THE MARKETS.

New Zealand Mail, 20 August 1902, Page 18

THE MARKETS.

WELLINGTON PRODUCE MARKET

Laery and Co., Ltd., Jcrvois quay report the following wholesale selling prices on the Wellington produce market:—Wheat (fowls’), 3s Gd to 3s 8d per bushel; feed oats, 3s to 3s Id; Tartarian seed, 3s sd: dun cats, 3s; barley, 3s 3d per bushel; rye-corn, 4s per bushel; maize, 3* lOd per bushel; flour, £ll per ton; po’larci, 135 s per to.i; bran, 125 s per ton; oatmeal. £l4 per ton: oatsheaf chaff, £5 to £5 10s per ton; hay, £4 10s per ton; parfridg;peas, 4s 3d; horse beans, 4s rid per bushel; cocksfoot seed, dressed 4J-d no 4-id, farmers’ parcels 3d to 33d per lb seed potatoes. Beauty of Hebron 10s. Fluke Kidney £6, Early Rose £7, Peach Blossom, Victory, Breeze’s Prolific 100 s, White Star 100 s, Magnum Boiium 100 s, Derwents 755; onions. £5 10s, £6 per ton; pastry "butter, 9)d per lb; c-.eese, fißi. factory; bacon, 7d, best factory; hams. 73c1; rolls, 7kl; fowls, 3s 3d to 4s per pair; ducks, 4s Gd to 5s per pair; turkeys, hens 7s to 8s per pair; gobblers 9s to 11s per pair; geese, os od per pair ; fresh eggs, weak at Is 5d per dozen . cabbages. 4s to 7s per sack; effuuflowers, 8s to 11s per sack for choice pumpkins, £3 per ton; marrows, 4s to 5s per sack: cooking apples, 4s to Gs per 401 b case; dessert apples, os to Ss per 40. b case; red carrots, 60s; swede-*. 4.0 s per. tort;’ parsnips, 5s to Gs per sack.

AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE MAIIKE

SYDNEY, August 13

Wheat, 4s Sd to 4s 9:1; chick, nominal. 4-s Gd. Flour, £10; Manitoban, £l2 10s. Oats, local Algerian, prime, 3s Gd; medium, 3s 4xl: prime white feed3s Gd. Maize, iconl, os od to 6s. Gd. Barley, Cape, 4s; English feeding. 3s lid to 4s. Peas, Prussian blue. 7s. Bran and pollard, Is Bd. Potatoes, Tasmanian, £5 15s to £G; new Zealand Derwents, £4 15s to unions, Victorian, £6 10s to £7; New Zealand rough, £4; prime. £4 10s to £5 ss. Butter, Is 8d; New Zealand best, to Is 7d. Cheese, local, Bcl to iUUI; New- Zealand Targe, 8ld; medium. 8:]cl to 9ld; prime loaf, 9d to 9)d. Bacon, DJd to 93d. MELBOURNE, August 13. Wheat, firm, 4s 5d to 4s Gd. Oats, Algerian, milling, 3s 4d to 3s sd. Barley, 3s 9d to 4s Gd. Maize, 4s 8d to 4s 9d. Bran and pollard, Is Gd. Potatoes, £4 5s to £4 10s. Onions, £0 15s to £G for prime. ADELAIDE, August 13.

"Wheat, 4s sd. Flour, £9 ss. Oats, Algerian, 3s 3d; white, 3s 3d to 3s Gd. Bran and pollard, Is 7d.

OTAGO PRODUCE MARKET,

Oats.—There is more inquiry about. General sales have been made for shipment, still -business passing through is only on a small scale. Wo quote: Prime seed, 2s Gd to 2s 9d; prime milling, 2s o.jd to 2s 6d; good to best feed, 2s 3d to 2s 51 cl; inferior, 2s to- 2s 3d (sacks extra). Wheat.—There is no chango to report, millers’ immediate requirements being well filled. Medium is unasked for, except as fowl wheat, which meets with a good demand at- quotations. Prime milling, 3s lOd to 4s 3d; medium to good, 3s 3d to 3s 9d; whole fowl wheat, 2s lOd to 3s Id; broken do, 2s Gd to 2s 9d (sacks extra). ■ Chaff.—Prime bright oaten sheaf still meets with a ready sale, but the market for medium quality is overstocked, and the latter is hard to quitat quotations. VVe quote: Prime oaten sheaf, £3 17s 6d to £4 ss;- medium to .good, £3 5s- to £3'lss; inferior to medium, £2 to £2 15s (sacks extra).

Potatoes.—Consignments have not been coming forward so freely, consequently stocks are somewhat reduced. We quote: Prime Derwents, £2 17 s gj to £3 ss; medium, £2 ss'to £2 17b Gd (bags in).

