Commercial.

Lake County Press, Issue 788, 30 December 1897, Page 7

Commercial.

MOHITZSOS AMD HOPKIN, WEEKLY MARKET REPORT. Messrs Moritzson and Hopkxn, auctioneers, wool, stock and station, grain, produce, and commission agents, corner

Bond and Jetty street* (wholesale) as follows f quotations subject to m- ’*■ ■ ■ • • Wheat: Prime velvet, 4s 6d to - : L•> can, 4s 5d to 4s 7d ; red chaff, 4s 3d to J 6d. We have a good demand. Oats : There is a little more activity, and prices have advanced Id per bushel. We quote—Prime milling, Is 114 d ; bnght plump feed, ls9d to Is 10d ; medium and ofl color, Is 74d to Is SJd. Barley : Feed at from 2s to 2s Gd ; milling, 3a to 3s 3d ; malting, 4s to 4s Bd, at which prices wo have sold, medium to good, 3s fid to 3s Od. We have a good inquiry and shall be pleased to receive samples. Hops, with some enquiry, lid to Is. Flour, Ll2 ; oatmeal, LI I 10*. Pearl barley, LIG ; bran, L 3 ; pollard, L 3 15 s. Potatoes : Derwents, £2 to £2 5s ; kidneys, £ll to £l2 per ton. Chaff ; Prime quality, L 3 7s 6d to 1.3 10s for extra ; medium, L2 17s fid to L 3 s*.

Pressed hay, £3 ; pres ■ 1 *tr i - 27 6.1 to 30s.

Ryegrass : Best mac i n ire -el3. to 4-; undressed, 2s to 2s 9d. In butter demand. Cocksfoot; Town machined, 5.1,1 ; farmers riddled, 2.1 d to 3,[d. Bye com 3s 3d. Linseed, in good demand, LIO to LlO 10*.

We receive rabbitskins, nidea, sheepskin-, and tallow, and return highest market values. Hides wanted each, 2d to 3|d per lb. We hold regular weekly sales. Sheepskins : Butchers green crossbreds, 3 9d t 4s 9d ; extra, 5* Od to 6s Od; dry cross hrecls, 2s 5d to 5s fid ; merino (dry), 2s 3d to 3s Cel; medium Is 6d to 2s. All skins arc thoroughly attended to, and if we are dried. Horsehair, Is to Is 3d per lb. Beeswax, Is to Is 3d. Rabbitskins: We quote : Summers, 5d to 6d ; autumns, 7d to 9Jd ; winters 12d to 15d ; selected 15£ d ; blacks, 14d to ISd Have an unlimited demand for all classes and return highest values. Sale every Monday. We have an experienced man classing all skins, and thus receive top value from buyers. Wool.—The first sale of the season will lie held to-morrow, December 21st, when fair ly large catalogues will be offered. Prices, we are afraid, will be disappointing to growers. Nitrate of Soda, Lls. Kainit, L 5. Basie Slag, I*s. Clovers, rape, etc., all pure und fresh. Cornsacks. —We have landed a large quantity of 46, and 4S-inch cornsacks, and shall be pleased to make quotations on application ; also seaming twine. Countv Sales conducted on most reason, able terms. We supply Rabbit and Sheep Netting, and give special quotations by the mile. Oil Cake in stock. FRUIT AND PRODUCE REPORT Butter : Prime salt, dairy in ule, 6»l per lb. Kook: Can dispose of any quantity at top market rates. Demand good. Cheese : Prime factory, TYI to 4Jd net ; Akaroa, 4d. Bacon ; Bolls and Hi ..dies, 5d to hams, 7d to 7bl. unions :„LIS. Pius: 4d per lb fur good quality of right sizes. We make advances on the coming woolclip at Bank rates, and have facilities to Sel equal to none in Dunedin. Egg Preservative : We are agents for Vicker\’s Egg Preservative, a really g-'od and reliable article, and to tho.,e who want c icap eggs in winter we can recommend it to. Particulars on application.

DAIStH M fiL LIMED, Dalgbty and Co. Lxmitud report as follow.® • We held the hrst Wool Sale of the season in the Agricultural Hall on Tuesday, when we catalogued and offered 064 bales, and also sold privately 386 bales. There was a large attendance of foreign and local buyers, but competition, we are sor. y to state, was very dull, except for a few lota of very choice crossbred, for which prices ruled well up to those of last season. Good wools, however, were a id to fd per lb lower, while medium and inferior qualities had little attention, and comparing same with the op ning sale of last yeat prices were from |d to per lb easier. Merino, on the other hand, was eagerly competed for, an 1 showed a decided advance. Locks and pieces also sold well, and brought satisfactory prices. 'I he following were the range of values; Superior half-bred, 8d to B|d ; best half-bred and cross-bred 7d to 7.? d ; medium (id to 6£d ; inferior 5d to ojd ; best merino 7d to 8d ; medio..' 6d to 6j l; inferior 51 to ojd ; bellies and nieces 3d to locks, Ud to 3d.