MARKET REPORTS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXI, Issue 15332, 15 June 1910, Page 5

MARKET REPORTS.

GRAIN AND PRODUCE. Sinco the lwt report the wheat market has shown additional weakness in consequence of unsatisfactory advice received from Home. Tho bulk of tho samples which are being placed on offer locally Sire badly harvest-damaged, and this description is especially weak at the present juncture owing to a very limited outlet. On tho other hand, the position of prime wheat is peculiar, and little business is being done. Holders decline to entertain present values, and buyers arc equally firm in their determination not to advance their limits. Tho value of weathered parcels has declined during the last fortnight to the extent of from Id to 2d per bushel, but in the caso of prime samples, although little business is being done, prices are unaltered.

For oats there is a fair inquiry, and parcels continue to move off coastwise, but ohiefiy in small parcels. Algerians for seed purposes are in request, and for this description prices have'a hardening tendency. The demand for Danish is very restricted, but good Gartens find ready sale at quotations. Reports from the south go to show that prices for all sorts of oats are slightly firmer at the Bluff. Potatoes are a little weaker, inasmuch as merchants are not, except in a fenexceptional cases, prepared to give more than £5 per ton.on trucks at country stations, but few holders are prepared to give beyond this figure. The price of fresh eggs, owing to diminishing supplies, has advanced to Is (3d per dozen. The following quotations are for purchases from farmers, net cash, sacks extra, except where otherwise specified : Wheat—Milling 2s !;d. exira prime tc "s; c'nickwheat 2s 3d. /

Oats—Duns Is lid to 2a; heavy Danish Is 10<1; Gartons, A grade 2s, E grade Ik lid; Sparrowbills Is lid; Algerians to 2» -Id. Barley—(Nominal) feci 2s, malting lis to ss, according- to quality. Chaff—Oalsheai £o 5s to Si LOs, at oitaxvty otfttionß. Potatoes—JK ss. ivea;is—3s.

Peas—Purtridje In to 4a 2d Onions—£l 17s Gd per lon.

Otttmea'—£l2. Flour—The New Zealand Flourmiilcrs' Cooperative AsFoeiation. Limited, quotes il:e following prices per ton, local cr skipping: Sacks £lO, 1001 b bags £lO 10s. 501 b bags £lO 15s, 251 b bags £ll. Bran £A os, pollard £l.

