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Temuka Leader, Issue 2419, 1 November 1892, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

DUNEDIN PRODUCE MARKETS,

The following is the report for the week ending Wednesday : Wheat—Prime milling sorts are not offering plentifully, 3s Id to 3s 6d ; second quality 2s 9d to 3s ; fowls’ wheat, good whole, 2s Gd to 2s 8d; medium and broken, 2s to 2s 3d. Barley—Good malting, nominally, 3s 9d; milling, 2s Gd to 3s ; feed, 2s 6d to 2s 9d. Oats —Prime milling, and good, short, bright feed, Is lid, an exceptional bright lot would fetch 2s; medium qualities from Is Gd to Is lOd, Eye Corn —2s 9d to 3s. Linseed —£11 per ton. Potatoes—lf good qualities 30s to 32s Gd ; inferior, 20s to 25s per ton. Onions Best Melbourne very scarce, £ls. Pigs—Prime quality, suitable sizes, 4d. Hams 7d to Sd ; roll bacon, 6d to 6|d ; side bacon, s^-d. Chaff —Well cut and clean heavy quality 52s 6d to 57s Gd ; other sorts from 40s to 60s. Salt butter in demand for shipping ; 8d for prime quality. Small parcels ibf local demand fetch B|d to 9d. Lard—'4Jjd. Beeswax, Is per lb. Honey, 4d for best. Cheese—Factory, 6d } Akaroa, 3fd to large size. Grass Seeds—Ryegrass, farmers’, 2s to 3s 3d ; machined, 3s 3d to 4s; Italian, 3s 9d to 4s Gd.

Sheepskins—At auction on Tuesday dry crossbreds, inferior to medium, brought Is lOd to 3s; do do merino, Is f)d to 2s 7d; full-woolled crossbreds, 3s lid to os lid; do do merino, 3s to 4s lOd; dry pelts, 4d to Is 7d; butchers’ green crossbreds—best, 5s 3d to os 6d ; medium to good, 4s to os Id ; green merinos, best, 3s 7d to 4s 2d; light, 2s lOd to 3s Gd; lamb skins, Gd to Is Id, MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL, Lonuon. October 27. New Zealand 4 per cent, inscribed stock, 1U44 : 31 per cent, ditto, 9G^. New Zealand long-berried wheat, ex warehouse, 33s Sd. Quotations for frozen meat are unchanged. The hemp market is .quiet, no New Zealand being offered. South Australian wheat, ex ware* house, is quiet at 34s 6d; Victorian, ex warehouse, Hat at 335. Oct. 28. At a meeting jn Manchester a motion favoring the introduction of the bi-metallic system was earned unanimously. The Right, lion. A. J. ilalfon* addressed the meeting in favor of the motion. The balance-sheet .of the Tyser line of steamers shows that the working of 1891 has resulted in a loss of £27,000, . The Investors’ Review admits that the reply of the Agent-General of New Zealand to the attacks made on the colony is both clever and ingenious. The vendors of butter think that farmers ought to arrange to have their shipments in London in time for the , October sales next year. St. Peteksbuhg, Oct. 27. Prior to promoting the Russian loan, the Rothschild’s demand a cessation of Russian negotiations with Germany over commercial matters.

The Cobbett-Sullivan Fight. — The American correspondent of the Otago Daily Times winds up some remarks anent this set-to as follows: —I have gathered the following from many sources : A million of dollars changed hands over the feather, light, and heavy weight championships. There were 8000 people present when Corbett thrashed Sullivan. For the three fights the gate money was 17;>.000dol. Special trains ran from New York, Chicago, Mexico, and other places, Seven hundred reporters were present. The great dailies had wires laid from the ring side to their offices. Two "ladies,” disguised as men, attempted to gain admittance. A special contingent of sports and reporters came from England. The prize money and stakes amounted to 80,000dol. In each fight the winners were barely touched ; the losers badly beaten —the great Sullivan worst of all. The sporting fraternity backed Sullivan almost to a man. They are now “ dead broke.”