THE MARKETS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1678, 27 April 1904, Page 70

THE MARKETS.

Messrs Freeman R. Jack-son and Co. (in conjunction v with Abraham and,Williams. Ltd.), report on their Johnsonville sale as follows:—A fair entry of bullocks, -light weights and medium quality, made 22s per 1001 b. Best bullocks £8 15s, others £8 2s Gd to £8 7s Cd and £7 5s to £7 15s. We had a good yarding of sheep, including .some lino heavy ewes and wethers. Bidding was alo-w. Best wethers made 17s to 17s 3d, ewes 15s lOd, others 15s and Ids to 14s Cd, light ewes 12s 6d, stores 11s Gd, oulils 5s (id. A good yarding of pork sold freely at 28s Gd to 30s Gd, light 24s Gd. Dalgety and Co., Limit-cd, Wellington, have received the following cablegram from their London, office, dated 19th inst: —The butter market is very weak. We quote Victorian prime factory butter 88s per cwt, imsalted 90s. Sellers are offering Queensland or New South Wales prime fact-oiy butter at 84s ex store, delivery any time between now and September. Laery and Co., Limited:, report the following wholesale selling prices on the Wellington market: —Wheat, fowls’. 3s 3d to 3s 4d, broken 3s; feed oats, 2s to 2s 2d : discoloured, Is 7d to Is 9d: barley, 2s Gd to 2s 9d; pollard, £5 5s to £5 10s per ton; flour, £9 10s to £l-0 ; bran, £3 to £3 10s; oatmeal, £lO 10s to £lO 15s; rolled o-ats (s’s), 9s Gd; sacks ditto, £l2 ; oat-sheaf chaff, 80s to 90s per torn ; Cape barley, 2s 9d to 3? per bushel; maize, 3s to 3s 3d; fungus, 4?,d per lb; potatoes, £2 5s to £3; onions, 4s Gel to . Gs: swedes,.,2s 9d; tomatoes, Is Gd to 4s Gd half-ease; cabbages, 3s to Gs; cauliflowers, 5s to 9s; cheese, factory, old to 55d, loaf size Gd; butter, 7d to 8d for pastry, inferior 5d to Gd; bacon, hest factory 7cl, rolls Bd, hams 8d per lb; walnuts, 5d to Gd; split peas, 15s; pearl barley, 15s; cooking apples, 2s to 4r> a case; dessert, 4s to 8s; pears, 3s to 12s per case; pie melons, 2s to 3s per sack; pumpkins. 3s to 4 s par sack; marrows, 2s Gd to 3s; grapes, Gd to Is 4d; peaches, 4s to 8s lialf-ciase; plums, 2s Gd to 4s; Messina lemons, 9s; Messina oranges (150’s), B.s; Island oranges (doubles), 8s; .liens, 2s 9d to 3s; roosters, 3s to 3s Gd; ducks, 4s to ss; turkeys, hens 8s to 9s, gobblers 11s to 13s; mushrooms, Id to 2s per lb ; ryegrass, 3s 9d to 4s Gd per bushel; cocksfoot, machine-dressed, 5d per lb; undressed cocksfoot, 3£d to 4d; swede and turnip seed, 50s to 55s per owt.; white clover, 92s Gd per owt.; red clover, 70s per owt.; oowgrass, 70s. per owt.; linseed, 12s; linseed cake. Gs Gd. AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE MARKETS. SYDNEY, April 20. Wheat is dull; chick, prime, 2s 5d to 2s 7d; milling, 3s. Flour, £7 15s to £B. Oats, Tasmanian and Algerian, Is 7d to Is 9d; prime white, 2s; New Zealand, 2s 4d. Barley, Cape, 2s 4d to 2s sd. Maize, 2s 3d to 2s 4d. Bran, Gfd. Pol laid, 7*d. Peas, bine, 3s 9d to 4s.

