Commercial.

Lake County Press, Issue 701, 26 March 1896, Page 2

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 : Crown Sheep Dip. 5s 6d per gallon in 5 gallon drum ; 5s in larger quantities. Wheat: Millers are holding back in anticipation of a further decline of values. Prime velvet and Tuscan. Ss 8d ; red chaff and Tuscans, 3s Gd to 3s 7d. Oats : Prime milling and bright plump feed Is 8d to Is 9d ; ordinary feed, Is 7d to Is 8d; off color, Is 6d. Old crop Id better. Barley : Taken up for milling and feed purposes at from 2s 6-1 to 2s 9d,. with improved enquiry. We sold during the week some 700 sacks of old inferior barley at up to 2s 9d, and several hundred; sacks new crop, from Millburn and Oamam at from 3s 3d to 3s 9d, not first class. A sample of Mr Grant’s barley just to baud—it is a picture to look at ; mailing,, if prime, 3s 9d to 4s (new crop) at which, we can place prime lots, in good demand-. As stated before the crops are short in the north. Be sure and do not get your barley too short dressed ; it will decrease the value considerably. We feel sure if we get the handling of the whole crop, could well maintain the market. Hops, 7d- to 74d (old). We sold all old stocks we had on hand* New crop, 9d to lOd, with some enquiry. Flour, L 9 10s; oatmeal, L 9 10s ; pearl barley, LI4 (please note the rise)bran, L 3 10s; pollard, L 4. Potatoes: Kidneys, L2 ; Derwents, L 3 10s. Chaff : Prime quality up to £3 ss; Pressed hay, £3 to £3 5s ; pressed'straw, 35s to 40s. Ryegrass: Best machine-dressed 3s Gd to 5s ; undressed, 2s 6d. Dirty lots, Is 9d to 2s. Cocksfoot:. Town machined, 4Jd to 5d ; farmers’ riddled, 3d to 3|d. We sold during the week about a thousand sacks, up to our quotations, and have a good demand. Please note here again the difference in repels,. Linseed, £8 10s. We receive rabbitskihs, hides, sheepskins, and tallow, and return highest market values. Hides wanted each, 2d to 2Jd per lb; extra heavy, up to 3j-d.. Wc hold regular weekly sales, and return not less than 7s 6d each for light hides. Sheepskins : Full-woolled merino, 4d to 5d per lb; balf-woolled merino, 3Jd and 4d ; prime full-wool led crossbred, 5d to 6rt j.halfwoolled crossbred, 4d to 5d ; short and pelts, 2d and Butchers’ skins, full-woollcd, Ss 6d to 6s : abort and pelts, 9d to 3s. Horsehair, Id to Is 2d per lb. Rabbitskius : Selected thin, pelted and medium winter greys, none offering, nominal, 12Ad to 14d ; good to prime, lid t0124d ; fair season, 9d to 10£ d ; flint racks, 5d to to 64d ; light racks, 3 Jet and 4|d ; suckers, lid and 24d; prime black and fawn, nominal, 12d and 141; second black and fawn, 8d to lOd. We have an unlimited.demand for all classes and return highest values. We should advise farmers to make up their mind early whether they will submit barley to us at price quoted, as you will understand buyers will not leave price open for any length of time, if offering should be made lower from the north. In the meantime Christchurch quotations remain at from 3s 9d to 4fe. Cornsacks, seed sacks, woolpacka, and seaming and binder twine in stock and supplied at lowest rates. For 44 inch grain sacks', we quote 4s Gd on rail here, and shall be glad to supply. FRUIT AND PRODUCK REPORT Butter : Balt, we have sale for all goodlots ; prime quality, in good demand at 7d 7£d ; medium, at 5d to Gd. Eggs : Can dispose of any quantity at top market rates. Cheese : Prime factory, 4d net. Akaroa, . 3|-d. Onions ; Ss. Pros: 2Jd to 3d per lb for good quality of right sizes. Fruit : Regular shipments arriving from Tasmania, Sydney, and the Islands. Quotations on application. Tahiti Oranges, D and Fj.-ire lauded, by us weekly. We quote 6s p i ei.se. To stock raisers wo recommend the Imperial Calf Food. Circulars on application. We notice in your last week’s publication a letter signed by “Prompt Cash” alia* “ Farmer,” and a precious farmer he is, trying with all his might to keep the barley market down, in fact “ crying stinking.fisb,” not alone doing harm to himself, but to all his neighbours bedcles. Wc think he should be pleased that there is somebody, in Dunedin assisting the farmer to get his own. We have no doubt he will write us a complimentary letter, after we sold his barley, but wc can hardly believe that he is a “ son of the soil ” or real fanner, so many call themselves “ fanners.” Perhaps he is a “ baby larmer,” and what tho deuce does he. know-about barley? Wc can toll-him that we have been in business here in tho produce line for some 13 yeais, nearly as long as- the Mutual, and longer than W.E.R. and Co. We have always met our engagements, paid- “ prompt cash,” intend doing so, and refer him to the Hank of New Zealand for reference. We shall answer him no further, but let him stew in his own gravy..

Irving \V. LarLmcrc, physical director of Y.M C.A., Des Moines, Icwa,.sayß.he can conscientiously recommend Chamberlain’s Pail) Kilim to athletes, gymnasts, bicyclists, foot bull players anil the profession .ill. £611(5ral for bruises, sprains and dislocations ;.also for soreness and stiffness of the muscles. When applied before the parts become swollen it will effect acure in one half the time usually required. For sale by Robert Pritchard. The People says : We have it on-the best authority that, owing to recent events, the Hon. J. G. Ward willretire from the Ministry. It is understood the Hon. W. J. M. Larnach will take his place. A. M. Bailey, a well-known citizen of Eu gene, Oregon, says his wife has for years been troubled with chronic diarrhoea and used many remedies with little relief until she tried Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and diarrhtea Remedy, which has cured her sound and well. Give it a trial and you will be surprised at the prompt relief it affords. For sale by Robert Pritchard.

Mr O‘Regan is to have opposition for the Inangahua seat at next election, and the Greymouth Star thinks his opponent won’t have much show. While in Chicago, Mr Charles L. Kahler, a prominent shoe merchant of Des Moines,. lowa, had quite a serious rime of it. He took such a severe cold that he could hardly talk or navigate, but the prompt use of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy cured him of hia cold so quickly that others at the hotel who had bad colds followed his example and half a dozen persons ordered it from the nearest drug store. They were profuse in their tliauks to Mr Kahler for telling them how to cure a bad cold so quickly. For sale by Robert Pritchard.