COMMERCIAL.

Evening Star, Issue 7157, 10 March 1887, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

The amount of revenue collected at the Customhouse on goods cleared to-day tor ooneumptloo was is well through in Invercargill and neighborhood. On all hands the farmers are leading in. The crops are good, and will be well secured. The refrigerating machinery taken out of the ship Lyttelton has been purchased lor LX,OOO by the New Zealand Refrigerating Company, and will be put in their works at Oatnatn. „ , Mklboursb, March 9. —The National Mortgage and Agency Company report of the local market:— Wheat is at 8s Ud to 3s UJd. prices being barely maintained. In barley there is no improvement at Ss 9d to 4s 6d. Oats : Feed sorts, tor which the market is flat, with prices drooping, are at 2s 51 to 2s 9d milling sorts are at 2s 7Jd to Ss in favor of buyers; New Zealand oats, under bond, are slow of sale at 2 Id to 2s Bd. Ryegrass is at 8s 9d to 4s 1 Jd, sales only being effected with difficulty, STOCK AND STATION REPORT. Ur Donald Stronaob (on behalf ot the New Zealand ud Mercantile Agency Company, Limited) report* lor the week ended March 0 as follows: Fat Cattle.—The market to-day was glutted, no fewer than 808 head being yarded at Burnside for the week's requirements. There were only a tew ot this number which would pass for prime beef, the greater portion being coarse interior to medium quality. Bidding was dull throughout the sales; and, except for really floe quality, prices were considerably lower than last week’s. Several pens were also turned out unsoldi Best bullocks brought L 7 lOi to L 8 Its; one pen. L9l2s 6d; ordinary to good, L 4 Se to L 7 ss; oows, from LS 2s 6d to L6los, Fat Sheep.—B,3sß were penned, nearly all crossbreds, chiefly ewes, representing all qualities. Competition for good and prime mutton was fairly active, and prices a shade higher than last week’s; white inferior and ordinary ruled about the eame. Buyers for boiling down again helped to harden the market to some extent Beat oroes-bred wethers brought 6s 9d to Bs, medium 5s 8d to 6a 61; best cross-bred ewes 6s 9d to 6s 9d, medium 8s Sd to 6s 6d; two pens merino wethers, 4s. We sold on account of Mr John Borton, Maerewhenna. 66 oross-breds at 6e 9d to 7s; Mr J Q. Buokland, Lake Waipoti, 160 ptoss-bred wethers at 6s 3d; and privately on account of Mr A. U'Lean, Waikakahl, 8,900 prime cross-bred wethers at current rates. Pat Lambs -480 were penned, as usual varying very much in quality. This being a much smaller supply than is usually to hand, bidding for good quality was active, and prices realised a shade higher, while small and inferior were not so keenly competed for XbO ran#e to-day was from 8s sd to 7» Pigs —296 were penned, comprising a variety of sorts ' Competition was only moderately active, mice's realised showing no improvement on last week’s Suckers brought 6s to 10s; slips, Us to ir.s 6d ; stores, 16s to 21s 8d; porkers, 22s to 28s; baooners, 33s to 4os. Store Cattle.— There is no alteration to note in this deacriotion of stock. A moderate demand extols for suitable cattle lor turnip-fattening, but owing to the continued low price lor fat stock the value of stores suffers in proportion. Store Sheep.—The market shows a little more animation, and although the business dona is not large considering the number offering, there is more tnuulrv chiefly for young sheep’, but it would seem U lower the selling pripe the harder it is to effect ■ales. During the week we sold privately 16,C0d, as follows --4 000 merino" wethers, aged ; 6,000 do ewes, do • 1 600 merino ewes and wethers, full mouth; 2,500 do di’ two. four, and six tooth, at current rates; and bv auction at Burnside, 770 crossbred owes, four, six, and eigbt tooth, at Ss 6d to 4a 8d; 387 crossbred wethers, similar ages, at 4s 9d. w w oo l _wo held oqr seventh sale for this season on Bakn-dav the 6th inst, at our wool stores, Lower Rattray street. All the looJ buyers wore in attendance. Competition was spirited, all top lots on the catalogue being disposed of at prices fully in advance of those realised at our lastsale. Considering that the catalogue comprised several remnants and aid lots of stragglers’ wool, the result may be considered Sitiafac-toShe3Pßkin3.