MARKET REPORTS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CI, Issue 11887, 10 May 1899, Page 3

MARKET REPORTS.

.. GRAIN AND PRODUCE, The demand for milling wheat of all descriptions and shipping lines has been well kept up, and prices are a shade firmer than at the time of last report. Growers are not offering tbeir lines as freely as has been the case for the past few weeks, consequently all parcels coming on to the market have been readily taken up at quotations. In our chief outlets for oats, Southland has been offering freely, but local growers are disinclined to come down in price, with tbs result that a, certain amount of business has gone past the Canterbury market. Locally, prices for good quality remain firm. The market for barley is very dull, except for prime malting lines, and these are scarce: Second -quality-is very hard to place at from 6d to 9cl under the value of prime. Feeding lines are almost unsaleable. Numerous lines of poldtos have been offered at 20s, but buyers are scarce at this figure. At the time of writing, the weather is against dig,ging, and this price will probably hold through the week. The Sydney market is well supplied, and values there do not appear to show much profit on the country stations quotation. In beans and peas there is but iitife doing,- sellers and buyers ha,v : ing different ideas of values. There are not' many onions offering, but what few are coming to hand 'are meeting a weak market. A few small lines have been placed at from 28s to 30s, sacks extra. Ryegrass and cocksfoot still remain very dull, and no sales have been reported for the last day or two. The following are quotations: Wheat.—Prime milling Pearl and Tuscan 2s 4d, fair average quality 2s 3d, prime milling Hunter’s 2s 2Jd, fair average quality 2s 2d. Barley.—Prime malting (nominal) 2s Ud to 3s, secondary parcels 2s 3d to 2s 6d delivered. Cape Barley.—2s to 2s 2d. Oats.—Milling Canadians Is 4d, short feed Is 2d to Is 3d, Duns, Danish Is 2d, Tartarian Is 2d. Flour.—Millers quote roller £7, stone £6, sharps £3 10s, bran £2 15s. Oatmeal.—£9. Oatsheaf Chaff.—New 30s at country stations. Potatoes.—Derwents 20s at country stations: Onions. —30s at country stations. Beans. —2s 4d to 2s 6d. Peas, —Blue Prussians 3s 4d to 3s 6d. Seeds. —-Ryegrass, farmers’ lines. Is' 3d to Is 9d for fair and up to 2s 6d for prime heavy farmers’ seed. Cocksfoot, farmers’ dressed lines, 2Jd to 3Jd. Cowgrass od to 6d. White clover, farmers’ lines, 5Jd to 7d. Dairy Produce. —Cheese 3id to 4d, loaf 4d to sd, factory (large) 4d to 4£d. Butter—Fro.sli factory 9|d, ditto in boxes 9d to 9|d, best dairy Bd, salt in boxes 6d to 7d -for prime. Bacon and hams 7j)d to B£d, factory Jd per lb higher. The above prices, except where otherwise stated, are those paid to farmers f.o.b. Lyttelton. ' v PROPERTY SALES. Yesterday Mr W. Buss sold by auction, in the estate of the late Mr W. Pearson, one rood three perches of land in Cone Street, Rangiora-, to Mr R. H. Walker, for £55. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company reports having sold, at a satisfactory figure, to Mr G. Lucas, the Rakaia farm of Mr J. M. Furze, consisting of 713 acres. rangiora. Owing to the rain yesterday both attendance and business at the Rangiora market were limited. At the Central Yards 2500 sheep, 40 cattle and 30 pigs were All classes of sheep sold well. Butchers fat ewes (prime) brought 14s to 15s lid, older sorts 9s to lls, fat lambs 12s to 13s 3d, fat merino wethers 11s to 11s 6d, old halfbred breeding ewes 10s to 11s, cross-bred do 9s to 10s, store lambs (good) 10s to Ils 4d, cross-bred turnipers (two-tooth wethers, good sorts) 12s to 14s 6d, medium. 10s to 11s, Beef sold at equal to 18s per 1001 b, springers £4 to £6, dry cows £2 to £2 10s, yearlings 15s to 255, two-year-old cattle £5 to £3 ss. Pigs.—Baconers 50s to 56s for prime sorts, others 40s to 455, porkers 35s 'to.3Bs, good stores 30s to 335, small 15s to 245, weavers 12s to 14s, suckers 8s to 9s. At the North Canterbury Yards the entry comprised 1000 sheep. Prices were—Halfbred ewes 9s 6d to 10s, 10s to 11s 6d, store lambs lls, merino ewes 8s 6d, two-tooths (mixed sexes) Us 3d to 12s 6d. There was a very small entry m the produce department. Butchers’ cross-bred sheepskins sold at -2s 9d to'3s 6d, xnmacxs 2s to 3s 3d, country skins .Is -9d to. 3s: od, pelts and kte shorn 8d to ls-6d,Tudes 3d lb, fat 9s to lls cwt, -cstfskins Is 6d.

: ■ v TINWALD. ' - >■ At the Tinwald Yards, on Tuesday, there was an entry of about 5000 sheep, 60 cattle,, and 20 pigs. In sheep values more than maintained late r?,fes -'ri B cj s^erSewes made from 9s to 12s sd,merinoewes6 S Cjj to 8s lOd, freezing wethers Ids to 18s la, toeS&em 135.t014s Ud best turners (mixed sexes) from 15s to 16s 3d, medium 11s 5d to 14s 6d, cross-bred ewes in lamb from 9s to 13s 6d, merino wethers 8s fat lambs 12s 6d to 13s 3d, store lambs 8s to 10s 4d. Best beef sold fairly well, making for steers up to £6, heifers to £5 12s &d, store cattle were very dull, and pigs fetched fair values, baconers making up to ols.

temuka. There was a small entry at the Temuka sale on Tuesday. The sheep yarded were chiefly young, fib for turmps, and a few freezers. Cattle were of all sorts, and FS S ranged from slips to baconers. The market was animated, and prices realised,, especially for sheep, were very satisfactory. Cattle were easily disposed of, and pigs were again in request, showing an advance on late sales. Prices realised were: —Sheep: Two and four-tooth maiden ewes and wethers 15s 9d, two-tooth wethers to 13s 6d, six and eighttooth half-bred ewes and lambs 10s 7d, fat lambs 11s 6d. Pigs: ’ Stores 11s to 275,

baconers 39s to '42s, sows ‘in pig- 65s to 70s. Cattle: Fat steers £7 ss, two-and-a-half-year-old steers £3 7s 6d, yearlings 25s to 28s, cows in profit £4 to- £6, dry cows nominal £3 ss. . i