COMMERCIAL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 931, 22 October 1879, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Wellington, Saturday. Mr James O'Shea reports :— Flour, Adelaide, £14 10a to £15; Canterbury, £12 10s to £13 ; Oamaru, £13 to £13 10s ; sharps, 6s; bran, lOd; oats, 2a 4d to 2s 6d ; potatoes, 120s to 1403 ; maize, 2s 3d to 2s 6d ; hams and bacon, nominal. ' ' DCNEDnr, Saturday. . Wheat, 4a 9d to ss ; fowls' wheat, 3s 6d to 3a 9d ; milling, firm at present prices ; oats, ,2s to 2s 2d ; barley,. 5s to 5s 6d ; feed, &r to 3a 6cf ; potatoes, £4 15s to £5 ; kidney seed potatoes, £5 ; round white potatoes, £5 ; hay, £4 ; chaff, £4 to £4 ss ; straw, £2 6a } bran, £5 59 ; pollard, £5; flour, large sacks, £11 10s to £12; oatmeal, £13 ; pearl barley, £6 ; onions, 20s ; cheese, . 8d ;, bacon, rolled, 81d ; prime fftt f beef, 30s to 32s 6d per lOOlbs; mutton, 3d to 3&d per lb. McLean Brothers report — Fat pattle— A moderate supply of 160 head came forward for to-day's market, the greater portion of which were really good quality, the balance being inferior. Prime cattle were well competed for, and prices for these showed a slight improvement ou last week's quotation— or, say a shade over 30s per 1001 b.; inferior and ordinary des-criptions,-made 25s to 27s 6d. Fat Sheep — 1700 were penned — a supply considerably short of what we have lately been accustomed to. Competition was consequently brisk, prices ruled higher than last week, and all offered were cleared. We sold on account of J. F. Herbert, Esq., 238 merinoes, at 10s 9d to lls ; cross breds, 13s 6d to Ids 3d- Wm. Hay, Esq., 201 cross-breds, shorn, at 10s to 10s 6d. On account of Mr Dickson and others, sundry lots shorn sheep, at 9s 6d to 10s 9d — or equal to 3d per lb. Fat Lambs— rOne hundred and seventy were penned, of good to medium quality, all of which sold readily at from 5s 6d to lls, according, to quality. We sold a small l6t superior at Us. ' ■ Store Cattle. — We have no transactions torenort. . Stored Sheep— Merino' sheep from good flocks'are inquired for for the South, and any suitable lots offering for inspection before shearing would command fair prices. In the. absence of transactions we cannot givcfquotationft. Wool— Advices frota the Home market, per mail, are fairly satisfactory^ Merino wools of good quality have realised prices which -leave a- fair margin to shippers. Cross-breds, on the other hand, sold badly, and generally appear to be neglected. * Sheepskins—Butchers green skins, crossbred, fetched from 3s r to 3s 4d ; merinoes tfpto3s€d. ■"-O'-'-Ti , •:•- Hides— There is no improvement m demand, and prices are without alteration. We have no sales to report.