d.

Fat Sheep —About 5000 were offered, which included two lines of shorn sheep. Biddings were fairly brisk up to a certain point, which was fully 6d to Is per head lower than the prices which have been ruling lately. Prime heavy crossbred wethers and maiden ewes sold at 18s 3d, 20s 3d, to 22s 8d ; lighter weights, 16s 6d to 17s 6d; fat crossbred ewes, 15s to 17s ; merino wethers, prime, 13s 13s to 15s 6d; lighter weights, 10s to 12s; shorn crossbred wethers, 14s 2d, 15s, to 17s; do ewes, 12s to 14s 9d. Fat Cattle—Largest entry for weeks past; fully 200 head yarded, principally heifers of prime quality; old cows and inferii r sorts were conspicuous by their absence. Very few prime bullocks were yarded. Prime beef sold at prices equal to about 20s to 22s per 1001 b; best bullocks, £B, £8 15s, £9 ss, to £lO 10s ; cows, £6 10s, £7 10s, to £8 ; heifers, £5, £5 10s, £6, to £6 10s. Store Cattle —Fair entry (about 200) yarded. Most lines changed hands. Three-year-old steers sold at £3 10s, to £4 10s; two-year-old steers, 40s to 50s; yearlings, good, 20s to 255; smaller sorts, 10s to 15s.

Dairy Cattle —Small entry, which met with a shade better demand for best cows, which sold at £5 to £6 15s; old and poor-conditioned sorts were neglected.

Wool, Sheepskins, Hides, Rough Fat, and Tallow—At Thursday’s sale Matson and Co. report that they sold butchers’ crossbreds at 5s to 7s 9d; merinos to ss; country skins at s £d per lb. Rough fat IJd to l£d per fi>. Hides at late rates. Canterbury Horse Market Matson and Co. report that good draughts are worth £ls, to £25 each; hacks, £lO to £3O,

DUNEDIN PRODUCE MARKETS. The following is the report for the week ending Wednesday : Wheat—Market has inquiry; prices are firm, and must further rise in value, owing to shortage ere new crops are tb hand. Prime wheats, 4s lOd to 5s ; other good milling sorts, 4s 6d to 4s 8d ; fowls’ wheat, good whole, 4s to 4s 3d. 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 Is Td; bright plump feed range from Is 6d Is 7d; other sorts, Is 3d to Is 4d—all sacks extra off trucks, and ex store, Flour—Several large parcels are now loading for Australia. Roller, £l3 f.o.b. Timaru; stone, £l2 ss. Oatmeal, £Blos to £lO 10s. Bran—£3 10s. Sharps, £4 10s. Potatoes—Glutted, 30s per ton. Pigs—l4olb to 1601 b, well fed, 3d; large sizes not saleable; hams, 7d to 8d; bacon, 5d to 6d. Chaff—Up to £2 15s for prime. Straw—(Oaten and wheaten), 30s to 355. Hay (oaten), £3; clover and ryegrass hay, £3 5s to £3 10s. Butter—Prime salt, nominal at 8d; fresh plentiful. Eggs are now getting more plentiful, and have eased off. Honey—sd per lb. Cheese—ln demand; stocks are now getting short. Factory, 5Jd ; dairy, 4|d to sd. Ryegrass—3s 6d to 5s 9d; cocksfoot, 4|d to 6d per lb. Cocksfoot is now in active demand. Sheepskins—At auction on Tuesday country dry crossbreds, low to medium, brought Is lOd to 3s 8d; do do merino, Is 7d to 3s Id; full-woolled crossbreds, 4s 3d to 6s 2d ; do do merino, 3s 4d to 5s 9d ; dry pelts, 4d to Is 5d ; butchers’ green crossbreds—selected, 6s4dto 6s 2d; good to best, 5s 2d to 6s Id ; medium to good, 4s to 4s lid ; green merinos, best, 4s 6d to 3s 9d; medium, 3s 7d to 2s 9d ; lambskins, lid to Is. Hides—Quotations for 601 b hides, 2Jd to 3d ; 651 b and upwards, id to Id more ; medium weights, 2d to 2|d; light do, 1-ld to Ifd ; inferior. Id to IJd per lb. Tallow—Medium to good rendered mutton, 16s to 18s ; inferior and mixed, 12s to 15s ; rough fat, best caul, 12s 9d to 13s 6d ; inferior to medium and good, 9s to 12s 6d per cwt. DUNEDIN STOCK MARKETS. At the Burnside Markets on Wednesday the following business was transacted: — Fat Cattle—Only 161 head yarded. The quality of stock yarded was scarcely up to the average. There was a brisk demand, and the sale passed off with brisk competition, prices being fully equal to those realised last week. Best bullocks sold at £8 to £lO 2s 6d; medium, £6 5s to £7 15s ; light, £4 10s to £7 ss; cows and heifers, £3 5s to £7 ss. There were sold for Mr John Grant (Temuka), 1 bullock at £8 10s; 1 at £5 15s; 1 cow at £8 15s; 1 bullock at £6 ss, and 2 heifers at £6 12s 6d. Fat Sheep—A large entry, 2626 being penned, 2;>o being merinos. The demand was by no means brisk, the supply being in excess of trade requirements, and prices were much lower than those obtained at last week’s sale. Best crossbred wethers sold at 17s 6d to 19s 9d ; medium, 14s 6d to 16s; light, lls 6d to 13s; best crossbred ewes, 16s to 18s; ordinary, lls 3d to 14s 6d. Fat Lambs —136 yarded, nearly all prime quality, though some lots were rather small. All found buyers under brisk competition at prices ranging from 12s 6d to 7s 6d. Pigs—Only 168 penned. Suckers sold at 4s Cd to 13s 9d; slips, 13s to 16s; stores, 17s to 20s; porkers, 21s to 265; baconers, 30s.