THE MARKETS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1612, 21 January 1903, Page 67 (Supplement)

THE MARKETS.

Messrs Freeman R. Jackson and Go. (in conjunction with Abraham and Y/ illiams, Limited) report their Johnsonville sale as follows: —There was a small entry of prime quality bullosas. Bidding was slow. "We quote-—Beef, 27s per 1001 b; best bullocks, £lO 7s 6d ; others, £9 15s. Sheep were in small, numbers. Competition for good wethers was keen, and a few prime lambs alsosold freely ; medium sorts were easier. Ewes were dull of sale. Prime wethers,, 17s 3u; others, 14s 6d to 15s sd;\lambs, 10a lid to 12s; others, 9s 3d. Pigs, porkers, £2 9s. Lacry and Co., Limited, Jervois quay, report the following wholesale sealing prices on the Wellington produce inaiket: —"Wheat (fowls), 5s per bushel; feeu oats, 3s to 3s 3d; discoloured, 2s 9d to 2s 10d; barley, 3s lOd per busiiol; maize, 4s lOd per bushel; flour, "N e w Zea.and £l4, Adelaide £l3 15s, Manitoban. £l3 10s; pollard, £7 15s per ton; bran, s-/ 10s per ten ; oatmeal, £ls per ton ; catsheaf chaff, £o 10s per ton: straw chair, £3 5s per ton ; hay, £4 15s per ton ; I>er-v.-futs, £3 per ton; onions, Victorian £3 per ton; cheese 6d, factory; bacon, 9d, best factory; hams, lid; rolls, 9ld ; pastry butter, 8d to 8-Id per ib ; fowls, Ss to 3s Gd per pair; ducks, 5s per pair; turkeys, hens 8s to 9s per pair, gobblers 13s to 15s per pair; geese, os Gd per pair; fresh eggs, lid to Is per dozen; cabbages Is Gd to 2s Gd per sack; cauliflowers, 4s to 5s per sacic for choice; mutton birds, 4RI ; rhubarb, 2s to 4s per dozen : Kutt flukes, £6 ; barley dust, £7 10s; linseed cake, £9 10s. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., have received the following cable message from London, dated 13th inst:—The list of arrivals for the first series cf wool sales is closed. The new arrivals have amounted to 215,000 bales, of which 82,000 bales have been forwarded direct to manufacturers at‘Home and abroad, leaving, with 5000 bales carried forward from last series, 138,000 bales available for sale. Private sales since the close of last series have amounted to only a trifling quantity. The dates of our own sales are 22nd, 27th and 30th January. AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE MARKETS. ' SYDNEY, January 14. Wheat, chick, local prime, 5s 9d f o 5s lOd; New Zealand, 5s Gd to 5s 9(1; milling, 5s Bd. Flour, £ll 10s to £l2 ; Manitoban, £l2 10s. Oats, Algerian, 3s 7d to 3s 8d; New Zealand and Tasmanian prime, ,3s lOd to 3s lid. Barley. New Zealand prime feeding. 4s 6a ; malting, 4s 9d to os: Californian, 4s 3d to 4s Gd. Maize, prime feeding, 5s to 5s 3d. Bran, Is 6d. Pollard, 2s. Peas, blue. 10s. Potatoes, local, £6 to £7; Tasmanian prime, £9 to £10; Victorian, £7 5s to £B. Onions, £5 10s. Butter, lOd. Cheese. s|d to 7d. Bacon, llld to Is. Hams. New Zealand, Is Id. MELBOURNE, January 14. Wheat, firm, Os lOd. Flour, to £l2 10s. Oats, good. 3s 3d to 3s 4d ; seeding, 3s sd. Barley, Cape 3s 9d'; good malting. 4s lOd to os 2d. Maize. 4s 9u. Brans, Is 4d. Pollard. Is 9d. Potatoes, £3 10s to £4 10s. Onions, £4 Is to £4 10s. ADELAIDE. January 14. Wheat, 5s sd. Flour £ll 10s. Bran, Is sd. Pollard, Is 6d. DUNEDIN GRAIN MARKET. DUNEDIN, January 14. Wheat.—Very little business is doing. Millers have about enough to keep them going, and are. not inclined to purchase further at present. Fowl wheat is in fairly good demand, but prices have a tendency to ease. Prime milling velvet. 5s 3d to 5s Gd; Tuscan and red sorts. 5s to 5s 4d; whole fowl wheat, 4s 3d to 4s Gd: broken and medium, 3s 9d to 4s 2d, sacks extra. Oats.—There is good inquiry for feed lines suitable for shipment, and a fair amount of business doing. Stocks are very low in the city, and holders in the country expect an advance. Prime milling, 2s Btd to 2s 9d; best feed, 2s 8d to 2s 8-Id medium to good, 2s 6£d to 2s 7id; inferior, 2s to 2s sd, sacks extra. Barley.—Practically nothing is offering, and there is very little inquiry except for feed. Prime malting, 3s Gd to 3s 9d; good, 3s 5d to 3s 7d; milling, 3s sd; feed, 3s 3d to 3s 4d, sacks extra. SOUTHERN STOCK SALES. CHRISTCHURCH, January 14. There were fair entries at the Addington market to-day. Fat cattle.—rlsß were yarded, prices being a shade easier. Steers, £9 to £l3 2s Gd; heifers, £6 to £S 10s; oows, £5 17s 6d to' £9 10s; beef, 26s to 28s per 1001 b. „ Fat sheep.—There was an average yarding of fat sheep, which met .with a good demand, prices being about on a par with those of last week. Heavyweight wethers, to 19s 7d; prime freezers. 17s 6d to 19s 2d; light weights, 15s lOd to 17s; freezing ewes, 13s 8d to 18s; best butchers 5 ewes, 15s 6d to 18s Id; others, 12s to 15s. Fat lambs.—Three thousand were yarded, the quality being better than bas been the case during the past few weeks. Buyers for export further re-

