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Globe, Volume II, Issue 146, 21 November 1874, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Gloke Office Saturday. Brcadstuffs continue remarkably quiet, scarcely any exports having been made for some time past. Wheat is nominally worth 5s per bushel, but only one sale is reported during the week at that price. Stocks are particularly low, and only a hand-to-mouth trade is being done. Flour meets a fair demand for local use at £l2, for 2001 b sacks; but no shipments are being made. Oats are worth 5s (id to 5s 9d for home consumption, as the retailers are quite out of stocks. The outside demand has quite subsided, as prices have got too high to admit of shipments. Butter is offering plentifully at i)d, but buyers are cautious in operating. Cheese is enquired for as stocks of prime obi are low. New cheese is being offered at Gd, but it is not yet lit for export. Hams and bacon are worth is f.o.b. Business in the import markets has been quiet during the past week. The Waitara, from England, arrived ou the 18th instant, bringing a full cargo of general merchandise. Goods are coming to band freely from the vessels discharging in port. Wool —This season's clip is coming in freely now. Sugars move off In trade parcels, at full rates; Victorian best whites have been sold at £3O 10s to £37. The Craig Ewan, via Nelson, with cargo from Mauritius, arrived on the 15th instant, This cargo was offered by public auction yesterday; about 1700 pockets were sold at the following prices:--Yellow crystals, £33; white crystals, £34 to £35 10s. Teas move oil fairly at satisfactory rates. Hennessey's pale brandy is sold in small parcels at 10s ; good second brands are quoted at 88 to 8s 3d. Hennessey's case is dull of sale at 29s Cd to 30s. English HopsSeveral parcels have been placed at is lOd. Bottled ales and stouts meet with a good trade sale at lis 6d to 12s 6d, according to brand. Price's Belmont, candles sell freely at lid. Galvanised Iron—Several parcels have changed hands at from £34 15s to £3O. Cement meets with good sale at 22s 6d to 2.is. Woolpacks move off freelv at 4s to 4s 6d, according to quality. Fencing Wire-Several parcels have been disposed of at £25 to £27, for sizes 7 to 0. Tobacco meets with good sale ; best twist command is Bjd i.b.; aromatics, is 9d to is 10d; flat, lssd to is 6d

Messrs J. T. Ford ml Co report on the live stock market for tlie week ending Friday 20th, as follows: The new sale yards at Addingtou were opened for business on Wednesday last, ami as the public •were desirou' of tne clay being a success, they were filled to overflowing with both sheep and cattle. The number of each yarded for the day, amounted to, in sheep, say 8016, and cattle, 57!) head. The sheep comprised some excellent quality, including the prize sheep lately exhibited at our show, besides some very superior ones from the farms of Messrs J. Deans, of Kiccarton ; M. 8. Campbell, Esq, and R. J. S. Harman, Esq; in fact, we may say that the fat sheep, on the whole, was far above an average market, and the balance of stores were strong - , sound, healthy sheep. In consequence of an over supply, there was a decline in values equal to 3s per head on fat sheep, and several large lines of stores were turned out unsold. We do not, however, quote an actual fall in the price of mutton, and have no doubt but prices will rally again at our next market, and mutton can be quoted at 3d per lb and upwards; ewes and lambs at from lis (id to lis 6d; store wethers from 5s to (is 6d each, out of their wool. The cattle both fat and store were superior to any we have seen yarded for the year, and were all quitted at very fair rates, in fact equal to previous week's prices. Our sales included cross-breds on account Messrs Harman, Campbell, White, Bovey, Dodd, Clarke, Cardale, and other clients; at prices from 16s to ISs each; ewes and lambs on account of Mr Woolcott at 12s each, and a line of Merino stores (shorn) at 6s 6d, making our number sold for the day equal to 408 U, We also quitted the balance of Messrs of Southland, Lincoln rams at fair prices. It will be remembered that the sale of these sheep commenced on Saturday last at, the grounds of the Agricultural and Pastoral Association, but owing to the lateness of the hour the sale could not be finished. At this sale the result showed something over £36 each for these splendid sheep. The sheep sold yesterday at the company's yards have a remote tinge of Leicester blood in them, the Messrs Sutton having commenced with Leicester ewes in Southland some nine years ago, crossing with