SYDNEY MARKETS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 81, 4 March 1884, Page 2

SYDNEY MARKETS.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, 1 Limited/report as follows of the Sydney markets: — Wool. — The disappointing lone of the JLondon market, as . conveyed by recent, .Ciiblcv advices, has had a somewhat depressing effect here, nnd sales are only to he made by accepti ng f rpjn^ |d to fd per lb less than the rates lately rifling. .Asa consequence, considerable withdrawals have taken place, during the past fe\v day?. : Sheepskins. — rWe. have Jfco.ieport an. improved demand for all kinds, best selling readily at from 6d to 6|d per lb - Tallow.— A dull market. Sales at £33 per parcels of best mutton, and £31 10s fdi! best beef. .i . • • ' Butter. — The demand for prime New i Zealand continues; brisk, the: range of. prices being somewhat wide, viz., from 10d to 12d per lb. Second quality is, however, dull of sale at from 7d to 9d. We loot for still better figures at no di tant date. Oats.— Feed qualities have ( been ! m'ich easier, forced sales having been made oti' the. market sis'low ns 2s 7(1. We have, with; difficulty, placed a few parcels at 3s, which, at the moment, is top price for stout, bright feed qualities/ Good, clean, bright seed are enquired fox 1 , the market being bare of these descriptions. " j Wheat. — New South Wales grain is now selling at from 4s Id to 4s 3d per bushel. Market steady. Bran, &c. — We have placed, somej 15,000 bushels at from 12£ dto 13il, which are j he ruling figures at present, few enquiries for pollard at from lld to Is? 1 i: ; '"' ■'■ ' - * •Beeswax, worth lldj and scarce. I ; N.Z. Hemp.— A few enquiries are being i: made tor clean, well-dressed fibre, 'which is now worlh from £18 to j£l9|)er ton, - : ■; '' ,N.Zi Tow.— We have cleared our stiocks' at from £10 iss to £11 -per ton . ; Hops.— No buyers. I Fungus.— We have cleared out at 4il per lb, which is still the top quotation. • •■■■■■•■ Timber. -^Afc pur sale yesterday of the cargo per " John Worster " from Sari Francisco; ' we quitted:' — 1 ,500 sugar" pine doors, at fronr 11s 6d to 19s each ; R.W. mouldings, 5000 feet, at 4s 9d per hmidfed ; architraves, 35,000 feet, at 7s to 17s 6d per hundred'skirting, 50,000 feet, at 13h to 21s 6tl I! per : hwiidred ; Alaska; : pine, at 16s 6d^r. hundred 'feet;- 40^000 feet BHgar "pine, at from 33s to 39s per hundred. There wa3 a full attendance of (he trade, and the doors, mouldings a(Ki pine elicited spirited competiti ;'.u.