ducc-d their limit, and prices were correspondingly easier, a drop of about Gd per head being noticeable. Butchers’ sorts, 10s 3d to 15s 3d; freezers, 12s 5d to 15s Get. Pigs.—A fair yarding. Baconers, 40s to 55s Gd, equal to 5d per lb ; porkers, 30s to 3Ss, equal to 5d to sid per ib; stores, up to 28s; weaners, 10s to IGs. DUNEDIN, January 14. At the Burnside market to-day 131 fat cattle were yarded, the greater proportion being of medium weight. For prime quality there was a goad demand, though at prices hardly equal to last . week’s, but for other classes there was a 'reduction of 15s per head. Best bullocks, £lO 10s to £ll 10s r medium, £9 7s Gd to £lO 7s Gd ; others, £7 15s to £9; 1 'sfc cows, £7 10s to £3 Tss; heavy, £9 7s Gd; medium, £6 5s to £7 ss; others, £4 10s to £5 15s. Fat sheep.—22lG were penned, the hulk being medium wethers and eld ewes. No export buyers were operating. Really prime wethers realised within Is of last week, hut others suffered a deeclmo of Is Gd to 2s Gd per head. The market, however, was steady. Prime wethers, 17s to I9s;‘ medium, 15s Gd to 17s; light and inferior, 13s to 14s ; heavy ewes, 16s Gd to 18s Gd ; medium, 12s Gd to I4s ; light, 10s to 12s 3d. Lambs.—924 were penned. Export buyers took about half, and prices were kept at last week’s rates. Best, 12s Gd to 14s 3d ; medium, 10s to 12s ; others, 7s Gd to 9s. Pigs.—l3s were yarded. Bidding was brisk, and exceedingly high. No suckers were offered. Slips, 18s to 21s; stores, 23s to 29s : porkers, 32s to 445; baconers, 50s to 70s Gd ; choppers, up to 80s. AUCKLAND, January to. The second wool sa.le of the season commenced to-day. Tlie catalogues embraced 4223 bales, which was considerably in excess of the quantity put forward at the previous sale. Prices as compared with last sale show an all-round advance of a farthing, while better-grown wool shows an improvement of a halfpenny. Halfbred realised 5-jd to per lb; fine crossbreds, s|d to 7d; course and medium crossbreds 4-£d to s£d; log-stained and coarse, 4vl to 41 d: pieces. Sid to 4d ; bellies, up to 4fd. One lot of merino not catalogued realised 8d per lb. Competition was keen throughout. TIMARU, January 13. The second wool sale of the season opened this morning, when 8778 bales were Offered. There was a large attendance of buyers representing Home and colonial mills. Competition was very keen for the coarser wools. The best prices were 10Jd per lb for merino, Sd for halfhred, '7Jd for three-quarter-bred, and 6-1-d for crossbred. As compared with the last Timaru sale merino declined fd per lb halfbred £d to Id, and three-quarter-bred advanced 1-d to fd.