Commercial.

Lake County Press, Issue 704, 16 April 1896, Page 2

Commercial.

WEEKLY MARKET REPORT. Messrs Moritzson and Hopkin, anc--tioneers, wool, stock, and station, grain,, produce,, and commission agents, comerBond, and Jetty, streets, Dunedin, report (wholesale) as follows for the week. All: quotations subject to market fluctuations: Crown Sheep Dip, 5s 6d pet gallon in. 5 gallon dram ; os in larger quantities. Wheat: Millers are not operating freely, unless prime velvet and Tuscan, 3s 7d red. chaff, 3s 5d to 3s 6d. Oats : Prime milling,.ls Bcl to ls9d ; bright plump feed. Is 7d ; ordinary feed. Is 6d to Is 6Jd; off color. Is 4d to Is sd. Old crop Id* better. Barley : Taken up. for milling and feed purposes at from 2s 6dto-.25.9d. Malting,, if prime 3» 9d to 4s (new crop) at which we can place prime-lots. Be sure and.do. not get your barley too short dressed ; it will decrease the value considerably. Hops, Bd, to Ski (-scarce). We sold all old stocks we had on. hand. New crop, 9d to lOd, with, some enquiry. H Flour, L 9 10s; oatmeal, L 9 10s. ■ Pearl barley, LJ.4;. bran, L3.5-s ;. pollardj, H ; Kidneys, L2 ; ; Derwents, L 3 I to £3 ss. „, ■ Chaff: Prime quality up.to £2. 12s 6d ; ■ Pressed hay, £3 to £3s«pressed straw, 32s ■ 6d. Ryegrass; Best machine-dreasod ■ 3s 6d to 5s ; undressed,. 2s 6d. Dirty lots,. ■ la 9d to 2a. .. . ■ Cocksfoot: Town machined, 4Jd to 6d j. ■ farmers’ riddled,:3d loSfd. We cleaned during the week a prime Abaroa lot, and made it ■ 25;b to bushel, to be shipped to London, the ■ tineat seed that ever left this colony,, and. H nothing like it has ever been seen in Europe. ■ Linseed, £8 10s. We receive rabbitskins, hides, sheepskins,. H and tallow, and return highest market values. Hides wanted each, 2d to 2ld per lb; extra, heavy, up to 3id. We hold regu- * lar weekly sales, and. return not .less than 7s 6d each, for light hides. Sheepskins : Full-woolled merino, 4d to 5d per lb; half-woolled merino, 3Jd and 4d ; prime full-woolled crossbred, 5d to s|d ; halfwoolied crossbred, 4d to 5d ; short and pelts, 2d and 3Ad. Butchers’ skins, full-woolled,. 3s 6d to 6s ; short ami pelts, 9d to 3s. Green lambskins, best, 2s-6d to to 2s 9d ; medium, Is 6d to 2s 3d. Horsehair, Id to Is 2d. per lb. Beeswax, Is to la Id. j _ Rabbitskins : We quote /A. to 8d; full-grown summers,. -»a to aid; half-grown ditto, 3d to 4d; suckers and. small, Id to 2^d; winters, none offering.. ■■ Have an unlimited demand for all classes |B|| and, return |highest;valnes., Cornsacks, seed sacks, woolpackfl, and seaming, and biuder twine in stock and supplied at lowest rates.. For 4t inch, grain Hi sacks, we quote 4s 6d oa rail here, and shall HSii be glad to supply. fruit and, produce report Butter : Salt, vre have sale for all good lots ; prime quality, in good demand at 7d 7 VI ; medium, at od to 6il. Eoa.N: Can dispose of any quantity at top market rates. Cheese : Prime factory. Id net. Ak-aroa, Onions : £0 10s. pics : 3i-i to 3Vi per lb for good quality right size*. . . _ r FiiriT : Regular shipments arnviii fro Tasmania, Sydney, and the Islands. <F>° tions on application. m _ ni , rhe To stockr.iisers wo recommend !' e penal Calf Food. Circulars on application^*