SHARE REPORT.

Otago Witness, Issue 1813, 20 August 1886, Page 19

SHARE REPORT.

Mihks. —Reefton: Welcome, £3; Keep it Dark, £2 4s; Just in Time, 5s ; United Alpine, £1 7s; Fiery Cross, 10s; Nil Desperandum, 2s 2d. The above prices are subject to brokerage, buyers paying stamp duty and transfer fees. DUNEDIN PRODUCE MARKET. J. H. Kilgour, grain and produce broker, reports under date August 18, as follows: — v Wheat. —There is no change to report; for although supplies are small, the demand is limited to local wants, and most of the millers hold good stocks. I quote best milling at 4s 8d to 4s 9d; medium, 4s 5d to 4s 7d: fowl feed, 3s lOd to 4s 3d. ■ Oats.—The market is exceedingly quiet, shippers being unable to operate at present prices. I repeat quotations of last week —viz.: milling, 2s 5d to 2s 6d; bright short feed, 2s 4d; ordinary feed, 2s to 2s 2d. Barley.—Malting quiet at 3s to 3s 3d; feed and milling, 2s 3d to 2s 6d. Chaff.— Best oaten sheaf, £415s to £4 17s 6d; straw chaff, if well out, £3 ; ordinary, £2 10s. Potatoes.—Quieij at £3 15s for Southern and £4 for Kakanuis. Grass Seed.—Ryegrass sells at 5s to 5s 3d for clean lots off qld pasture; machine-dressed, 5s qd to 5s 9d; oocksfoot, 4gd to sd. Bnttev,—Market fnllysupplied with salt, and demand limited at 8d to 9d for prime and 6d to ?d for pastry. Fresh is well supplied with ST Id lOd t0 *ld} g °°d **"* br *Wds»ls

Eggs. — Is 2d per dozen is the price to-day. Turnips move slowly at 20s. Carrots, 40s. DUNEDIN MARKETS. FAKM AND DAIRY PRODUCE. Messrs Mercer Brps. report paying for produce during the week ending 18th inst. : — Eggs, lOd per dozen Hams, 7d per lb Bacon (roll), 5d per lb Salt butter, 8d per Iband I very plentiful Fresh butter, best brands, Is 2d per lb Fresh butter, goo<l ordinary (in lib and §lb prints), lOd per lb. WHOLESALE! PBODUCH REPORTS. Mr J. Fleming, Princes street south, reports under date the 18th inst. : — Wheat :Best milling, 4s 4d Chaff (oaten), £i 10 to £4 to 4s 9d per bushel 15s per ton Medium milling, 4s to Bran, £5 10s per ton to 4s 3d per bushel Pollard, £6 per ton Fowls' wheat,3s 9dto4s Flour, £10 to £11 per Oats, milling, 2s 3d to 2s ton. 5d per bushel Barley dust, £5 per ton Feed oats, Is lid to 2s Bacon (rolled), Cd per lb 2d per bushel Side bacon, 7d per lb Malt barley, 3s to 3s 6d (grain fed) per bushel Oatmeal, £13 per ton Feed, 2s 3d to 2s 7d per Cheese 6d per lb bushel Onions, lls per cwfc Pearl barley, £14 per ton Hams, 9£d per lb Straw, £? per ton Grass Hay, £3 las to £i Oaten Hay, £4 10s to £5 per ton per ton Grass hay, £3 15s per ton Kidney potatoes, £3 10s to £4 per ton. Derwents, £2 10s to £3 10s per ton. Good salt butter, 7d to B£d per lb. Potatoes are offering freely. Messrs Anderson and Co., millers, report under date the 18th iust. :— • Oatmeal, £13 per ton Pearl barley, £14 per ton Pollard, £6 per ton Fowls'wheat,4s3dperbus Bran, £5 10s per ton Barley dust, £5 per ton Milling wheat, 4s 3d to 4s Oats, 2s 4d to 2a Gd bus 6d per bushel Flour— Sacks, £10 10s per ton ; hundreds. £10 15s ; *fties. £11.

