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New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 11, 12 July 1873, Page 5

COMMERCIAL.

Messrs Wright, Stephbnson and Co. report, for the woek ending 28th June, as follows :—: —

Fat Cattle. — The supply was a full one 90 head being yarded, mostly of good quality. Our sales comprise 1 32 head. Bullocks brought from £5 15s to £8 ss, aud cows £5 to £11 7s 6d; equal to 24s per 100 lbs for good quality, and 20s for middling We also sold privateJy, for delivery end of this month, 20 head at 25s per 100 lbs, and for delivery on station, 150 head at. 203 per 100 lbs. Fat Sheep.— 27o were penned, which we sold as follows :— l5O halfbreds, prime quality, at 17s, and 120 merinos, middling quality, at 9s 6d. We quote prime quality mutton 3d per Ib. Store Cattle.— We have buyers for bullocks, 3to 5 years old, and have placed iQ head bullocks and mixed cattle. We quote bullocks £3 15s to £i 103 ; mixed lots, £2 10s to £3 ss. Store Sheep.— The transactions effected have been few. We sold 300 merino wethers, 6 and 8 tooth, at 7s 9J ; 250 cross-bred wethers, at 12s. We quote merino wethers, 7s 6d to 7s 9d ; do ewes, fullmouthed, 6s to 7s j cross-bred wethers, 12s to 13s ; do ewes in lamb, 16s to 188 ; lambs, 9s to 10s.

Country Sales.— W« held oui> monthly sale at Palmerston, on Thursday, 3rd instant. A fair amount of stock was brought forward, but buyers did not appear free in operating. Fat cattle°brought 22s per lOOlbs ; stores, in good condition, £3 10s to £4 per head j merino, ewes, culls, 3s. On Friday we held our monthly sale at Waikouaiti. The attendance was good, and nearly all the lots found purchasers Fat cattle brought £5 to £7 per head 5 mixed store do, £2 10s to £3 \oa ; dairy cows, £5 to £6. Horses.— The demand for draught stock has somewhat slackened. Good Coaching Colts, 4to 6 years old, are in request. We sold at

our yards, on Saturday, on account of Mr John Trestrail, 24 head of heavy draughts, at from £27 10b to £56. We quote first-class draughts, £50 to £60 ; medium ditto, £25 to £30 ; good hacks and light harness horses, £20 to £25 ; medium ditto, £11 to £14; light and inferior, £3 to £6. s Wool, Sheepskins, <fee— We held our usual weekly sale, at which there was a fair attendance of buyers. We disposed of a few bales of wool, and about 1000 sheepskins, and 80 hides, at about late rates. \V6 quote station skins, Is 6d to 3s ; full-woolled, 5s to 5s 6d ; green skins— half-breds, 3s to 3s 6d ; merinos, 2s 3d to 2j lOdj hides, 18s od to 268. Grain. — Wheat continues in fair request, and really good samples are saleable at 5s 6d per bushel ; middling ditto, 5s per bushel. Oats are in rather better supply, and may be quoted at 4s 6d per bushel for milling ; and 4s 3d to 4s 4d for good feed. Messrs Dbivbb, Siewabt, Am> Co. report for the week ending 9th July : — Fat Cattle.— OnJy 40 head of cattle were yarded to-day, and being of fair to good quality, realised a slight advance on late quota* tions. At the yards we sold 36 head, and 20 head privately. We j quote prime beef at 25s per 100 lbs ; medium about 20s por 100 lbs. Fat Sheep. — The only lot penned- was 100 cross-breds. Heavy weights and prime quality brought 17s each. A portion of the trade are short of supplies for the week ; but this is only temporary, as oneor two large lots are oh the road to town. Prime cross-breds are saleable at 3i per lb, and merinos a shade less. Store Cattle. — There is an increasing demand for quiet steers anddairy cows at 75s to 905,, and 50s to 70s. We have sold, subject toapproval, about 500 in various lots. Store Sheep. — Transactions in this description of stock continue very limited, nominal quotations being, cross-bred wethers, 12s to 13s ; ditto ewes in lamb, 15s to 17s 6d ; ditto lambs, 9s to 10s. Merino wethers, 7s to 7s 6d ; ditto ewes in lamb to long wool rams, 6s l 6d to7s 6d. We h^ve sold a few small lots, in all amounting to 1000, and' have for sale 10,000 merino wethers and ewes from one of the best flocks in the Province. Wool. — The advices per cable to hand per Albion at the Bluff today report wool unchanged, with a brisk Continental demand. In our local market there is very little business doing. At auction to-day we disposed of a few bales fellmongers wools, at from Is Id for inferior, [ to 20£ d for fair scoured. Sheepskins. — At our sales on 3rd inst. and to-day, there was a good attendance of buyers and fair competition, and with one or two exceptions all the lots offered were sold— comprising about 2000 skina at from Is 9d to 5a 8d for station skins, and from 2s 3d to 2s lOd for butcher's green v erino skins, and 3s to 3s 3d for cross-bred do Hides. — On 3rd inst. we sold about 50 at 18s to 23s 6d, or equal to about 5d per lb. To-day we offered about 100, but there wasslight competition, and all wore held over. Tallow. — At auction to-day we disposed of 37 casks, inferior chiefly. Lower qualities fetched 27s ; medium, 29s to 31s ; and fairmutton 32s 66 to 33s per cwt. New Zealand Hemp. — Advices per cable are again unfavourable, and our market continues exceedingly dull, there being no enquiry forthe fibre. Tew is in better demand for local wants, aad is freely saleable at L 5 10s per ton. Grain. — Wheat has altered but little, "but if anything it is firmer. Quotations, &s 3d to 5s 6J. Oats are in fair request for local consumption at 4s 2d to 4s 3d for feed, and up to 4's 6d for good milling samples.