Potatoes, £2; New Zealand kidney seed, £6. Onions, Victorian, prime, £2 IQs. Butter, 7|d to Bd. Cheese, 4d to sd. Bacon, 75d to 9d. " MELBOURNE, April 20. Wheat is steady at ,3s Id. Flour, £7 10s to £7 15s. Oats, prime, Is 3d. Barley, feeding, 2s; malting, 3s to 3s 9d. Bran and pollard, 7id. Potatoes. £1 15s to £2. Onions, £1 7s Gd to £1 10s. * ADELAIDE, April 20. Wheat, 3s. Fiour, £7 15s. Bran, Bd. — i DUNEDIN GRAIN MARKET. DUNEDIN, April 20. Wheat.—Little business- is doing. Stocks are not heavy, and a slight demand would soon absorb them. Medium milling has no sale. Prime milling, 2s lOd to 3s Id ; medium to good, 2s.Gd to 2s 9d; whole fowl wheat, 2s 4d to 2s 5d • medium damaged and broken, 2s to 2s 3d per buish-01, sacks extra. Oats—There is limited inquiry for prime milling. Only odd lots find sale for expert to supply orders. Stocks are now accumulating. Prime milling. Is 5d to Is Gd; good to best feed, ls"3id to Is 4kl; inferior to medium, lOd to la 3d per bushel, sacks extra. SOUTHERN STOCK SALES. CHRISTCHURCH. April 20. Thera way a fair attendance at the Addington yards. Business in most departments wars good. Fiat cattle. —The yarding way above the average both in numbers and quality, but demand was dull. Prices receded 15s to 20s peir head, leaving tho value of good prime beef at 20s to 22s Gd, and secondary 18s to 20s per 1001 b. Steens -made £G 10s to £ll 17s Gd; heifers, £5 10s to £9; oowkj, £5 to £7 ss. Store catbe.—There was a small entry only, and business in eoaise-quonca was in the few lines of young stock present which met with fair competition, a mixed fifteen to eighteen months lot Sailing at 54s -to 77s Gd; calves, 17s; two-year-old heifers, £4; "three-ycnr-cVd steers, £G 7s; dry cows, £1 10s to £3. Dairy cows. —The number offered was much smaller than that of the previous week. Most of the cows were of fair quality, and there was an improvement in the sale, -a good proportion being sold. Best springers brought £7 bo £9 7s Gd; inferior springera, £4 to £6; corns in profit. £3 to £7; for Ayrshire, £lO. Fat sheep.—There was a fair entry, and good demand. An all!-round advance upon the previous week’s rates was shown, both exporters and butchers bidding freely. Several very prime lines of wethers, and ewes were penned, and realised from 22s to 25s Gd for wethers, and from 20s to 22s for ewes. Old ewes were in -better quality than usual. The prices current were —Fair to prime wethers, 18s to 21s Gd ; extra, to 25s Gd; prime heavy ewes, 17s Gd to 20s; extra, to 225; others, from 12a 3d to 17s ; merino wethers (not representative entry), 13s Gd to lGs 9d. Store isihoep.—-The entry of lambs was much smaller than that at reoen.t markets, and with active demand there was a further advance in prices. Well-con-ditioned wethers, of which there was a good entry, were in particular- request. Good ewes were very keenly competed for at an advance on last week’s bates. Fat lambs.—The average. entry, in point of number, included a fair proportion of prime lamb©. There was a brisk demand for all grades at fu'lly late values. .Prime quality, 14s Gd to IGs 7d; tegs, to 17s 9d; light unfinished, from 13s. Pigs.—There was a large entry, and though there was tho usual demand, prices were lower for all descriptions except ‘large stores, for which there was outside demand. Bacon ©rs sold at 42s to 54s Gd, equal to 4fd to 4kl per lb; overweights, 3d to 3',‘d (four heavy pigs spilling at 57s Gd); porkers, 30s to 40s, equal to 4fd to sd; large stores, 32s to 38s; small 16s to 30s; weauers, 9s to 12s. DUNEDIN, April 20. Burnside market. —Fat cattle —202 head were yarded, a fair proportion good to prime. The demand was not brisk, and prices, if anything, were lower than was the case last week. Best bullock? £9 10s to £lO 7s Gd, medium £8 to £9 ss, light £5 15s to £7 10s; best cows and heifer's, £6 15s to £3 ss. medium, £5 10s to £6 10s. light £J to £5 ss. Fat sheep—2322 were penned.