WEEKLY STOCK AND PRODUCE REPORT. Wednesday, August 18. ' Fat Cattle.— Only 183 head were yarded today, several trucks having been detained through the railway line being blocked up. The larger proportion of those forward were medium quality, and the balance fair to good. Owing to the inclemency of the weather the trade was not so fully represented as usual, but competition was fairly active, and prices about equal to last week. — Best bullocks brought from £7 17s 6d to £9 ; ordinary, £4 5s to £7 10s ; best cows, £6 10s to £7 12s 6d; light and medium, £3 7s 6d to £6. — The Mutual Agency Company, Limited, sold several pens at quotations on account of various vendors. — Wright, Stephenson, and Co. sold 28 head as follows : — On account of Mr David Grant (Granton), 9 bullocks at from £5 to £5 las 6d ; on account of Mr James Wright, 3 prime heifers at £7 15s ; and on account of Messrs Andrew Thomson and Hector M'Caughan, 16 head at up to £8 17s 6d for bullocks, and up to £7 7s 6d for cows. — Donald Stronach (on behalf of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited) sold : — On account of Mr William Douglas (Gore) and others, cows to £6 10s. — L. Maclean (on behalf of the British and New Zealand Mortgage and Agency Company, Limited) sold for Mr J. Smith (Stirling), 7 heifers at up to £5 ; and privately during the week, for Mr James Holms (Waimahaka, ToiTois), 28 Hereford steers (rising 3-year-olds) at £11 and £12, Hereford cows and heifers at £8. Donald Reid and Co. yarded 95 head, and sold for the New Zealand and Australian Land Company (Edendale Estate), 21 small nice I quality cows at £6 to £7 12s 6d, averaging £7 ; j for Mr J. P. M'lntyre (Thornbyre), 24 bullocks ! (medium quality) at £7 2s 6d to £8 ; for Mr Robert Wilson (Romarua Estate), 11 small bullocks to £6 ss, 8 small heifers at £5 10s ; for Mr David Grant (Cray), 18 bullocks at £4 7s 6d to £6 10s; for Mr William Hutchings (Henley Estate), 6 bullocks at £7 7s 6d to £3, 4 cows at £6 15s ; for Messrs Townley and others, 10 cows at £4 to £7 12s 6d ; outside the yards, for Mr William Patrick (Balmoral), 15 bullocks at £9 2s 6d. Fat Sheep. — ;A small supply was forward today — viz., 1718) consisting of 1370 crossbreds, the balance being merinos. The quality throughout was only medium, with several pens prime. Competition was fairly brisk — especially for those that were prime — and prices a shade higher ; while medium quality was less competed for and prices easier. Prime crossbred wethers, 11s to 12s 9d (one pen 14s) ; medium, 9s to 10s 6d ; best do ewes, 10s to 12s 6d ; medium, 8s 6d to 103 6d ; merino wethers, 6s 9d to 9s. — The Mutual Agency Company sold, on account of Mr C. H. Morgan (Waihola), 360 crossbred ewes and wethers (mixed) at quotations. — Wright, Stephenson, and Co. sold 918 as follows : — On account of the New Zealand and Australian Land Company, from their Clydevale Estate, 503 prime crossbred ewes at 12s Gd ; on account of Mr W. Quin, Tapanui, 60 halfbred wethers at 12s ; on account of Messrs Jas. Smith and Sons (Greenfield Estate), 109 crossbred ewes at lls ; on account of Mr Hugh Carswell (ToiTois), 168 crossbred ewes at 10s 9d ; and on account of Mr James Matheson, 78 crossbreds at lls. — Donald Stronach (on behalf of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Limited) sold on account of the Kuriwaio Estate, crossbred wethers from lls to 14s — top price ; merino wethers at 6s 9d. — L. Maclean (on behalf the British and New Zealand Mortgage and Agency Company 5 Limited) sold for Messrs Rutherford Bros, and Richardson (Otakarama Estate), 130 halfbred wethers from 7s 9d to 8s 3d ; for Messrs A. and J. Brown (Green Island), 208 crossbreds (mixed) at 9s 9d to 12s 6d, and for Mr A. Thompson (Mosgiel), 55 crossbredsat 9s 6d. — Donald Reid and Co. penned 356, and sold for Mr William Rovse (Ocean View), 56 crossbreds at 10s 3d to lls 3d; for Mr J. M'Leod (Waikoikoi), 200 merino weathers at 8s 6d to 9s, top price ; for Mr David Murray (Crichton Park), 80 merino wethers at 6s. Pigs. — Only 74 were forward, comprising all sorts, and sold by Wright, Stephenson, and Co. as follows : — At from 36s to 52s for bacon pigs (a few pxtra heavy ones at from 55s to 695) ; porkers, at from 15s 6d to £1 ; and young stores, from 2s to 7s. Store Cattle. — The market does not display very much animation, while any good lots offering do not fail to find buyers. Both private and at auction sales are being effected, but at pricey which do not leave much for the vendor. Store Sheep. — The market is quiet, and no inquiry of any csnsequence being made. Those offering being unsuitable, transactions are unimportant. W«ol. — Priced catalogues to hand per s.s. Rimutaka are not on the whole quite so satisfactory as recent cable advices would probably lead a good many to expect. Although medium greasy wools were reported \o have had the most attention, we notice more than one well-known clip' which sold in March 1885 at lid passed in September at 7§d to 8d ; June 1886, 9Jd—certainly a substantial advance on September, but far short of March rates. Some light crossbreds are lower than In September; while coarse orossbreds scarcely show any advance on last

