COMMERCIAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2289, 5 December 1891, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

CHRISTCHURCH STOCK MARKETS,

At the Addington yards on Wednesday, the total number of stock yarded comprised 8765 sheep and lambs, 484 head of cattle, and 91 pigs. Fat Cattle —There was a fair demand for ox beef, but medium-quality cows were neglected. Best steers made from £6 to £7 5s ; medium, £5 upwards ; best cows and heifers, from £5 15s to £7; medium and inferior, £3 5s upwards. Several pens were passed out unsold. Store Cattle—About 280 head were yarded, consisting of the usual mixed description. There was a fair demand for good sorts, but indifferent sorts were neglected. Useful two and three-year-old steers made from £3 to £4, according to condition, and mixed two to three-year-old steers and heifers up to £3 10s, and yearlings up to 32s 6d. Fat Lambs —There was a good trade supply brought forward, and all were cleared, top pens making from 11s to 12s 9d, medium 8s upwards. Fat Sheep—There was a small entry,; not more than sufficient for trade re-; quirements. Best pens of crossbred wethers made from 14s to 15s 2d, one pen of choice wethers making 15s 6d;; medium weights, 12s upwards ;■ top pens fat ewes, 11s to 13s ; medium and inferior, i 9s 6d upwards;' merino wethers, very prime, top pens 12s to 14s; medium and; inferior, 8s upwards. A few pens of in-; ferior sheep were passed out unsold, but a fair clearance was effected.

Store Sheep —There was a very large. entry, for which there was a fair demand; up to a limit in price. Shorn crossbred ewes, with good percentage of lambs, made from 12s to 14s 4d, and 16s for ewes with lambs given in; two-tooth cross-; breds from 9s 8d to 11s 3d, and for a very forward-condition line of . 219 cross- : breds, mixed sexes, 13s; in the wool, 1 crossbred ewes and lambs, all counted, 8s 7d, and ewes with lambs given in 18s; to 22s ; the latter having 100 per cent, of! iambs, A large line of two-tooth cross- 1 breds (shorn) were passed out unsold. i Pigs—A very small yarding, which met with a good demand. Sheepskins, Rough Fat, Hides, Calfskins, and Wool—Entry comprised 2813 sheepskins, 55 bags and packages of rough fat, and about 40 hides. There was a full attendance offellmongers, competition was good throughout, and all lots were cleared at the following prices ; Butchers’ best crossbred skins, 5s to 7s ; medium, 4s upwards; butchers’ best merinos, 4s 9dto 5s 7d; medium, 3s 3d upwards; lambskins, Is to 2s 4d. Pelts : Crossbreds, Is 4d to Is lOd; merinos, 9d Is 3d. Wool in Bags ; Crossbred, up to 7Jd ; merino, 6d ; pieces, 4d to sd; locks, Ij-d to 3d; scoured, snow-white, Is 6d. Rough Fat: Inferior, ; ?d; prime, Id to Igd. Hides and calfskins are without alteration.

DUNEDIN PRODUCE MARKETS,

The following is the report for the week ending Wednesday :

Wheat—Market has inquiry, and prices are firm. Good samples are very scarce. Prime samples, 4s lOd to 6s ; other milling sorts, 4s 6d to 4s Bd. Fowls’ wheat; Good whole, 4s to 4s 3d. 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 8d to Is 9d; bright plump feed range from Is 7d to Is 8d ; other sorts, Is 5d to ls6d —all sacks extra, off trucks and ex store. Flour—Roller, £l3 f.0.b., Timaru; stone, £l2 ss. Oatmeal, £8 10s to £lO 10; bran, £3; sharps, £4. . Onions —Scarce, £lO to £l2. Potatoes, £llos per ton; good quality wanted.

Pigs—l4olb to 1601 b, well fed, 2id 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 andwheaten),£l 10s ; hay (oaten), £3; clover and ryegrass hay, £3 6s to £3 10s.

Grass Seeds—Ryegrass, 3s Gd to 5s 9d; cocksfoot, 4fd to s§d per lb. Butter—Prime salt, nominal at 7 Id; fresh,'plentiful,

Eggs are getting scarcer. Honey, 5d per lb. Cheese is in demand. New Akaroa are coming to hand. Factory, sd; dairy, 4£d-

Sheepskins—At auction on Tuesday prices, except for butchers’ green pelts and lambskins, showed a slight decline. Butchers’ green crossbreds sold at 4s 4d to sslod; do merinos, 3s 9d to 4s'9d; do pelts, 8d to Is 2d ; do lambskins, Is Id to Is lOd; dry crossbreds, 2s 3d to 6s 7d ; do merinos, Is 9d to 5s 5d ; do pelts and lambskins, 4d to 2s sd. Hides—The market continues to be well supplied, but there is no alteration in values. For clean and well-flayed heavy hides there is a good demand, and for this class 2£d to 3d can be got. . A very large proportion of thosearriving are light and badly flayed, and command only from l£d to to 2d per lb. Tallow —The ordinary number of country consignments arriving- daily meet a ready sale to local manufacturers, who are buying freely. Prime rendered, 18s to 20s; medium, 15s to 17s; inferior, 11s 6d to 14s; rough fat, 9s to 13s 6d. dunedin Stock markets. At the’Burnside Market bn Wednesday the following business was transacted :• — Fat Cattle—l 27 head yarded, of which about half were prime beef, a few being heavy Weight, and the remainder'ranging from medium to inferior quality. Sales opened with a fairly active demand, prime beef selling rather better than last week. Medium and inferior quality, however, showed no improvement. Best bullocks sold at £8 10s to £lO 7s 6d ; medium, £5 10s to £7 15s ; light, £4 5s to £5 ss:; cows and heifers, £3 to £6 16s. Fourteen bullocks, at £8 Bs, were sold for Mr W. Grant, Timaru, Fat Sheep Only 746 penned, of which about 120 were merinos. Competition was anything but brisk, and prices on the whole showed little - or no improvement on last week’s rates. Crossr bred wethers (in the wool) sold at los 6d to 19s 6d ; do ewes, 13s 3d to 18s ; do wethers (shorn), lls 9d to 14s 9d; do ewes (do), 10s 6d to 14s 3d ; merinos, 10s 6d to 13s.

Lambs—3ol came forward, nearly all of good quality. Prices all through the sale showed some improvement, butchers competing keenly for eveyy pen. (Best sold at 10s to lls 3d ; medium, 8s 3d :*to 9s 6d.

Pigs—l2B penned,, representing all sorts except stores. Suckers sold at 6s 6d to 13s; slips, 15s 6d to 18s; porkers, 23s 9d to 28s ; baconers, 34s to 355. Competition very slack. NAPIER WOOL SALES. The Napier wool sales opened with a large catalogue; Bidding was animated, especially for medium to fine crossbreds, and on the whole prices were sligfctly better than at the corresponding sales last year. • AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. Sydney Dec. 2. So far the new tariff has not affected the quotations in the local market Wheat, chicken, 4s 6d;' milling, J ss 6d to 5s 9d. Oats, 2s 3d to 2s 4d. Maize, 2s 4d to 2s 6d. Peas, 3s 3d. Bran Is. Pollard, 10Jd. Potatoes, £3 to £4. Onions, £4 15s to £5. Butter, dairymade, 8d; factory-made, 9d. Cheese 6d to Bd. Bacon, local, 5d to 7d; New Zealand, 8d to 9d. Hams, lid to Is. At the wool sales to-day the following prices were realised : Greasy scoured, lljd to lg Jid. *