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Southland Times, Issue 3294, 10 January 1879, Page 2

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V. '-" ' ~—; —•"" -■•, . Truss Office, Thursday Evening. The amount of Customs revenue received to day. on goods entered for consumption was as: follows :—, . ' -";

(BY,EIiECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) Wellingfon, Jan. 7.. Mr George Thomas reports the market as follows .-—Flour, Adelaide, very scarce, 18s to 18s lOd; flour, colonial, Oamaru, LlO 10s to L 10; oats, 4s 3d to 4s 6d; braD, Is; wheat, 4s to 4s 3d; hams- and bacon, 9d; cheese, Bd, and scarce; maize, 5s to 5s 6d; pollard, 7s; butter, 8d; potatoes, 7s to 8s per cwt. Christchurch, Jan. 9. Messrs H. Matson & Co. report for the week ending Jan. 9th: —At the weekly sales yesterday, 264 head cattle, 6511 sheep, and 57 pig yarded. There was an average attendance, but sales were dull throughout, resulting in a general drop of .Is per head on all classes of fat sheep. In beef prices ruled high and in advance of last week's rates; quotations of fat cattle are —buyers, LI 16s 6d per 100 lbs; L 2 15s to Lb 5s for stores; and L 6 10s to Lll for milch cows. Sheep, crossbreds, 7stolls >6d; stores, 6s 9d to 8s 9d; lambs, 6s to 8s 6d.; pigs, "8s to 57s 6d. There was a large attendance at the sale of imported draught brood mares and geldings from Tasmania, and sales were made at prices ranging .from fifty to ninety guineas. The entries of wool, sheepskins, &c, comprised 3775 pelts and sheepskins, 250 lambskins, 133 bags of wool, 144 bags rough fat, and 118 oxhides, all of which sold at prices rather easier than last week's. Best crossbreds, os to 5s 9d j ordinary, 3s lOd to 4s lOd; best merinoes, 4s lOd to 5s 7d ; medium, 3s 4d to 4s 6d. Wool, 4d to 7d per lb ; pieces, 3d to s£d; locks, OJd to 2£d; ox-hides, 31s 8d; calfskins, 4d. The markets generally have not undergone appreciable change. Wheat is quiet; quotations 3s lOd to 4s. Oats —Of the new crop of feed oats, sales are reported at 3s 3d; small lots of, the old find buyers at 3s lOd to 4s Id. New samples of barley are to hand, and favorably with previous year's crops, and rates are expected to open at about 4s 3d to 4s 9d. Flour, £9 to £10, according to brand. Good grass seed is worth 6s to 6a 6d, but no sales are reported, as prices asked are above buyers limits. Dairy produce is unchanged. Hams and bacon, in cloth, 7d to Bd. Auckland, Jan. 9. Mr Alfred Buckland reports:—The harvest being general thronghout country, 6ales have been smaller than usual. Prices for store cattle at Waiuku, shewed an upward tendency. At Kemuera to-day fat cattle were'yeryjniimerous; 150 head were yarded, mostly of good quality. Fat cattle .were in demand and prices ranged from 27s foFimddling-'to33sfor prime quality, with steady enquiry.^- Sheep \yere iunusually numerous; stores had a nominal value of 3s to 6s each; but fat sheep were in good enquiry; small-sized wethers at 31s 4d f large sheep, 3d :per!ibjewes)^from 2P to 3d.'■!■ Lambs were numerous and-"Of .-choice qiiality; best quality ranged -from 10s to 145.. each; inferior*; from ■ 3s. to 5s each ; steers ranged from LlO Bs(6d toL9 Is6d. :: . V ■ - * : ■- '-':': - Mr Strange, of Waitoa, has sold his farm of 2000 acres for LIOjOOO to a. southe)^ capitalist. : Mr Binney reports ; that business after the holidays opened languidly, and that sales were restricted, to .retail requirements.';.. Southern flour, £10 10s,- stocks heavy; Adelaide, £14, sales small.; bran, £5; pollard, £5, little enquiry ; maize, 1 os to ss;6d, scarce, a shipment is hourly expected; oats, 4s 6'd to'4s ?d;; oatmeal, £22, firm; cheese (local) 6d; jhams and bacon in cloth, 8d to B^d; bare, 6d to 7d,'dull; potatoes, £6, plentiful, showing a reduction of 20s to 30s per ton. Timber very scarce.. : .-.;■■ .-;MELBO"DEirE, Jan. 9. Wheat is £asv at 4s Bd.'-•"'.

, '. - * . £ s. -d. V Spirits ... • ... '..'. 126" 10 G' . - Sagar 14 9 0 Tea 49 0 10 --- - Tobacco „.-, * 23 7 T 6 Wine ..-. ; — -16 5 7 Coffee 8 5 0 ,Snnclries../ ... ... 6113 11 £299 12 4