LATE COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1191, 28 December 1894, Page 30

LATE COMMERCIAL.

WELLINGTON MARKETS. Messrs Labkt & Co. report current whole sale values as under : Farm and Dairy Produce.

Townsend and Paul's report of the horse market: —At our yards on Saturday there was a large attendance, but the percentage of buyers was very small and not much life in them, the anticipation of Christmas festivities evidently causing them to ignore horseflesh. We sold of the Sydney consignment seven of the unbroken colts and fillies at from .£ll 15s to <£l3 15s, the remainder of the unbroken being passed in, owners' reserves not being reached. We have these and the . draughts and trotting horses for private sale. "We sold an eight-year-old draught for .£ls lOs, and a number of light harness horses at •from 5s to Ji*/ ss.

A. G. Taine and Co. report of their Weekly Saturday horse sale : —There was an iku&ually arge entry, but not such a good at-

tendance as we have seen ; still we had a very successful sale. Our entry consisted mostly of harness horses and hacks, some of them of a very superior sort. We sold good harness , horses at £l6, £l6, £te, <£l2 and «£lO ; aged harness horses at from £6 to £8; inferior, £3 to .£5; a well-bred hack by Somnus for 10 guineas; aged hacks from £5 to. ..£9 ; croaks at the usual prices. We offered two well-bred Arab hacks, which were bought in at £ls and £9 los, both very good sorts.- We also offered a number of buggies and dogcarts,, which did not reach vendors' ideas of value ; the want of appreciation was no doubt caused by the close proximity of the holidays. Edwards and Mcßeath report concerning the labour market:—Although we have been very busy during the.week, business has scarcely reached our usual Christmas business.

Messrs .Lowes and Jorns report at their monthly stock sale at Eketahuna -yesterday (Dec. 19) all classes of stock were well represented, and, with the exception of one line each of sheep and cattle, upon which the vendors placed too high a reserve, everything sold at good market rates. y Eat ewes made 7s 6d; store wethers, small, 5s 6d to 6s 3d; Stores in the wool, 9s Id. Two to steers, 60s to 755; 18-monchs, 50s to 555; yearlings, 45s ; calves, 22s to -27 s 6d ; dairy stock, aged cows, 70s ; heifers, 75s to 80s.

By Telegraph. — Press Association. , London, December 21. Three months' bills are at | per cent. • Consols, 103. New Zealand 4 per cent, inscribed stock, 105£; 3£ per cent, ditto, 99f. New Zealand long-berried wheat, 25s 3d, market quiet and business restricted. Mutton—First quality, 3fd per lb; second ditto, 3fd. Lamb, first quality, 4Jd. New Zealand hemp unchanged. At the end of the year there will be 3000 tons of colonial butter on the market and in store. The fowls by the Tongariro arrived in inferior condition, but the ducks were in an excellent state.' They were all, however, unsuitable for the market, because they were trussed. The Argentine wool clip is estimated at 250,U00 tons. Dunedin, December 20. At the first wool sales of the season to-day there was about the usual attendance of Home and foreign buyers, but prices showed a considerable falling off compared with those of last season.

£ s. D. £, s. D. Milk, quart •••• • ;• 0 0 3 to 0 0 4 Butter, fresh, farm, lb 0 0 7 Butter, separator ..; 0 0 6 to 0 0 7 Salt butter ;.. ,... 0 0 7 Cheese ... ... 0 0 41 to 0 0 5 loaf ... ... ... 0 0 5| Egge, dozen (fresh) ... 0 0 9 to 0 0 10 Bacon, lb 0 0 74Ham, lb ... ... 0 0 8 Fowls, pair ... 0 3 0 to 0 3 6 Ducks, ipair ... 0 4 6 Geese, pair ... 0 5 0 ;Turkeys, pair... 0 7 6 Flour Maekbt. £ s. D. £ s. D. Stone flour 7 0 0 Boiler flour ... 7 15 0 Pollard... . ... 3 10 0 Oatmeal .... • ... 9 0 0 Bran 2 10 0 to 2 15 0 .- ■ :■'■■ Hay and Corn Market. ■■-"•;.-• •'-' .£ s. x>. £ s. D. Maize ... 0 2 6 Oats, feed ... 7.. 0 1 8 to 0 1 10 Wheat, milling 0 2 9 Fowl Wheat ... 0 2 8 Rye Corn 0 3 3 Seed Barley ..: 0 4 0 Carrots. 1 10 0 Hay, ton ' 3 10 0 to 4 0 0 Oaten, ton ... 3 10 0 Straw, ton ...' 2 10 6 Chaff, oaten sheaf ... 3 10 0 Wheat, straw...' 2 5 0 to 2 10 0 Onions, per lb 0 0 1 to 0 0 ll Potatoes ... ... 1 15 0 to 2 0 0' Potatoes (new) 4 10 0 Potatoes (kidneys) ... 6 10 0 :'.. ' - . Seeds. £ s. D. £ 8. S»i Ryegrass, Farmers' lots 0 2 9 to 0 3 3 Ryegrass,- -Machine dressed ... 0 4 3 to 0 4 9 Cocksfoot, lb .., 0 0 4 to 0 0 5^ Wt. Clover, lb 0 0 10 Red Clover, lb . ... 0 0 9 Alsyke, lb.. . ... 0 o 9 Cow Grass, lb...' ' ... 0. 0 9 Timothy, lb ... 0 0 4 Linseed, per cwt 13 10 0 Rape, per cwt 1 5 0 Circular Heads . .... 3 0 0 Breeze's Prolifics ... 3 0 0 Brown Rivers ... 2 10 0 Carter's Red Skins ... 3 0 0 Magnum Bonum ; ... 3 0 0 Lapstone Kidney "3 0 0 Prince Regents 3 0 0 OamaruSeed Derwents 2 10 0