COMMERCIAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2271, 24 October 1891, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

CHRISTCHURCH STOCK MARKETS. At the Addington yards on Wednesday the totals yarded for the day comprised 6547 sheep, 522 head of cattle, and 183 pigs. Fat Sheep—Only a medium entry ,to hand. Competition was but brisk, and a decided drop in values took place. Prime fat crossbred wethers realised from 18s to 225. Prime freezers sold at from 16s to 18s fid; crossbred ewes in the wool made from 13s to 18s 2d; crossbred freezers, shorn, made from 12s

to 15s; crossbi’ed ewes, shorn, sold at from 11s to 15s 6d. Merino wethers, of which there was a very large entry, realised from 12s to 17s 3d.

Store Sheep—Four and 6-tooth crossbred wethers and maiden ewes realised from 15s to 15s 7d, 2-tooth making from 14s.'to- 14s fid, according to quality; crossbred ewes (sound-mouthed) made from 12s fid to 16s ; 4 and 6-tooth crossbred ewes, with good percentage of lambs at foot, sold at from 16s to 18s to 20s. Fat Lambs—-Fair entry to hand, including some fairly good sorts. Best sorts sold at from 12s to 13s ; medium do, 8s to lid; others at current values. Fat Cattle—About 160 head yarded ; biddings were fairly spirited throughout for prime steers and heifers. Prime bullocks sold at £9 to £lO 10s, lighter weights £6 10s to £8 10s; heifers £5 to £B, cows £4 to £7 10s. Veal—Fair entry. Best calves 20s to 30s, others 10s to 15s. Store Cattle—About 250 head yarded. Biddings were fairly brisk, resulting in a fairly satisfactory sale, threc-year-pld steers in forward condition sold at £5; three-year-old heifers £2 10s to £3 10s, two-year-olds 32s fid to £2 15s, yearlings 15s to 27s fid, eighteen-months-old 25s to 35s each, store cows 25s to £2 15s, bulls 20s to £4. Dairy Cattle—Small entry. Best cows sold at £5 to £6 5s other sorts £3 to £4. Pigs—Fair large entry, which met with a very dragging sale. Light-weight bacon pigs sold at 20s to 255, porkers 12s to 225, small stores 8s to 10s, larger sorts I2s to 15s, choppers 20a to 30a each. Canterbury Horse Market—On Saturday last draught and faxm horses realised from £l4 to £l9, good quality hacks realised from £l2 10s to £2O, harness horses with plexxty of good paces and style sold at from £ls to £25 per head.

DUNEDIN PRODUCE MARKETS. The following is the report for the week ending Wednesday ; Wheat—Market has enquiry ; prices are firm, and must further rise in value, owing to shortage ere new crops are to hand. Good samples are very scarce. Prime wheats, 4s lOd to 5s ; other good milling sorts, 4s 6d to 4s Bd. Fowls’ wheat; Good whole, 4s to 4s 3d. Onions, £B. Barley; Malting, 3s to 3s 3d; milling 2s 4d to 2s 6d. Pearl barley, £l3. Oats—best milling and seed Is 6d to ls-7d; bright plump feed range from ls6dto Is 7d ; others sorts, Is 3d to Is 4d all sacks extra, off trucks, and ex store. : Flour—Holler £13,f.0.b. Timaru; stone £l2 ss. Oatmeal—£B 10s to £lO 10s. Bran—£3. Sharps, £4. Potatoes—3os per ton; good quality wanted.

Pigs—l4os) to 160 ft), well fed, 3d; large sizes not saleale. Hams, 7d to 8d; bacon 5d to 6d.

