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Mataura Ensign, 29 December 1911, Page 8

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GORE PRICES. WHOLESALE: Cheese. —6d. Oatmeal.—£l4 10s per ton. Butter. —Farmers' 9d, separator, lOd, factory Is. ELams.—9£d; bacon, 9d. 'Flour.—£9 10s. Eggs.—lod. Bran.—£s. Pollard.—£6 per ton. Chaff.—£3 15s. Onions.—l4s per cwt. UK TAIL: Cheese. —9d per lb. Butter. —Farmers' lid, separator Is, factory Is 3d. ELams.—lid; bacon, pieces, lid. Eggs.—ls. Flour.—3s 3d and 3s 6d for 251b, 6s and 6s 6d' for 501b, and 20s 6d and 21s 6d for 2001b. Oatmeal.—4s 3d and 4s 6d for 251b, 8s 6d for 501b, 31s for 2001b. Bran.—6s and 6s 6d. Chaff.—£ 47s 6d.' Pollard.—lis and lis 6d. Onions. —2d per lb. BURNSIDE STOCK SALES. Small yardings all round characterised the sales at Burn side yesterday, the numbers being—Sheep 664, lambs 270, cattle 102. Monday and Tuesday being holidays, the farmers were unable to rail their stock through, notwithstanding the fact that the sale was postponed a day. Competition in all departments was brhk. even though the quality was not of the best. As was only to be expected, a sharp rise in prices resulted. Sheen were up about 2b per head, a pen of shorn wethers selling at 21s and a pen of ewes at 21s 9d. Lambs sold from 14s to 18s, an increase of about 5s per head; and in cattle the top price was £l3 12s 6d. These were up from 7s 6d to 10s per head. The advances would probably have been greater had not a number of butchers had privately-bought stock on Land. DUNEDIN GRAIN MARKET. PEE UNITED PEESB ASSOCIATION. DUNEDIN, Dec. 28. There is no improvement to report in the wheat market, which is now at a standstill and! no doubt will continue so until the holidays are over. There is no wheat to speak of in store, and millers hold, fair stocks. Quotations, nominal: Prime milling Velvet, 3s lOd to 3s lid; do. Tuscan and Red wheat, - 3a B£d to 3s 9d; best whole fowl wheat, 3s 6d to 3s 7d. Oats. —In the absence of any demand from the North, the market lacks firmness. Stocks, however, are light. Very few are coming forward; but a reduction on late quotations would have to be made to effect sales. Prime milling realises 2s lid to 3s; short, stout, bright feed, 2s lOd to 2s lid; inferior to medium, 2s 8d to 2s 9d. BRITISH MARKETS. PEE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. 81 ELfcCTEIC TELEGEAPH.—COPXEJGHT. LONDON, Dec. 28. Copper.—Spot, £63 7s 6d; three months, £64 8s 9d. Tin—Spot, £206; three months £l9l 15s. Wheat.—Two Australian cargoes sold at 35s 9d and 36s 9d respectively. THE WHEAT MARKET. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., liave received the following cablegram from their London house under date 28th inst.: —Wheat: The position of the market is quiet but steady, owing to buyers holding off. The outlook is uncertain. FROZEN MEAT MARKET. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, have received the following cablegram from their London house, under date 28th inst. .—Frozen Meat: There is a moderate demand for mutton, stocks are light for lamb, and the market for beef is steady. AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. BT ELECTEIO TELEGEAPH.—COPYEIGHT. PEE UNITED PEESS ASSOCIATION SYDNEY, Dec. 28. Wheat, 3s 6£d to 3s 7R Flour • City, £8 15s; country, £7-TTs 6d. Oats: Algerian feeding, 2s 6d to 2s 8d; seeding, 2s 9dl to 2s 10d; sparrowbills, 2s lid to 3s; giants, 2s 9d to 3s 3d. Barley: Cape, 2s lOd to 3s 6d; English malting 4s 6d to ss. Maize, 3s 9d to 4s. Bran, £5. Pollard, £6. Potatoes £7 to £9. Onions, £ll. Butter: Selected, 120s; prime, 108s to ll&s. Cheese, 6Jd to 7d. Bacon, s|d tc \ 7id.