LIVE STOCK MARKETS. CHRISTCHURCH, August 13. At Addington to-day there were fair entries, including a number of exhibition lines of fat sheep ana a few prime cattle, principally from -the North Island. The attendance ivas large, including breeders from the worth. Island, Otago and North Canterbury. ■ Fat cattle. —132* mostly light weights, excepting a few lines of prime bullocks and cows. Competition Avas keen for ready good sorts, and showed a distinct, advance, the best beef ruling at 2Gs to 30s per lUUib, and more in exceptional cases; other sorts, 20s to 265. Best bullocks, £l2 to £l6 10s; good steers to £ll 10s; others, £6 to £8 10s; heifers, £5 5s to £9 2s Gd; extra good cows, £9 to £lO 17s Gd; others, £5 to £b 10s.

Fat sheep.—About 700, including several exhibition consignments, whic.i took prizes at UlO Canterbury and Dunedin Winter Shows. .There Avas a keen demand for extra prime, both by local butchers a .d exporters to Sydney, and fre«. zers a.se t-u-. rated freely. •. rices f.n- Lie exhil.fi: •: i consignment ranged i:\iu: x7s to -is. prime heavy Avethors fj; Sydney, in G-! i 0 335; prime freezers, its to 21s; r, 14s 9d to 17s Gd; prime ii a-. y c- e> lGs lOd to 19s; medium. Its to M- Gd; others, 11s Gd to 15s G!; prher n'.-i-ruio wethers, 18s rid to I’.l> 5:1; ofia-r . J2s to 13s Gd. Fat lambi.- tfi-O. ■ Spring lambs, 1U Gd to 15-; i 11s'to 14s Id. Bure slump.—3774, mostly hoggets. All classes sen! .-eh, and nearly the wiioie entry cuaugcd hands. Forward wethers, 15s; others, 13s 4d to 13s 9u; good young half-bred ewes, "15s 3d; fair.. 10s 8d to l”s rid; inferior, os to 9s; hoggets, 7s 7d to 10s 7d. Pigs. — Abut 350. Fats Avoro scarce, and comma.eh d higher prices. A buyer for Sydney v. m, unable to purchase, value's bei ig above ids "limit. Baconers, fits to 57s 69, equal to 4Ri to 4kl per lb: porkers, 25» to 355, equal to 4ijd to 5d per ib; big stores, 17s Gd to 255; snia her, 10s to 15s; suckers arid weaners, 5s to 9s. DUNEDIN, August 13. At the Bur v ;dh market to-day 206 fat cat tie ... u jardod. The demand, except fur the- prhnest, was slack, and a n duc-.i0.-i :f -0 ■■ to 15s per htwl had * o lv> submi- tml to. especially 151 huff- is;,.d. ■ e:-t bullocks, £lO 10s to £l2: m.-fifi'.'! .. £8 -15 sto £10; best cows and fi fif i'U £7 to £8 ss; medium, C‘> 10s t» £(i ins. Sheep.—4s3l were penned, prices ruling a bunt Is lower. Freezing buyers up rated frce.'y. Best Avethers, 18s to 2-U Get ; medium. 15s Gd to 17s 9d ; lest • 15s i.o 16s 9d; medium, 13s to Ms 9d.

Lambs.— 3G4 wc-rc yarded, prices ruling about the Kvne as last tveok. Be.-t, .1 Is to 13s-. v e.'-iuiu, 9s to 10s 9:1. Pigs.— T()G ■re penned, prices for id! sorts ruing firm. Suckers, 10s to 12s Gd: sljps 14s to lGs; stores, -18 sto 23s- porkers, 29a to 335; baconers, 40s to 53s : heavy jugs, up to 68s. SYDNEY, August 12. Two hundred and ninety-one Noav Z aland Avethers have been sold here at prices ra -ging from 35s to 445. Twenty Ncav Zealand bullocks realised an average cf £2l 14s;. one brought £29 10s, a record for the yard. One con- in the same consignment fetched £l9.

Freeman R. Jackson and Co., in conjunction Avith /Abraham and Williams, report'on their Johnsouville sale as folloavs : —A full yarding of bullocks of good quality met a brisk market, and OAving to the presence of Sydney buyers, beef made fully 2s per hundred pounds more to-day than last Aveek.. Quotations Beef, up to 255. Best bullocks, £lO 5s to f ) 17s Gd; others, £9 anti £8 5s to £9 12s Gd. A small entry of sheep sold freely at an advance on last Aveek’s rates. Wethers, 15s 9d to lGs lid; cAA-es, 12s Id, 12s 9d to 14s 3d.

The Department of Agriculture has received tho folloAving cable message from the Agent-General, dated Loudon, the 11th instant:—The mutton market is steady. The average price to-day for Canterbury mutton is 3|d; Dunedin, Southland and W.M.E. Co. mutton, 33d; other North Island mutton, 3|d. The lamb market is firm. The average price to-day for New Zealand lamb. Canterbury brand, is 4f d; NeAV Zealand lamb other than Canterbury, 4Jd; legs, 41 d. The beef market is quiet. NeAV Zealand hinds, s|d; fores, 3ld. The hemp market is firm. “Good fair Wellington” grade on spot to-day is £33 10s per ton; September-November shipments, £3l 10s.' Stock, 724-tons, against 24G last year. The cocksfoot seed market is quiet. Ncav Zealand 171 b standard, 48s.