COMMERCIAL

Otago Witness, Issue 2237, 14 January 1897, Page 27

COMMERCIAL

The Marlborough Express knows of a run in the district where the clip has increased nearly 150 bales in the past four years, and in, weight by 14 tons, and this in spite of the fact that 5200 acres have been sold to the Government during that period. The lambing lait season was 11,900 lambs from 18,800 owes ; of the ewes 6000 were merinos. The grain crop 3 throughout the Tokomairiro district (says the Bruce Herald) are looking very 'Well just now. Most of the wheat crops are shotted, while a short spell of warm weather is all that ia needed to bring all the paddocks on to the same stage. From the look of the crops on the plain there is promise that the wheat yield this t-eaion will be one of the highest on record Oats on the other hand do not look ©early so well. Messrs Fleming and Hedlet submitted to auction on Saturday Mr James Richmond's farm of 85 acres. The farm is situated at Pukeuri, and is improved. fho purchaser woe Mr Robert Moore, and the price paid £12 Is per acre, which i« considered very satisfactory. — North Otago Times. The farmer/* in the Mat aura district ara dreading a shortage in the oat crop. There is, $ays the Standard, only an odd paddock to be seen that can be called a really good crop. The straw will be abort, »nd even with a substantially heavy car, it will not make up the deficiency that exists in many of the oat paddocks. * Had it not been for , the recent rains things would have been much vrotao. The light land has suffered moat. The cold non-growing weather of November and the I dry weather of December has had a serious effect. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company on Monday coneigned 50 two-tooth Romuey rams to North Canterbury and 18 to Waimea Plains on account of Mr James Gardner, ! of Biichwood. The northern purchase was the result of the buyer having seen and admired some of the 320 Birchwood rams sold to various stockowners in the same district last year, and it must be very satisfactory to Mr Gardner to find tbat thf cave and attention he- has given to his flock is making it a* celebrated in the north as it has long been in the southern districts.—Southland Times. A gentleman who drove down from Maniototo Plain by way of the Naseby road (says the Oamaru Mail) gives a lamentable account of the crops in Central Ot*go, which are literally burned up, and present the appearance of a dry, withered growth quite useless for cutting. It is not uutil the hills • are crossed that the crops begin to look better, and even on this side of the range they are not by any means up to the average of previous years. A little rain would be a veritable godsend at the present juncture. The weather at Waimate is reported to be still hot and dry, ancl the grass is burned up. Early wheat looks fairly well, but the late sown wheat avd the oats are said to be past hope even if rain were now to come. In the Hakateramea district sheep have already beaa turned into a, lot of the oat crops. ; "~WOOL IMPORTERS INTO LONDON. \ Messrs Dalgety and Co. have received the fol--' lowing cable advice from their head office, dated London, January 6, stating that they again head the list of importers of wool into the London market, as the following particulars will Bhow :— Bales.

AUSTRALIAN COMMERCIAL. Sydney, January 13. Wheat : Chick, 3s 6d to 3s 9d ; milling (new), 4s Sd. Flour : Californian, £11 10s to £11 15s ; Manitoba, £13 to £13 ss; local, £12 10a to £13. Oats : Prime feeding. 2s 4d ; medium, 2s 3d. Maize (scarce), 2s. Barley : Cape, 2s to 2a 3d. Bran and pollard, 7Jd each. Peas : Prussian blur, 4s 9d. Potatoes, £2 to £2 10s. Onions : Victorian (primej, £5 10s to £6. Butter : Dairymade, 6d to 6Jd ; factory, 7d to "Jd. Cheefc : New Zealand, 4d to 4id. Bacou, sid to 6id. Hams : New Zealand, 9d. Melbourne, January 13 Wheat, 5s 6d to 5s 6Jd. Flour, £13 7s 6d to £14. Oats: Algerian (feeding), 2s l§d to 2s- 3d; milling. 2s 3Jd to 2s 4Jd. Barley -. Capo, 2s 6d ; malting, 4s b'd. Maize (firm), 4s. Bran, 9d. Potatoes, £7 Onions, £5 10s. Adelaide, January 13. Wheat (firm), 5s 6d to 5s 7d. Flour : Rollermade, £13 10*. Oats : Scout white, 3s 6d. Bran, Is Id. Pollard,. Is 2d.

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