a puie-bred Lincoln ram. The Messrs Sutton Brothers having been engaged in sheep-breeding in Lincolnshire prior to their emigrating to New Zealand, and recognizing in this country a field where this breed of sheep could be farmed to advantage, determined upon importing both ewes and rams for the purpose of breeding sheep to suit the market. They therefore selected from the best flocks in England, with great care and judgment, the animals which, in their opinion, were best suited for this market. In the sheep brought before the Canterbury public by Messrs Sutton Bros, it has been observable that they were all of tile same type, showing constitution, size and symmetry, and growing wool which, for lustre and weight, lias not hitherto been equalled. Our sales of cattle for the week included two imported bulls, from the herd of Messrs Leney Sons, Kent, purchased expressly for the New Zealand market, and sold ou account of J. N. Cower, Esq, got by the celebrated bulls, Grand Duke of Kent and Bth Duke of Geneva. The animals were purchased by Messrs D. Gebbie and Ilcslop, viz, Charming Prince, Mr D. Gebbie, £273 : First Lord, Mrlleslop, £420. We also sold the Rev W. J. G. Bluett's pedigree cattle at the New Sale Yards, at a fair, average value, and some choice fat stock, on account of Mr Keith, at from £l2 to £lB each. Messrs H. Matson and Co report on the live stock market, &c, for the week ending 21st November, 1874. At the weekly market, held for the first time at the Canterbury Sale Yards, on Wednesday, the following stock came to hand for the week's supply, viz :—579 bead of cattle and *ol6 sheep. There was a verylarge attendance of purchasers, and, considering the large number of stock to hand, sales were made with comparative case, and nearly every line was cleared at satisfactory values. In sheep, prices varied very much, prime light weight mutton selling well, while heavy tallowy sheep and inferior mutton sold at less value per lb. In cattle, ourx'ntries comprised 47t head for Messrs John Gri<rg, John Frrgnso'i Ft. (Jnrforth, John Deans, Ladbrook Brothers, ('••<■ ■ '<'■ ncnu, John Davis, Jas. Hurse, F. M. Kick-ina.;, Carter, Henderson, Mackie, Tubman, Drayton, Townsend, Moflatt, Martin, Harris, James, aad others. We made the following sales, viz ;—Prize cattle, for Mr Ferguson, Ist prize bullock, £22, to Mr J. Morrison; l do at £l9, to Mr Rossiter; 2 do at, ,£lx per bead, to Hopkins and Co: 2 do at £ls and £l7, to Mr Weston; 2 do at £l2, to Garforth and Lee ; 1 do at £l7, to Mr Roundtree; 2 do at £lO, to Mr George Bull. For Mr S. Garforth, Ist prize bullock, £2l, to Mr George Bull; 7 head do at £0 5s and £9 10s, to Mr George Bull. For Mr Hurse. 3 head at £l4, £l4 Ins, and £ls, to Mr John Mann and Mr McKeivcr. For Mr John Deans, 1 at £l7, to Mr James Morrison. For Mr Ladbrooke, 2 head at £ls, to Mr Mann; and 4 head for Mr F. M. Rickman, at £lO, £ll, to £ll, to Messrs Hopkins, Rossitur and Weston; and also several lines of fat cattle, from £n to £ll per head. In stores we sold large numbers at from £2 to £2 7s (id, for young stock ; and £3 10s to £4 5s for 18 months and 2-year-old cattle : cows, from ft; 10s to .£n ss. In sheep our entries comprised 325 S head —for Sir Cracroit Wilson. Messrs H. F. Gray. John Deans, Henderson, W. B. Andrew, K. Wright, A. Saunders, J. Hurse, 11. Washburne, ('. Hurst. Sharp, Caslett, Dunbar. Dukes. S. Hani-', Hall, J. White, W. 11. Ferryman, Greaves, McGuiriness, Patterson, Jackson, Tisch, Radcliffe, J. !'. O'Callaghan, and others —and we disposed of the whole at fair rates (with the exception of one yard), viz, 270 cross-breds, at lis, for Sir CrauroH Wilson ; 305 cross-breds, at i2s,

12s (id, and 13s 6d : and 131 merinos at !)s, for Mr Charles Hurst, Oaklov; 301 eross-breds at 13s and l3s"6d,for MrW.B. Andrew;l3o prime Downs shorn, at 228, 30s, 32a 6il, for Mr John Deans, Iticcarton. Several small yards of first and second prize sheep, for Mr J. Hurse, from 22s (id to 26s per head; do. for Mr Henderson, from 20s to 21 s per head; 150 merino ewes at 7s. «nd 30fi cross-bred hoggets at 10s for Mr J. I'. O'Callaghan ; 50 cross-brerls for Mr li Wright, at, 12s per head; 301 merino wethers, in wool, for Mr Saunders, ai 13s (>d per head ; and numerous lines, varying from 25 to 8(1 sheep, at full rates. Fat lambs, inferior, 7s to 8s per head. First quality mutton realised from 4d to 4>d per lb ; ordinary. 