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New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 60, 20 June 1874, Page 5

COMMERCIAL.

Messrs Driver, Stewabt and Co. report as follows, for the week ending June 17th :— Fat Cattle. — The weekly market to-day was fully supplied with 110 head, but, as has been the case during the last month, only a very small portion of them were of prime quality. Anything really good was keenly competed for, and a few bullocks brought as high as £14 5s each, while, on the other hand, ordinary to middling were difficult to dispose of, 20 head having to be turned out. We quote prime quality, 25s to 26s per 100 lbs; ordinary, from 17s to 20s. We sold at the yards 45 head. Fat Sheep. — 900 were penned, most of which were cross-breds, and sold at from 11s to 14s 6d each. A few merinos of fair quality brought up to 10s. We quote prime cross -breds at 2£d to 2f d ; merinos, 2&d. We sold at the yards 100 cross-bred*, and have placed 300 for forward delivery at current rates. Fat Calves. — Only a few were penned, of ordinary quality, which we sold at from 15s to 2Cs. Store Cattle.— Grown bullocks and spayed cows are very rateable at our quotations, say, £4 to £5 f->r the former, and £3 to £3 10s, for the latter. We have sold during the week 100 head. Store Sheep. — Cross-breds, 4-tooth and upwards, are in good demand for turnip feeding at from lls to 12s ; 2-tooth do, 9e to 9s 6d ; do lambs, 7s to 7s 6d. Young merino ewes in lamb are saleable at from 7s 6d to 9s ; do old ewes, at from 5s to 5s 6d ; do wethers, fis 6d to 7e 6d. We have sold in various lots during the week 2500. Wool. — By the Claud Hamilton, at Hokitika, yesterday, the following public telegram was received : — " London, June 6th. At the wool sales, competition continues vigorous, and prices are very firm. Altogether 224,000 bales were sold. The French demand is large, and home buyers are operating more freely." At auction to-day, a few i baley — odd lots — were disposed of at from B£d to tl^d for greasy. The demand was very weak, however, and for several small clips now ia the market for private sales, the prices offered were much under cwners' valuations. Sheepskins. — There was but a thin attendance of buyers at our sale to-day. Nevertheless, competition was brisk, and all the lots offered, comprising about 1500, chiefly green skins, were disposed of at the following satisfactory rates : — Green rnerinoeß, 2s 3d to 2s 5d ; crosa-breds, 3s 6d 3s 7d ; dry skins, Is to 4a 3d according to quality. Hides and Tallow. — Nore offered. G-rain.- - Wheat — Really prime samples are wanted, and saleable at fully last week's quotations. Ordinary and'lnferior descriptions, on the contrary, are in plentiful supply, and command barely late rates. Quotations, 4s to 4s 3d for inferior ; 4s 6d to 4s lOd for good to prime. Barley is without alteration, goodteamples^beingjstill in request, at 5s to 5s 3e ; inferior and medium. 4s to 4a 9d. Oats command freely 4a Id to 4s 2d, for feed, and 4s 3d to 4s 6d for choice milling.