BY TELEGRAPH. Sydney, 3rd January.

Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 311, 4 January 1879, Page 2

BY TELEGRAPH. Sydney, 3rd January.

tiose oranay, ras «a;jsew zeaiana wneat, as here; oats, 4s 4d; other quotations unchanged. Auckland, 3rd January. Mr.. Binney reports that business has not been very brisk during the past week, as the holidays nave interfered with it. Local millers have reduced the price of first quality flour 20s por ton. Southern produce shows an alteration in quotations :— Southern flour, £10 to £11 ; " Adelaide, £14 to £14 10s; bran, £5 to £5 10s; pollard, £5 ; maize, 5s 3d to 5a 6d ; oatmeal. 225 ; pearl barley,- 245 ; cheese (Canterbury), 7|d to 8d ; cheese (local), 6Jd ; hams and bacon (cloth), 8d; hams (olotb), 9a to lOd; hams and bacon (bare), 6d to 7d; local potatoes, £7 10s to £8; ¦ timboi-, demand beyond supply, 6s 6d for baulk kauri offered. The mills on the East Coast are eta standstill for want of rain: Cattle Market. — Mr. Buckland reports :— At T:emuera od Monday dairy cows, better enquiry, brought from £12 10b to £13 10b each for the best, fltora cattle, except quiet cowb in calf, were at lowefvalues. Fat cattle are offering in limited numbers and of better quality, the greater part brought SOb, and a few choice animate 335, per lOOlbs. For fat sheep of good quality there is no steady enquiry; wethers, 3d; ewes, from 2Jd Serlb; 200 wethers, ex Pretty Jane, averaged te ; fat and ehoioe lambs sold freely at a alight advance on last week. Best animals, lls to 14s each; inferior, from 4s. The sole of hides, skins, and wool on Tuesday was fully attended. Hides • brought 2Jd and 2s d per lb ; tallow, 20a to 28s cwt. ; pelts, Id to Is ; skins, 2a 6d to 3s 6d each; wool, in grease, 6d to 7Jd ; washed do, 9W to lOidperlh. Oamabtj, 3rd January. Notwithstanding the faot that the Beason has been more dry than usual the cereal crops are now looking remarkably well in this district. Should favorable weather prevail between now and harvest time the average yield of grain is expeoted to be higher than for years post. Considering that the grain yield in other parts of the colony, particularly in Canterbury, is not expected to be so large tbia year, the farmers here look forward t* obtaining good prices, particularly for oats. ' During the past week little business has been done in grain, and breadstuffs are at quotations as last given.