THE MARKETS

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1636, 8 July 1903, Page 66 (Supplement)

THE MARKETS

Messrs Freeman R. Jackson and Co. (in conjunction with Abraham and Williams, Ltd.) report on their Johnsonville sale as follows: —A small entry or bullock* of prime quality sold xreeiy. Reef mao 255, best quality going up to 2Gs ; best bullocks, £9 15s to LlO, others, £8 17s 6d to £9 12s 6d. We had an average entry of sheep, Hi© bulk being of only medium quality. Competition was keen. Best 16s Id: others, 14s 5d ; small ditto, 13s 2d; ewes, 15s sd; others, 13s 8d to 14s 9d; rough ewes, 12s. "Messrs Laery and Co., Ltd., Jervois quay, report the following wholesale seiliner prices on the Wellington produce market .—Wheat (fowls'), 4s 2d to 4s 4d oer bushel-; feed oats, la lid to 2s 5d per bushel; barley, 3s 2d per bushel; maize 5s per bushel; flour, New Zealand, £lO 10s; pollard, £6 10s per ton; bran, £5; oatmeal, £ll 5s per ton; hay, £4 per ton; onions, New Zealand, £3 to £6 per ton, according to sample; cheese, factory, Od per lb; bacon, best factory B£d, hams 9d, rolls 9}d; pastry butter, 8U to 9d per lb; fowls, 3s per pair; roosters, 3s 6d; ducks, 4s 6d to 5s 6d per pair; turkeys, hens 7s per pair, gobblers lls to 13s; fresh eggs Is lOd per dozen, limed Is 6d per dozen; cabbages, Is to 2s per sack; cauliflowers, 6s to 9s per sack; potatoes, 65s to 7os, early seed potatoes, £4 10s to £6 10s; linseed cake, £9 10s; undressed cocksfoot, 3d to per lb; machinedressed cocksfoot, 43d; ryegrass 4s to os 3d per bushel; partridge peas, 4s 9d per bushel; oaten sheaf chaff, 90s to 95s per ton; straw chaff, 603; Cape barley, 3s 8d; Prussian blue peas, 7s per bushel; wild ducks, 4s to 4s 6d; pukekos, Is to Is 6d; hares, 3s; teal, 2s 6d to 3s per brace; ?uail. Is 6d; carrots, 40s; parsnips, 3s o 4s per sack; pumpkins, 5s per sack; to 5s per snek; cooking &p----pies, 5s to 5s 6d; dessert apples, 5s to 7s; mutton birds, s|d; horse beans, 4s 4d per bushel.

Messrs Gosling and Graham report a very successful sale of skins and hides mst Levin last week. Eight hundred •kins, 60 hides amd a quantity of -wool and tallow were sold as follows: —Good •heepskins. 4d to 44d per lb; medium, Sid to 4dj damaged, 2d to 3*d; green •kins, 2s lOd to 3s 4d each; pelts 7d to lOd; cow hides (butchers’), 15s 9d; farmers’, lls to 13s; ox hides. £1 Os 6d; fat (in tins) 2d to 2RL per lb; tallow (in casks), £1 03 6d per cwt. Small lots of wool sold up to 4£d per lb Pigs also •old at good prices. AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE MARKET. SYDNEY, July 1. Wheat, Argentine, 4s 8d to 4s . lOd; chick, New Zealand, 4s 9d to 4s lOd. Flour, local and Manitoban, £l2 5s to £l2 10s. Oats, New Zealand and Tasmanian prime feeding, 2s 8d; milling, 2s lOd to 2s lid; inferior, from 2s 6d. Barley, Cape, 3s lid to 4s Id. Maize, 3s 4d €o 3s 6d. Bran, 9£d to lOd. Pollard, 10£d fca lid. Peas, Prussian blue, 7s. Potatoes, Circular Heads, £2 15s; New Zealand Early Rose seed, £6 15s to £7 15s. Onions, Victorian, £2 10s to £3 se. Butter, Is Id. Bacon, to 10£d. Hams, New Zealand, Is to Is Id. (The above quotations are those ruling between merchant and retailer, and do not represent the slightly lower values obtained by recognised brokers). MELBOURNE, July 1. Wheat quiet, 5s Id; Californian, ss. Flour, £ll 10s to £l2; imported, £ll 10s t) £l2 10s. Oats, weak; Algerian feeding, 2s Id to 2s sd; milling, 2s 6d; New Zealand “B,” 2s Sd., Barley, feeding, 3s Id to 3s sd. Maize, 2s lid. Bran and pollard, Potatoes, New Zealand pink eyea, £2 7s 6d to £2 10s. ADELAIDE, July 1. Wheat, dull, 5s 4d. Flour, £l2. Bran, Is Id. Pollard, Is 3d. SOUTHERN STOCK SALES. CHRISTCHURCH, July 1. There was an average yarding of stock at Addington market to-day, and a good attendance. Fat cattle—l 93 came forward, the entry including a fair proportion of useful iteers and heifers. The sale opened poorly, but subsequently improved. Although the market on the whole was firm at last week’s rates, prices were irregular. Beef averaged from 27s to 30s per lOOlbs, but in a few instances tne fatter price was exceeded. Steers, £6 17s 6d to £l2 15s; heifers, £5 17s 6d to £9 15s; extra prime, £ll ss; cows, £5 10s to £9; extra prime, £lO 15s. Fat sheep A large entry included a number of large lines of prime quality freezers. These were snapped up by export buyers, leaving butchers to compete for the smaller pens, with the resuit that prices all round were decidedly firrh at an advance on previous week’s rates. Freezing wethers, 18s to 255; merinos for freezing, 17s 6d; butchers', 14s 9d: wethers and ewes, 16s to 3d; freezing ewes (aged), 12s lOd to 17s; young ewes, 17s 6d to 235; butchers’ ewes, 12s 3d to 225.

