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Temuka Leader, Issue 1650, 22 October 1887, Page 3

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CHRISTOHWRCH CORN EXCHANGE.

Tbs Corn Exchange reports for the week ending Friday evening, the 21st inst. :

The transactions in grain have mainly consisted in filling local orders, though the report of a line of wheat by the s.s. lonic to London may be noted. This shipment, and others which will shortly be made, are ioduced by the exceptionally low rates of freight offddog. Wheat is still largely held, and were sales to any great extent to be forced prices would certainly give way. Values are as follow :—Pearl and tusoan (prime), 3s 5d to 3* Sd ; hunters white, 3s 4d ; second quality, 3s to 3s 2d j broken wheat, 2s 7d to 2< 9d. Oats are in fair demand for local con* sumption, though there is hot a limited shipping enquiry. Milling up to Is lid for really prime, which are somewhat scarce ; heavy feed, Is 9d to la lOd ; light and inferior, la 7d to Is Bd. Barley—Nothing doing in prime malting. Occasional sales for seed may be noted at prices ranging from 3s 6 i to 4s, whilst for exceptionally fine samples, grown outside the district, 5i has been paid. Peas —Stocks have been reduced by shipments to London during the week. The demand locally is very limited. Blue Prussians are worth 5s to 3s 3d ; feed sorts are quite neglected, but prices are nominally 2s fid to 2s 91, Beans— Farmers do not hold any large quantity, and transactions are but few and consist of small parcels ex store ; prices may be said to be 3s to 3s 3d. Grass Seed—Nothing doing in ryegrass, the sowing season being almost over. Farmers’ lota are unsaleable. Extra machine-dressed, 3s to 3s 3d. Cocksfoot is sold in small lots, prices being still maintained at quotations lately current—namely, 4Jd to 4£d. Potatoes—Sales have bean made at 12s to 15s per ton at country stations. The latter, however, is only paid for exceptional quality. The demand is very irregular. Dairy Produce— Butter and cheese remain at last week’s quotations. The above quotations are for delivery f.0.b., Lyttelton, sacks extra. CHRISTCHURCH STOCK MARKETS. At the Adlington yards on Wednesday, there were large entries of ail kinds of stock and a good attendance of buyers. Fat Cattle-A heavy entry, quality varied, hut quite up to the average. Values rmged for bullocks at from £5 15s to £9 I> ; heifers at from £1 5a to £7 15a p r tiftiid, being »t from 17s to 21s per 100 b, according to qun'ity. Store Cattle- A Urge entry, Three-year-old steers, £4 12s fid to £4 los p< r h ad ; 2-year-o'd, £3 to £3 2s fid ; twoye .r-okJ heifrra, £2 10a lo £2 15s ; rhreeye .r-olds, to £3 7-61 and £3 10. s; yearling*, from 16a to 255, Fat Mieep—A heavy entry ; quality very | vaiied, a good propoition beiog sent foriward ahum. Prime sorts were in good

demand throughout, but second quality fell in price. Best crossbred wethers sold at from 15s to 17 a 6d, and up to 20a per head. lighter weights, lie 9d to 13a 6d ; horn, 10s to 10s 9d ; merino wethers, in he wool, up to 13* 9d ; shorn do, to 9s, mutton in the wool ranging from 2Jd to a shade oyer 3d per lb, shorn mutton up to 2d per It).—Messrs Newton and Son sold for Mr Postlethwaite, 90 mixed cro*sbreds at 14s ; for Mr Barker, mixed crossbreds at from 13s 9d to 15s Id, Mr F. C. Tabart sold for the Levels Estate, 133 crossbred ewes at 10s 3d.

fat Lambs—A good number yarded, the best sorts selling well, viz., from 8s 3d to 11a 3d ; middling sorts, 7a to 8a; inferior, 4b to 6s. Pigs—Demand good. Porkers sold at from 19a to 30a per head; stores, from 9s 6d to 17s. DUNEDIN PRODUCE MARKETS. The following is the report for the week ending Wednesday : Wheat—Millers are showing an inclination to purchase small lots of useful milling sorts, but as large quantities continue to offer from the North, prices here are not improved, and even at low rates ruling the demand is only for limited quantities. Medium milling sorts are quite neglected, while fowl wheat is more plentiful and easier In price. Quotations ; Prims milling, 3a to 3s 9d, an extra fine lot to 3s lid ; medium milling, 3s 6d to 3s 7d ; fowl wheat, 3s to 3s 4d ; seconds, 2s 9d to 2s lid.

Oats—Arrivals daring the past week have bean light, and as considerable sales have been made for shipment and to speculators, prices have hardened. Millers ire inquiring for bright parcels; in tow feeding qualities prices are also a shade firmer. Prime milling, Is 8d to Is 9d; bright feed, Is 7Jd to Is 8d; ordinary feed, la 7d ; inferior, etc,, la 5d to la C jd. Barley—Supplies of malting quality are abort, and good samples would se'l at 4s to 4a 4d, bags extra ; milling, 3* 3d to 3s 6d ; feed, quiet at 2s 2d to 2s 6d.

Potatoes—The market is well cleared out and prices a litt’e higher. Sales for well-picked fresh Derwents are made at 80* to 40s; unpicked and stale parcels, 20s per ton. Ryegrass Seed—Very little doing beyond small orders for machine-dressed by farmers, which fetches 3s to 3s 6d ; undressed parcels are plentiful and unsaleable at almost any price. Ohsff—Good oaten sheaf, scarce, at £2 17s 6d ; medium, £2 10s to £2 12s fid ; inferior is plentiful at 30s to 40s, Butter—Salt, in kegs, 3d to sd, quiet j fresh, in mixed cases, 4d to 6d. Eggs—Bd per doz.

Sheepskins—On Monday green crossbreds sold at 3a lOd to 4a ] Id (a few extra heavy lines to 5a 7d); green merinos, 3s 4d to 4a 5d ; dry country crossbreds, Is 3d to 4s lid; do merinos, Is 2d to 4s Id ; pelts, 2d to 9d ; green lambskins, 6d to 9d ; skins in bales, 4Jd to 6d per Jb. Hides—The demand, which is quiet, is confined to local tanners, and prices are therefore very low. Tallow—Sales of all descriptions are passing, with a shade improvement in vxlues, beat mutton making £ls to £l6 10a; mixed and medium, £l2 to £l4 10s; inferior, £ll. Bough fat is wanted, and sells freely at 8s 6d to 10s for picked ; medium, 6s to Bs. DUNEDIN STOCK MARKETS. At the Burnside Yards on Wednesday the following business was transacted • Fat Cattle-—164 bead yarded. The greater part were medium quality and weights, with a few pens prime. Bidding was very quiet and slack through most of the ealea, but brightened up towards the close. Bullocks sold at £5 2s 6d to £9 ss; cows, £2 17s 6d to £6 Ifis.^ Fat Sheep—2oo3 were penned, including about 500 merinos. Prices all round were fully equal to last week’s. For heavy crossbreds there was an advance of la to 2a 6d per head. Crossbreds sold at 11* 6d to 17s 3d ; merinos, 8s 9d tolls 3d, Eat Lambs—The market was overstocked with 441. A large portion of these wore too small and quite unsuitable for butchers, selling at very low prices. Prime pens sold fairly well, althoagh not quite up to lust week. Best sold at 6s to 9s ; others, 2s 6d to 5s 9d.

Pigs—The market was barely supplied with 67 porkers; t' ere was a brisk sale and prices rather higher. Prices ranged from 20s to 40s.