COMMERCIAL.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11690, 17 September 1903, Page 6

COMMERCIAL.

United Press Association—By Electric. Telegraph—Copyrig hi. LONDON. September 15. Tho total quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,855,000 quarters, and for the Continent 1,425,000 quarters. Shipments from American Atlantic ports total 170,000 quarters, and from Pacific ports 5000 quarters. Shares are unaltered. Copper—On spot, £57 2s 6d per ton; three months, £56 15s per tou. THE AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. •SYDNEY, September 15. Wheat, chick. New Zealand medium, 4s 9d : milling, Argentine, 4s 8d ; Califomian, 5s Id. Flour. £l2 to £l2 15s per ton; Argentine, £ll 15s per ton. Oats, New Zealand feeding, 2s 6d to 2s 8d; milling. 2s lOd. Barley, 3s 9d to 5s lOd. Maize, prime local, 5s 9d; Argentine, 2s lid to 5s Id. Bran, 8' 2 d to 9d. Pollard, lOd to lOid. Potatoes, Circular Heads, £2 10s to £3 per ton; New Zealand Early Rose, £6 to £6 10s per ton. Onions, £'d 10s to £5 per ton. Butter, best, 9£d to lOd. Bacon, B}d to lid. MELBOURNE, September 16.

Wheat. Argentine, 4s lid; Victorian and Califomian, to 5s Old. Flour, £ll 15s per ton. Oats, Algerian, Is lid to 2s 3d; New Zealand 8., 2s 6Jd. Maize. 3s 2d to os 3d. Bran, 9id to lOd. Pollard, lOd. Potatoes, £1 10s to £2 5s per ton. Onions, to £2 per ton. ADELAIDE, September 16.

Wheat is nominally at ss. Flour, £l2 10s per ton. Bran, lid. Pollard, Is. LONDON WOOL SALES. JULY PRIOES MAINTAINED. LONDON, September 15. Tho September series of London and colonial woo] sales have opened with brisk competition, and with prices at. par to 10 per cent, above the closing sales of the last series. (Received September 16th, 11 p.m.) LONDON, September 16. At the wool sales Buxton and Ronald, Balme and Company, and Jacomb and Son offered 10,433 bales. Three fifths of tho offering was New Zealand clips. There was a full attendance, and animated competition in. all, sections, tho Americans being interested in choice crossbreds. Compared with tho July sales all merinos firmly maintained their prices; finer crossbreds were firm, and medium coarse classes 5 to 10 per cent, higher.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, have received the following cablegram from London, dated .September 15th:—"Wool—Tho sales opened with spirit. .Since the close of last sales prices are about the same for line greasy crossbred and merino, hue crossbred slipe, fine scoured crossbred and greasy crossbred lambs, while for medium greasy crossbred and medium scoured crossbred, coarse crossbred slipe, coarse greasy crossbred, and coarse scoured crossbred prices are sto per cent., higher." Messrs Dalgety and Co., Limited, have received the following cable message from their London office, dated loth inst.: "Tho wool sales have opened. There was a largo attendance of buyers, a fair selection, and competition was animated. Prices of merinos and fine crossbreds are firm. Medium crossbred wools are on the average 5 per cent, higher, and coarse crossbred wools are on the average 7A per cent. higher than closing rates of last series. The dates of own sales are September 16th, 22nd, and 29ih."

