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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8100, 1 October 1904, Page 4

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HOMEBUSH STOCK SALES.

SYDNEY, September 29. At Ilom«bush ■ sheep were st«ady, and prices unchanged. Crossbreds are still scarce. Best w«thers 21s, good 18s, best ewes 19s, good 17s 6d to 18s. Cattle were easier. Best bullocks £10 5s to £11, good £9 10s. best cows £7 10s to £8 ss. good £6 15s. Beef averaged 23s per 1001b.

HIDES, TALLOW, ETC.

MELBOURNE, September 29. Hides.— Stouts 5Ad to 6d, heavy 4Jd to 4|d, average and medium 4d to 4Jd. 'J allow. — The demand is dull, and prices 5s per ton lower. Prime mutton 255, prime mixed 225, mixed 21s sd.

AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE MARKETS.

SYDNEY, September 28. Wheat, chick 2s 11(1 to 6a 3d, milling 3s 6d to 3s 7d. Flour, £8 15s to £9. Gats, New Zealand 2s, Tartarian 2s 6d, Algerian Is 7d to Is Bd. Barley. Cape 2s to 2s Id, malting 3s to 3s 4d. Peas, Prussian blue 4s to 4s 3d. Potatoes, £2 15s. Onions, £5 to £5 10s. Mutter, best 9d 'to 9Ad.

MELBOURNE. September 28. Wheat, 3s 7d to 3s Bd. Flour, £58 10s to £8 15s. Oats. Algerian Is 3d to Is 4d. Potatoes, £2 10» to £3. Onions, £3 10s to £4. ADELAIDE, September 28. Wheat. 3s 6d to 3s 7d. Flour, £8 10s to £8 15s.

SOUTHLAND PRODUCE AND STOCK

MARKET.

INVERCARGILL, Sept. 28. . Ther© has been nothing doing in the local oat market during the last> week, and prices remain unchanged. The only sales merchants are making ore small 1 quantities to Auckland and Western Australia. There is a fair quantity offering from the country, as spring threshing is now fairly under way. Merchants are not keen to buy, and prices to farmers rule at ls 3d for B grade, ls 2d for f.a.q. or C grade, lower quality being neglected. Merchants are quoting (f.o.b. sacks included) ls 7Jd for B grade, ls 6Jd for f.a.q., and ls 6d for C grade. The Delphic, at present on the berth, takes 1600 sacks from the Bluff, also about 7000 sacks from Australia. The latter are being transhipped ex Warrimoo into the Delphic at the Bluff. The reason for the oats coming that way is the lack of cheap freight from Melbourne to London. The Surrey comes on the berth for Africa about 'the end of the present month, but no fresh sales have been made to go in her. . . . i Fowl wheat is a little easier for shipping requirements, but the local merchant is but poorly supplied, and prices rule from 3s 2d to 3s 3d per bushel.

AUCKLAND PRODUCE, ETC.

Hides— Market firm. Sheepskins— MaTket firm. Tallow— Market firmer. Good, in ship moiit tasks, 18s to 18s 6d. Horsohair, Is 3d to Is 4d. Maisso— Supplies about balance requirements Market remains firm at old rates.

Oats— Easier ; market over-supplied. Potatoes — Heavy arrivals to hand and market weaker.

Butter — Coining in more freely. Prices have eased a little, good quality separator roalising BJd lb; poorer sorts, 7Jd to Bd. Cheese— A fair enquiry; prices a shade firmer.

AUCKLAND STOCK SALES.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report sales at the following prices : — Horses — Heavy draughts £27 10s to £40; medium do., £20 10s to £30 ss; light harness, £11 5s to £19 ; hacks, £8 10s to £17 15s.

Cattle— Ox beef to 26s per 1001b ; cow, 10s to 245; steers, £6 10s to £12 10s; cows, £5 5e to £7 15s ; dairy cows £5 5s to £8 2s 6d; empty do., £2 11s to £4 6s; calves, £1 16s to £2 18s. Sheep— Wethers, 16s 6d to £1 9s 6d ; ewes, 14s 9d to £1 9s; hoggets, 10s 3d to £1 8s 9d ; lambs, 18s 9d to £1 ls 6d. Pigs — Scarce and wanted. Porkers 18s to £2 14s; baconers, £3 Is to £4 8s; weaners, £10s 6d to £1 3s.

