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the Waikato Times Office, Wednesday. MARKKT KKPORTS. Till-: Now Zetland li Mn aru! Mercantile Agency Company (Limited) report under date: — (JIIUIHTCIIUKCII, January — 'V(Mil : Tliuru in no news regarding this staple muco mir last report. Shearing is still Roing on 1.1 uveiy diruction, tli"'it;h in tho buck cmutry somewhat retarded by showers t,'i it would bo very welcome on tho plains 1 luyurs are bavins a busy lime travelling from place to place to ulluud tho vaii.ma 1 .c il sale, and n■> d"iibt will muster boru in inrc.! mi .fann iry '£1, wben we shall kubmit linr largest ca'alopra nf the season Already nn'irly 2000 bales are advised its » iming to store for that sale. Priced catalogues tu '.land from London, per San ! r.incisco mail, do not show satisfactory t -ults, awl in mir we n"t« * svornl comt>lailit< the excessive ■ lumping to which swno wools have been, s objected at I'ort Lvttelton. This is a in .ttar demanding immediate eoriec'ion in t.'io interests of all concerned—Wheat: J'.miness has been quiet during the week, and thero is no now feature in the market tu note.—Oats: Firmly held for full prices, ),ut buyers do not respond to the advance in quotations. The showers which have fallon since our last were, unfortunately, too lata to materially benefit tho crowing crop, which is now certain to be much below an average one in this province, though large supplies are available from the South. — Dairy produce: Butter, (id to ; clieise, 3d to -Id por lb. Dunkdis'i January 7. —Wool.—Since our last there is no change of any moment to record. Supplies are coining into store daily for the next sales, when some welllniown choice clips of both merino and crossbred will be submitted, and there is every appearance of a full attendance of buyers being present. Grain. —Wheat: There is a moderately fair demand for all classes of wheat, hut morn especially medium to good and piime milling white velvet, which .seems to bo low in stock; and any lots of this class offering in milling condition could be placed at l ite em-rent rate*. _ The business done, however, is not extensive, thedemand being confined to local millers' exigencies, which are not very pressing ; still, owing to the small supplies in first hands, tho market is firm, and hardly likely to become weaker before tho now grain is to hand, ttats; Locally there is no improvement in the position, and the chief business passing is i.-i tho placing of the few small arrivals coming to hand from day to day. Old stocks are almost entirely out of agents' hands, but there is a considerable quantity still lying in store, which will have to be cleared out before prices aro likely to further advance. .Kven now buyers are not quite so keen to operate at the prices obtaining during tho past two or three weeks, and only that there aro so few ottering now it is questionable if late rates could bo maintained.—Hairy produce : Tho market continues very siuggish for both cheese and butter, in respect to the latter especially. Prime salted, in Pond's boxes, slow sale at (id to 'al ; medium almo-it unsaleable ; prime factory made cheese medium size, in shipping condition, dull at Id to l.fd per lb.- -Flax : The market is barely supplied, mure especially with bright and properlydressed parcels, for which wo have buyers at late quotations, which continue firm ; medium to common and strawy parcels can also bo placod when in shipping condition. \Vo quota for oxtra bright well dressed, tl!) to £20 5s ; medium to good, £15 to .fclS ; coarse and strawy, £10 to £lo per ton.