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Temuka Leader, Issue 2286, 28 November 1891, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

DUNEDIN PRODUCE MARKETS. The following is the report for the week ending Wednesday : Wheat; Market has inquiry : prices are firm. Mood samples are very scarce. Prime wheats, 4s lOd to ss; other good milling sorts. 4s 6d to 4s Bd. Fowls’ wheat, good whole, 4s to 4s 3d. Onions, scarce, £lO to £l2. Barley, malting, 3s to 3s 3d, milling, 2s J4d Jto 2s 6d; feed, 2s to 2s 3d. Pearl barley, £l3. Oats, best milling and seed, Is 7d to Is 8M; bright plump feed range from Is 7d to Is 8d ; other sorts, Is 5d to Is 6d —all sacks extra, off trucks, and ex Store. Flour, roller, £l3 f.o.b. Timaru ; stone, £l2 ss. Oatmeal, £Blos to £lO 10s. Bran, £3 ; Sharps, £4. Potatoes, 30s per ton; good quality wanted. Pigs, 140 ft) to 160 ft), well fed, 2Jd to 2fd, and scarcely any buyers at that low figure ; large sizes not saleable ; hams, 7d ; bacon, sd. 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 7 id; fresh plentiful. Eggs are getting scarcer. Honey, 5d per ft). Cheese in demand; new Akaroa are coming to hand ; Factory, sjd ; dairy, sd. Grass seeds. —Ryegrass, 3s 6d to 5s 9d; cocksfoot, 4fd to sid per lb. Sheepskins. —At auction on Tuesday, butchers’ best halfbreds and crossbreds brought 6s to 6s 6d; medium to good, 5s to 5s 9d ; inferior, 4s 6d to 4s 9d ; best merinos, 4s 6d to 5s 3d; light to medium, 3s 6d to 4s; lambskins, 8d tolslOd; pelts, 8d to Is 3d; country dry fullwolled crossbreds, 4s 6d to 6s ; inferior to medium, Is 9d to 4s; medium, proportuuate rates. Hides. —Prime heavy ox are worth 2jd to 3d; medium weight (mixed cow and ox), lyd to 2d; light and inferior, Ijd to lid ; calfskins, 6d to 2s each. Tallow. —Prime rendered mutton (in shipping casks) is worth 19s to 20s; medium to good, 17s to 18s ; inferior, 13s 15s ; best caul fat, 13s to 13s 6d; rough fat 10s to 12s per cwt, DUNEDIN STOCK MARKETS. At the Burnside Market on Wednesday the following business was transacted: — Fat Cattle. —240 in all were penned. Few if any cattle were turned out unsold except perhaps one or two lots from the Taieri —butvalues generally were from 15s to 20s per head below those of the previous week. The quality of the beef on the whole was fully up to the standard of late sales, for although there were not, many extra heavy cattle, the major portion were good even weights, and well grazed. Best bullocks brought £8 to £9, and good average cattle £7 to £7 15s light, £5 15s; inferior lots store rates cows and heifers in proportion. Fat Sheep.—lo 29 yarded, of which some 160 were merino wethers, about 250 to 300 shorn sheep, the remaining crossbreds in the wool being about equally divided as to sexes —perhaps rather more wethers than ewes—and showing the : usual variation of quality. Taking the ' usual average of the sale, prices were from Is to Is 6d per head lower than last week. For one pen of the best wethers in the yards 18s Od was paid, but the general rates for good to prime lots were - from 16s to 17s ; medium weight wethers 15s to 15s Od ; light, 13s Gd to 14s; best I ewes, 14s 6d to 16s 3d ; light to medium, T i2s 6d to 13s 6d; merino wethers, 9s 6d to i 13s 3d ; a pen extra heavy to 15s; shorn

sheep, 9s to 12s 6d—the .Tatter selling better in proportion than sheep in wool.. Fat Lambs.—The entry consisted of 513. There was a spirited demand and a capital sale for all lots, prices showing an advance of quite Is per head on last week’s quotations. Good tq prime lines brought lls to 13s —a few single lambs of exceptional weights realising 14s, and in one instance 16s; medium to good, 9s to 10s 3dJ; inferior, 8s to 8s 6d. Pigs. Bacon pigs brought 24s to 28s 6d, porkers 18s to 225, well-grown stores 16s to 19s, slips 13s to 15s, suckers 9s to 12s 6d. sphere ,was no" demand for fat pigs-' ; ENGLISH AND FOREIGN MARKETS. London, Nov. 24. The wool sales opened to-day, when 1072 bales were offered. There was a full attendance of buyers, competition being spixited. There was only a slight enquiry for crossbreds, buyers being ixx favor of merinos, part of which were disposed of at 5 per cent, below prices ruling at the September series, and at the same figure. Discount rates on three months’ bills have advanced a quarter per cent. Nov. 25. The cargo of wheat by the ship Lake Superior, from Lyttelton, sold at 42s 3d. At the wool sales there was a large attendance of buyers, who complain of the slow unprofitable trade. One hundred and ninety-one thousand bales were catalogued, including 21,000 bales from the Cape. The market is frregular, and not spirited. Good merino brought from 2Jd to sd, inferior from 5d to 7£d, crossbreds from par to sd, lower than last sale. Nov. 26. The wool sales to-day were active at opening rates. The visible supply of wheat is 48,600,000 bushels. AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. Melbourne, Nov. 26. The wheat market is unsettled, owing to the operations of a syndicate. The price has advanced to 5s 6d.