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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11948, 24 April 1902, Page 4

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KAURI CUM MARKET.

The followin are our quotation* of kauri (ruin for the week ending April 21, 1902: — White gum: Poor ordinary, £32 and tipwnru. • fair ordinary, £52 anil upwards; bold, three-quarter .scraped (free from nuts), £80 and upwards! East Const (good quality), £75 nod upwards; re-soraped, £120 and upwards. Black gum: Nuts, £12 and upwards; medium (free from sugar), £10 and upwards; good, £55 and upwards. Remarks on market: Arrivals for 21 days of April, 510 tons. The market is rather quieter, but prices remain steady. AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright BIDNBT. April 23. Wheat: Steady, 4s 3d. Flour, £9 ss; Manitoba, £11 15a to £12 ss. Oats, prime, 3s Id. Parley, Cape, 3s 9d; English, 4s 3d. Maize. ss. Bran, 1* 4d. Pollard, Is 4cl. Pens, Prussian blue, 7s. Potatoes, Tasmanian, £4 ss. Onions, £8 10:* to £9. Butter, Is 6d. Cheese, 8d to Bid. Bacon, 7j,d to Bid. . Melbourne, April 23. Wheat, 4s. Oats, Algerian, 3s Id; milling, 3s 3d. Maize, 4s 6d. Bran and pollard, Is 4d. Adelaide, April 23. Wheat, dull, 3s Bd. Flour, £9 5s to £9 10s. Bran and pollard, Is 3d. ' Oats, Algerian, 2s 5d to 2s Bd. LONDON. By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. London, April 22. Tin: The quotation for spot is £130; three months, £126 10::. Lead: £11 17s 6d. Wheat is Is 6d dearer f - the week. The total wheat and flour v float for the United Kingdom is 4,225,000 quarters, and for the Continent 1.675,000. Shares: Bank of Australasia, 50; Bank of New Zealand fours, 101 i. THE CHAIN MARKET. DUNBDIN. Wednesday. Wheat: Practically none offering in the market, and the demand for any Rood milling: obtainable is very keen at up to 4s 6<l: medium, 3s 10(1 to 4s 3d; fowl feed, 3s 6d to 3s 3d for whole to 3s 3d for inferior.

Oats: The market is brisk, and all coining forward in fair condition are readily salable. Prime bright samples command 2s 6d to 2s 7id; especially prime. 2s 8d; best feed, 2s 5Jd to 2s 6d : inferior and medium. 2» Id to 2s 4d.

Barley: The season's crop Is in fair demand at for prime Hake's malting, 4s; best feed lines, 2s Id to 2g Cd.

ALDINGTON STOCK MARKET. CHUtSTCUITRCU, Wednesday. There was a good attendance and large entries at Addington market. Sheep. 20,832; cattle, 438: pigs, 735. Fat cattle. 213 head, mostly heavy bullocks, were slow of sale at the opening, but improved towards the close, though a decline on last week's prices must be recorded. A line of 22 bullocks from Mount Palm made .€lO lis to £13 7s 6dj 21 from Hawkwvood. £11 12s fid to £13 2s 6d; l> from the North Island. £10 12s Gd to £12 2* 6il; 14 from Mr. W. \V. Birdling, .€9 17s Od to £11 28 6d; other steers made £6 15s to £13 2s 6d; heifers, £5 6a to £9 2s Cd; cows, £5 2s 6(1 to £9 12s Cd, equal to 1% to 24s 6(1 per 1001b. .Store cattle were :i fair entry, at about last week's figures. Calves fetched up to £1, and young cattle from £1 10s for yearlings up to £4 Is for two-year-old vteei'H and £6 lis lor three-year-olds, Dairy cattle were as usual, one good cow fetching £9 ss. Pat sheep were a foil entry, hut a mixed description and varied in quality. Freezing wethers, 16s to 13s Ml ewes and wethers. 13s 6d to 16s 7d; medium. 10s to 12s 6d; light ami inferior, 7s to 9s 6d. Fat lambs were a large entry. 2157. mostly backward, and there was slack bidding and prices were easier. Nine hundred and thirty-four bought for export at 9s to 13s 2d: 189 for butchers. 7* Id to 13s Id; 1034 passed. Store sleep numbered 15,170. mostly wethers in good condition, 1400 coming from the North Island. Really good sheep and forward wethers were in demand, and good ewes, but lambs and inferior sheep were dull and easier. Pigs, a large market, were much above trade wants, and prices were easier in consequence. Stores were unsalable. Uacouers, 32s to 40s (3d to 31d per lb)i porker?, , 20s to 308 (or 31d to 3jd per lb).