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Lyttelton Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 5255, 22 December 1877, Page 2

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Irpttriton Timaa Office, Friday Evening, CHAIN AND PEODUOB. We have very little business to report daring the week. Wheat remains without alteration, and buyers only purchase tor actual requirements. Soles, in the present state ot the market, are difficult to effect. Oats have gone back to former voices. We quote 3s 4d to 3s fid, f.o.b. Transactions, however, ffiave been principally confined to local purchasers. ’Some lots ot the new orop, it is expected, will very noon he in the market. Bab let is in moderate demand, and any parcels offering either tor teed or malting find buyers. Prices range from 2s fid to Is 3d. Fiopb, -The tone ot the market continues unchanged, Millers are willing to do business at £l4 to £ls, and tor parcels would probably accent a trifle less. Bran and sharps remain at £3lss and £llss, and oatmeal finds moderate business at £l7. Gbass Seed.—Holders ot last season's seed are firm. None of the new season's crop has yet been offered, bnt it will likely come forward within a tew -days. We quote 4s fid to 5s tor farmers’ supplies. Daisy Produce,— Batter has advanced slightly in -consequence ot the compare lively limited quantity brought in. Buyers are offering 7d to 7Jd. Chessois saleable at s(d to s£d. Hams and bacon, in cloth, ■find orders at Bd, Farmers' cure is only worth 6d to fid. RTOCK AND STATIONS. At the Addington Saleyards on Wednesday 4630 ■sheep and 540 heat of cattle were yarded. Sheep.— The bulk of the sheep consisted of from good to prime quality fat matton, for which lot there was no improvement on last week’s prices. iExtra prime fat crosi-broda brought from 15s to 17s each, good ditto from 9a 3d to 10s fid, second ditto from 7a fid to 8s 9d. We quote I Jd per lb as an .average for fat matton. The supply ot fat lambs •was very large and the quality exceptionally good. Best pens sold to as high as d)s each, good ditto •from 7s fid to 8s 3d, Cattle,— A large proportion of the oattle con. sisted of exceptionally good quality fat beof. Best bullocks sold to as high as £lB 10s. Wo quoio a •shade under 27s fid per lOClbs as an average. Owing to the great scarcity ot grass, there was little or no sale for store cattle, the bulk of which were passed in unsold. The Customs’ rovenno collected yesterday amounted to £865 Ss ,Bd. The following were the items .—Spirits, 507fgale, £305 12s 7d; wine, 195| gals, £56 Us Si; beer, Sllgris, £52 Us 3d; tobacco.

fiSfilbs,£&slS* l oigxtt, 1981b*. £49* 10s* boots. W trunks, £l6 lie 2 tea, 25701b5,£61 B*> lb*, £lß4lßa Bd«stationery, 6 oases. £13.18* Igrißfi* - ory, 1 ease, £2 Us 6d; drapery, loaaa. £B|-app*wl, 4 esses, £l7lß* > turpentine, 200 oases, £BO j sttn* -dries, £57 &J llu^ t The sale of horse* bold yesterday liy iSi Buss at Rangier*. was fairly satiaholwy, P*£“f ' were no* as high os on tbs,former ooaasloa. Oyer market for the week ending ttnwdw, Deo WN* 1 follows s-Tho Aupwaiotr Marxist Ysans I day were fully supplied with both sheep and cattle, and as It was understood there would be no market during the Christmas week the quality brought forward was exceptionally good. We quote no alteration in the puce of mutton or beet. Mutton was selling at from lid to IJd per lb, and beet at from 25sto 27s 6d pet lOOlbe. Some choice linos of tat cattle brought in by Masers H. Garforth, Hoy Bros,, and B. Fleming, may have gone a