THE MARKETS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1715, 11 January 1905, Page 70

THE MARKETS.

Laery and Co.» Ltd., Jervois quay, report the following selling prices on the Wellington market: —Wheat, f • 3s 7d to 4s ; feed oats, 2s Id to 2s 3d ; barley, 2s 3d to 2s 9d; pollard, £5 5s to £5 10s per ton ; New Zealand flour, £lO to £lO 10s; Adelaide, £lO 10s; bran, £4 to £4 ss; oatmeal, £10; porridge meal, £9; rolled oats (s’s),. 9s Gd per doz; sacks ditto, £l2; oatsheaf chaff, £5 to £5 5s per ton; maize, 3s to 3s Id ; potatoes, Derwents, £3 to £4, new round 8s to 12s, Hutt 13s to 15s per cwt; onions, 15s; cabbages, 4s to 6s; cauliflowers, 7s to 40s; lettuce, 2s to 5s per case; cheese, factory 4£d, loaf size sd; butter, 7d to 8d for pastry, inferior 5d to 6d; bacon, best factory 7d to 7£d; hams, 8d- rolls, 8d per lb; split peas, 13s 6d; pearl barley, 13s 6d; hens, 2s to 3s; roosters, heavy 3s to 3s 6d; ducks, 5s to 6s; turkeys, hens 8s to 9s, gobblers, 11s to 14s, all at per pair ; fresh eggs, Is 2d to Is 3d ; ryegrass, 4s 6d per bushel; linseed, 10s ; Prussian blue peas, 4s 6d per bushel; partridge peas, 4s 3d per bushel; mutton birds, in casks 5d ; fungus, 4£d ; oilcake, £6 10s ; table carrots, 6s to 8s per sack ; no» meal, £4 10s; pig meal, £4 ss; bone dust, £7; Brazilian nuts, lOd per lb; Barcelona nuts, 6d per lb; almond nuts, 8d per lb; peanuts, 2fd per lb. The Department of Industries and Commeroe has received the following cable message from the Agent-General, dated London, 3rd inst. “Wool markjet remains firm at highest prioe. No change in prices.” JOHNSONVILLE SALE. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on their Johnsonville sale yesterday as follows: —A fair entry of bullocks of prime quality made up to 19s per 1001 b. Best bullocks realised £8 7s 6d, others £7 10s to £B, lighter £7. Sheep were in full supply, and were mostly prime, including some extra prime maiden ewes. Competition was keen. Maiden ewes brought 17s lid, others 15s to 15s Bd, wethers 18s, others 16s lid to 17s sd. Prime lambs fetched 14s, others 12s 6d to 13s Id. LONDON PRODUCE REPORT. The Department of Industries and Commerce has received the following cable message from the Agent-General, dated London, December 31st: — The mutton market is quiet, stocks on hand being light. The avei'age price to-day for Canterbury mutton is 4fd per lb, and for North Island mutton 4£d. The beef market is weak. The average prioe for hindquarters is 3fd, and for forequarters 3d per lb. There is a good demand for butter, the market being firm at the decline. New Zealand butter is giving satisfaction to buyers. Choicest New Zealand is quoted at 400 s; Danish, 4425. The cheese market is firm, and there is a general and active demand. The average price of finest New Zealand is 54s per cwt. The hemp market is steady. The price of New Zealand hemp, good fair Wellington grade on spot, is £34, April to June shipments £3O. The cocksfoot seed market is very dull. The average price for bright, clean New Zealand cocksfoot seed, weighing 471 b per bushel on spot, is 50s per cwt. New Zealand long-berried wheat, on spot ex-granary per quarter of 4961 b, 33s 6d; short-berried, per quarter of 4961 b, 32s 6d. Supplies are decreasing.

