COMMERCIAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2747, 6 December 1894, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

ASHBURTON MARKETS. There was an entry of about 4000 sheep at the Ashburton Yardson Tuesday. The attendance Was small, and the following prices were realised : —Fat crossbred ewes, from 7s to 9s 3d ; fat merino ewes, from 4s lOd to 6a 6d ; fat crossbred four-tooths, from 9s 3d to 12s 4d; store merino ewes, with fair percentage of lambs, 7s to 7s 6d in the wool; shorn do, all counted, 4s lid; shorn crossbreds, all counted, 5s 6d to 6s 9d ; hoggets, 7s 9d, 8a 6d, 8s 9d to 10s. Cattle -fto alteration. MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL London, December 1. Tallow is unchanged. The English wheat market displays a strong tone, but prices are unchanged. The Continental market is steady, but the American is changing a little for the better. Cargoes of Victorian wheat, exBroomhall and Soudan, Bold at 25b IJd ; ex the First Bismarck, 255. The quantity of wool catalogued to date is 97,800 bales, of which 81,800 were sold. Butter, choicest Australian, 112 s. A fewjots realised 1255. The entire stock of the new season's butter was sold. Dec. 2. The Daily Telegraph says that colonial butter is taking the place of Danish in the English market. The Statist announces that it is expecuted that France will issue a loan of £40,000,000 early in 1895. It is said that owing to the Transatlanic Steamship Company refusing Gerard's demand for £BOOO, the company lost £60,000. Gerard is the man who has just been arrested on a charge of blackmailing by means of his paper. Dec. 3. Mr Burney Young advises joint action by the Australasian colonioß to exhibit produce at the principal agricultural shows in England* The bulk of the batter ex lonic realised from 86s to 100 s per cwt. Some of the choicest parcels brought 110 a. The report of the Land and Loan Company of New Zealand shows a lo?s of £15,000 on the year's workings, chiefly due to depreciation in the value of sheep. The wheat market is 6d dearer. 14,000 quarters of South Australian wheat, to be shipped in December and January, has bmn sold at 255. 13,000 quarters of Victorian, to be shipped in December »rv, and 10,000 quarters of and J ami. ruary shipment sold January and j?v.. * at 25s 3d. At the wool sales medium catalogs were offered. The bidding was fair, aud prices were maintained. Mr Tnglis, of Sydney, is lecturing at Catdifl' aud other centres, in favour of the use of colonial meat and butter in preference to foreign produce, on the ground of the value of colonial supplies in the event of war. Melbourne, Dec. 3. The Agricultural Department is satisfied with the price of Is per dozen received for the recent shipment of eggs to London. Dec. 4. The Premier has cabled to tho AgeutGeiiural to allay the fears of bondholders in connection with the recent fall of stocks, which the Government attribute to some temporary market influence rather than to any political cause. Ottawa, Dec. 3. Mr Clark, who represented Canada at the World's Fair iu Chicago, leaves Vancouver for Sydney on the 16ih iust, on behalf of the Dominion, in connection with the extension of trade with the colonies.