COMMERCIAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2299, 31 December 1891, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

DUNEDIN PRODUCE MARKETS. The following is the report for the week ending Wednesday : Wheat—Prices are firm, good samples are very scarce. Prime wheat, 5s ; other good milling sorts, 4s 6d; to 4s Bd. Fowls' wheat, good whole, 4a to 4s 3d. Onions —Scarce, £lO. 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 Is 6d —all sacks extra, off trucks, and ex store. Flour —Roller. £l3 f.o.b. Timaru, stone £l2 ss.

Oatmeal—£9 to £lO 10s. Bran—£3 Sharps—£4. Potatoes —Old potatoes are not now saleable. New kidney, £5. Pigs—l4olb to 1601 b, well fed, 2*d to 2|d, large sizes not saleable. Chaff—Up to £3, and is very scarce; Straw (oaten and wheaten), 30s; Hay (oaten) £3. Clover and ryegrass hay, £3 5s to £3 10s.

Butter—Prime salt, 6£d per lb; fresh plentiful. Eggs are plentiful, and bad. Honey—4id per lb. Cheese in demand ; new Akaroa are coming to hand. Factory 3jd; dairy 4d. Hams and Bacon—Hams 7d; bacon, sd. Grass Seeds—Ryegrass, 3s 6d to 5s 9d ; cocksfoot, 4fd to sjd per lb. Sheepskins—At auction on Tuesday prices were much steadier. Dry skins; Crossbred, low to medium, Is 4d to 3s 6d. do medium to best, 3s 8d to 7s; merino, low to medium, 9d to 2s 3d; do medium to best, 2s 4d to 6s. Green skins. Crossbreds, 5s to 6s 6d; half breds, 5s 6d to 7s; merinos, 4s to 5s lOd; lambskins, lOd to Is 8d; pelts, lOd to ls4d. Hides—Market unchanged. Tallow —Market continues bare of all qualities, but the scarcity has not had the effect of hardening prices, which remain as quoted last week, viz—Best caul fat, £l2 to £l3 ; inferior to mixed, £9 to £ll.

DUNEDIN STOCK MARKETS.

At the Burnside Market on Tuesday the following business was transacted:—

Fat Cattle—Only 109 yarded, most of them being of good quality—some very prime. Last week's prices were not maintained. The Wanganui bullocks on an average made £7 10s Gd per head. The North Canterbury heifers also were exceedingly prime, and they were sold at an average of £7 12s per head. This week's quotations are as follows: —Prime bullocks, £8 to £9 12a 6d; ordinary, £6 to £7 15s ; light, £4 10s to £5 10s; prime cows, £6 5s to £7 15s; ordinary, £3 10s to £5 15s; aged and inferior, £2 to £3. Fat calves sold up to 30s. Fat Sheep—Only 1142 penned. Although no decline in prices took place, still the tendency of the market was distinctly downwards. Best crossbred wethers 13s 6d to 14s 6d; ordinary do, 12s to 13s; light do, 10s 6d to llsCd; prime crossbred ewes, 13s to 15s; ordinary do, lis 6d to 12s 6d ; light do, 9s to 10s 6d. There were sold for Mr John Grant (Willowbank) 60 crossbred ewes at 13s 3d to 12s 3d.

Fat Lambs—so 6 penned. Prices, generally speaking, were in favor of buyers. Best lambs sold at from 9s 6d to 12s; ordinary, 8s to 9s; small, 6s to 7s 6d. Pigs—Only 36 forward. Bacon pigs sold at from 27s to 355, and suckers from 6s to lis Gd. AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. Sydney, Dee. 30. Wheat, chick, 4s 3d to 4s Gd; new milling, 4s lid to ss. Flour, stone made, £ll to £l2; roller, £l2 10s to £l3. Oats, 2s 4d to 2s 6d. Mai?e, 2s 2d to 2s 3d. Barley, Cape, 2s 9d; English, 3s. Peas, Prussian blue, 3s 9d. Bran and pollard, lOd. Potatoes, local grown, £2 : Victorian £3. Onions, £4. Butter, dairy made, 8d; factory, 9d. Cheese, 4d tosd, Bacon, 6d to 8d; hams, New Zealand, li'fd. All these quotations are duty paid, Melbourne, Dec. SO. There is praotically nothing doing in the markets, and there is not likely to be anythinng till next week. Wheat, 4s 4d, without business. Adelaide, Dee. 30. Business is at a standstill this week, and quotations are nominal. Wheat, 4s 8d; old crop, 4s 9d. Flour, stone inade, £}Q 10s to £lO Iss; rqller £IQ 15,s to £ll ss. New qats, §s 3,4 fa 3s 4d. Barley, Cape, 2s 4d to 3s 3d; English malting sorts, 3s 8d to 4s Gd. Bran and pollard, Is Id. ENGLISH MARKETS. London, P,ec. 28. Weddel's circular cqmpjains of the quality of New Zealand frozen mutton, which it asserts is even lower than that Qf last year, whilst on the other hand the Australian and River Plate have improved.

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