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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 20 June 1911, Page 8

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(Received June 20, 0.30 a.m.) hONDOXj Monday. Silver i s at 24V;;d an ounce. Professor Licht estimates that the production of beet sugar has increased 502.000 tons, and for the season, the increase will be 1,yG3,000 tons. WELLINGTON FRUIT AND i'ivO13UCE MARKETS. The New Zealand Farmers' C'o-Opera-tive Distributing Company, Ltd., rej.ort. under date 16th. inst. : Potatoes are unchanged : supplies have, however, now eased olf considerably. Onions are a'.eo about- the same as last- week. Vegetables: are in demand, prime cauliflowers realising up to 20s per sack. Cabbage are in keen inquiry. Swedes and marrows an-© m fair demand. Apples are the only fruit coming to hand," and prime quality of both, cooking and dessert realise crood prices. Pears are in. good inquiry. E«gs i are in good demand, although supplies ar-3 well up to requirements. Preserved lines are of slow sale. Porkers are comino- in in large quantities, and meet ready sale where quality is right. Quotations : Potatoes-,, prime. £5 10s ton. Up-to-Date seed potatoes. Canterbury grown. £6 10s ton. Onions, Australian Brown Snanish, £5 ton.

Cabbage. 3s 6d to 7s do sack. Carrots, 2s 6d sack. Swedes. Is 6d to 3s sack. Cauliflower. 10s to 15s sack. Marrows, 3s to 4s sack. Turnips, white, 6d to 8d 'do7.cn. Lettuce, Is to Is 6d case. Pumpkins, 3s to 5s sack. Pie melons. 6s per sack. Apples.—Dasseirt. 7s 6d to 10s case ; cooking, 4s to 6s cae. Tomatoes. —3s to 5s per 2 case. Butter —Separator. 10Ad : dairy. lb.

Cheese. —Besi factory mediums.. 5Jd lb. ; loaf. 7d lb. Dressed Pork.—7o"s to GO's. 4gd, 90"s to 100 \s, .(heavy). Z!A : suckers. s=j>d to 6d. Eggs, fresh. 2s d-ozen. Preserve*} eggs. Is 2d dozen. Bacon.—Factory sides, 7d : rolls, 9d ; hams:. lb. Honey, 3id to 4d lb. ; slow of sole. Beeswax, Is 5d lb. Fungus. 4d lb. Walnuts. 6d to 7d lb. Tallow, tins .23- cwt. Maize. 3s 6d bushel. Wheat. 4s 4d bushei. Barley (feed). 3s- 3.1 b-iushe!. Barley (Ccpe). 3.-? lOd bushel. Pollard. £7 10s_ton. Bran. £5 15s ton. Molasses fodder. £5 10s ton. Chaff, oaten- sheaf. £6 10.~ ton. Hay. prime. £5 ton. Straw, wlieaten. £3 10s ton. . Oats. feed. 3s 2d bushel.. Oats. Seed. —Spa-rrow b i 11». Crnrton?. 3? 3d ; Storm Kings. 3s 6d ; Duns. Algerians, Drecced Australian. 3s lOd ner buiuel. . Oats*. crushed. 3s 4d bushel. . Poultry".—Cockerels. 5s 6d for food •birds; table roosters. ss: table hens. 3s fvi to 4?-; -ducks. 5s to 6s; turkey -obbvcrs. 9d lb. liens, to 8d lb*, live weight. eDUNEDIN FRUIT AND PRODUCE . MARKETS. Fruit-, produe, and grain report sunplied by Messrs K. T. ShieL and Co., auctioneers, Stafford-street. Drmedin. for the week ending 15th June: Very light, supplies of ail lines are coming forward, an-d the market is extremely buoyant, apples and- peai-s being in short supply at pre^ent. We quote choice Dougherty, Scarlets, x.ed P-sr-mains, Cox's Orange, and Ribstones, bushel boxe=, u,p to 9s 3d for extra choice; choice, 8s 6d : medium, 7s 6d. Cooking Apples.—T:he market is extremely bare, goodI,' 1 ,' large, .green aippl-cs 2jd to 3d' lb. Citron Melons for jam.—Supplies are practically fmis-hed; medium sized worth <up to £5 10s per ton. Harrows.—Steady demand ; 5s 6d to 6s 9d per sack. Pumpkins, 4s 6d to 5s pcx cwt.

Pears-.—Supplies about exhausted. Choice dessert worth 3d to 3id' ,per lb ; cooking sorts, 2£d ; with a steady sale. Grain -and Produce.—Vary light deliveries have caused l an exceedingly firm market. This particularly applies to oats, -chaff, and wheat, w.h£e potatoes are keeping fairly steady. Seed sorts are etrongiy inquired for; but v-c-ry few payable .lines are available. We quote Algerians, 2s 9di; Black Rival, 2s 8d; A Gartens and ;A Sparrows, 2s 7£d ; 1> Oar tons, Sparrows, Danish, Black Tartars, and Long Tartars, 2s 7d. Fowl Wheat.—W'ihole, 3s s£d ; smutted. 3s 4-Adl • broken, 3s 4d. Pollard, 12-0.5. bran, 955. C/naff. —Heavy c.a-t| chaff, about 27 bags to the ton, 102s 6d'; medium, 100s. Baled wheat-en: stir aw. 355.; oaton, 455. Wheaten straw chaff, 60s; bags. SJ. Molasses fodder, 12 bags to the ton, £4 15s.'

Feed barley, 3s 3di bushel. -Swede turnips, 35s ton; carrots, 40s par ton. % Parnsnips. £5 10s ton. Preserved eggs. Is Id dozen ; fresh eggs, Is 6d dozen. Baoon. —Rolls, 7d ; sides, 7|d, per lb. Cheese. —Medium, 6d lb. ; loaf, fci<l. Onions.—Canterbury, 75s ton; Vic tori an, £5, c.i.f., duty pai-J.

STOCKS AND SHARES. (Special to ''Mail.") WELLINGTON, This Day. Mr A. T. Bate, of Wellington, reports the Wellingtoa Exchange at noon to-day as fellows: — National Bank,- b 120 0 National Bank, s . 121 6 Bank of N.Z. (ex) 232 6 Wellington Trust 153 0 Gisbotme Gas 61 0 N.Z. Shipping, b 232 6 N.Z. Shipping, b 232 6 N.Z. Shipping, s 23-5 0 Union S.S. Co. 41 0 Wellington) Woollen (cird.), s 82 0 ■Wellington WooLlen (pref.) 60 0 T'aupiri Coal 21 3 West-port Coal 29 0 Taranaki Petroleum, b 15 0 Taranaki Petroleum, s 17 0 Ward and Co. 102 6 Consolidated Gold fields 19 0 Ka/painga, b 0 6 Kapanga, s 0 7 Caledonian,, s 13 Slay Quen —2s lid. 3s, 2s lid. Crown 3 5 ■Sylvia—2s Bd, 2s 9d. 2s Bjd. Hauraki, s 2 4 Saxon, b 1 11 Saxon, b ? 0 TaiLrua Talisman, b 48 9 Talisman, s 49 6 Waihi—6s® 6d, 665, 66s 2d, 65s 9d. Talisman Extended', b 17 Talisman Extended, s 19 Waihi Junction- —26s 6d, 26s 9d, 26s 9d. Waatangi 2 5 Watchman, s 1 10 Ross GoldfielJs, b 1 10 Ross Goldfields. s 2 3 Waihi Paeroa (premium) 11 0 Punas Association.—Copyright. (Received June 20, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, Monday. Share quotations; Waihi. 65s and 67s fed ; Waihi Junction, 26s 3d and 27s 6d.