Commercial.

Clutha Leader, Volume II, Issue 87, 9 March 1876, Page 5

Commercial.

*■ AUCTION REPORTS.

Maclean Brothers report — Pat Caetle.— A moderate supply of 180 head were yarded for Wednesday's market, but as butchers held full stocks from the previous week only about half, or._say 70 head, found buyers at a decline on last" week's prices. Fat Sheep — About 2100 were penned, chiefly half-breds, ef excellent quality, * Fat Lambs— loo penned, and sold at 8s 6d to lis. - Stobe Cattle— On account of feed falling off. and farmers being busy with harvest, the demand for this class of stock'is scarcely so active. Store Sheep — Young merinos and four and six-tooth tooth cross-fyreds are still in active demand, but very few offering. "Wool — The sales opened with spirit, at December prices. SJGbain — In -wheat very little business has been done, 3

Wellington.— Flour, £10 to £11 10s j no wheat ; oats, 2s to 2s 3d ; maize, 3s 6d to 3s 9d ; birley, 2s to 3s ; bacon, ls ; hams, ls to ls 2d. Christchurch quotations, f.o.b. at Lyttelton : — Wheat, 4s 3d ; oats, 2s ; barley, 4a to 4s 3d ; flour, '£lo tp £11; bran, £4;. sharps, £4 10s; fcheese, 9d ; hams and bacon, 10-jd ; butter, lid to ls. " AUCKLAND.— Hour i Dnnedin, £11 ; Christchurch, £11-; Oamaru, £11 10s; bran, £4; pollard, £6 10s; oatmeal, £15; pearl barley, £22; maize, 3s 6d;oats, 2s 9d ; wheat, 4s 6d; cheese, 9d ; bacon and hams, Is ; butter, ls. SHARE REPORT. Mr Frederick H. Evans reports by telegram last night asjrollows : — Buyers— National Insurance, 24s 6d ; Standard, Us ; South British, 54s : New Zealand, 555 ; Colonial Bank, 30s; National Bank, 74s 6d; Mosgiel Woollen, 37s Gd ; Forbury Park, 400s : Albions, ss.