Commercial.

Western Star, Issue 1546, 21 March 1891, Page 2

Commercial.

WESTERN DISTRICT MARKETS. gTJ. K. Mills and Co, auctioneers, Riverton, report — The sale of the annual draft of sheep from the Glad field estate flock, held by us at Poster’s yards, Thornbury, on the 18th inst. ■was the "most successful os regards prices ever held there. The surplus stock from this estat", which has been disposed of in this district during the past three years bavin f given entire satisfaction to the various purchasers, and a larger number than usual being submitted at this sale, attracted buyers frorn all parts of the district, and some from a considerable distance. Great credit, is due the manager for the excellent condition in which the sheep were yarded, which no doubt contributed greatly towards the success of the sale. Bidding throughout was spirited, aud the competition for the breeding ewts very keen, the supply being much short of the requirements of buyers present, many of them purchasing lambs instead, and a number not getting a sheep. The lot comprising 1400 ewes and 2500 lambs war. chared at the following satisfactory prices;—Ewes, 101 fat mixed ages at 12s; 101 do do, 11s lOd ; 89 do 2-tootb, 11s 7d ; 236 do do, 12s 2d ; 288 eight-tooth, 11s 7d; 56 E'x-tooth, 12s 2d; 76 aged, 10s 2d; 158 do, 7k lOd ; J2O four-tooth, 12s sd; and 173 eight-tooth (small), 10s 3d. Lambs—--250 at 7s 7-i; 100 at 7a scl ; 214, 7s 4d; 824, 7s 2d ; 240, 9s Id ; 495, 9s lid ; 303 fat, 11s 3d; and 103 small culls, 4s 3d; 15 rams at from 11s to 17s each. We also sold a line of 440 lambs at from 9s to 9s 2d ; 200 aged ewes at from 6s to 7s 7d; and 40 fat ewes at 10s 6d.

DUNEDIN MARKETS

STOCK. At Burnside on Wednesday, best bullocks brought from £6 10s to £8; medium, £4 10s to £6; light £3 to £4; best cows, £5 to£7 ; medium, £2 10s to £4 10s; inferior, £1 to £2. Fat Sheep.—Best crossbred wethers brought from 13s to 14s; medium do do, 11s to 12s 6d ; light do do, 9s to 10s; best do ewos, 12s to 13s; ordinary do do, 10s to lls tkl; light do do, 7s to 9s ; merino wethers of medium quality 7s to Bs.—Faflambs: Prime freezers fetched from 10s Gd lo 12s 6d ; ordinary lots, 8s 6d to 9s Gd ; light and inferior, 6s to 7s Gd.

Pigs.—Baconois, 30s to 38s ; porkers, 21s to 275; stores, 15s t o 17s; suckers, 3s to 7s. Hides, from lid per lb for light and inferior np to 4d for prime heavies. Tallow, 9a 6J to 21s per cwt. GRAIN. Wheat.—Tory litile, has boon done in locally grown wheat as yet, and millers are not at ail anxious to stock at present rates. Prime milling, 3s 9d to 3s lid; ordinary, 3s 7d to 3s 9d ; inferior, 3s 4d to 3s Gd. Oats: A few samples of new’ oats have reached ns during the past week, and as vessels have been on the berth for Sydney, from whence rather more encouraging reports are heing received, all suitable parcels were readily sold. Shippers, however, are not inclined io advance on list week’s quotations, and although small parcels have been sold at a slight advance the sales were made only to fill urgent requirements, and it would be misleading to quote the figures obtained for these sales us market rates. We quote: Prime milling, Is sid ; heavy bright feed, Is od ; ordinary, Is 4d to Is 44d ; Banish and long. Is 4.1 to Is 44d. Barley: There is practically no business doing. Ryegrass.—The demand is now principally confined to clean samples fit for sowing without being cleaned, but as the great bulk of the season’s seed has been already placed on the market, the business done is limited. Dirty samples are also saleable at equivalent prices to machine-dressed seed: —Machinedressed, 5s to Cs 3d ; heavy clean farmers’ dressed seed, 4s 9d to 5s ; medium do do, 4s 3d to 4s Sd. Dirty seed according to estimated loss in cleaninsr.