DUNKDIN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3542, 4 February 1886, Page 2

DUNKDIN.

Feb. 3. Mr D. Stronach reports for the week onded Fobrnary 3rd, as follows : — Fat cattle— 223 head were yarded at Bnrnsido to-day for tho week's supply. The greater portion of these wero good to prime quality, the balauco only light and medinm. Thero was only a moderate competition, and prices all ronud were considerably lower than for the last fow weeks. Best bullocks brought Ji7 103 to £0, ono extra heavy Polled Auru3 reachod .£lO 10s, others £i to £1 ; oow3 m proportion. Fatsheop — 2425 wero penned, ai'> I of theso 200 woro merino wethers, the ba.VWe > crossbreds, half of which were prime quality, tho rest consisting of aged ewes of inferior to pood useful qnality. Competition lacked spirit, and while prices differed- but little for : poor quality, prime suffered: r» decline of 3s to 'Si Ud per head from l^.t weeks rates. Beat . crossbred wethers brought 8s to 10s ; others, (Is i to 7s S>d ; do civcs, 3s to 7s 9(1 ; merino weth'ottt j brought os to 7s tjd. Grain— Wheat has Wn m good request during tho past week, tile demand for prime simples being: autiVQ tvV thn supply is comparatively Knviter}, * ie ordinary and inferior samples havo <■•"' cvel J considerably. Wo quoto urimo u>"' . aVi o lc Si to 3s 9d ; modium, 3s «d to 3a 7i> :' l l n K> 3s Bt ,' fowl wheat, 2s 9d to 3* M , ■'■ lnforlor veXsheH m!. Qata moot- . A" store, sacks inand, chiefly fov lomi> wlth m "derato delots are being piok' , requirements. A few However, prossu*- - d "l> to "old meantime, export, but w ; ra , tea Preclude business for quotations »" -, I 1 ? 1 * 3 . nro !'S U *' Jost s the woeV ' c ' alr 'y WG^ mamtaiued. IJurinjj stout v "w0 s ?''! "*■ ""ction uud privately },_:„• .jright millint' at 2s G:l to 2s 7d ; short y „it food, 2s '-'d to 2s Id ; medium, 2s to 2s -jd ; inferior and musty, la 7d to Is lOd (ex storo, bags weighed m). Barloy is but little inquired for, although prime malting samplos are selling; until the now crop is m tho market quotations will bo only nominal. Feed and milling realise from 2s to 2s (Jd (bags weighed m). Grass seed — There ia nothing of any consequence paasing m these. Wo have none of tho new seed m yet, but with suuh favorablo woather for harvesting operations wo may reasonably expect to sne theso seeds arriving m good condition, when no doubt a fair markot will open out, meantime prices are nominal. We are m possession of samples of Poverty Bay new ryegrass need, ranging from oh "id to Ga per bushel, f.o.b. there (sacks oxtra).