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New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 174, 28 July 1876, Page 5

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HMb. Henb? Dbivee, on behalf of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, reports as follows for the week ending July 26, 1876:— Fat Cattle.— lso head were yarded to-day, and prices realised were about the same as last week. Best bullocks brought from £12 10s to £16 ; cows, £9 to £14 10s, oz equal to 37s 6d per lOOlbs for prime quality. We bare sold at auction 30 head, and privately 125 head at £14, the latter from Tumai estate. Fat Sheep. — 2,000 came forward, chiefly good cross-breds. About 1,509 found buyers, balance being held over. No improvement in price can be reported, sheep being difficult jot disposal at satisfactory prices. Best cross-breds brought from 12s 6d to 15a, or equal to 3d per lb. We have sold 500 during the week. Fat Calves. — 10 penned, apd sold from 25s to 70s. Store Cattle are in good demand at late quotations. Store Sheep. — No change to report. Wool. — No further intelligence has reached us as to progress of the London wool sales since 27th ult., which was fully reported upon ia our last ; there is nothing doing in this market. Sheepskins. — We had a good catalogue this afternoon, which sold briskly at last week's rates. Green cross-breds, 3s 2 d ta 4s : -»«nno, 2s 6d to 2s Ud; dry skins, r-™" s >~ Jd . a » *-<*~™ * a 9d 5 merinos, 2a to 4s 3d s full -^« ul » aouble fleece, 5s 3d. Hides. — A. few only offered. No alteration in rates : 20s 9d to 21s 6d for green butchers' ; 3Ji wet salted. Tallow. — A few tons of country rendered sold. Inferior, £24 to £25 10s ; good, £28 10s. Grain. — The wheat market is unaltered in demand and prices. Choice milling is much enquired tor, and would bring over our quotations, 4s 6d to 4s 9d ; inferior, 4s to 4s 4d. Odts continues to meet enquiry for shipping, at Is 9d, feed, Is lOd to Is lid milling samples. Barley has been very quiet. Holders of the best samples are firm, knowing the quantity of really good malting out of brewers' hands is s,i small that before the end of the malting season they will obtain higher rates. Inferior samples are using up for feed and milling, at 2s 6d to 3s; secondary malting, 3s 6d to 4s ; good, 4s 3d to 4s 6d. Mb. Skenb reports for the week ending July 26, 1876, aa follows : ---The labor market is now at the very quietest season, but the reaction may soon be looked for with the lengthening day. Gojd farm and station people are always welcome, even at the dullest time, and we are never overstocked with such, or likely to be. Couples are in fair demand. The building trade is simply held back by the winter we&thei. Iron workers are slowly improving. Female servants of all sorts are in great demand. Slopmeu aud clerks should be warned of the folly of coming here ; we can raise them. Wages — Couples, £65 to £75 ; shepherds, £60 to £65 j ploughmen, £52, £53, ana £60 ; day labor, 7s, Ss, and 9s ; hotel females, 10s, 15s, 20s, and 30s ; house females, 10s, 12s, 15s, and 20j ; carpenters, 10s to 13s per day ; boys and girl*, 6s to 10s per week ; storumen and clerks, 30s to 50s ; boots, los ; cooks, 25s to 60s ; waiters, grooms, barmen, &c, 25s to 60s. Mr. A. Mekceb reports as follows for the week ending July 26, 1 876, retail prices only : — Fresh butter, in £ and 1 lb. prints, 2s 21 to 2a I 3d; powdered and salt butter, Is 8d to Is 10 J. Fresh butter is now very scarce, and the market ut present is barely supplied. Salt 1 butter is selling well, and very pleutilul. Cheese, best quality, la iii per lb ; side aud rolled bacon, Is to Is Id ; Colonial hams, Is 3d ; .English bams, Is 61 to Is Bd. Eggs very scarce, and selling at 2» 6d per doz. Messbs. M. and J. MEEXAif, G-eorge Street, report the following as the latest quotations : — Flour— Large bags, £11; small do., £11 10 i i pertoD. Oatmeal— £ll per ton. Peail bai-ley — £23 per ton. Brau— '£5 si, including bags. Pollard— £6 per ton. Chaff— £1 per ton. iiay — £3 15s per tou. Potatoes — £i per ton. Carrot* — £2 10s per ton. Wheat— 4s to 4s Gd per bushel. Barley— 4s per bus'iel. Oats — Is Si to Is 10d per bushel. Cheese— 9£d to lid per lb. Mb. J. YjszkY reports for the week ending July 26, 1876, retail: Roast beet, 61 to 8d per lb. ; boiling d0.,4d to 5d per lo.; stewing do., 4d to 6d per lb. ; steak, 61 to 9 J per lb. ; mutton, 31 to 6d per lb. ; veal, 4d to Si per lb. ; pork. Od to lOi per lb.