COMMERCIAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1512, 13 November 1886, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

DUNEDIN PRODUCE MARKETS. The following is the report for the week ending Wednesday Wheat—The tone of the Market is firm. Millers in the meantime are folly supplied with Tuscan and velvet, especially the former. What they most require at present is red straw and kindred quality, whicli is scarce; Inferior and fowls’ wheat also continues in short supply and in demand at from 3s 3d to4*3d; medium to good, 4s 4d to 4s 8d ; prime milling, 4s 9d to 5s (ex store, bags in). Oats—This market still continues inactive. A few sales have been made during the past week, but at lower prices. Stocks are still heavy and increasing, and the prospects of a rise rather remote. Bright stout milling, of which the market is bare, Is lid ; short bright feed, Is 9d to la lOd ; medium, Is 7d to Is 8d ; long Tartarians. la 8d to la 9d (ex store, bags weighed in). Barley Prices are easier for malting. The demand for feed and milling is limited. Beat malting, 2s lid t,o 3a; medium, 2s 8d to 2s lOd ; feed and milling, 2s 3d to 2a 6d (ex store). Chaff-Best oaten sheaf £4 10a ; oaten straw, £2 10a to £2 15s. . Potatoes Fresh picked Northern Derwents, £2 10? .; Southern, £2 6a. Grass Seed— Cocksfoot quiet at 4jd per lb. Butter New season’s salt 7d ; old, dull at 6d ; fresh, 6d for best mixed brands. Eggs—lOd per dozen.

Sheepskins—-On Monday country dry crossbreds, low to medium, brought 9d to 3s 6d j full wool, 3s 9d to 5s fid ; do do merino, low to medium, lOd to 3s 3d ; full woo 1 ,3 a4d to 4a; dry pelts, 2£ to 7d ; green crossbreds, 4s lid, 5s 24, 5s 4d, 5s 6d, 5s 81, 5s lOd ; do men'no, 4s, 4s 4d, 4s 6d, 4s Bd, 4s lid ; do pelts, 4|d ; lambskins, 6d 9d. Hides—Prices remain as last week—viz. : for inferior and bulls', ]|d to 2d ; light, 2£d to 2fd ; medium, 2|d to 3d ; heavy, free from cuts and otherwise, in good condition, 3jd to 3Jd per lb. Tallow —For inferior and mixed, lie to 14a; medium, 15s to 17s ; prime mutton, 18s to 19s; rough fat, inferior 6s to 7e, medium 8s to 10a; best mutton Us to 12a.

DUNEDIN STOCK MARKETS. At the Burnside Yards on Wednesday the following business was transacted Fat Cattle—Only 136 head were yarded, about one-half of which were prime quality, the other half only medium. Bidding was very irregular, prime cattle selling at a slight advance on last week’s rates, whilst medium and inferior cattle wpre much,lower. Best bullocks brought "from £9 to £l2 10s; medium, £7 to £8 10a; best cows, from £8 16s to £lO 40a; medium, £4 10a to £7 2s 6d, Fat Sheep—l4sß were penned ;of these’ about 300 were merino wethers in the wool, fair to good mutton, the balance being crossbreds, about half of which were shorn. Prices realised were if anything lower thaiPta&t fleet's. Best crossbreds in li e wodh brought 12s to 13» fidone pen up to 16?; ordinary, 8s 9d to Us 6d ; best do (shorn) , ,8s 6d to 10s 6d ; ordinary, 6s to 8* 3d ; merino wethers (in the wool), 9a 6d to lls 6J., Fat Lambs—66o were penned, representing all qualities. The prices .to-day were fully 2s per bead below last week’s. Beat brought from ?s to 10s 6d ; others, 3s to 6s 9d,

Piga—Only 65 penned, nearly all suckers and stores, and a few inferior porkers. Prices ruled considerably higher than of late. Suqkers brought from 5s 6d to 10s; stores, from 15s to 265; porkers, 28a 6d.—Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Co, sold .14 prime porkers at 31s each,

Horses—Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Co. quote first-class draught horses at from £22 to £26 ; medium, £l4 to £2O ; light draught! jpid spring-cart horses (suitable for trams), £l2 to £lB ; first-class hacks and, light-harness horses, £ls to £2O; medium, £8 to £11; Inferior, £2 to £6.

AUSTRALIAN MARKETS, Not. 10. The Melbourne Manager of the National Mortgage and Agency Company, Limited, of New Zealand reports on the local grain market as follows ; Wheat has a slightly improved tepdenoy

!atssto 5s Id. Barley is dull at 3s 9d to 4s 6d, Oats—Feed sorts, no material change to report, 3s to 3s 3d ; milling, of which prices are barely maintained, 8s 4d to 8s 5d ; under bond, 2s 4d to 2s 6d. Not. 11. Goldsborough and Go, held their usual weekly sale yesterday. There was a Urge attendance of Home and foreign buyers, and the competition was brisk. The catalogue comprised 7000 bales, including several well-known Riverine and Victorian clips, which realised very satisfactory prices. Good greasy fleece realised lid ; good greasy lambs, ll|d; good scoured, Six thousand bales were sold, including those disposed of privately. This sale is considered the most satisfactory one of the seapon.

ENGLISH MARKETS. Loudon, Nov. 11., At the Antwerp wool sales the prices are equal to the closing ratos of the last London sales.

The New Zealand aid Lean Mercantile Agency Company (Limited) have just received the following cablegram from London,, dated 9th Nov., 1886 :

Wool—The market is unchanged. Wheat— Market rfirmer. v Viotprian wheat it worth 35a; New Zealand, average,. 34a; and Now Zealand long- r berried, 36s per 4961 b. Barley—The. market is better, and New Zealand aorta are in demand; quotatiup, 39s jper 448 b. Tallow—Stocks light and market firm. Good mutton is worth 275, ‘ r and good beef 24* 6d, per cwt. Leather -Market unchanged.

Frozen Meat Market quiet; New Zealand mutton, weighing 60lb and 651 b per carcase, is worth 4Jd per lb.