COMMERCIAL TELEGRAMS.

Press, Volume XXXI, Issue 4316, 30 May 1879, Page 2

COMMERCIAL TELEGRAMS.

W-sruseros. May 29.; Mr Geo. Thomas reports produce prises as follows :—Flour-Adelaide, £14 *to £14 10s; Colonial, £910 ato £10: oats, 3s to Ss Id, ready sale j bran, 1M to Iβ; wheat, 4s to 4e Sd; hams, 9fd; bacon, 9d; cheese. 8d; maize, 4s 63, market overstocked, no sale; potatoes, £5 to £S 10s; batter, lid to 1 . Napike, Slay 29. Kr K. E. Miller reports the sale of Mr 3. G. Kinross' Matuotoria station of 14,600 acres freehold, witli 15,000 sheep, 200 cattle, and plant, for £40,000 sterling, to Mr Wm.fSaunders, of Otago. . DtnreMH, May 29. Seven thousand fonr buaored and forty-two acres of pastoral land at WaikonftiU, on deferred payment, realised £5 3a 9d per acre rental. Baral land in the same district, divided into sections, with •zees varying from. 18S to 1400 acres, fetched irom £1 to £3 ss* per acre. Thirty-six Corporation tmtfflrhw" building sections, quarter acres, were Ist- at auction at prices from £10 to £21 each per annum. ■■■■■■ ~' -■ The market report for the week endicg 29th May iaas follows:— Tat Cattle—2Ss cattle were yarded, bnt not more than 100 were let, the balance twins in only store condition. There was fair competition for good beef, really prime quality fetching from 27s 6d to 30s per lOOlbs. fat CalTes—32 were yarded, and disposed of at S2e to 30s each. Fat Sheep—Tha unusually large -supply of 3436 came to hand, all crossbred*, with the.exception of a small draft of magnificent qnality merinos from the Weihao estate, Booth Canterbury, which were gold at 9s to 9s 3d each- A draft of crossbreds from the same property fetched lQs 6d each. Store Sheep—There are buyers for ! good crossbred wethers end for crossbred ewes in lamb, but no transactions to report. Wool. —As prices offered did not come np to owner's ideas of value only a few bales changed hands. Sheepskins.—Fnll market rates were obtained. Merinos, from Iβ 6d-to 3s 6d ; cross-breds, Is6d to Ss 2dj pelts, Sd to lids 'lambskins, Is to Iβ 4d. Tallow, no demand; sto-jks heavy. Hides, 3d per lb. for pood. In the grain market wheat is in good demand, and a few prime samples are offering. Prime miffing, 3s 7d <to SslOd; medium quality, 3a 4d to3s6d. There :is no improvement In the market for oats, and from advices from Melbourne in* t to hand there appears little prospect of better prices for some time. ;~Qood samples for milling are quoted at 2s Id -to 2aid; feed, la lid to2s. For bailey there is no demand, except for the finest qnality for malting.