COMMERCIAL NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIX, Issue 221, 4 October 1906, Page 4

COMMERCIAL NEWS.

WEEKLY MARKET REPORT. PRICES "CURRENT. (Special for " Marlborough Express.") WELLINGTON, Oct. 3. The N.Z. Farmers' Co-operative Distributing Co., Ltd., report as follows: Maize, 3s 9d to 4s per bushel. Wheat, 3s lOd. Very firm. Oats, prime feed 2s lOd, feed 2s <d. sack. Good demand. Barley, feed 3s 3d, Cape seed 3s 6d. Linseed whole, £15 per ton. Rice meal, £5 per ton. Pollard, £5 5s to £5 10s (fall of 20s per ton). Bran, £4 10s to £4 15s per ton. Cocksfoot, 3Jd to 4d per lb. •■ , Prime oaten sheaf chaff, £4 10s to-£4 15s per ton. ■ Potatoes, prime Australian £11 10s, Locals £12 per ton. Market' very i Seed potatoes, Up-to-Dates £15, Australian Kidneys £10, Derwents £11 10s, Brown Rivers £11. Onions, Australians £11, locals £9 to £9 10s. Good demand. Butter, separator lOd, dairy pats lOd. Supplies wanted. Eggs, fresh Is* firm, supplies short. Bacon, sides 7^d; hams Bd, rolls Bd. . Apples, dessert 14s 6d, cookers 12s. Good demand. \ •, Dressed pork, 60's to 100's 5d per lb. Keen enquiries. . \ Cabbage 6s 6d, cauliflower ts 6d per per sack. Good demand. V Asparagus, 6d to 7d per bundle. Parsnips, 5s 6d per sack. : Carrots, table £2 10s. Swedes, £3, . Poultry—Table roosters 5s 6d, cockerels "5s to 7s, table hens 4s 6d to 6s; ducks 6s 6d to 7s 6d; all at: per pair. Turkeys, gobblers 9£d, hens 8d; live weight. Dressed poultry, roosters 9d, hens 7d. Turkeys, gobblers lOd, hens Bd. ' ■ _ Poultry of all kinds in first-class demand. ' ADDINGTON STOCK MARKET. [PREBB ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 3. At the Addington live stock market to-day there were fair entries of stock in almost all departments, and a large attendance. Beef sold at about the ■previous week's rates. Fat lambs sold well. Store sheep were rather dull of sale, and the fat sheep market opened a little easier, but w«s firmer again at "the close. Pigs of all classes again met with a keen demand at high rates. There was not much demand tor storo cattle/and dairy cows. ' The store sheep were mostly wethers and hoggets, "the yarding being a small one, and the sale was rather dragging. Of the lines sold 50 wethers soH at 19a 6d, 102 at 19s 4d, 502 at 18s 4d; 52 hoggets at 17s 7d, 114 at 17s, and 390 at 15s. • . .-. - :;' ,' . •..<">■'•. ■ :■•. ■•' ..; Fifty-five^-fat lambs were/penned, and they sold under good ■ competition at 14s 9d to 21s, ahda few extragoodto 24s ,3d. ; • •;.:■;; ' >'. ;^- /, '-. Thei© jvas &> moderate yarding of- fat sheep, including some prime fines *of :ifalf-bred;:and merino wethers.\ .Jn consequence/; of the- Belfast Works being closM again, there 'was no competition on the part of export buyers, and the market opened at slightly easier rates, but firmed again, towards the close. The range of prices was: Prime wethers 23s to 265, extra to 30s 6d, lighter 20s to 22s 6d; prime ewes 20s to 23s 9d; others 15s to 17s; hoggets 15s to 17s lOd; prime merino 17s 6d to 20s, extra to -245, lighter 14s 9d to 17s; merino ewes 14s Id. The yarding Bf fat cattle numbered 175. There was a good demand, and prices showed practically no change. Steers n\ade £7 5s to £12 17s; heifers £5 15s to £10, and cows £5 10s to £8 17s 6d—-equal to 23s to 26s 6d for prime, and 20s to 30s for medium and inferior per lOOlbs. Veal calves, of which there was a large entry, mostly small sorts, sold at 7s 6d to £3, according to size and quality. There was a fairly Jarg© mixed yarding of store cattle, mostly rough sorts, and they met with a poor demand. Yearlings made 235, fifteen to eighteenmonths 32s* 6d to 475, two-year steers £3 ss, two-year heifers £2 17s SA. Three and four-year, steers passed at £5 7s 6d; four-year steers £6; dry cows 22s to £2 15s.

Most of the dairy cows were inferior sorts, and^they sold at £4 lQs for heifers, and up to £8 5s for good cows. There was a fairly large entry of all classes of pigs, and a keen demand. Fats were rather firmer, and stores again sold well, especially weahers. Baconers made 52s 6d to 60s for heavyweights, and 45s to 50s for lighter— equal to 5d to 5Jd per lb; porkers 37s to 425-^equal to s£d to 6d per lb; large stores 25s to 30s, medium 20s to 235; weaners 12s 6d to 20s 6d; and suckers 9s. TALLOW AND WHEAT MARKETS. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN STOCK. LONDON, Oct. 2. Silver 2s 7%d per oz. Tin spot, £194 15s per ton, three months £194 ss; in stock 13,232 tons, on spot 1,395, afloat .4,944, deliveries 2,440 ; copper spot £93 per ton ; supplies 26, 609 tons, deliveries 26,058, stocks 12,609, afloat 3500. Tallow, in stock 6,127 casks, imports 4,388, deliveries 5,646. Adelaide and Victorian wheat cargoes sold at 30s 9d. Tiraumea wool realised 10|d. _ The holders of 181,400 out of a million South Australian four per cents due January Ist next have converted into three and half per cents, and the holders of 61,700 have taken cash, leaving 756,900 to be paid off at maturity. » AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE MARKETS. SYDNEY, Oct. 3. Wheat chicle 3s, milling 3s 2Jd, Manitoba 4s 2d ; flour £7 15s, Manitoban £14 to £'15; oats, Tasmanian prime white 3.s 3d, Algerian heavy nulling 3s, feeding 2s 10d,~ New Zealand Gartons 3s 4d, Tartarian seed 3s 4d to 3s sd; maize 2s 7d; bran 9d; pollard lOd; peas, blue 5s ; potatoes, Tasmanian £7 5s to £9; onions, Victorian £7 10s to £8 10s, Japanese £11 11s; butter Hid; cheese s|d to 6d ; bacon 6^d to 7.? d. MELBOURNE, Oct. 3. Wheat 3s 2jd ; flour. £7 10s; oats, Algerian milling 2s 3d, feeding 2s; barley, Cape 3s. footling 2s 9d; maize, 2s 8d ; bran and pollard 9d ; potatoes, £5 10s to £6 ss; onions, £6 Gs ADELAIDE. Oct. 3. Wheat 3s 2d, bran and pollard 9d. A COSTLY COUGH. The uncared for cough, the cough • you let go> on, hoping it will cure itself, is the costly cough. It is the cough that annoys you, keeps on hacking and tearing the delicate and sensitive membranes and tissues of the throat, until it is impossible to cure. Take care of your cough now. Take Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It soothes, relieves, and cures. For sale by J. Beuning. *