2§d to 3d per lb. Special __ Ou Wednesday we held a sale of draivht stock, entile, sheep, and farm implements, on account of Mr Win. Boag, Burnside, Fendalton and Sclwvn. There was a large altendanee, including representatives irom the virions provinces. The stock was in capital condition, and there being no reserve, all live stock was disposed of We sold 28 horses at an average of £7O per head, and one hoy's pony at 10gs ; 500 cross-bred shorn hogffets at 13s; In 2-yr-old steers at .€7 15s ; 10 2-vr-old heifers. £5 15s; and a large quantity of farm implements, harness, .vc., &c. Amongst the horses, two colts were sold, one,'Burnside, a 2-yr-old, a most magnificent colt by Prince Charlie, imported, dam Highland Mary, by Wellington, which was taken by the KevW. J. G. Bluett for Mr Ormanby of Hawke's Bay, at 320 gs, the highest price as yet obtained in New Zealand for a colt of thefagC: and the other, not quite l-yr-old, hy Prince Charlie, out ot Jess, g d of Burnside, was taken by Mr Moorhead, of i.eeston, at llOgs. Also, a 2-vr-old f'lly by the same sire, realised 90gs, to go to Hawkes Bay. As this sale was of such importance, we give the result in detail. Horses—Burnside, 2 years, entire eolt, foaled 13th November, 1872, got by Prince Charlie, imported, out of Highland Mary, by Wellington, imported; clam Jess, by Prince Royal, dam Polly, out of .Jess, by Canterbury, 32ngs; Dash, ehesnut, mare, 5 years, by Napoleon, out of mare by Old Wellington, in foal to Prince Charlie, excellent worker, 80gs; Young Polly, bay mare, 5 years, by Napoleon, dam a mare got by Old Canterbury, in foal to Prince Charlie, excellent worker, fiSgS; Grace, bay mare, 5 years, by Napoleon, dam Jess, with foal at foot by Prince Charlie, excellent worker, 70gs; Darling, ehesnut mare, 7 years, by Napoleon, dam IJlack Nancy, not in foal, excellent worker, winner of four Ist prizes C. A. and P. Show, 75gs; Nelly, hay mare, aged, by Wellington, dam a mure by Old Canterbury, in'foal to Prince Charlie, excellent worker, 65»5; Diamond, hay mare, imported from Tasmania, no! in foal, excellent, worker. SOgs; Polly, brown mare, aged, dam Jess, imported, by Canterbury, imported, excellent, worker. 45gS; one brown filly, 3 years, dam Nancy, by Lofty, Nancy out of Tasmania!! mare, by Black Champion, imported. 60gs; one brown lilly.'3 years, by Lolty, dam a mare got by Old Wellington, Ougs; one bay filly, 3 years, by Emperor, dam Fanny, celebrated worker. 30gs; one bay filly, 3 years, by Emperor, dam Old Magpie, 35"5; one brown filly, 2years, by Dainty Davie, dam, a useful mare, 25gs; one bay filly, 2 years, by Dainty Davie, dam a marc by Old Wellington, 33gs; one bay filly. 2 years, by Prince Charlie, 90gs; one bay mare, 5 years, first-class saddle and light harness, out of celebrated trotting mare by Old Quicksilver, 32gs; Bob, bay gelding, aged, by Wellington, dam Polly, staunch, and capital worker, 85gs; Prince, bay gelding, 7 years, by Wellington, dam Fanny, staunch, and capital worker, 85gs; Billy, brown gelding, 7 years, by Wellington, dam Polly, sound, and capital worker, 70g8; Captain, black gelding, aged, by Prince Royal, sound, and capital worker, l'.'gs; Drummer, bay gelding, 4 years, by Cheviot, dam Polly, partly broken, s~gs; bay gelding, 3 years, by Lord "Glasgow, 50gS; bay gelding, 3 years, by Emperor, 30gs; grey gelding, 3 years, by Kmperor, 2<lgs; dark brown gelding, 3 years, by Kmperor, 21gs; black pony, unbroken, by General Null. Pigs; bay mare, imported from Melbourne, 85gs; bay coit, 11 months old, by Prince Chailie, lings. On Tuesday, at Spring Park farm, Springston, held ■i clearing sale of Mr Walter Lawn's live and dead stock, there was an average attendance, and satisfactory prices realized as under: 10 long-woolled ewes, 4-tooth, at £7 to £lO per head; 20 2-tooth ewes at 5s lOd per head ; 25 full-mouthed ewes at £3 15s, £4 10s, to £5 58 per head ; 1 Sutton Lincoln, £63; 1 ditto, £23 2s; 1 ditto, £2l, and sundry lines cross-bred* at fair rates. Cattle also sold nett. at from £7 to'.C* Ids; young stock, i;2 to £3 2s (id. Steam threshing machine, £500; and sundries realised well. At the Agricultural and Pastoral Show grounds we sold 1 Xeedham Lincoln, 2nd prize sheep at show, for Mr T. R. Lysaght. at, 75 guineas; 1 Lincoln ram (old), Ist prize winner last year, not exhibited this, at 40 guineas; 1 Lincoln Leicester, at 15 guineas; 4 Leicester ewes at £'s ss each ; pure Berkshire boars, £G to L 7. Wool sheep skins, hides, &c.—At our usual weekly auction on Thursday last, a very large supply came to hand, and all cleared at full prices. No wool was offered, First -ale of the season fakes place on Friday next. We sold butchers' pe'its sit Id ea .Mi, lamb skins at lid each, green merino, at 5s sd to 5s Sid ; green cross-bred at (is Id to (is (id each; hides were not sold; rough fat, 2d per lb.