COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume III, Issue 126, 1 October 1875, Page 5

COMMERCIAL.

Mr. Heket Dbivek, on behalf of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, reports as follows for the week ending September 29 :—: — Fat Cattle. — 140 head were yarded for the weekly sale, and all sold at prices ranging from £8 10s to £17 for bullocks, and £7 to £15 for cows. About one-half the number offered were ordinary to medium quality, Any really prime pens brought fully our late quotations, say, about 45s per 1001 b., while medium to ordinary did not bring more than 30s, owing to the large number of this sort offering. At the yards and privately during the wjek we have sold 350 head. Fat Calvei. — Only a few were yarded, and brought extreme rates. Fat Sheep. — About 1,600 wore penned, a large proportion of which were sold at from 16s 6d to 19s 6d for best quality cross-breds j ordinary, from 10s to 15s, or equal to 4d per lb. We sold 500 at above rates, Store Cattle. — Buyers are very plentiful for well grown, well-con» ditioned cattle at from"£6 103 to £8 for bullocks, and £4 10s to £5 10i for cows. We have sold several small lots at the above rates. Store Sheep. — We have no transactions to report, nor do we anticipate any business of importance will be done until after shearing 1 . Wool. — p or Itingarooma we-bave telegram from our London office dated 15th September, advising progress of wool sales as under : — Up to date 154,000 bales have been sold. Market easier for lambs and crosi-breda. The principal decline in New Zealand wool has been in crossbred, medium and inferior greasy. Seedy and burry wool* neglected. Sheepskins. — At our weekly sale last Thursday pricei were well maintained. Green cross-breds brought 5s 6d to 63 Id; merinos, 4* 2d. Hides were well, competed for ; prices fully maintained. We sold medium wet salted at 17s to 21s 6d ; green, 20s to 21s. Tallow. — By our London telegram prices have advanced considerably. Mutton quoted .£4B ; beef, ,£47. Our local market will no doubt be influenced by these advices. We offer some country lots to-morrow at 2 o'clock. Grain. — Wheat continues in fair demand at 4s 6d to 4s 7d fov good to superior milling; inferior, 4* 3d; fowls' feed, 4s. Oats are very dull' at 2s 7d to 2s 8d for good feed; milling, 2s lOd. Melbourne market is a little improved, to which port we are shipping some 6,000 bags on growers' account. Barley is unaltered in value; transactions for this season being pretty nearly closed, quotations are nominal — 5s 6d to 6s for malting' j grinding, 4s to 4a 3d. Mr. Sxe:ne reprrts for ihe week ending 29th Sept., as foliowr r— It is not possible to Bay that there is . any improvement in the town department of the labour market, where'everything is still very quiet. A great many men aro looking for work ; but the country demand is as good as ever, which shows the folly of sending, or inducing, people to come hero except those who have a sin uttei ing of country experienoe. The towns always want a limited number of skilled artisans, and pay them well too; but to flood us with shiploads of tradesmen, as if we had large cities to absorb them, is a grout mistake, hurting tho intorestß of new and old chums. Late shipments eeom a decided improvement. Female servants aro very scarce. Shepherds can be got ; but Bhepherds, with , their best friend, the " collie," are very difficult to secure. Wngcs : Hotel and house girls, £33 to J632 ; useful boys and girls, from 6s to 10s and 15s per week ; ploughmen and shepherds, from £55 to £70; country couples, from £75 to £90. Hotel hands are still slack. Masons, carpenters, and bricklayers are not constantly employed as yet ; but their busy time it almost on. Clerks and Bhopmen are still very dull, but we may •afely count on new life in business circles with tho Ist of October,