The National Mortgage and Agency Co. have received the. following cable from their London office:—The market for merinos, all descriptions, is unchanged. Fine crossbred has a firmer tendency. The .sales opened at an average advance of 10 per cent, for medium and coarse crossbreds. ADDIXGTON SALEYABD& (BY OUR commercial editor.) There was a fair entry of stock in tho yards, and a good attendance. Store sheep met with a good sale, and fat sheep were firm at last week's rates. Beef was inclined to bo easier, and pigs sold at about last week's rates. Store cattle were again in good demand, and prices were without alteration. STORE SHEEP. Only 1370 store sheep were offered, and all classes sold exceptionally well, especially good hoggets and forward wethers. The chief sales were—2oo six and eight-tooth owes in lamb 18s, 125 wethers 19s, others 18s Id to 18s 6d, 143 hoggets 16s 10d, 245 at 16s 7d. 108 at 16s Id, 92 at 15s 7d, 102 at 14s lOd. FAT LAMBS. Five new season's fat lambs, sent in by Mr J. O. Amyes, Hornby, sold at 17s 6d to 23s 3d. FAT SHEEP. A medium entry of fat sheep consisted chiefly of good to prime crossbred wethers, with a few pens of ewes, and several lines of merino wethers. Tho market opened well, and last week's prices were fully maintained throughout, and in some cases a slight rise in values was shown, Extra prime heavy wethers made 25s 6d to 29a, prime 21s to 255, lighter 18s 6d to 20s lOd, extra prime heavy ewes 24s 6d to 23s 3d, prime 20s to 245, others 17s to 19s 3d, prime merino wethern 18s 9d to 235, others 13s 4d to 18s. The principal sales were for:—Mr L. White. Rakaia, 46 wethers 27s to 295, 54 ewes 26s 3d to 28s 3d; clients, 130 wethers 20s lOd to 27s 3d, 153 merino wethers 18s 6d to 22s 3d, 202 wethers 22s to 22s Id, 119 merino wethers 13s 4d to 13s 9d; Mr YV. W. McClelhnd, Kimberlcv, 124 wethers 22s 9d to 26s 6d; Mr A. Todd, Waipara, 59 wethers 21s 3d to 26s 3d; Mr S. Smith, Cusfc, 63 wethers 24s 3d to 25s 6d, 33 ewes 18s to 18s 9d; Culverden Estate, 224 wethers 24s 9d; 'Mr F. Simmons, Timaru, 108 wethers and ewes 23s 4d to 24s 6d; Mr P. J. Andrew, Springston, 59 ewes 23s lOd to 24s 6d ; Mr D." Kumrn. Waddington, 47 wethers 23s 9d to 24s 3d, ewes 19s 3d ; Mr S. Cox, Lyndhurefc, 54 wethers and maiden ewes 21s 9d to 24s 3d, 6 hoggets 21s; Mr J. H. Davison, St. Leonard's, 64 wethers 22s to 24s 3d; 3lr J. Copland, Ohertsev, 60 wethers 21s 7d to 245; Mr T. T. bowling, Oakleidi, 60 wethers 23s to 245; Mr W. W. Wright, Kinree, 192 wethers 22s 3d to 245; Mr J. Gilbert, Dunsandel, 187 wethers 20s 9d to 235; executors late Mr E. G. Wright, Windermere, 232 merino wethers 18s 9d to 235; Mr T. Kain, Springfield, 41 wethers 21s 8d to 22s 9d; Chamberlain's Estate, Ellesmere. 58 wethers 20s 9d to 22s 6(1; Mr W. B. Andrew, urn., Southbridge, 62 wethers and ewes 21s 3d to 22s 6d; Mr J. Moir, Styx, 49 wethers 225; Mr W. McMeekan, Springston, 64 wethers 20s 8d to 21s lOd; Mr C. Dampier-Crosslc.y. Waituna, 18 half bred wethers 21s lOd, 46 merino do. 15s 7d to 18s 9d j Mr W. S. Wilson, Ashley, 29 wethers 21s 6d; Mr A Maefarlane, Achrav, 356 halfbred wethers 19s lOd to 20s *6d, 11 ewes 21s 3d; Mr G. 'Newman, Lincoln, 29 wethers 20s 3d; Mr W. McMillan, Irwell, 132 wethers 19s 2d; Mr J. H. Pannett, Sheffield, 60 wethers 19s 2d; Mr J. Duncan, jun., Hawkins, 121 wethers 18s 6d. FAT CATTLE.

In the fat cat lie pens 266 head were offered, the bulk being good quality steers. The sale opened with very slaek bidding. and continued irregular throughout, a large part of the yarding being passed at auction, though a good deal of business was done privately afterwards. Prices ranged from 28s to 35s per 1001 b, the average being about oQ<„ Steers made £7 15s to £l4 2s b(\, the latter price being obtained for North Islander;!; heifers £6 to £ll 17s 6d, and cows £5 to £ll, aiid es-

tra to £l3. A lino of 25 steers from the North Island made £9 10s to £lO 17s 6d, 5 cows from Mr W. Birdling, Port Levy, £7 15s to £8 los, and 3 heifers £7 17s 6d. There was a large entry of veal calves, 'mostly small sorts, and they inado 5s to £5 is, according to weight and quality. STORE AND DAIRY CAITLE. A fairly large entry of store cattle included some good lines of two and three-year-olds. Bidding was not quite brisk as of late, but prices showed no change. Calves made lbs, yearlings 33s to £2 3s, fifteen to eighteen mouths £2 os to £3 los. two-year steers £6 ss, two-year heifers £4 6s to £5 ss, three-year steers £7 9s to £8 55." three-year heifers £5 15s, dry cows 29s to £5 12s 6d. The dairy cows entered were only of moderate quality, and they met with a dull sale, the, best price at auction being £B. PIGS. There was a fairly largo yarding of pigs, and prices were firm sit last week's rates. Choppers sold up to £4 12s 6d, baconers 455" to 665, equal to 5d per It), porkers 55s 6d to 43s 6d, equal to 5Ad per lb, largo stores 26s to 345, medium 18s to 245, and small wcaners lis 6d to 16s-. BURNSIDE MARKET. (PRESS ASSOCIATION" TELEGRAM.) DUNEDIX, September 16. Fat Cattle—l 67 head were yarded, mostly medium steers and heifers, with odd pens of prime and heavy weights. The demand was fair, and prices were on a par with last week. For a pen of three prime bullocks £l3 was refused. Best bullocks made ±>io, medium to good £lO 17s 6d to £ll 17s 6d. best cows £ll 19s 6(1, medium to good £9 10s to £lO 12s 6d. Fat LSheep—2l9B were penned. Prices for best wethers and ewes were a little beyond last week's quotations. Bust wethers made 27s 6d, medium U( good 23s to 25s 6d, best ewes 25s 3d, medium to good 21s to 22s 6d. Lambs--Nine made up the totai forwarded, prices being satisfactory. Best lambs 15s 6d, medium lis. l>i^ s 44 came forward, and all sold in favour of vendors. Suckers 14s to 17s, stores 23s to 355. porkers 42s to 48s 6d, baconers 54s to 64s 6d. There were no big pigs. GERALDINE. The attendance and yarding at Gcraidine vesterday were fair, and the .demand good. Prices were:—Four, six and eight-tooth ewes in lamb 20s 7d, wethers 14s to lbs od, forward wethers 18s 9d, hoggets lis 6d to 14s 6d. fat cows £8 15s, springers £& 7s 6d, cows in profit £4 ss, two-year-old steers £4 2s 6d, yearlings £2 5s 60.