shade higher, but the ttvorogft price foe the day would be at the above quotations. Store sheep and store cattle are difficult to quit in anything like largo Unee, and no great transaction In store classes will be reported until towards the autumn. Wo have quitted during r tho past week a line of 5000 Mkwho Wethers at is fid eaob, delivery to take place during the first week in January. The flock was shorn in October, and the sheen are in magnificent condition, and convenient for delivery both to buyer and sailor. Our entries for Wednesday's sale were on account Of Messrs Milas, «. Fleming, Thtelkeld, John Moddlson, Henderson and M'Both, W. B. Clarkson, Goo. Bull, Nelson, W. Keith, junr.,; 8. Garforth, B. Bay, W. O. Webb, George Duka, and others. Wo sold cross-brods at prioas varying from 7 a 8d to 10s 3d, end fat lambs at from 6a to 8a fid each. In Cattle. wo sold stews on aooount of Mr 9. Garforth at from £ls to £l7 each, the buyers being Messrs Tudbau and Biokling. Wo sold a line of very nice heifers on account of Mr B. Fleming at from £lO 10a to £lO 15s caoh. The buyers wore Messrs W. B. Clarkson, and W. Keith iunt. Mr W. O. Webb also sent forward a very choice heifer, which fell to the lot of Messrs Berry, Bros., at £lB 15s. 85 fat eteers, on account of Mr W. Keith, jun, brought an all round average of £0 each, falling into the hands of Messrs Cunningham, Bodge, ana Rountree. Mr John Maddison, et Templeton, sent in some splendid fat lambs, which topped the market at 8a fid each. Wo also sold during the week a line of store cattle of mixed ages at an average of £5 10s eaob, and a line of store orosß-brods at 7s fid each. , .. .. Messrs H. Matson and' Co. report on the live slock, land, wool, hide, and tallow market, &o, for the week ending Thursday, Deo 20, 1877 i—At the Addington Tabus on Wednesday, last, 510 head of cattle, 4636 sheep, and 45 pigs comprised the entry, to hand for the day’s sale. The quality of .the stock upon tho whole was exceptionally good, and throughout the cattle sale biddings cam* freely, and prioas realised were satisfactory os compared with late markets, nearly the .whole'entry being cleared. In Bhbep, as of late, biddings were very dull, and although tho lots on offer were sold, it was with difficulty that they were placed, tho con. tinual drought being very serious to the interests of the stock trade. Our entry for the day comprised 430 cattle, 5541 sheep, and 45 pigs, for Messrs John M Tosswill, F H Britton, H D Gardiner, W E Maddison, Wm Stroohan, Carpenter Bros, James Johns, Hay Bros, P Evan, H Moody, Q Pyke, John Smith, W Hartnell, M Guy, D O’Callaghan, John Wills, Wm Henderson, Geo Dickenson, C and P Dan can, George Swain, T Patterson, E Frankish, Bell and Ensor, J Orwell, S Manning, Stanley Monk, John Bennie, J Linney, Jacks an Bros, James Wright, Geo Pranks, John Fejson, Geo Ferguson, T Council, J T W Bhand, John Davies, Eiley, John Manson, M Dalay, John Kinley, Geo Kinloy, S Hall, M. Kelly, B Mathews, J Forrester, J Moor, Wilkinson Bevery, B Tubman, A J Tndball, W O’Neil, Joseph Marseden, Jos Grimsey, W Harris, J Anderson, 0 Simpson, F Houghton, W Btoddirt, and others. In cattle, our principal sales were—Pat, lat £lß,l at £‘.6, and !at £ls 10s, for Mr W, Henderson; 20 head at £lB 10s, £9 10s, £lO 15s to £l2, for Mr H. D. Gardiner; 12 at £6lss, £S 5s to £9lss; 20 for Messrs Hay at £9 7a fid, £9 17s fid to £lol2a fid; 4at £8 lOs.and £9loa forH.J. Maddison; 6 at £S ss, £7 to £lO 15b, tax Mr George Franks; 2at £Bl2s fid for Mr Patterson; 13 at £8 2s fid to £Blss for Mr Matbewa; 13 at £7 7s fid, £B, £9, to £9 5s for Mr Council j 4at £3 to £9 tor W. O’Neil; 15 at £6 ss, £7. £7 10s to £8 17s 61 for Mr Geo. Kiuly; 3 at £lO for Mr Houghton. And in stores—2s head at £4, 12 at £6 ss, .14 at £5, 10 at £4 10s, 6 at £4 17a fid, 15 at £3 10s, 16 at £3 In to £5 2s fid, 13 at £2 15s, 8 at £4 7s fid, 24 at £5,14 at £4 2s fid to £5 10s, 25 at £4, 4at £5 7s fid, 19 at £3l3s, 4at £6, 8 at £4 15s, 10 at £4 10s to £5 Ss. 18 at £6 2a fid, 12 at £3 ss, and several odd lines at quotations. In Sheep, our sales were 200 cross-breds at 8s Gd, 830 at 8s fid, Os 3d, to 10s Sd; 245 at 8s 9d, 81 cross-hreds in wool at 9s 3d, 67 oross-breds at Bs, 80 at fis 9d to 8s 3d, 300 merino wethers at fis, 60 cull ewes with lambs at 7s 2d, 120 lambs at Ss Sd, 5s fid, to fis, SO cross-bred ewes at 7s, 100 cross-bred owes at 8s 3d, 60 at 7s 9d, 70 crossbreds at 8s; 163 oross-breds at fis fid, 44 at fis fid, 310 mixed z-breds at 7s fid to 8a fid, 65 at 8s 9d, 400 mixed oross-breds at 7s 91 to Bs, 59 lambs at fis 6d, 100 lambs at 7s, 20 lambs at 8s 61, and sundry lines at above'values. In Pigs, we sold 84 at 10a. Wool, Sheepskins, Hides, and Tallow.— Out ■ second sale of the series was hold at our Canterbury Wool Stores on Tuesday last, when we catalogued 411 boles of x-bred and merino wool. A good attendance of merchants, foreign I uyere, and local scourers was present. The market did not exhibit that keeness on the biddings as at the first sale, end although wo succeeded in quitting the bulk of our entry, it was with difficulty The, quality of the wool on offer, as a whole, was not equal to the opening otlerbest x-breds from XOd to ICJd; second, 9|d to 9£d and Sjd; merino, 9d, BJ3, to 9fd par lb." a detailed catalogue of nriaea has already been published. On Thursday last assOsheepsklns, pelts, and lambskins, 72 hides, and 76 bags of rough fat comprised the catalogue, the whole el which was disposed of. Best cross-breds, Ss to 5s lid; merinos, 4s 9d to 6s 8d; pelts, 4d, Bd, lOd, la Id, to Is Id and Is 7d; lambskins, Is. Is 4d, is 7d, to is lid eooh; hides, 4i-1 per lb: green, per lb; calf, fid per lb; rough fat, lid, 2d, 2}d, 2f J, to 3d per lb. Canteebdet Hobse Mabebt. —At Tattersail’s 142 horses comprised the entry, of which we disposed of nearly the whole at prices which must prove satisfactory to the vendors. There was a large attendance and spirited biddingthroughout the sale. A shipment of 60 horses from Waverley, Wanganui, was brought to band by Messrs Morton and JLnptonin first- class condition, and befngof the right, stump for hack and light harness purposes, excited keen competition, and averaged £3213s per head $ draught stock from Waimato, also of excellent quality, sold at £SO, £67105, to £7O per head ; carriage pairs, £35, £49, to £7O per pair; unbroken stock and ordinary draught realised well. Countet Sales.— On Monday last, on account of O. E. D. Malthas, Esq., we held a clearing sale of live and dead stock at Hadstook Farm, Dwell, when we disposed of all lots on offer. Cross-bred ewes with iambs at 12s fid; fat two-tooth at fis fid; horses at £SO, £56, and young stock at £l2, £lB, £2O, to £25; cows end young stock, os well as the farm implements, household furniture, &0., brought fair prices. Is Band at our auotioa on Saturday last, we disposed of Mr Joseph Clarke’s Kaiapoi Island farm of 142 acres, with a lease of 100 acres adjoining, at an average of 20s per acre rental for £4935, being equal to £35 per acre, to Mrs Heyward; also, i-acre at Sandridge for £ll2 10s.

