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Temuka Leader, Issue 1111, 29 May 1883, Page 1

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AUCTIONEERS’ REPORTS. GERALDINE. Messrs Mundell and Co. report sales of produce at their rooms, Geraldine, on Saturday 26th inst : —Fowls, per pair, 2s ; flour, per sack, 25s ; potatoes, 4s 8d per sack ; bran, 5a 6d per sack ; sharps, 9s , chick wheat, 8s per sack ; oats Is 6d to Is 9d per bushel; oatmeal 5s per 251 b. hams 7d per lb ; bacon, 6d per lb ; cheese, 6|d per lb ; tea, per box, 14s ; sugar, 4£d per lb. The attendance at this sale was large, and for the different lines submitted a keener competition and better prices were realized than has been for some months past, which, no doubt, is owing to the fine weather we have had for some time past enabling farmers to get their products turned into cash. It is our opinion that the district will not lose so much from the effects of the heavy rainfall as was at first anticipated. TIMARU. Messrs Maclean and Stewart report for the past week as follows : Horses.—-About 50 draught and light horses were to-day booked at their yards for sale. They have to report a lather dull demand for almost all kinds unless exceptionally good sorts, for which they have a fair enquiry, and lower rates have to be submitted to where sales are affected. To-day they sold a fen very fair draughts from £24 10s to £3O; medium and inferior sorts from LIG to £l9 ; hacks from £7los to £l6.

Cattle.—There is but little alteration m prices or in the demand for store cattle since they last reported. The weather still being so unsettled has prevented business being done, and the deman d for almost all kinds of store cattle is very dull. At the Washdyke last Monday a fair number came forward for sale, hut the business done was not of any consequence, They’ placed about 60 head of mixed lots at from £4 to L 5 2s 6d for well conditioned steers and heifers ; cows from £3 to £5 ; yearlines from 18s tc 255. Fat cattle arc in ordinary demand at about 21s per 1001 b. They base placed privately a small line at about the above quotations. gl ieep ._At the Washdyke last Monday a few lines of store > were offered for sale ; hut at present there is very little enquiry, and a considerable reduchas to be made from prices existing about a month ago now to effect sa'es. They sold 200 cross-bred ewes at 7s Sd, 50

mixed sheep at 6s 7J, 400 old ineriuo ewes (culls) at Is 6d, 100 nearly fat sheep at 11s 4d. Fat sheep,—At present there is a large supply offering, consequently prices are somewhat easier, Prime mutton may bo quoted at about 2d pet lb. Freehold properties.—They offered today n 20-acre section at Opihi on account o£ Mr Jones but failed to place it, the price offered not beinp up to owner’s ideas. They also offered to-day a number of sections at Washdyke, but for these there were no buyers. AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. Sydney, May 25. New Zealand wheat per bushel is worth 4s 3d ; New Zealand oats have fallen to 2s 6d ; maize is quoted at 3s ; Sugar Company’s No i per ton are worth £35. Adeda.de, May 25. Wheat is quiet at 5s 5d to 6s Gd* Town flour per ton is quoted at £l2 ss, and country brands £ll ss. ENGLISH MARKETS. London, May 24, The market for colonial breadstuff's has a downward tendency. Adelaide wheat ex store, has fallen Is per quarter, and is now quoted at 49s ; New Zealand ditto, 45s to 48s ; Adelaide flour, ex warehouse, 345. Australian Tdlow is unchanged at 41s for best beef, and 43s for best mutton. At the wool sales 10-day, the catalogue comprised 10,000 bales, making a total of 70,1G0 offered s : nce the opening of the series, the total quantity withdrawn amounted to 5000 bales. Good competition was experienced to-duy. May 25.

The total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain is 2,i90,000 quarters, being 50,000 less than the quantity afloat last Friday. The tone-of the wool sale to-day was much steadier. Ihe quantity offered amounted to 10,300 hales. New Zealand wools aie decidedly firmer.