Commercial.
WEEKLY MARKET REPORT. Messrs Moritzson and Hopkin, auctioneers, wool, stock and station, grain, produce, and commission agents, corner Bond and Jetty streets, Dunedin, report (wholesale) as follows for the week. All quotations subject to market fluctuations ; Wool: Our fourth sale will take place on 27th February. Small lots are sparingly coming forward. Crown Sheep Dip, 5s 6d per gallon in 5 gallon drum; 3s in larger quantities. Wheat; Prime velvet and Tuscan, 3s lOd to 3a lid, new crop ; red.chaff 3s 8d to 3s lOd. Oats : Prime milling and bright plump feed Is 8d to Is 9d ; ordinary feed. Is 7d to IsSd; offcolor, Is 6d. The market is easier. Barley: Taken up for milling and feed purposes at from 2s 4d to 2s 8d ; malting, if prime, 3s 6d to 3s lOd, with good demand,. Hops, 7d to 7^d. Flour, LIO; oatmeal, L 10; pearl barley, H2; bran, L 3 10s ; pollard, L 4. Potatoes: Kidneys, L 3 ; Derwents, L 3, Chaff: Prime quality up to £2 I7s 6d ; Pressed hay, £3 to £3 ss; pressed straw, 35s to 40s. Ryegrass: Best machine-dressed 3s 6d to 5s 6d ; undressed, 2s to 3s 2d Cocksfoot: Town machined, 4Jd to 5d ; farmers’ riddled, 3d to 3|d. Linseed, £8 10a to £9. We receive rahbitakins, hides, sheepskins, and tallow, and return highest market values. Hides wanted from 7s 6d to 12s 6d each, or 2d to 2|sd per lb ; extra heavy, up to.sid. We hold regular .weekly sales.| Cornsacks, seed sacks, woolpacks, and seaming and binder twine in stock and supplied at lowest rates. FRUIT AND PRODUCE REPORT’ Butter : Salt, we have sale for all good lots ; prime quality, in good demand at 7d to 7Jd ; medium, at 5d to 6d. Eggs : Can dispose of any quantity at top market rates. Cheese : Prime factory, 4d net. Akaroa, 3|d. Onions : Victorian, L 9, Pigs ; 2LI to 3d per lb for good quality of right sizes.
Fruit : Regular shipments arriving from Tasmania, Sydney, and the Islands. Quotations on. application. To stoekraiaers we recommend the Imperial Calf Food. Circulars ou application.
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Lake County Press, Issue 696, 20 February 1896, Page 2
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347Commercial. Lake County Press, Issue 696, 20 February 1896, Page 2
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