DUNEDIN MARKETS-STOCK, &c. Burnside Yards—Wednesday.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1179, 12 September 1885, Page 2

DUNEDIN MARKETS-STOCK, &c. Burnside Yards— Wednesday.

Fat Cattle. — 258 head yarded— an extra supply— and as the quality was varioui, the biddings were irregular. There were, however, large numbers of prime beasts forward — superior beef, considering the season of the year, and notably the Clydevale bullocks as a lot. Other drafts — many »f thorn light weightt, but nearly ripe— sold well, but on the whole "the trade" bad the best of the day, Best bullocKi biougnt. up to £11 sb; cowi, £9 7s 6d.-— Mr Donald Stronaoh quotr s prime beef at 20s and ordinary at 17s 6d per ICDIb. Fat Sheop. — 1251 forward, of which nearly one-half were merinos. — Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Co. sold on account of James Logan, Fopotunoa Estate, 57 three-quarter-bred merino wethers at 14s 6d, and 63 merino wethers at lOi ; for Mr John Douglai, Waihao Downs, 80 cross-breds at 13i 9d, and 40 halfbreds at 13s 9d ; and for Messrs R. Campbell and Sons, limited (Otekaike), 216 merino wethers at from 10s 6d to lls 3d ; and quote prime mutton at 2f d per lb. Horses. — Messrs Wright, Stephemon and Co. quote first-class draughts at from £25 to £30 ; medium, £15 to £20 ; first-class hacki and light-harness horses, £18 to £25 ; medium, £6 to £13; light and inferior, £2 to £5, and Pigß.— 2o3 penned, chiefly porkers, bacon pigs. The demand was flack, and price s considerably lower than last woek's. Bacons sold at from 35s to 555 ; porkers, up to 32s 6d ; stores, to 255 ; suckers, to 12a. Wool. — The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company reports : — We have received the following telegram from our London office : " The sales opened to-day at an average decline of 5 per cent, on the lait sale's closing rates, except good quality crossbred, light in grease. The market is weak, and tho Continental demand poor. The latest Press telegram reports a total of 36,000 bales bsing offered so far, of irbioh 5600 hay* been withdrawn ; the tone of the market continuing weak, especially so for scoared wools of all descriptions. Crois-brada maintain the July closing rates. Merino are from 7 to 10 per cent, below the priie realised at the July sales. The number of bales catalogued up to the sth was 60,030, and the total number available was 340,000." Sheepßkins.— G-reen cross- breds bring 3s to 3s lid ; do merinos, 2s to 3i lOd ; dr/ croisbreds, lOd to 3s 8d j do msrinos, 8d to 3s Id j pelts, 4d to lid jlambikins, 7d to 2s Id. Rabbiliskins.— Suckers and inferior bring 2d tosd; medium lots, 6d to 9d ; fair to good, lOd to 12d j luperior to prime, 13d to 14Jd per lb. Hides,— The market continues, as for months past, unchanged. Ruling rates range from 2£d to 4fcd, according to weight and condition. Tallow. — Only in demand for taeal .consumption at — for prime, up to 21s ; medium, 17s to 19i j inferior, 14* to 16s ; ro«gh fat, 10a to 12s per cwt. l__ui=^j^k=

Lime for agricultural purposes consigned to country .stations, or shipped for export, willbe charged in eJaaa Q for distances not exceeding fifty miles.