Commercial.

Western Star, Issue 1572, 20 June 1891, Page 2

Commercial.

INVERCARGILL MARKETS. U. Carswell and Co.’s weekly stock and produce report for the -week ending 17th June, 1891 We hell our regular sale in tho Invercargill yards on Tuesday. The entry was a moderate one in sheep; with tho yards well filled with fat and store cattle. There was a fair attendance of buyers and others interested. . . . Pat Cattle. —144 yarded, comprising about two-thirds prime cattle, the balance, cow beef, of ordinary quality. Notwithstanding the large number yarded, the butchers bought freely and for prime quality, late values were maintained. Cow beet and inferior qualify were not in demand and lot such values were down 10s to 15s per' bead. We quote prime beef tip to 20s per IJOlba. We sold on account of various vendors 88 head, at for bullocks from £5 to £8 ; and lotcows from £4 7s 6d to £6 7s Gd. Privately 75 head at £6 os. . , . Fat Sheep.—GOO penned. This is a smaller entry tnan usual, with a first-class demand. We sold 250 on account of various vendors, at for medium weight wethers and maiden ewes from 14s 3d to 14s Bd. Store Sheep— Oolv 1300 penned constating chiefly of odd lots of lambs and owes with only one line of good stores, for which there wits brisk demand. We sold on account of various vendors 449 two-tooth crossbred wethers ami maiden ewes at Ids 3d; 150 crossbred lambs at 7s 10d ; 42 do do (extra good) at lls 9d, and turned out unsold 160 merino wethers. Store Cattle. —There was a huge entry of mixed soi ls. Demand slack, except for forward conditioned bullocks, suitable for tut. nip feeding. Wo sold bullocks at £4 to £a; cowa t o £2 7s 6d ; two-year-olds to £2 12s (id ; yearlings to 255. Pig..—(Jn'y 35 yarded, which wc soul at up to 20~a for store sows, 10s to 15s for store shots. Sheepskin-’, Rabbitskins, Uides, Tallow, etc. —A.t our regular sale on Monday, we offered a fai • catalogue. Every lot was sold at full values. Butchers’ green crossbred skins at 4.4 2d to 4s sd, pelts from 6d to Is 9d Privately several linns freezing skins at 4s 3d to 4s 6d. Rabbitskins ; Autumn skins to lOd. (lidos at 7s 9d to 13s; medium weights at 4a 6d to 7s. Tallow- : Rough fat to 12s 3d, rendered to 15s 6d per cwt. Horsehair at Is per lb. Wheat. —No sale to report, market unchanged. Oats. — Wc cannot report any material change in ( his cereal since last week. At. the present moment the Bluff is blocked with grain. Fanners would do well to hold baok as much as possible for_ tho forced sales, mean lower prices ; this is the tendency at present. Last week’s prices could not be obtained.

DUNEDIN MARKETS. STOCK. On Wednesday prime bullocks (beavj weights) sold at £8 to £9 10s, do (ordinal > and liglit weights) £8 to £7 15s, half and three parts fat bullocks £4 to £o 10s, ordinary £3 10s to £5, beat cows from £G to £7 10s, ordinary £4 to £5 10s, inferior, £1 10s to £3. Fat Sheep.'—Prime crossbred wother.(lieavy) sold at 17s Gd to 38s 91; do do. ordinary weights, 16s to 17s; do do, medium qualitv, lls to 15s 61; do do, small, 12s 6d to 13s"Gd ; prime crossbred- owes, heavy, Ids to 17s; do do, ordinary weights, 14s Gel to 15s Gd; do do, light, 12s Gd to 11* ; merino wothors, 10s to 13s. Pigs.—Bacon pigs (heavy weights) sold at 35s to 40s; grain-fed bacon pigs (medium weights), 30s to 45s ; do porkers 18s to 23s ; bacon nigs (of doubtful feeling), 23s to 33a ; porkers, 14s to 20s ; stores, Ga to 17s ; suckers, 3s to 7s. Rabbit skins. —Suckers, 2ld to 4td ; runners, 51 to 7d ; summer greys, Gd to 9-i; autumn, 9.1 to Id; winters. Is to la 4id per lb. Hides.—Quotations unchanged. Tallow, from 9s per cwt for inferior to 20:for b.-st jvndei e I. CHAIN. Whent. — Holders in the view of a bare market and the very small quantity arriving, are not inclined to accept nuy reduction on current quotations. Prime milling, 4s Gd to 4.3 Sd ; medium, 4s 3d to 4s 5J ; inferior from 3s 7d.

Oats.—The demanti has seldom been slacker than it is at present an i unless holders mak» up their minds to accept equivalent prices to those ruling at the Blair, or unless piices improve in outside markets, there is littlt likelihood of much business being done bon iia some time. Milling oats are scarce, and as there are one or t o orders for shipment to befilled tit prosenl, any really prime samples could be placed at top rates. In thcabsouci of any business being done in feed oats the quotations are uecessirily nominal, Prime milling Is GJil to Is 7d ; heavy bright feed, Is Gi to Is G|d; discoloured feed, la 5d to Is s|d ; inferior Is 2d !o la 4d. Bailey.—Nothing doing. Kyegrass —At ni esiuit there is little doing, hut it is expected that there will bo a good demand when the spring sowing demand sets in. Slocks of colonial-grown teed are not b'aavv, but. iis considerable quantities of imported seed will bo in the market, prices are not likely to bo higher. Quotations unchanged.

Anneaux d’Or and her owner, Mr If. J. Sm-jrdon, are in trouble again, this time in Sydney. Smerdon found his mare was under look and key, ami for jostling two stable bovs was introduced to the It.M. Iho case was not s> tried when the last exchanges came to hand, but Anneax d’Or still remains :n the pi-saession of the police. At the inquest held at Invercargill on Tuesday into the stack the which occurred „t. Waimumn ou the 10th Mav, evidence was aiven that the grain was insured for £l5O in the New Zealand office, and that it was only wot ill £l3. The accountant of the New Zealand Loan Company, to whom tho oats were mortgaged, stated that tho pi oof ol e aim was nut in for £l3O, and this wiped ofl Penny’s liability to them and loft him £l9 and 90 bags of sound outs to the good. The Coroner said no doubt Penny was bettor ofl since "he insurance was paid, but ho did not think the cvidenc" would warrant the jury in tifiiliriLi ilihc thoy (t?be father and son) wilfully 8.-t hre to the grain. The jury found that tit" si .eks were wilfully set on fire by some pm son o- poi sons unknown, and strongly condor ji : the frequency with which inKitranci companies accept risks and pay losses ,out sufficient investigation Tho jmy t.-'o i xpresaed the opinion that some evidet.”o should have been culled from the v' oe which accepted the risk,