Tho sales opened with slack demand at Is under last week’s figure, but improved as it went on, and at the end last week’s price was easily obtained. Bast wethers 19s Gd to 21s Gd, medium 17s to 18s 9d, light IGs to 16s 9d; best ewes 18s to 20s, medium 15s to-17s Gd, light 11s to 14s. Lambs —971 were penned. Exporters bought freely, and there was a brisk sale. Best 13s 9d to 15s, medium 12s (VI to 13s Gd, light 10s Gd to 11s 9d. Pigs—l 72 were yarded, mostly suckers and slips, for which prices were down, but porkers and baconers sold up to last week’s prices. Suckers, 8s Gd to 11s Gd ; slips, 12s Gd to 15s 61; stores, 21s to 2Gs; porkers, 32s to 40s*; baconens, 46s to 51s; extra heavy, 52!s to Gls. • OTAGO PRODUCE MARKETS. DUNEDIN, April 21. Oats.—Prime milling lines have limited inquiry, but nothing like an extensive business is being done. The demand for export is on the lowest possible scale, and only odd lots find an outlet +o supply shippers’ actual orders. Consignments aro coming forward freely, and in consequence stocks have accumulated considerably. Prime milling, Is ,5d to Is (id; good to best feed, Is 3ld to la 41(1: inferior to medium. lOd to Is 3d par bushel (sacks extra). Wheat.—ln prime milling quality little business is passing. Stodcs. however, aro not heavy, and a slight improvement in demand would readily absorb -these. Medium milling lines are out of favour, huh fowl wheat, although coming forward freely, continues to moot a fair demand: Prime milling, 2k lOd to 3s Id; medium- t-o good, 2s Gd to 2s 9d ; whole fowl wheat, 2s 4d to 2s 5d ; medium, damaged and broken, 2s to 2s 3d per bushel (sacks extra). Potatoes. —Consignments have been somewhat heavier of late, and prime Derwent-s a'lcne find favour with buyers. Quotations are £2 5s to £2 7s Gd; medium, £2 to £2 2s Gd; kidneys and other white sorts, £1 IQs to £2 per ton (bag's in). Chaff.—Prime oaten sheaf is the only kind wanted, and this is readily taken at quotations. Medium and inferior quality is in over -supply, and difficult to deal with at any price. Prime oaten sheaf, £2 15s to £3; medium to good, £2 to £2 10s; inferior and light, £1 10s to £1 17s Gd par ton (bags extra). Hay: Best clover and ryegrass, £2 15s to £3 per ton; medium to- good, £2 to £2 10s per ton. Straw: Clean, bright, p'reMs-ed straw, 32s Gd per ton. CANTERBURY PRODUCE MARKET. CHRISTCHURCH, April 21. Tho following are current prices paid to farmers, free of commission, except where otherwise specified:— Wheat —Pearl 2s 9d to 2s lOd, Tuscan, and Hunter's 2s B|d to 2s 9kl, at country stations. Oafs —Heavy Canadian!? Is Gd, Gartons Is 4d to Is sd, short feed Is 4d, Dims and Danish, Is 3d to Is 4d at country stations. Barley—Prime malting 3s, medium 2s 3d to 2s Gd, at country stations. Peas —Partridge 3s to 3s 3d. Blue Prussians 3s to 3s 3d, Blue Imperials 3s Gd to 4s, at country stations. Flour (imHor!?’ quotations)—Roller, £9 per ton; f.0.b., £9 5s per ton. Pollard—£4 10s. Bran —£3. Oatmeal—£lo. Ryegrass—2s Gd to 2s 9d, Italian 3s to 3s Gd, at country stations. Cocksfoot —101 b to 111 b seed, 3d ; 121 b to 131 b, 3id to 3|d; 151 bto IGib, machine dressed, 4ij-d: 171 b to 181 b, scl. White Glover- —Superior 8d to Pel, good 7d to Bd. Oahsheaf Chaff—£2 ss, at country stations. Potatoes —Reinvents, 255; kidney and Early Rose, £2 5s for May delivery, at country stations. Onions—£2 15s, at country stations. Dairy Produce—Cheese, factory, syd to 51 d; dairy, 51 to sid; loaf cliccne, 5Hd to Gd; butter, factory, local, 10:1; fanners’ separator, 8d to 9d; dairy, 7d to 8d for prime; salt (in boxes), 8d to 9d; bacon, 71;d to 8kl; hams, B£-d to 9d, f.0.b.; eggs, Is Gd to Is 7d per dozen.