COMMERCIAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2077, 26 July 1890, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

CHRISTCHURCH STOCK MARKETS.

Messrs Matson and Co. report: — Pat Cattle—Sold at prices equal to 22s to 24s per 1001 b. Bullocks sold as high as £lO 10s; cows and heifers, £7 10s each. Store Cattle—6o yarded. Prices ranged from £1 to £4 Dairy Cows—Best, £5 5s to £6 10s; others, £1 10s to £3 10s. Tat Sheep—Best crossbred wethers, 20s to 26s 6d; medium, 18s to 19s 6d; maiden ewes, 16s to 17s 6d ; crossbred ewes, 18s to 20s; medium, 15s to 20s; merino wethers, 10s 6d to 15s, Store Sheep—Small entry. Maiden ewes, lis to 14s; crossbreds, 8s 6d to 12s. Lambs, 8s to 9s 6d. Horses—Good farm horses, £lB to £25; medium, £ls to £l6 10s; hacks and light harness horses, £8 to £l6. Pigs _ Suckers, 5s to 8s; stores, 163 to 17s 6d ; porkers in less demand —highest price, 41s.

DUNEDIN PRODUCE MARKETB.

The following is the report for the week ending Wednesday:— Wheat—Market unaltered, if anything rather easier, as local millers operate little; there is almost no flour selling. Best milling sorts, 3s 3d to 3s sd; medium, 3s to 3s 2d; for second-claes flour, 2s 8d to 2s lid. Powls' wheat is in fair demand. Good whole, 2s 6d to 2s 8d ; medium and broken and inferior, 2s to 2s 4d,

Barley—No demand. Best maltiog» 2s 7d to 2a 9d ; milling, 2s 3d to 2s 6d ; feed, Is 8d to 2s. Oats—Best milling, Is 4d to Is 4£d ; bright plump feed, Is 3d to Is 3^d; second quality and off-color, Is to Is 2d —all sacks extra, ex store. Pearl barley, £l6 to £l7 per ton; barley dust, £3. Onions, £7 to £B. Linseed can be placed at £ls to £l6 per ton. Flour —Timaru and Oamaru roller, £9 f.o.b. those ports; £9 5s here; Oamaru, town, and southern stone flour, £8 5s here; 50's, £8 15s for stone and £lO for roller. Oatmeal —Long ton bulk, £8 10s; 25's, £8 10s; 7's, £lO 10s ; short ton bulk, £B. Bran—£3 7s here, £2 10s f.o.b. Timaru. Sharps—£4 10s here, £3 15s f.o.b. Timaru. Potatoes—Derwents in full supply. For Northern, £3 to £3 ss; Southern, £2 15s to £3; kiineys, no demand, £2 to £2 10s. Pigs—Prices still rule low, 2£d to 3d; hams and bacon have little sale, former 7d to 8d; flitches and rolls, s£d to 6d. Chaff—Well cut heavy, £2 5s ; light and medium quality, 35s to 40a- A few weeks of boisterous weather might raise price to £3. Turnips, no sale, 15s to 16s, Carrots, 30s per ton. Straw—Oaten aud wheaten, 30s to 355. Hay, oaten, £2 10s : cloyer and ryegrass, £3 ss. Butter —Salt has little inquiry. Prime, 7d (kego returnable); off quality not saleable. Fraßh is scarce this week. Eggs are in fair supply. Honey—4fd to 5d for extracted; in comb, 6d per lb. Cheese—Factory, 4d ; loaves, 4id; Akaroa, large sizes, 3£d; for best loaves, from 3f-d to 4d; second quality, 3d. Grass Seeds—Eyegrass, 3a 6d to 5s 6d; cocksfoot, 4d to sd. Eape and turnip seed on application.

Sheepskins —Butchers best green crossbreds brought 4s 6d to 5s lid ; medium to good, 4s to 4s 4d ; inferior, 3s 6d to 3s lOd ; green merinos, 2s 6d to 3s 3d ; dry country skinß, Is 6d to 3s 9d; dry merino, Is 3d to 2s 9d; full-woolled crossbreds, 4a 3d to 5s 9d; merinos, 3s 6d to 5s ; dry pelts, 3d to Is.

Hides —Best heavy ox, in good condition, 2fd to 3d ; medium, 2|d to 2£d; light ox and best cow, 2d to 2£d ; mixed country parcels, to 2^d; bull hides, 4s to ss; calf skins, 6d to 2s.

Tallow continues to come forward in very limited quantities. Prime rendered mutton tallow is saleable at from £l7 lis to £lB 10s per ton ; medium to good, £ls 10s to £l6 10a ; best clean caul fat, £l2 10s to £l3 10s; butchers' rought fat, £lO to £11; inferior, £8 10s to £9.

DUNEDIN STOCK MAKKET3

At the Burnside Yards on Wednesday the following business was transacted :

Fat Cattle—l9B head yarded. Best bullocks brought £9 to £ll 10s; medium to good, £6 10s to £8; light, £5 to £6 ; best cowb and heifers, £7 to £8 10s; medium, £5 to £6 ss; on account of Mr John Grant (lemuka), 7 prime Devon heifers at from £8 2s 6d to £7.

Fat Sheep—2677 yarded. On the whole the sale was an eminently satisfactory one. Best crossbred wethers, 175.t0 18s ; one or two pens of extra hea>y sheep, 18s 3s to 19s; medium weight wethers, 15s to 16s ; light, 18s to 14s; best heavy ewes, 14s to 16s ; one pen at 18s 3d; medium 12s 6d to 13s 6d, light 10s to lis 6d, merino wethers to 14s 9d.

Pat Lambs—lo 3 penned, ranging in quality from medium to prime. As last week, most of those on offer went to farmers for grazing purposes, prices ranging from 8s 9d to 12s 9d. Pigs —Winety-one penned, chiefly baconers and porkers. Prime bacon pigs brought 45s to 525, extra heavy 55a to 60s; porkers, 22s to 255; stores, 12s to 19s; suckers, 6s 6d to 9s.

Store Cattle—During the past week a good few purchases have been made by local buyers of forward-conditioned cattle to finish ©f£ on turnips, but outside this class there is little or no inquiry. Store Sheep—Under this heading there is not a great deal doing at present.

ENGLISH MARKETS

London, July 28.

The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdon is estimated at 2,112,000 quarters. Eor the Continent 616,000 quarters. The American visible supply is estimated at 18,560,000 bushels.

The wool market is rather flat, and some of the merinos are slightly weaker.

Tallow, best beef, 25a to 25s 6d; best mutton, 26s to 26s 6i.

New Zealand mutton, prime selected, averages per lb. Hides, 3jd to 3fd per lb,