-Atthe usual weekly s ilea on Monday moderate catalogues ware offered, chiefly butchers green skins, with a few country dry cross-breds and merinoes. There was a good attendance of buyers and active competition lor every lot, particularly for green skins, with a slight improvement in values Country dry oross-breds, low to medium, brought lOd th 3a Sd ; do do merinoes, Is to 3s; good to best crossbreds. 8s 4d to 4s 9d ; do do merinoes, 3s 8d to 4s 4d; drv pelts. Id to 6i : butchers’ green oross-breds, Is 5d Is 7d, Is 94. Is lid, 2s Id ; do do merinoes, Is 2d, Is sd, Is 7d : lambskins, 2s H, 2s 3 i,2s 6d, 2s Bd. Riobit-skins. —The market in the meantime is (iiwuwt at a standstill. Although odd lots still con. tinne to come forward they are of little Import. Any lots offering, however, are readily taken up by the local dealers at prices comparing favorably with those obtained in the London market. Hides.—An active demand exists for both local and shipping requirements, and the market firm. All descriptions are readily disposed of at about late quotations, heavy weights (if In good condition) a shade higher. Quotations for this week arc ns follows ; - For slippy and bulls’, IJd to 2d; light, 2id to 2«d; medium, 2}d to BJd; heavy, and free from offal and outs, in sound condition, Sjd to 4£d per lb. Tallow.—Well-rendered good-colored mutton tallow * is in demand for shipment, but suitable parcels for this purpose are not obtainable, while a (air supply of mixed and medium is on band, which is only suitable tor local consumption; and the demand (or these qualities being only moderately active, there is no improvement to record in prices, which remain about the same as last week—viz.: For Inferior and mixed, 10s to !2»; mediqm, ISstolBs; goodto prime, Ufis tolfls’ roughfat,ilnferior6sto7s,medtam-Ssto fls; nurt mutton, 10a to llspet owt “ ;; VArain-Wheat': The deliveries of the new crop hitherto baye been very slight, hub at the same time for rfauirements. Last week s prices still ronthrae flrrmbut in the event of heavier supplies mmtnvlnto the. market in the absence of a demand l.li,«nS whioh is hardly likely to set in at prefer shipmsnV . present aspect of the Home bo *hardfy possible to prevent prices market, it wm m rth " r I | o ierior and fowls’wheat from receding still funner. . as much ttpd i tnsoani 84 8d to B(jidggf% paps >a (hade, more red go oigAtn 3jum to good, 8a 4« to 8s 6d: wheat to 8s ix (ex store, bags weighed io).-OMS. short supplies a better demand to more apparent, both shippers and millers are meantime the deliveries; are a « Of requirements. Buyers, however, are, limited to apw and although a much larger business could he done at toe present level of values, evidently now exceed, these limits. We quote JjW}*'wS roiUlng'oate, lsß}d to ls9d; bright stout toedjlaJW to Is 8d; medium, Is fld to le 7d; Inferior,Jto 8d to le 6d(ex store, bags weighed In).— Battoy : Thereto an active demandior shipping, but prices offered aw SSt by any means tempting, and as very little, Sr„i of the new crop to to hand, the ILJiSi transpiring to unimportant. Nea ly all iftSi mSteters are supped,lor the present, ® W W extent Inflow

weeks in the absence ol sales. Quotations are nominal. Best malting, 8s to 3s 8d ; medium, 2s 9d to 8s; feed and milling, 2? 8d to 2l 8d (ex store).— Ryegrass Seed: There is some inquiry (or export, bat very little business results; and, in the absence of any local demand, the market continues quiet Cocksfoot Seed: There is no improvement in the tone of the market (or this seed. Potatoes.—The market is over-supplied, and sales difficult to effect at over 40s (or Derffents. Kldnejfi unsaleable.