New Zealand, short (sparrow-bilLs), ex granary, on spot per quarter of 3841 b, 21s. There is but little demand. New Zealand beans (f.a.q.), new crop, per 5041 b, 30s 6d. The market is steady, but demand only moderate. New Zealand peas (partridge), per 5041 b, 355; blue, 31s 6d. The market is firm, with hardening tendency. AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE MARKETS. SYDNEY, January 4. Wheat, chick, 2s lOd to 3s lid; shipping, 3s 4d to 3s 4|d; milling, 3s 5d to 3s 54d. Flour, £8 15s. Oats, Tasmanian, white feed, 2s to 2s sd; Algerian, Is 5d to Is Bd. Barley, Cape, 2s 3d to 2s sd; malting, 3s to 3s 4d. Maize, 2s 6d to 2s 7d. Bran, 7d. Pollard, 9d. Potatoes, £7 to £7 10s. Onions, £ll. Butter, best, 84d to 9d. Bacon, 6d to Bd. The above quotations are those ruling between merchant and retailer, and do not represent slightly lower values obtained by recognised brokers. ADELAIDE, January 4. Wheat, 3s 3|d. Flour, £8 5s to £8 10s. Oats, Algerian, Is 3d to Is 4d; stout, Is 7d to Is lOd. Bran, 9d. Pollard, 9d to 94d. TIMARU WOOL SALES. TIMARU, January 4. At the wool sales to be held here tonight over 11,000 bales will be offered, which is the largest catalogue ever submitted at a Timaru wool sale. A largo number of buyers are in town.

SOUTHERN STOCK SALES. CHRISTCHURCH, January 4. The entries at Addington to-day comprised 283 cattle, 5944 sheep, and 314 pigs. The attendance was small. Fat cattle. —Although only 128 head were yarded, there was very poor competition, and a large proportion . were withdrawn. Values, however, showed little change from, those of the previous week. ' Steers sold at £6 7s 6d to £lO, heifers £5 5s to £6 12s 6d, cows £5 2s 6d to £6 ss—or equal to 19s to 22s 6d per 1001 b. Fat calves. —There was a fair entry, and the sale was rather better than last week’s. Prices ranged from 5s 6d to 495. *

Store cattle. —The yarding Avas very small, and there was no improvement in prices. Yearlings sold at 25s to 395, fifteen to eighteen months (which included a: good line) 49s to 60s 64, two-year steers £4 2s 6d, two-year heifers £4, three-year heifers £5 11s, dry cows £1 12s 6d to £4 15s.

Dairy coav'S. —There Avas a small entry, and business was dull. Useful cows sold at £6 to £7 10s ; _old and inferior £3 10s to £5.

Fat sheep.—'Several lines of prime wethers were included in a moderate entry, as regards numbers. Most of the ewes were of good prime quality. There was a good demand for all descriptions, butchers being bare of stock, and for the greater part outbidding the exporters. The Mount Pleasant wethers were one of the best lines that has come into the yards, and made the high average of 24s for the line of 220, with a very short range of prices between the top and the last pens. Current prices were, for prime wethers 21s to 25s lid, others 18s 6d to 20s, prime ewes 20s to 22s lid, medium to good 17s to 19s 6d, aged 15s to 16s 6d, merino wethers (medium) 15s 4d. Fat lambs. —The entry was not large, but was of excellent quality, and bidding of both exporters and butchers being very keen, prices were rather better than at last week’s sale. The best pens sold at 18s to 20s, medium 16s to 17s 9d.

Store sheep.—The entry was small, and buyers were few, but previous values were maintained. The principal sales were—s 4 two-tooth ewes at 1/s 9d, 102 mixed two-tooths at 17s 6d, 531 two-tooth svethers at 16s, and 50 at 14s, 430 two and four-tooth wethers and ewes at 16s 6d to 18s 6d.

Pigs.—A small entry. Baconers sold at about last week’s rates, and porkers rather better, while the demand for stores Avas dull. Baconers made 44s to 52s (or 4d to 4jd per-lb), porkers 4td to 4ljd per lb, large stores 23s to 275, medium 14s to 225, small 6s to 12s.