Trade Report.

Press, Volume III, Issue 135, 6 April 1863, Page 2

Trade Report.

1 Press' Office, Saturday night, April 4, 18G3. The grain markets arc still inactive. Millers report best samples of white to be worth ss; red 4s 6d. 1 Flour, £14 to £14 10 per ton in wholesale quantities. Bran, £7 10; sharps, £7 10. Owing to the short supply of hay the demand for bran is very brisk ; there is also a good demand for best samples of flour at our quotations. The Wild Wave left tho Heathcote wharf this week with 35 tons for Oarnaru. Oats are at tolerably brisk sale at 5s to 5s 3d per bushel. Barley may bo quoted at 5s to 5s 6d with very little doing.

Store cattle have changed hands readily during the week, and, with the exception of one or two lots, are all cleared. It is safe to quote a better sale and rather higher prices than this day week. Ono lot of second rate 6tore cattle without fat delivered on the north bank of the Rakaia realised £810 per head, and more are still enquired for. Breeding ewes and fat bullocks are still in demand ; fat wethers offered rather more freely; working bullocks a drug. Mr. W. D. Barnard reports sales at his Repository to-day as follows: —attendance good, and competition brisk for good stock. Five draught horses, from £41 to £55, average £47 each; twenty light harness and saddle horses, from £16 to £46, average, £26 lis ; one pony, £12; seven cows, from £8 to £25, average £14 lis 6d ; one young bull, £6 ; heifers, £7 7s. each. Mr. H. E. Alport reports a sale of drapery goods on Thursday last, at wliich a considerable amount of business was done, the attendance being numerous and biddings brisk. This day at market—a good attendance, and fair rates realised. Thirty-two small pigs brought from lis to 26s each; fowls, 6s 6d per couple; ducks, 5s to 5s 6d; turkeys, lis each; potatoes* £13 to £16 per ton; apples, 4d to 6d per lb ; j carrots, 5s 6d per cwt; two ploughs, £3 15s to £5; two geldings sold at £21 and £32 respectively ; a largo cart, £10. A parcel of carpenters' tools, furniture, groceries, oilmens' stores, &c., were subsequently disposed of. At the yard at the back of Parker's Hotel, Cashel-street, about 9000 feet of timber sold as follows: scantlings, 16s per 100 feet; boards, 24s por 100 feet.

Agbicultubai, and Pastouai Association. —On Wednesday a meeting of the Agricultural and Pastoral Association was held at the Town Hall at wliich it was resolved to purchase ten acres of land belonging to Mr. Smith, situated one section distant from the Town Belt, fronting on tho continuation of Colombo-street, at the price of £120 per acre, Mr. Smith agreeing to give £100 as a donation to the Society. It appears that the Association has already upwards of £200 in the Bank, and that forty life members are already enrolled, who, in accordance with tho rules, have to pay £10 each, so that tho funds of the Society arc in a flourishing condition. The possession of a piece of land on which to hold their shows is essential to success, and that chosen could hardly have been in a better situation, as it is not far from the Railway Station, to which a few years hence all stock will bo sent.

Customs' Duties collected at the port of Lyttelton during tho week ending the 28th March, 1863. Spirits . . . £150 15 10 Wines . . . 34 4 0 Ale and Beer . . 30 5 0 Tobacco . . 6 6 0 Other duties . . 48 14 8 270 5 6