ADDINGTON STOCK SALES.

CHIUSTCHURCH, September 28. At the Addington market there was a fair attendance, but the market was rather short.

Fat Cattle. — 193 were yarded, including ■omo extra prime steers, which brought £9 10s to £10 ss, and 16 special £12 5s to £15; others £6 17s 6d to £9; heifers £6 to £9 6s; cows £6 17s 9d to £9 17s 6d. Prices per lOOlbs averaged : Extra to 27s 6d, prime 24s to 255, cow and inferior to 235.

Fat Sheep — The yarding was about the same as last week, but the quality was hardly so pood. The demand was keen, and the rise in prices was mafntained. Prices were : Wethers, extra prime to 31s 6d, prime 24s to 28s sd, others 21s 9d to 235. 9d; ewes, 20s to 23s 3d; merino wethers, prime 21s to 26s lOd : others 16s 9d to 20s 6d. Fat Lambs — About 40 new season's lambs were sold, the best at 18s to 21s 9d others 16 8 to 17s sd. Pigs— A largo yarding sold fairjy well, baconers being firm at 47s to 60s, equal to 44d to 4|d per lb; porkers brought 30s to 37s (equal to 5d per lb) ; stores, large 23s 6d to 28s, medium 15s to 22s 6d; suckors and weanors 8s to 12s 6d.

DI7NEDIN STOCK SALES.

EXTREME PRICES FOR SHEEP.

DUNEDIN, September 28. At the Burnside market to-day 198 fat cattle were yarded, including some very prime bullocks. The demand was not up to last week's, and prices were easier by 10s per head. Best bullocks £10 10s to £11 ss, extra prime to £12 2s 6d, medium £!9 2s 6d to £10, light £7 7s 6d to £8 10s, best heifers £7 5s to £8. medium £6 to £7. light £4 15s to £5 15s. Fat Sheep. — 2344 penned. Prices showed an improvement on last week's, especially for unfinished sheep. In some cases extreme prices were paid. Two pens of ■be and eight-tooth ewes fetched 25s and 23s 9d respectively. Best wethers 24s 6d to 26s 9d, a small pen extra prime 29s 6d, medium 22s 6d to 245, light 20s to 21s 9d.

Lambs. — Seventeen new season's were forwarded. For all prime there was a capital demand. Prime lambs were easily saleable at from 12s 9d to 225.

Pigs. — 204 penned. About 75 per cent, of mere consisted of suckers and slips, for which there was not much demand. Porkers and baconers were not fetching as much as at last week's sale. Suckers 8s to 13s, slips 14s to lbs, stores 19s to 235, porkers 24s to 32s 6d, light baconers 33s to 455, heavy 48s to 68s.

DAIRY PRODUCE MARKET.

Messrs Bewley and Griffiths, dairy produoa exporters, of New Plymouth, are in receipt of an interesting report, from Mills and Sparrow, London, dated August 26th, from which we give extracts: — The market has continued good, and prices have been well maintained. There is no further advance to report, and we are now experiencing nice cool showery weather, which is having the effect of producing slightly increased supplies in England and on the Continent.

French.-— Quality is now showing 'a marked improvement, md there is a slight increase in quantity, and prospects (or the autnma make are very good, Russian and Siberian.— Shipments to England are rapidly decreasing, on account of the heavy demand, from Copenhagen and Germany; 1 th« butter meets with a ready sale on arrival at about last week's prices. New Zealand.— There is nothing offering in fresh landed, goods; Buyers do not show much keenness in purchasing th«t stored parcels now on the market, several factories which have held over having 'deteriorated very considerably in quality. Canadian. — Arrivals are much heavier, and quality continues to give satisfaction, and ih« butter Ummlom ( me*t« with a

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