COMMERCIAL TELEGRAMS. Sydney, October 18.

Otago Witness, Issue 1927, 26 October 1888, Page 18

COMMERCIAL TELEGRAMS. Sydney, October 18.

About 350,000 ft of first-class dressed Kauri timber, ex Syren, Seabird, and Lookout, was sold at auction yesterday and realised from lls 9d to 19* Cd, according to size ; 120,000 ft first-class, undressed, 17s 3d t« 20s 3d ; 24,000 ft second-class, undressed, 12a 3i to 20s 3d ; first-class extra wide, undressed, 20s to 2li 6d. Maize, 3s ; oats steady at 2s sjd to 2s 7d ; bras, lOJdtolld; pollard quiet at 9£d; chlek wheat, & 6d ; butter— imported, 9d to lOd ; locally-made. law Is 3d j cheese, 8d to Od ; bacon, Bsd to 9jfd ; harai, b to la Id ; oatmeal, £12 to £12 10a. Mklboubnk, October 18.

Wheat, 4s 4sd; flour firm— stone made, £9 sii roller made, £10 15s ; stout New Zealand oats, 3s Mi barley feed, 2s 9d ; English, 5s 7d; maize, 3s Mi rye, 3s 6d; bran, Is.

Adelaide, Ocfcobbr 18. Wheat— Bhipplng parcels, 4e 6d ; fairmers 1 lots, « 4d afc Port Adelaide, 4s 2d at out ports. Flourstone, £9 10a ; roller made, £10 10s ; bran, Is 2d ; pollard, la Id. Oat«, 3s 5d to 3s 6d. Potatoes-Wa«-nambool, £5 7a to £5 12s 8d; Ballarat, £5 17« w. both duty paid.

MELBOURNE PRODUCE MARKET.

Messrs Wood,, Dunn, and Co. (Limited), 9 Marto street, Melbourne, report under date 22th October :- Cheese.— The market is rather bare of this line, with good demand for prime dairies of fairly n«*j at 6d to 7d ; and fair quantities, 5d to s§d ; good «nw cheese are particularly scarce. Butter is coming freely to market, and prin» dairies In prints and rolls are selling at 6Jd to w. Potted Butter.— Prime new cask, 6d to 6{d; !»• ferior qualities lower. Bacon.— Sound factory cured, 8d to BJd ; i*"* cured lower,

THE HOME PRODUCE MARKET.

Our Home correspondent writes unde' date September B:— The wool market n» bean quiet during the last month, » n^ though there has been a fair regoW demand, prices have exhibited a 6 "S"*^ drooping tendency. The fourth series of 'w® will commence on the 18th inst., and tw arrivals are 239,992 bales, made up as follows:--New Zealand, 67,619; New South WJJ 48,450; Queen-land, 15,339; Victoria, 22,406; South Australia, 7354; Western Australia, IW> Tasmania, 4857; and Cape of Good Hope. 73 769 j The'continned bad weather has had the effect of still farther sending up the price of wMJ and an advance of from 4s to 5s per <iaUtelli aUtel l wheat has to be reported during the last monw afc which rise a large business baa been a° Although this year there are 250,000 acres n»w under corn than last year, it is asserted t&o* *" yield will be below that of 1887. With tW» ception of Roumania and South Russia, w« good harvests have been secured, W^Wt throughout Europe will be generally defi«J» Australian and New' Zealand wheat on the w has been in active demand,, and fully "M* the recent advance. The present qowffij: per 4981b, are :-South Australian, 41s *>«■£• Victorian, 4os to 40a 6d; New Zealand- » « berric4-foe,«to Wto 425 ; medium, 39s to w I

shorfc berried— fine, 39a 6d to 40s 6d ; medium, jßsj ß s 6d to 39s fld. The demand for kaun gum is exceedingly dull) though prices remain steady. During the month two public auotions have been held, one on the 17th of August, at which 1500 cases were offered bub only 200 cases disposed of, and on the 30th 1)87 were offered and 400 cases goldThe frozen meat market has also been quiet, and there has keen a slight droop in prices. The Doric, from Wellington, with 23,376 sheep, 5308 iambs, and 1485 pieces of beef, has cleared a t 44<1 to s}d for the sheep, s|d to 6£d for the lambs, and 4d to s§"d for the beef. The Kaikoura, from Lyttelton, with 13,619 sheep, 2670 Jambs, and 684 pieces of beef, has cleared at 4|d tos|« for Ihe sheep, s£d to 6|d for the lambs, and 4d to s£d for the beef. The Dunedin,. from Oamar J, with 10,935 sheep, has cleared at 5d to sid. The Arawa, from Lyttelton, with 13,344 sheep and 1503 pieces of beef, has cleared at 5d to s£d for the sheep and 4d to s^d for the beef. The Tongariro, from Port Chalmers, with 10,154 sheep, has cleared at 5d to s£d. The Fifeshire, from Port Chalmers, with 26,478 sheep and 544 pieces of beef, has sold 10,000 sheep at 5d to s|d and 300 pieces of beef at 4d to s}f3. The Ashleigh Brook, from Napier, with 29,714 sheep and 1096 pieces of beef, has sold 4000 sheep at 5d to s|d. The lonic and the Aorangi, from Lyttelton, have not yet broken bulk.