DUNEDIN MARKETS.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 6, Issue 303, 2 November 1883, Page 2

DUNEDIN MARKETS.

- ■ Fat Cattle— The market was fully supplied ■ on Wednesday, 235 head being forward ; nearly all good to prime quality, and notwithstanding the trade being on short sup- ; plies the prices obtained were from 2a 6d to 6s per 1001 b under last week's. Bullocks , sold at from £6 12s 6<l to £U 2s 6d, andcowg at from £6 17s Cd to.Lll. Wo quote good "' to prime beef, 27s 6d to 303 ; medium, 25s 'per 1001b.' ■'■•" Vat Shore— A lirgo number came to hand i 210"i bains -penned, GOO of which, were - . < uiorinoe, and ihu biilance crosabrodg.; all be- ,.- ing good to prime quality. The trade having '"'•'• s ruu bare, of siock, the prices of last market 11 were nearly approached, especially towards '"'{lie close or the sale. Prime crossbreds, in ; ' 'wool, sold'at from 17s 3d lo 21s 6d i others "*' from Us Oil to 16s 6d ; do, shorn (prime), : ' l't>3 Bd.to 16s 9d ; others 14s to 15s; merinos ' m the wool; 17s to 19s 6d, We quote prime ? mutton at 3^ per lb. ', .' : Grain— Wneat ; There is nofe mucb. change tc report iathe aspect of this market s-s yet,--- . 'but then* is a tendency towards lower prices j ! ;. 'Tnir.eis. jjsi nsc' f u'.ly supplied, and • consignr Orients' coraing to 'baud slowly, thwe is little *' l "t»'aßiiie3S- r to rep>rt. Prime milling i»ay be * ' '''qu.otiedPa't 4s to ta 3d ; medium, 3s 6d to 3s 9d ; * k Boft'and sprouted, 2s lOd to 3s 3d ; inferior rf dttd fowls 1 feed, Is M t«;28 ?d, Oats : At * '^'public kuution. and .privately several parcels trer« got rid of during the .week, but with-'■''-*»ut any advance in prices, whlcfc keep steadily at about last week's quotations, wMch we again quote :-> Stout bright milling

to Is 10d ; medium, Is 8d ; mixed and discolored, Is 5d to Is 7d- Barley fit for malting and prime sampl«« would fetch .up to 4s 9d ; medium, 5s to js 6d« Milling and feed are TP.pv little inauired for.