COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1447, 3 August 1883, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

CANTERBURY MARKET, WOOL, SHEEPSKINS, HIDES, FAT, AND TALLOW, The continued inolemenoyof the weather not only restricted the entries at the various 'dep6ts. but had the effect of making the buyers even more careless than was expected; iu fact.-.the couipaii•ion was quite the reverse of the preceding week, One fellmonger stated that at tho moment ho had £IBQO worth of wet wool on hand, and withdrew consequently from competition. No doubt the late unpropitious weather will cause aomo of our tradesmen to devise some scheme of drying by machinery, whon tho elements will not so much control the markets as at present. Our entries for the day comprised' 2902 shoepshins, 135 oxhides, and 146 packages of rough fat (Mr Michael Sindholme's line of 2600 sheepshins being withheld from catalogue until next Thursday), In.croßsbreds our top price was 5s 6d fiaoh; many lines of our best butchers' ranging from 4s Bd, 4s 9d, 4s lOd, 4s lid, 6s, 5s 8d to 6b sd, and 6s 6d each; while for merinos, 4s Id, 4s 3d, . 4s 4d, 4| Jsd, Id 4s lid'eaoh ruled our values, We notice that the majority of our batchers this tat week have been killing light weight half-bredi, the mutton of which finds such favor with the con- '

smuors. Our country dry akina sold wbII. Tho .liokeby consignment realised fifd per lb'. Hides—We have to report a groat improvement in the flaying, ami though prices remain unalterod, still the satisfaction of buyers was .so warmly expressed, that for the hdavior sorts wo shal|.ere,iongbe able to quote arise in values per lb. Rourli fat soli well throughout at fully last week's values, Lund—Nothingspooial has passed through our office, yot as a sample of thp.koeu disposition to purchase comfortable properties' near town, we have heard of a sale of 6G acres to an Aii.h. .lian gentleman, for £6OOO cash, This propm iy is in tho Fondalton district.