Timaeu.—There has been UUlo doing in the groin market daring the past week, although several parcels of oats have changed hands at full market values. This cereal is worth from 3s 9d to 4a for good samples, although the merchants ore not inclined to do business at the latter price. In view ot the comparative failure of this season’s crop, farmers would do well to hold their last year's oats for a few weeks longer, as the market is certain to harden. There is very little wheat coming forward, and prices for second rate samples range from 3s 9d to Is 3d Eeally first-class samples command ss, and are in demand at that price, but the quantity of prime wheat in the district is very small indeed. Barley lor feed is worth from 2s Od to 3s, and good malting samples fetch as high as 4a. BHA.BE MABItBT. The following is Mr E. J. T. Ford’s report on the share market for the week ending! eo 21 :~ The share market has been exceedingly doll dating the last two or three weeks, and for the past week I have only one sole to report, that ot South British at 765. Semites—Bank ot Hew Zealand, £2310a; National Bank, 71a; Colonial Bank, 49a; New Zealand Insurance, 100 a; National Insurance, 31s fid; South British Insurance, 80s; Union Insurance, 12s; Standard Insurance (new issue), Is fid premium; New Zealand Shipping Company, 80s. Boyers— National Bank, Ms ; Colonial Bank, 48s; Union Insurance, 10s fid; Standard Insurance (old issue), 21s,

COMMERCIAL TKLEQEAMS. New PtyjiouTH, Doc 21, At the cattle sale yearlings brought £3 to £3 lOaj store cows, £4 16s to £slos; oows with calves, £5 68 to £7 2s Gd; choice cows, £8 15s to £10; two-year-old steers, £4 l2s; ewes, 6s. MfitSOCßHfi.—The Argus, of Deo 12, reports -.—ln the import markets only a moderate business has been transacted, and neither privately nor yet by auction has anything of special importance been recorded. Broadstnffa appear to bo a ehade firmer. In the auction matt 28 tons of flour wore disposed of at £llloa to £lllss, a .d privately trade parcels have also boon moving off at similar rates. Wheat is still soiree; sales can be made readily at 5s 7d, and even 5s 711, was realised at auction for a small parcel; but there is very little offered for sale. Oats have been moving very freely. Under the hammer, 2000 bushels woro got rid ot at 4b 2d to 4s 3sd for feeding NcW Zetland, end 4a Id for Tea man : an. Privately, fully 1000 bags have been quitted in parcels at 4s Id for Tasmanian, and 4s 2d to 4s 3d for Now Zealand. At the latter price fully 500 bags were taken. Maize is quoted at 5s 6d, but as there is so little in tho market, the price mav almost bo considered nominal. Sugars are a trifle easier. On tho Queensland qualities offered this forenoon, nr.duoUon of 10a to 15 1 had to bo submitted to. The Mauritius offered consisted mostly of nondescript s, and the prices got tor these could scarcely be considered a criterion of the market, Anything with character, however, such as the fine whites, brought a satisfactory price. 2092 mais of the f irmer wore cleared off, whtu medium- counters realised £33 10s; low counters, £3115s j low browns, £3l Ss to £3l 10s; and rations, £3O. 160) bags Mauritius were placed, when flno whites sold at £37, grey brewing crystals at £35, grey counters at £33 Ss to £33 10s, medium counters at £33 to £33 ss, low o'iuntera at £32, and rations at £29 15s. Teas are quiet, as, pending the large sales coming c il at tho close of tho week, buyers arc not anxious to operates 220 half-chests old season’s were sold publicly this forenoon at 91 to 10);d. A considerable business was done in. dried fruits. Amongst the sales reported wo notice 1600 boxes Capa raidns, 1280 boxes figs, old s-oson’s fruit, Ac. Candles are still commanding notice. Wo hear'of a farther liuo of 500 boxes Jcnar’s having baen taken on private terms. In lib salmon a largo business has been under negotiation for some time, and is likely now to be brought to u oloso. Tobaccos have had attention. Wo learn of the sale of 15 halftierces and 55 quarter-tierces Barrett’s Anchor twist on terms withheld, 250 packages Childpoy’s goods will he submitted to pnblio competition to-

«ow making kt Be. A shipment of Burke’s bottled etonthaa been sold la bond el Be’ lor quarts.