Fat lambs—l34o were penned, some of the pens being of particularly prime quality. The sale as a whole was an excellent prices all round being firm at last 1 wek’s rates. Tegs, 17s 3d to 255; extra heavy, 30s; freezers, 13s to 17s; butchers', 12s to 18s Bd. Pigs—The entry was small and the demand keen. Choppers, «£3 to £5 ; baconers, 45s to 565, equal to 4£d to 5d per lb; porkers, 30s to 425, equal to to 6d per b DUNEDIN. July 1. A_t Burnside, to-day 134 cattle were yarded. Best =£ll 12s to .£l2; medium, .£9 to <£lo 10s; others. £7 to £8 10s; best cows £8 10s to .£9 10s; " odium. .£7 10s to <£B ss; ethers, from <£s 10s to <£6 15s. Sheep—lsl6 yarded. Best wethers. 18s to 19s 9d; extra heavy, 21s; medium. 15s to 17s Cd; others 14s 6d to 15« • ox* -a heavy ewes, 19s 9d; prime. 15s to 17s Gd ; medium, 12s to 14s 6d; others. 9s to 10s 6d. Eanvbs — slo yarded. Fx r" la re. ?:>«: prime 12s to 14 • ’> 1 5d ' o others, 7s 6d to 9s 6d

Pigs—Suckers. 10s to 15s; slips. 17s to 30s; stores, 21s to 255; porkers, 28s to 425; baconers-, 48s to 60s; big pigs, 755. AH ■the pigs sold in favour of vendors. DUNEDIN GRAIN MARKET. DUNEDIN, July 1. Oats.—A fair inquiry exists for prime milling and choice seed lines. Good feed moves off slowly for export, but the demand, is limited. Good to choice seed, 2s to 2s 3d; prime milling, la 9d to Is good to best feed, Is 8d to Is B|d; inferior and medium, Is 5d to Is 7d, sackg extra. Wheat —There is little or no change to report. Fowl wheat is offering freely, with a fairly good export demand. Prime milling 4s to 4s 2d; medium to good, 3a 4d to 3s lOd; best whole fowl feed, 3s 2d to 3s 3d; broken and damaged, 2s 9d to 3s Id, sacks extra. Barley—The market is quiet, only son all sales passing. Prime _ malting, 3s 6d to 3s lOd; milling and medium. 3s to "3s 4d; feed, 2s 9d to 3s. CANTERBURY PRODUCE MARKET. CHRISTCHURCH, July 2. The following are current prices paid t-o farmers, free of commission, except where otherwise specified : * Wheat (nominal) —Pearl 4s, Tuscan 3s 9d to 3s lOd, Hunter’s 3s 9d to 3s 9|d, at country stations. Oats (nominal) —Heavy Canadians Is 9d to Is lOd, short feed Is 8d to Is 9d, Duns Is 7d to Is Bd, and Danish Is Bd, at country stations, for immediate delivery. Barley (nominal) —Prime malting 3s to 3s 3d, secondry quality 2s 9d to 3s, at country stations. Peas—'Blue Prussians 5s 9d, Partridge 3s 6d to 3s 9d, at country stations. Beans —2s 9d, at country stations. Flour (millera* quotations)—Roller, £lO per ton. Pollard —£5. Bran —£4. Oatmeal —£10 10s. Ryegrass—Farmers’ well-dressed parcels 2s 6d to 3s, Italian 3s to 3s 6d. Cocksfoot (111 b seed), 2jd do (121 b to 13ib seed), 3d to 3£d; do (141 b seed), 3id. White Clover —Superior 9d to lOd, lower quality 6d to 8d per lb. Cowgrass—s£d to 6£d, extra good to 7d per lb. Oatsheaf Chaff—£2 15s to £2 17s 6d, at country stations. Potatoes —Early Rose £3 10s to £4 ss, kidneys £4 10s, Dervvents £2 10s, at country stations. Onions —£210 s, at country stations. Dairy Produce —Cheese, factory, 5d to 6d ; dairy, 5d to s£d ; loaf cheese, 6d to 6£d; butter, factory, local, lHd; North Island, lid, f.o.b. Wellington; farmers’ separator, lOd; dairy, 9d to lOd, for prime; salt (in boxes), 8d to 9d; bacon, 8d to 9d; hams. B£d to 9£d, f.0.b.; eggs, Is 4d per dozen.