COMMERCIAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17033, 18 June 1917, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

. Daily Times Office, Saturday morning. The latest quotation for Bell's matches is: Plaids, 6s 9d; Royals, 16s 9d; and 2503, 28s 6d per gross. Stocks are very short. Chamberlain's goods have been advanced to 14s per dozen for small and 28s for . large. ; Cream of tartar has now reached to 2s 6d per lb. Quaker oats are again available. Tho quotation has been increased to lis per ■.dozen. The quotation for Pearson's sandsoap is now given as 17s per case. A small parcel of Japaneso batter beans has arrived on the market. Hie sample is a very good ono. > An increase of 30s per ton has taken place : during the week in tho price of rice. ! It is reported unofficiaJly that the kerosene boat which was due to arrive in' New : Zealand towards tho end of July has not yet left New York, the declaration of war • by America having evidently upset the shipping arrangements. An advance of 6d per ■ case has now taken place, tho current price ■ to-day from store being 13s 6d per case. Reckitts (Limited) have slightly increased , : the prico of Braseo and Zebra penny black ; lead. ; ' Tho price of Burmah candles is per ■ lb. Tho prunes market is firm; 60s to 70s are , ]uotcd at 7d per lb. Spratt's bird seed and parrot food is priced at 6s 6d. Persorvine eoap is quoted at 58s per case. Clothes pegs aro now worth 6s 6d per box. Peanuts are quoted 'up to 4id per lb. Twine is in short supply, with quotations rul'njr high. Sicily almonds are on offer at Is 9d per . lb. C.M.O sheep tongues aro now being put up in 12oz net tins, and aro quoted at 16s .a dozen. COMMERCIAL CABLEGRAMS. Pross Association—By Telograph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z Cable Association. LONDON, Jurio 16. • ("Received Juno 17, at 5.5 p.m.) Chicago Wheat.—July options, 229 cents , to 232 cents; September, 201 cents, to 193 cents. New Zealand mutton, 9§d per lb. Other meats are unchanged. Tho rabbit market is flat, and prioes are unchanged. ;/ The hemp market is firm. High point 5; fair. May-July shipment, £89. Rubber.—Para, 33 Ojd; plantation and smoked, 2s 9d. Copra.—Spot, £45 ss/ ; The hide market is chill. There aro no . Australian hides offering. Prices aro nomi- ' nally unchanged. Leather is in small supply. Best AtistraV'nn. 30s to 395. > . Basils are,at a standstill owing to Governmerrt oontrol. Priccs aro nominally unV: changed.

OAMARU MARKETS. (Fnou Our Own Corjikst'ondeiit.) OAMARU, June 16. ■ The week has boon another of little . movement in tho local market'. A few small lines of wheat, ranging from 300 sacks nnd embracing velvot, Marshall's white, ? Tuscan, red straw, and Dreadnought have ' changed hands at country stations, iA shade moro business has been done in <oats, several modest lincs_ having been aci. <}pircd at tho foOowiag prices, not, at coon-

try stations:—Good hoary milling or seed Gortons, 3s lOd; heavy feed Gartons, 3s 8d; fair Gartons, 3s 7d; light Gartens, 3s sd; fair duns, 3s Id. _ Potatoes are_ almost tut a standstill. A little business in small lines has been done at £4 net, on trucks, and present quotations are from £3 15a to £4.

The stock market haa been fairly busy with sheep, but not a Bingl© sale of cattle is reported. At a clearing sale at Ngapara during tho week mixed six and eight-tooth ewes sold at 33a, failing-mouthed ewes at 265, and small halibred ewe lambs at 23s 3d l . At another clearing Kile at Maruakoa, mixed four, six, and eight-tooth Romney owes made 40s, two-tooth owes 35s 6d, 35s 9d, and 36s 3d, four-tooth owes 355, failingmouthed ewes 275, mixed sex lambs 24s 6d, fat owes 325, and fat lambs 28s. A good business has been done in hoggets by private treaty, amongst the sales being a lino of 800 mixed sexes at 24s 6d, and a- line of halfbrod wether hoggets at 17s 6d. Other isales of sheep in smaller lines oomprised the following Mixed four, six, and eight-tooth ewes, 32s 6d; mixed four,, six, and eighttooth half and three-quarterbred ewes, 31s; ftvo-year-old ewes, 30s; empty ewes, 265; fat wethers, 355; storo wethers,» 27s 6d; store halfbred wethers, 24s 9d; hill twotooth wethera, 23s 6d: extra good mixed sex hoggets, 265; owe hoggets, 24s 9d; ewe lambs, from 23s 6d to 275.