sales' quotations — more especially during the first few days of the series,— although later on reports say the Home trade showed greater confidence, when an advance of per lb, as compared with opening rates, was obtained, — The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company's London circular reports as follows :—": — " The demand for the new domestic clip at the country fairs is reported as somewhat inactive, but accounts from the principal manufacturing centres in this country, if due allowance be made for the excitement incident upon the general election, are generally satisfactory and point to the existence of a healthy trade." In this market there are no transactions worth recording. Sheepskins. — The weekly auction sales were held on Monday last and were well attended, when the various catalogues comprised station dry skins with a fair number of butchers' green do. For the former competition was fairly active, prices realised being equal to last week's ; but, no doubt owing to the somewhat unfavourable state of the weather, the latter were iv less demand, and, except for a few lots suitable for special purposes, prices obtained for the most part were lower than even last week's. Dry crossbreds (low to medium) brought 8d to 3s sd ; full-wool, 4s to ss ; dry merinos, lOd to 3s 6d ; do pelts, Id to 7d ; green crossbreds, 3s 6d, 3s lOd, 4s, 4s 2d, 4s 4d, 4s 6d, 4s Sd ; do merino, 3s 4d, 3s Gd, 3s 9d, 4s. Rabbitskins. — A very good demand exists for well-furred winter skins. At the weekly sales on Monday there were offered a good catalogue to a full attendance of the trade. Competition was spirited, and a slight advance on last week's prices was obtained for best skius. Bidding was also brisk for medium, but suckers and inferior are not so much in request, and only saleable at very low prices. Our prices on Monday were for suckers and inferior, 2^d ; black and fawn, 9§d ; fair to good, 13d; best, Uhd per lb. Hides. — The market continues fairly active. A good demand exists for all coming to hand at about late rates. At all times proporly-flayed heavy hides, clean and free from cuts, have the preference and bring top price, while neglected and carelessly saved lots are only saleable at prices very unsatisfactory to all concerned. We quote inferior and bulls, ljd to 2|d ; light, 3d to 3|d ; medium, 3|d to 3|d ; heavy," 601b and upwards, 4d perlb. Tallow. — The demand for local consumption continues to show no signs of weakness ; and, as supplips are not in overabundance, values remain unaltered. Suitable lots for shipment are inquired for, and could be placed, but prices offered scarcely come up to holders' ideas of value. We quote inferior and mixed 13s to 15s ; medium, 16s to 17s ; prime mutton, 18s to 20 ; rough fat — inferior, 6s to 7s ; medium to good, 8s to 10s ; prime mutton, 10s to 12s per cwt. Grain. — Wheat : The demand is by no means brisk, and millers are only disposed to operate at prices representing a slight decline. On the other hand holders are firm and insist upon advanced prices, and the general result is there is little business doing. We quote prime velvet and Tuscan, 4s 8d to 4s 9d ; medium, 4s 4d to 4s 7d; inferior and fowl feed, 3s 8d to 4s 2d. Oats: Business has been quiet during the past week. Holders are disinclined to reduce prices, while speculators cannot buy at present prices with aay chance of a profit for shipping. Reports from New South Wales and Victoria are contradictory as to the probable quantity likely to be wanted from here, and in the meantime the demand is limited. We quote prime milling 2s sd; heavy bright feed, 2s 4d; ordinary, 2s 2d to 2s 3d ; inferior, 2s to 2s Id. Barley : Malting, 3s to 3s 3d ; milling, 2s 6d ; feed, 2s 3d. Ryegrass is in fair demand. We quote farmers' undressed parcels, 4s to 4s 9d ; machine-dressed, 5s 3d to 5s 9d.

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