Commercial.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 7, 8 June 1883, Page 18

Commercial.

Mb. Donald STBONAOtt(on bebflf of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited) reports for the week ending 6th June as follows :— B Fat Cattle.— l 67 head were forward for the week's supply, chiefly medium quality, and without any improvement in valueß. Bnllocks fetched £5 to £10 ; cows, £4 12s 6d to £8 10s. We sold a draft of mixed bullocks and heifers at £4 17s 6d to £5 10s and quote prime beef, 22s 6d ; medium, 17s 6d to 20s per 100 ft. Fat Calves.— Only 7 yarded, and sold at up to 30s. Fat Sheep.— l,64B cross-breds and 600 merinos were penned, all of which were fair to good quality. Prices obtained were about equal to last week's. Cross-breds fetched from 9s 6d to 15s 3d, and merinoes 9s to 10s 3d. . We sold on account of the New Zealand Agricultural Company, 120 crossbreds, at 13s 6d ; Mr. Anderson, Palmeraton, 108 do., at 9a to lls 3d ; Mr. Paton, Pukeuri, 20 do. at 10s 3d— and 19 merinos, at 9s. We quote mutton at 2d per lb. Fat Lambs.— Only three were forward, and sold at 9s to 10s 3d. Pigs.— 7s were penned, and, under spirited competition, were all disposed of at 17s to 72s ea.ch. Sheepskins.— At our auction on Monday last we cleared a large catalogue, and with brisk competition, at improved prices. Butchers' green cross-breds fetched 2s 4d to 3s Id ; do. merinoes, 2s 5d to 2s lOd ; dry cross-breds, 2s 6d to 3s 7d ; do. merinoes, 2s 8d to 5s 2d. Skins in bales, 4d per ft. Rabbitskins.— We did not offer any this week, but will catalogue several lots next Monday. Hides continue in good reqaest, but without any changers value. We placed all to hand at 3d to 3Jd for light, 4d for medium, and 4£d for extra heavy. Tallow.— We offered a good catalogue on Monday last. Biddings were animated up to certain limits, which were rather under late rates. Inferior and mixed sold at 18s to 27s 6d : fair to good at 31s ; rough fat at 22s 6d per cwt. Grain.— Wheat,: There is only a limited demand, and prices easier. This applies more especially to sprouted and medium sorts, stocks of which are daily increasing, as very few sales are being made. Choice milling is saleable at 4s Id to 4s 2d ; medium, when sales can be made, range from. 3s 3d to 3s 9d ; inferior and fowls' wheat, 2s 3d to 3s.— Oats : There is a fair demand for shdrt bright sorts, fit for milling, also for short bright feed ; but prices are not quite so firm if in any way discoloured. We quote for good milling, Is lOd to Is 10£ d : do. feed, Is 9d to Is 9Jd ; medium, Is 8d to la B£d ; very much discoloured and irregular, Is 6s to Is 7^d, and very difficult to place.~Barley : Prime malting parcels are in request at from 4s 6d to 4s 9d ; medium, 4s to 4s 3d ; feed and milling, only in limited demand, the former at 2s 6d to 3s, and the latter at 3s 3d to 3s 9d.