Chaff up to £2 15s for prime. Straw (oaten and wheaten) 30s. 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, 5d per lb. Cheese—in demand; stocks are now getting short. Factory, 544; daily, 5d Ryegrass—3s 6d to 5s 9d; cocksfoot, 4fd to 5Jd per lb, Sheepskins—At auction on Tuesday country dry crossbreds, inferior to medium, brought Is lid to 3s 9d ; do do merino, Is 8d to 3s; full-woolled crossbreds, 4s 4d to Gs 4d ; do do merino, 3s 6d to 5s lid; dry pelts, 3d to Is 6d; bxxtchex-s’ green crossbreds, best, 6s to 6s sd; good to best, 5s to 5s lOd ; medium to good, 4s to 4s lid; greexx merinos, best, 3s 9d to 4s 9d ; medium, 2s lOd to 3s 8d ; lambskins, 6d to lOd each. Hides—There is no alteration to note in the position of the market. Late quotations are applicable, say, for 601 b hides, 2jd to 3d; 651 b and upwards, £d to Id more; medium weights, 2d to 2£d; 'light do, to Ifd; inferior-, Id to ijd per lb. DUNEDIN STOCK MARKETS. At the Burnside Markets on Wednesday the following business was transacted;— Fat Cattle were agaixx in small supply, only 122 head being yarded, principally light weights. Prices at commencement of sale showed axx improvement, but fell back towards the finish. Best quality sold from £9 to £lO ss, medium £6 to £8 10s, light weights £4 to £slos. There were sold for Mr James Guild (Trevenna), 1 bullock at £lO 2s 6d, 2 at £8 ss, 2

heifers at £8 15s, 2 at £7 7s fid, 2 at £7 10, 4 at £7 ss, 1 stag at £5 7s 6d. Fat sheep.—only 1038 penned, of which 150 were merino wethers, the balance crossbreds principally good wethers. Prices did not show any improvement notwithstanding the small entry. Best wethers brough 17s6dto 20s 3d ; medium, 15s to 17s 6d; best ewes, 15s to 17s; medium 12s 6d to 14s ;■ best merino, from 15s 3d to 14s ; medium 13s to 30s. Fat lambs.—llß penned, principally light and inferior qtfAlity. Best/brought from 12s 9d to 10s 9d, second quality 10s to Bs. Pigs.—Only 66 of all sorts came forward, principally stores and; Buckets. For the former there was a good demand. Porkers sold from 26s to 245; stores, from 20s to’ I7s; slips, 12s 6d to 10s; and suckers, from 9s fid to 7s 6d. No baconers forward. : AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. Sydney, Oct. 21. Wheat; chick scarcer, 4s milling, up to 6s 6d J New Zealand, ss. Oats, feeding. Is lOd to 2s : seed, 2s Id. Maize, 2s 3d to 2s 4d. Peas, 3s 3d to 3a fid. Bran, IOJd to lid. Pollard, lOd. Potatoes, New Zealand, £3 to £3 ss; Circular Head, £4 10s. Onions, £4 6s. Butter, dairy-made, 9d. Cheese, sjd to 7d. Bacon locally cured, fid to 7d : imported, 7d to Bd. Melbourne, Oct. 21. In the wheat market there is but' little doing and prices are nominal at 5a 6d to 5s 7d. Flour, stone-made, £l2 5s to £l3; roller-made, £l4. Oats, Calcutta, Is 9Jd to 2s ; stout, 2s 6£d to 2s Bd. Barley, Cape, 2s 2£d. Peas, 2s 4jd. Bran, B£d to lid. Adelaide, Oct, 21. The wheat market is quiet at 4s 9d to 4s lOd. Flour is also quiet: .stone-made, £lO 10s to £ll ; roller-made, £ll 5s to £ll 15s, Oats, New Zealand prime feed in bond, 2s 3d to 2s 4d. Barley, Cape, 2s 9d to 3s 3d : English malting, 3s 6d to ss. Bran, Is l|d, Pollard, Is l£d. ENGLISH MARKETS. London, Oct. 21. The total quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,828,000 quarters, and for the Continent 2,112,000 quarters. Owing to expected large arrivals of gold, money is declining. In open market for three months’ bills 2f per cent, is the rate. The visible supply of wheat in America is estimated at 41,900,000 bushels. ;