SOUTHLAND MARKETS. ' (Fbom Odb Own Correspondent.) INVERCARGILL, June 16. Owing to recent arrivals in Auckland by Home liners of Australian oats, which are selling ex wharf at a shade under the equivalent of local prices, business with northern ports lately has been decidedly restricted. "Values ore in accordance with my latest advioe, A grade Gartons being worth 3a 9d per bushel at stations handy to port, but at this price merchants are not keen to operate. The s.s. Te Anau left Bluff on the 11th with a full cargo, including some 6000 sacks of oats. This, however, was only about half the quantity which space had been applied for. Possibly the remaining half is the total of business which has been contracted for by local houses to uorthern merchants. Farmers are showing more willingness to sell at current rates than -'formerly. Local values for ohaff are from £4 7s 6d up to as 1 high as £4 12s 6d for extra prime new chaff. The demand is purely local. Supplies, however, ore not coming forward freely from the country, and it is more on this account than any other that prices have somewhat advanoed.

A good deal of business in ryegrass has been done recently with the north, at prices ranging from 6s 6d per bushel for 271b soed up to 7s for 301b to 311b seed; somewhat better prioes havo been secured. for exceptional lines.

Hemp is still in much the same position. Shipping facilities axe practically nil. but despite this, good fair .is to-day worth in the neighbourhood of £50 per ton on trucks. Little business, however, is passing, but if freights were available merchants would eagerly pick up anything offering at these prices.

During the week business in stock has been fairly good, and a fair quantity of stock has chongod hands privately. Plenty of feed is assured, and graziers arc operating fairly freely in store stock. In the fat section tho market continues firm, although the congestion in the freezing works has made sheep somewhat easier of late, but a demand from outside butchers has this week restored its firmness. In the store section although there is plenty of feed, buyers are not too confident without definite knowledge of the freezing space which will be available >in future. A month, however, should see an improvement in this market. are as follow:-Fat Cattle: Ox beof, 44s 6d to 45s 6d; heifer beef, 42s 6d to 43s beef, 40s to 425. Fat Sheep: Jixtra heavy butchers' wethers, 38s to 41s; prime, 35s to 375; medium and unfinished', Ws to 345; extra ewes, 31s to 33s 6d • prime, 27s to 295. Store Cattle: Three-year-old bullocks, £11 to £12 15s; two and a^ a l f ; ycar " £1 ° to £ H 10s; two-year-old. £8 10s to £9 ss; 18 months. £6 to £7yearlings £5 to £5 10s. Store Sheep: Two-tooth ewes, 34s to 355; four-tooth. 35s 338 t0 34s &d; eight-tooth, oo' [j° i n , nd ewes, <4Us to <zs 6(1; older ewes, down to 16s: mixed-sex hoggets, good sorts, 24s 6d to u ; ° ws „n°KCfets. up to 27s 6d; wether hoggets. 23s to 245; two-tooth wethers, 29s to 31s; four and six-tooth, 31s to 355.

OTAGO FARMERS' HORSE BAZAAR. Tho Otago Farmers' Co-operative Association reports: Wo held our weekly sale last Saturday, and submitted 35 heavy and light . The whole of tho consignment met with fair competiion, and changed owners under the hammer at prices quite in keeping with vendors expectations. The balance o! tho entry was made up of aged and inferior scuts. There is a better tone spring3n£up for young, sound, clefty mares and geldings, suitable for plough teams and lorry work. Quotations; lioung, sound sharp, clifty, geldings, £25 to £28; extra heavy horses, £26 to £32; seven-year-old ant J ov , er mares and geldings, £13 to £20; and what i 3 usually termed aged, £10 to £12; vanners and spring-carters, £14 to £20; light sorts of harness horses, at fluctuating prices.