LATE COMMERCIAL.

Evening Star, Issue 11725, 7 April 1902, Page 5

LATE COMMERCIAL.

Our Tapamii correspondent advises t hat at the rani and ewe fair there on Saturday high prices wore, realised. Leicester* brought up to 4gs, Rnmneys sLgs, tfhropshires 6|gs, old memoes 2jgs, Lincoln s Ig, English Leicesters 3gs. The weather is none too good.

GRAIN AND PRODUCE REPORT

Donald Reid and Co. report having held their weekly auction sale of giain and produce at, their stores to-day. There was a full attendance of buyers, and under fair competition the catalogue, was cleared at satisfactory values. Oats.—There is fair demand for all good to prime feed lines at prices fully equal to late rates. A large, proportion of the season's crop being damaged and discolored has had a hardening effect on milling and other primp lines. We quote : Prime milling, 2s ojd to 2s ; good to best feed, 2s 2d to 2s 3d ; inferior and medium," 2s to 2s lad per bushel (sacks extra). Wheat —The quantity of prim" milling cptality on offer is extremely small, and as prospects for the new gram are far from promising, prices have undergone a sharp advance. We quote : Prime milling: 3s 8d to os 10d; medium, 3s 6d to 3s 7d ; best whole fowl wheat, 3s 3d to 3s 6d ; damaged, etc., 2s 3d to 3s 2d per bushel (sacks extra). Potatoes. —The market is moderately supflied with Derwents and kidneys. Prime terwents are in fair demand at £3 10s to £3 15s; and freshly-picked kidneys and white potatoes at £3 to £3 5s per ton (sacks extra). Chaff. —There is little or no old oaten sheaf offering, and for this class there is good inquiry. Sound new chaff is also scarce, and commands ready sab 1 , but inferior sorts are out of favor. We quote: Best old chaff, £4 7s 6d to £'i 10s ; prime new chaff, £4 to £4 5s ; medium and inferior, £3 to £3 15s per ton (bags extra). Dalgetv and Co., Dunedin, Teport having held their usual weekly auction sale to-day before a full attendance of buyers, when bidding was active, and prices ruled as nndfcf: Oats.—The demand continues for prime milling, while all good to short feed meets with a good demand from shippers. The atores. art) still bare of supplies, and a little more can be got for anything for immediate sale in store, e quote: Prime milling, 2s 3sd to 2s 4^d; t, r ood to best feed, 2s 2d to 2s 3d ; medium/2s to 2s 3jd (bags extra). Yvheat. —Owing to the bad weather experienced prices have advanced very considerably, and the demand is very keen for all grades. Wo quote : Prime velvet and Tuscan, 3s 9d to 3s lOd ; medium, 3s 8d to 3s 9d; fowl feed (whole), 3s 4J,d to 3s 6d; fowl feed (broken), 2s 9d to 3s 3d (bags extra,).

Potatoes.—Supplies still o*itimiu light, and prices are fairly firm. We quote: Prime Derwens, £3 10s to £3 15s ; kidneys, £3 to £3 5s (bags in). Chaff.—There is -a vtny good demand for all prime oaten sheuf, and "any old chaff of the above quality re readily saleable. Medium quality is' also selling much better than formerly. Prime old. £4 10s ; prime new, £4 to £4 ss; medium, £3 to £3 15s (bags extra). CITY PROPERTY AND SHARES. < Messrs Park, Reyno'ds, ,md Co. held an auction sale of property and shares at their rooms this afternoon. There was a large attendance, and bidding wtis brisk. Trader instructions from the trustees of the estate, of Susannah Winstanley, thev first offered a freehold in Maclaggan street, opposite the Arcade, being parts of sections 26 and 27, block 9, having a frontage of 88ft 3in (including right-of-way) to Maclaggan street, and containing" 50 poles (more or less), subject to a right-of-way to the owners and occupiers of ether' parts of sections 26 and 27 and sections 32 and 23 over the. road or way, 14ft in width ami 14ft in height, formed out of section 26. The land was sold subject to lea.se for twenty-one years from 4th September, 1899, at an annual rental of £llO. On the land are the Gladstone Hotel and other buildings belonging to the lessees. Bidding for this property started at £I,OOO, and went rapidly up to £2,400, at which figure Mr J. A. Kirby (who, we understand, was acting for Speight and Co.) became the buver. A parcel of 660 shares in the Standard Fire and Marine Insurance Company of "New Zealand were then sold at 17s; "and sixtyfive shares in.the New Zealand Insurance company went for 69s apiece. Five htindffo! shares in the Morniiygton Tramway Company and forty-five in the Mosgicl Woollen Company were passed in. THROUGH TRAINS.—PASSENGERS THIS DAY. FROM DUIfIDIN TOR TKH VORTH. Mr T. Falkinder, Mr C. T. Minnitt, Dr Closs, Mr C. L. Russell. Dr Brown, LientS. Ll Jones, Mr Pavitt, Mr and Mrs H. M'Alister, -ir R. Murray, Miss J. L. Brown, Miss Haslann. FEOM CHRISTCHTTRCH KOB DOTfEDIN. Mr Claud- Robinson, Mr A. F. Nees, Mr H. Craif. Mr T. Watt, Miss Black, Miss M'Morran, Mr W. Bin-nip, Mr C. King, Mrs R. Chamberton, Mr T. Craig, Mr T. Twomey, Mr T. Cotton. IKOM THB SOUTH JTOB DTJNEDIN. Mr and Mrs J. E. Watson, maid, and child, Mr B. Denby, Mr D. Walker, Mr G L. Denniston, Miss Caldow, Mr and Mrs R. A. S. Cantrell, Mr A. Sinclair, Mr T. Brown, Mr J. Longhlin, Mr M. Richmond, Mr J. Moore, Mr R. Lumsden, Mr J. T. Mair, Mr W. Miliner, Miss Mooney, Mr W. H. Paterson, Miss A. Fitzpatriek, Mr ({. H. Mooney, Miss Moodie, Mr and Mrs Snodgrass, Mr W. Fisher, Miss Jopp, Mr and Airs Ainsworth, Mr L. 0. Beal, Mrs Monro and two children, Miss Hartell, Mr and Mrs Parris, Mrs M'Cnlloch and child, Miss L. Donaldson, Miss L. Duncan, Miss Uad. nOM DXTNEDIN FOB THB SOOTH. Mrs Copland, Mr and Mrs Reid, Mr and Mrs D- M'Pherson, Mr J. M. Johnston. Mr md Mrs M'Chesney, Mrs- Boyd, Mr W. J. SaoataQi JfcF. E Tucker.