SUCCESSFUL SHEEP SALE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2330, 15 March 1892, Page 4

SUCCESSFUL SHEEP SALE.

Oamaru, March 12. At Waimate yesterday Mr Burbury, on behalf of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, sold for Mr A. Hayes, of Centrewood, 11,844 sheep, which brought the best prices ever recorded in South Canterbury. Two-tooth crossbred ewes brought 14s 6d; 2-tooth crossbred store wethers, 13s; crossbred store lambs, 9s 2d. Buyers attended from all the districts between Christchurch and Invercargill. AUSTRALIAN MARKETS, Sydney, March 11. Butter—Dairy lid, factory 13d. The total quantity of wool sold during the past year in New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia was 634,000 bales, valued at between six and seven million sterling. ENGLISH AND FOREIGN MARKETS. London, March 11. Three months’ bills, 1 £ per cent. New Zealand 4 per cent, inscribed stock, 1031; 31 ditto., 931. New Zealand long-berried wheat, 44s 9d, market quiet. Lamb has risen Jd, but frozen meat is otherwise unchanged. New Zealand hemp is in moderate demand. Common kinds have declined 15s; superior sorts are unchanged. Kauri gum is in fair demand. Inferior quality has declined, but well scraped selected sorts are firm, and fine pale is dear. For the latter £l2 is the quotation. Fine hard scraped, £8 10s. Adelaide wheat, 445, quiet; Victorian, 435. German sugar, 14s 3d; Java ditto, 15s 9d, flat. No, 1 best Scotch pig iroa,f.o.b., in the Clyde, 40s 7ld.