DUNEDIN STOCK MARKET.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1916, 13 July 1889, Page 4

DUNEDIN STOCK MARKET.

At the Burnside Yards on Wednesday the following business was transacted : Pat Cattle—l 79 were yarded; the greater part were medium quality and weights, with a few pens prime. There was a brisk demand, and spirited bidding for all on offer, best

bullocks fetching a shade over last week’s rates ;i others fully equal to late ruling prices. Bullocks sold at £5 15s to £9, three very weights at £lO 7s 6d; cows, £4 10s to £6 17s 6d. —Mr John Grindley sold for Mr W. Grant (Elloughton), 14 small heifers at £4 7s 6d to £4.—Messrs * Wright, Stephenson and Co. ! sold for Mr A. Grant (Willowbank), 6 bullocks at from £8 to £7l2s 6d. Fat Sheep—3l33 penned, including 330 merino wethers. The quality was fully up to the average t The whole were disposed of at—for crossbred wethers, 10s to 14s 9d; two pens extra heavy do do sold at 15s to 15s 6d; crossbred ewes, 9s 3d to 14s; two pens Leicester ewes, 14s 6d to 15s 6d; merino wethers, 7s to 9s; quarterbred wethers, 10s to 11s 6d. —Mr John Grindley sold for Mr A. Grant (Willowbank) 144 crossbred ewes at 11s ; for Mr W. Grant (Elloiighton), 160 crossbred ewes at 10s 3d.—Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Co. also sold a line of halfbred ewes for Mr A. Grant.—Messrs Donald Reid and Co. sold for Mr John Allan (Belfield), 63 crossbred wethers at 13s 3d. —Messrs Reid, Maclean, and :Co, sold for Mr A. Grant 31 crossbred ewes at 11s, and 31 do at 10« 3d. Fat Lambs—Forty penned;, and sold by Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Co., on account of Mr A. Grant (Willowbank), at 7s 6d.' Pigs—The; marker was overstocked with 330, from stores to heavy sows. The demand for prime baeoners is still good; Other sorts ' falling in price. Prices ranged as follows :—Suckers, 4s to 8s 6d; stores, - 12s 6d to 225; porkers, 22s 6d to 355,; bacenera, 37s s s; heavy sows, 50s to 78s.

AUSTRALIAN MARKETS,

SYDNEY, Jilly 10. Two wheat cargoes comprising a total of 110,000 bushels, arrived from California yesterday. Latest wheat quotations are chick feed, 3s 4d to Bs Bd; New t Zealand milling, 4s to 4s 3d; Californian, 4s 6d; Adelaide, 5s 3d. Flour, New Zealand,’stonemade, £lO to £lO 10s; roller-made, £lO 10a to £ll 6a. Oats are quiet. Milling sorts, 2s 10dto3s2d; Maize, inferior sorts, 2a 6d; sound samples, 3s to 3s Id. Barley, Cape; 3s to 3s 4d. Bran, lUd to Is. Pollard, Is to Is o|d. Chaff, New Zealand, £6 to £6 10s. Potatoes, New Zealand, £5 to £5 ss, with market steady; Circular Heads, £5 15s I to £6. Onions, ‘Victorian, £22 per ton ; New Zealand shipments are being landed in bad. condition. Butter, imported dairy-made, 6d to 9d; separator, lOd to Is; local sorts, dairy-made, lid to Is ; factory-made Is Id to Is 2d. Cheese, New Zealand made, *6d to Bacon, hand-cured, 7d to 8d; New Zealand cured, 9^d; hams Is. July 11.

One of the cargoes of Californian wheat has been disposed of privately. The other has been stored awaiting a rise in prices. The total deliveries received here during the week were 458 tons of wheat and 358 tons of flour, from Victoria; 282 tons of flour, and 684 tons of wheat, from New Zealand. Melbourne, July 10. Wheat is quoted at 5s 7d to 6s 8d; flour, stone-made, £ll 10s; rollermade, £l3. Oats, ‘ Victorian, 4s Hd’; New Zealand milling, 4s 4d. Maize, 4s 3d. Barley, Cape, 4s. Bran, Is 3d. Peas, ss. Sugar, greys, £33 ss; medium whites, £34. Adelaide, July 10. Wheat, farmers’ lots, 4s 9d; shipping parcels, 4s lOd at Fort Adelaide, market dull and lifeless. Flour, stone-made, £lO 15s to £11; rollermade, £ll 15a to £l2. Oats, New Zealand, 4s 3d to 4s 4d. Barley, malting, 4s 3d to ss. Bran, ll|d to Pollard, Is 2|d to Is 3d. Sugar, rations, £2B 7s 6d; yellows, £29 10s; best whites, £35 10s. ENGLISH MARKETS. ( London, July 9. At the wool sales good merinos and crossbreds were very firm. Middle and faulty merinos and coarse crossbreds incline in buyers’ favour. July 10. The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for ! the* United Kingdom! is 1,686,000 quarters, and for the Continent 212,000 quarters. The American visible supply, is 14,000,000 bushels] The wheat market generally is ;6d dearer.