Commercial.

Western Star, Issue 830, 29 March 1884, Page 2

Commercial.

Customs revenue for the week ending, 28th

PRICES CURRENT WHOLESALE. Butter fresh, lOd per lb Salt butter, none Cheese (provincial) 6d per lb Bacon, 7d Hams (provincial) lOd do Potatoes Eggs, Is per dozen Oats, 2s 3d Wheat, 4s 6d Flour (Otago) £ll per ton Adelaide flour, none Riverton flour, £lO Oatmeal, (town made) £l4 per ton Pearl barley, £l3 do Pollard, £5 10s Bran, £4 10s do Oaten hay (new), £2 15s Chaff, £3 10s Straw, £2 Onions, none RETAIL. Eresh butter. Is per ib Butte” (potted), none Cheese (Pror ; "cial),Bd do Onions, none Hams (Provincial), Is do Eggs, is 3d per dozen Potatoes 7s per cwt. Oats, 2s 6d per bushel Barley, none .clour, £l2 10s Baeon (Provincial), 9.1 per lu. Chaff, 4s 6d per cwt. Bran, la per bushel ♦ DUNEDIN MARKETS. Mr J. H. Kilgour, grain and produce broker, reports under date March 26 as follows : Flour. —Prices remain at recent quotations yiz., £lO 5s in sacks and 1001 b bags, and £lO 15s in 50’s. Oatmeal.—£ll to £ll 10s per ton. Wheat. Owing to the continued bad weather retarding harvesting operations, there is very little coming forward ; but the tlemand is not active, and there is no improvement in prices. I quote prime milling at 3s lOd lo 4s; fowl feed, 2s to 3s. O a tg._These are in very short supply, and the demand is active both for local wants and for shipping, and higher prices can now he obtained —viz.a .Prime milling, 2s Id to 2s 2d; bright, short feed, 2s to 2s Id ; inferior and medium quality, Is lOd to Is lid. Barley.—There is very little doing ; prices are nominally, for malting, 3s 9J to 4s. 1 have no sales to report except a line of feed quality at 2s 9d. XPotatoes. —Supplies are short this week, and for any lots of Derwents coming in fresh from the farm £3 10s (bags weighed in) can readily he obtained. My only sales have been from the store, at £3 2s 6d. Butter. —I lave enquiries for shipment, and have no doubt that 9d per It) could now be got for prime salted, in kegs. %. Cheese.—The demand is fairly good at 4£d to 4fd per lb. Hams and Bacon. —Smoked, 9d to 9£d per ib ; green, 7d to 7£d. Chaff.—l have placed all consignments of good quality, well cut, at £3 10s, bags returnable ; but inferior quality does not sell. Grass Seed. —Ryegrass is not inquired for ; hut there is some activity in the demand for cocksfoot, which is readily saleable at 4ji per

lb. Rabbitskins. —I have no sales to repert, but there is a fair demand at recent quotations.

Messrs Weight, Stephenson, and Co. report for the week ending March 2C as follows;