Seeds—Ryegrass (nominal) 2s 3d to 2s Od; cocksfoot (nominal) Did to -IJd; white clover (farmers' samples) G.\d tj 7d; eowgrass Od to 7d. Dairy Produce—Cheese, dairy, iarce old, loaf Cd; factory, large ojd to Gd. Butter, fresh local factory prints la Id, second grade factory Is, farm dairy SJd. Hams Bd, boneless hams 9Jd, sides G.]d, rolls 7Jd, shoulder rolls and middles (equal numbers) 7Jd, shoulder rolls only 6Jd, middies ?£d. rolled hams SJd. Lard, pats 7}d, bulk 7d, bladders 6d. Fresh eggs Is Gd per dczon. RANG-lORA. The Rangiora market was well attended .yesterday, and a considerable volume of business was done. Tho entry of live stock comprised .4500 sheep, including 1000 fat lambs, 60 cattle and 200 pigs. Sheep—Ap'at lambs made 14s • to 15s 9d, fat wethers 16s 6d to 19s, fat ewes lis to 13s od, store wether.-. lis 6d to 13s, store lambs 8s 6d to 10s Od, aged owes in lamb 7s to 9s. Cattle —Fat bullocks realised £7 to £l2 10s, fat heifers £6 to £7 10s, fat cows £5 lOs to £7, forward cows £3 to £4 10s, eighteen months to iwc-ycar-old cattle £3 10s, yearlings £2 ss, calves 25s springers £7 to £8 12s 6d. cows in prcfil £7 10s to £9. Pigs—Choppers made 625, baconers 45s to 525, porkers 25s to 355, small pigs 6s to lis. In the produce yards heavy crossbred sheepskins realised 10s 6d, medium ss, lighter 3s 4d, merino 4s 2d, lambskins 4s 6d, calfskins 3s, hides 5Ad a lb. fat 2d, wool crutehings 6d, cross-bred 7d. roosters 4s 3d a couple, liens 2s id, pullets 6s 3d, ducks ss, chickwheat 3s. oats 2s 3d, barley 23 6d, beans 3s Bd. Eig meal 10s a sack, pea meal lis Gd. ran 4s, sharps 7s, potatoes 12s, parsnips 5s 6d, carrots 2s 3d, onions Od a string, apples 4s a case. ASHBURTON. The weekly stock sale held at the Asbburton Yards yesterday was fairly well attended, and great interest was taken in tho fat sheep market, expert buyers being even keener than at the previous sale. The yarding of sheep totalled 6241,' mado up of 1154 fat ewes, 304 fat wethers, 3122 fat lambs and 1651 store sheep. The tone of the market was firm and prices showed a rise as compared with last week's rates. Although the majority of tho ewes yarded were prime there were several lines of very inferior quality. The lambs and wethers, taken as a • whole, were a particularly fine lot. Prime freezing ewes realised lis Id to 13s 9d, medium. 9s-to 10s lid, light and'inferior 6s 9d to 8s 3d, merino ewes 4s to 9s 9d, best freezing wethers 16s to 17s 3d, others 13s 9d to 15s Sd, prime freezing lambs 15s 4d to 17s od, extra heavy 18s lid to 19s lOd, medium weights 12s to 15s, light weights 10s Gel. The principal' sales W ere :—Ewes—6o at 9s, 121 at lis Cd, 64 at 12s Bd, 64 at 12s 9d, 126 at 12s Od to 12s Sd, 44 at Bs, 54 at ICs, 54 at 12s 7d, 60 at lis 3d, 31 meriuoos at 9s 9d; wethers—39 at 15s, 40 at 15s Bd, -IS at 15s 4d to 15s Sd, 87 at 16,s sd, 24 at 15s 3d; lambs—--199 at 16 s 7d, 210 at 14s 6d, 50 at 17s sti, 61 at 14s 9d, 54 at 16s sd, 121 at 15s Cd, 287 at 14s lOd, 423 at 15s lid, 150 at 16s 6d, 183 at 15s, 130 at 13s 9d, 117 at 16s 4d, 155 at 15s Gd. 170 at 16s 3d, 106 at 17s sd, 62 at 16s 2d, 107 at 19s lOd. There was hardly any demand for stores, and of a yarding of 1651 only 412 were sold at auction. Sales were":—Two hundred half-bred hoggets (mixed,sexes) at 10s lOd, 32 aged hnlr-brfed ewe;-, and 1 ram 3s 6<l. 7 half-bred wether lambs 7s 2d, 16 small wether lambs 3s lOd, 48 aged half and three-quarter-bred ewes and 1 ram 4s 6d, 63 hair and three-quartor-brod hoggets (mixed sexes) 6s lid, 44 ! aged cross-bred ewes and 2 rams 3s lOd. There was a small yarding of cattle J Fat steers made £5 5s to £6, store cows £4, store steers £3 17s 6d. cows j in profit £6. SALE AT HALDON. Almost tho whole of the Haldon Estate having been sold by Messrs Pyno I and Co., on Thursday they offered at | auction the live and dead stock, not including the flocks of Southdown and Romnoy'Marsh sheep, which will be offered at Aldington. The day was fine, and there was a very largo attendance, buyers being present from all parts oi i the province. The live stock wore j brought forward ill good condition, and : an excellent sale resulted. _ The follow- . irig are some of the principal sales : Sheep—392 two-tooth ewes at 17s -!d. 184 two-tooth ewes at- 17s, 538 fourtooth owes at 19s Gd, 635 six-tootli owea at 19s, 725 full-mouth owes at 17s, 287 full-mouth ewes at 16s Od, 502 fullmouth ewes at 12s 3d, 711 owe hoggets at 14s Sd. 216 cull ewes at 6s, IGS store wethers at 14s 6d, 171 fat lambs at 16s lOd, 14S fat lambs at 15s lid, 41 fat owes at 12s (id. The horses met with I good competition, selling as follows:—Mare Daisy, by Shepherd Lad, rising j four years, 100 guineas; filly foal by Shepherd Lad, 50 guineas: aged mare j by Hard Times, 45J guineas; aged mare, j 42 guineas. Other draughts sold at 1 £25 to £47, and unbroken draughts ot [ £26 to £59. '