THE HOME PRODUCE MARKET.
(Feqm Qub Own Cqbbespqnepnt.) Lqnbion, August 13, Tbe second series of wool sales, which opened on June 7, will olose to-morrow, having occupied 32 sittings. On tbe whole th@ series has been a good one, the decline of £d per lb manifested ab the commencement having been recovered in the course of the sales. The available arrivals totalled 372,385 bales; and the quantities catalogued were 331,3-19 bales, made up as follows : — New Zealand, 109,3,50 ; New South Wales, 78,186 ; Queensland, 14~,992 ;' Victoria, -74,166; South Australia^ 11,232 ; West Australia, .7892 ; Tasmania,, 12,702 ': Caoe of Good Hope, 22.79 Q.
The frozen me^t market is quiet, and t considering the hot' weather, not unfavourable. The Rim,utaka, frotr\ LytteUon, with an " irregular ' cargo' of 11365 sheep, 5786 lambs, and 419 pieoeg of beef, has cleared, with the exception of about 300 lambs, at 3£d to 5d for the sheep, 3d to 7d for the lambs, and 4|-d to 5d for the beef. The Blderslie, from Port Chalmers, also with an " irregular " cargo of 21,720 sheep and 5700 lambs, has cleared the sheep at 3jtd to 5d and sold 4700 i lambs at 3|d to 66 X ThaTainui, from Lyttelton, with 25,083, siieep and 12,313 lambs, has cleared the sheep at 3nd to 4|d and sold 11,000 lam,ba at ad to 6d. The Ruapehu, from Auck^nd, with 10,176 sheep, 6242 lambs, an.d 988 pieces of beef, has cleared at 3§d to 4|«3 for the sheep, 3d to s|d tor the lamb*, and 4a to 5d for the beef. The Canterbury, from Napier, with 9830 sheep, has cleared at B£d to 4d. The Qpawa, from TJmaru, with an" irregular " cargo of 8401 sheep and 3129 lambs, has cleared at 3d to 4fd for the sheep and 3d to s§d for the lambs. The Turakina, from Wellington, with 8872 sheep and 1716 lambs, has sold sheep- at 3d to 4d and 1500 lamba at 3d $o sd. The Doric, from Lyttleton, with 26,887 sheep and 10,626 lambp, has sold 23,000"" sheep at 3d to 4£d and 8500 lambs at 3d to s*d, The from "^e^uigton, wiljh X§,3js sheep, la,mba an.d.
945 pieces of beef," has sold 7000 6heep and lambs at 3Jd to 4|d and 3fd to sd, and all the beef at 4d to 4|d. The Wellington, from Lyttelton, with 2420 sheep and 11,067 lambs, has sold 500 sheep at3Jdto4Jd and 50001ambs at 4dtos^d The Mataura, from Oamaru, and the Invercarcargill, from Napier, have not yet broken bulk. The Arawa, from Lyttelton, with 25,109 sheep and 9817 lambs, has bold 7500 sheep at 3d to 4|d, and 3000 lambs at 3d to s£d. The Tongariro, from Wellington, with 9762 sheep, 5269 lambs, and, 674 peices beef, has sold 4000 sheep at 3§d to 4£d, 700 lambs at 3|d to s£d, and 200 pieces beef at 3§d to 4£d.~ The Dunedin, from Oamaru, and the lonic, from Lyttelton, have not yet broken bulk.
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