Eat Cattle. —The supply was a small one, only 135 head being yarde 1 : still it proved quite equal to the requirements of the trade. Prices current wero much the same as last week’s. We sold 48 head as follows . —lO very prime bullocks at from £9 15s to £lO 10s; 6 bullocks at from £5 2s 6d to £6 17s 6d; —bullocks at np to £3 10s, and cows i ’biLhs: 5 cows at from £4 to £5 ss; 21 Tows prime beef at 20s perlCulu. * Eat Calvesi—Thirteen penned. We sold 11 at from 14s to 21s. Eat Sheep. —The market was well supplied, 2686 being penned, inclusive of 390 merinos. There was a fair demand, hut prices manifested no improvement on our last week’s quotations. We penned 956, and sold them is follows :—2l Southdown ewes at 26s and 21 Leicester ewes at 18s ; 30 very prime fourtooth half-bred wethers (heavy weights) »t 17s 6.1 } 241 crossbreds at 13s; 120 crossbred ewes at from 13s 3d to 14*; 55 crossbred wethers at from 16s to 16s 6d; 130 merino ewes at from 7s 3d to 8s ; 64 prime crossbred hoggets at 15s 3d ; 60 crossbreds at from 14» 9d°to 15s 9d; 20 prime crossbreds at from 15s 3d to 16s 3d ; 100 ero-sbred ewes at 13s ; 114 prime halfbred ewes at 13s. We quote prime mutton at 2jd per lb. r Eat Lambs. —384 penned. We sold 60 at 9s 9d. ' pi es . Only 37 came to hand. We sold 10 suckers at from 13s to 15*, and seven large pigs at from 59s to 625. There is at present a good demand for well-bred stores. We also note some inquiries for grain-fed bacon pigs, nut too big weights. Store Sheep. —Except young merino sheep, all other descriptions are dull of sale at present. Flock Rams. —We hove to report having sold for Mr J. J. M'Auley, of Portobello, 50 two and four-tooth Leicester rams at satisfactory prices. Horses. —The entries for last Saturday s 8!l i e wero very numerous, and they included several lots of country horses. The demand on Sydney account for good young draughts was brisk. We sold 17 medium draughts at f )rn to £26, and eight heavy draught colts at from £ls to £25; we sold a large number of light horses atfrom £8 to £ll 10s. We quote first-class draughts at from £25 to £35 ; medium, £l7 to £2O ; good hacks and li»ht-harn«Bß horses, £l7 to £22; medium, £° l2 t 0 £ls ; light and inferior, £3 to £B. Wool. In this market there is almost nothing doing, the season being now all but Sheeoskins. —We held cur weekly sale on Tuesday. There was the cast unary attendance of buyers, and compelit on was fairly active. Butchers’ green pelts fetched from o.i Lo IBd and lambskins from lOd to 24d ; dry country skins brought, from lid to 3s lOd. Hides —The market is verv firm at recent quotations, viz., from 31 to 4fd per lb ac- * dm-* to weight and condition. A few extra heavies (properly saved) hive realised —The demand is good, and nil parcels coming to hand find ready sale at. quotations Wo qn I e prime mutton at, £33 per ton ; good •,. c t £:H to £32; ordinary, f2B to £3O; inferior £24 to £25 ; rough fat, £lB to £23. Grain —Wheat: The unseasonable weather now prevailing has almost entirely put a stop \q business in this cereal as yf sll &S

Millers at present are obtaining their supplies from the North, and as shippers are not operating, the former are O'dy buying from band to mouth. We quote prime milling wheat, Tuscan and velvet, at from 3s lOd to 3s lid per bushel (bags in) ; medium, 3s 6d to 3s 9d ; and fowls’ wheat, 2s_ 3d to 2s 9d. Oats: There is at present a brisk export demand, but prices manifest no improvement. Supplies are coming forward very slowly. We quote prime milling at 2s 2d per bushel (bags in) ; bright short feed, 2s to 2s id ; and Danish oats, is lid to 2s—if bags charged, per bushel less. Barley : We have received several samples of the new crop, but at the prices asked by vendors cannot effect sales. Melbourne, March 25. Melbourne manager of the National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand (Limited) reports of the local grain market as follows:—Wheat, 3s lid to 4s; market strong. Malting barley steady at 4a 3d to 4s 7d. New Zealand oats are in fair demand at 2s 5d to 2s 9d for feeding, and 2s lOd to 2s Hd for milling qualities. New Zealand oats under bond, 2s 4d to 2s Bid. Christchurch, March 27 . Wholesale produce prices—Barley, malting 4s to 4s 6d per bushel. Butter, B£d to 9d per lb. Cheese, 3£d to 4£d per lb. Flour, £9 10s. Hams and Bacon (in cloth), Bd. Huy, £3 to £3 10s. Oats, milling new, 2s to 2s 21; feed, new, 2s to 2s Id. Wheat, milling (sound), new, 3s 3d to 3s sd. Peas, 3s to 3s 6d. Potatoes, (Derwents), 27s 6d to 30a. Retail Prices —Fresh butter, Is per lb; eggs, la 61 per doz ; cheese, 8d to 10d per lb ; milk, 4d per quart. Beef, 4lto 8d per lb ; mutton, 3d lo sd; pork, 7d; ham, Is; bacon, lOd per lb; lamb, 2a 6d to 3s per quarter.

March, 1884. Sugar ... 4 3 2 Goods ad valorem 2 8 3 Tea 3 6 8 £9 18 1